Mission
Anglicare is part of the Anglican Church tasked specifically with serving people who are vulnerable and marginalised in our community.
Anglicare NSW South, NSW West & ACT is an agency of the Canberra/Goulburn Diocese and, in agreement with the dioceses of the Riverina, is tasked with the specific role to serve and care for vulnerable people in these communities.
Vision
Anglicare exists to support individuals and communities through loving service and sharing hope so that all people live a full life.
As a Christian not-for-profit organisation, the uniqueness of our care is found in response to God’s love revealed in Jesus Christ. We experience God’s change in the dynamic of ‘becoming’ and ‘participating’. Becoming is about growing into greater alignment with God’s design and intention. Participating is about bringing our context into greater alignment with God’s design and intention. We believe this because all people are created equal and therefore have innate worth in God’s sight.
Purpose
Anglicare’s purpose is to alleviate poverty and suffering in regional and rural communities by providing integrated and innovative care; and to deliver programs and services to reduce disadvantage amongst vulnerable and at-risk children, young people, seniors and people living with a disability.
We believe this because Australians are suffering in our current circumstances as seen in the levels of isolation, loneliness, family dysfunction, increased intimate partner violence, climate and environmental suffering due to fires, droughts, plagues, floods and so much more.
As a Christian organisation we believe in using our resources to care for others with empowering and good social impact.
OUR VALUES
Anglicare’s values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity and Inclusiveness reflect the life and character of Jesus who had compassion for all but especially sought be inclusive of the poor and vulnerable, lived a life of absolute integrity and sacrificial giving, and afforded dignity to all people.
In the spirit of loving service we offer care and understanding to those in need.
The well-known Bible story, The Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10.29-37) calls us to radical generosity and costly service. In telling this story, Jesus teaches us how societal and personal barriers of prejudice and self-interest may cause us to turn away from those in need.
We respect the intrinsic worth of every person and acknowledge their capacity for self determination.
Jesus said, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ (Mark 12.31). Jesus advocates love for God, love for our neighbour, and love of our self. We are called to respect the dignity of all human beings, for together we are bearers of the Divine image.
We serve all people with a spirit of openness because we share a common humanity.
The gospels recounts a number of occasions when Jesus provides care, compassion and hospitality for people that “polite” society at the time saw as on the margins or even disreputable. More than a few of them became followers of Jesus and were welcomed into his circle. On one occasion that Mark recounts (Mark 2: 15-17) , Jesus and his disciples were sharing their dinner with a group of so-called “outcasts”. The religious scholars and Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of company and challenged his disciples: “What kind of example is this, socialising with the riffraff?” Jesus overheard and likened himself to a doctor coming to provide a fuller life to anyone no matter what their background or past who wants spiritual healing.
We are committed to personal and corporate honesty, fairness, and transparency.
The Christian tradition teaches that integrity is not just an isolated action, but an attitude, an orientation that stems from humility and regard for others.
‘Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others’ (Philippians 2.3-4).
‘Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much’ (Luke 16.10).