Projects
My ministry work within the Uniting Church in Australia has involved a range of project-based work from developing new mission initiatives, education programs, media and communication strategies, and policy development.
Brick Church Australia
I have a new project to explore what it might look like to form new faith communities around a common interest in LEGO (TM). This has come about for a few reasons, including my own need/call to be involved in something in a missional vein. Lego has become big as a...
Mission in New Housing Estates
Across our synod there is rapid population growth on the fringe of greater Melbourne and in regional cities and towns – including Ballarat, Bendigo, Phillip Island, Inverloch, greater Geelong, the surf coast. The rate of growth of new housing estates in our presbytery...
The Mission Pilot Process
Mission Pilot Launch from Craig Mitchell on Vimeo. In 2020 Port Phillip East Presbytery we commenced a Mission Pilot Process, part of a significant cultural change process within the presbytery called “Cultivating our Future” facilitated by Phil McCredden from...
Mission Catalysts
Mission Catalysts are people with the gifts and call to foster a variety of new faith communities. In some places they are called pioneers. As a church, we are called to embody God's good news in word and deed in ways that offer new life to individuals and...
Regional Co-operation Framework
Regional Ministry & Mission is a mutli-faceted project in which I am involved with Port Phillip East Presbytery. The issues facing churches in our region are common across Australia, and many parts of the Western church. How do denominations respond to declining...
20 Minute Neighbourhoods
The 20 Minute Neighbourhood is an excellent planning initiative by the State Government of Victoria to develop community hubs across the state - for socialising, access to services, transport, and recreation. It's an an initiative which churches can contribute towards...