2023 Appeal

Emmanuel is an all-ages, life-infusing, Spirit-inspired lighthouse in the Catholic Church: a ‘Home for Mission’.

Jesus once said that we are not to hide our light, but to put it on a stand so that it would “give light to everyone in the house.” (Matt 5:15) This says so much about the role Emmanuel plays in the Church of Australia.

We need to keep our lamp shining brightly so we can continue bringing light to the whole house.

Already this year our ministries are active on the ground advancing the mission of Jesus. Ignite Youth just ran a powerful Summer Camp for hundreds of teenagers with Emmanuel Worship. Emmanuel City Mission just reopened their doors to serve the vulnerable on our streets, and a growing number of visitors are being drawn to experience our Sundays there in a creative and life-giving way.

Through this humble ‘home for mission’ in Brisbane, people are seeing our light and are being drawn to the Catholic Church in a new and positive way. That’s good news!

Will you help keep Emmanuel’s light burning by giving to our 2023 Appeal? We need $50,000 to reach our goal.

Your one-off gift of $250, $500, $1000 or more will be an incredible boost to help keep our light shining.

Keep the light going with a regular gift

The vision of Emmanuel Community is no small thing. We want people all around Australia to come alive in faith, find their home in the Church, thrive in faith and live out their calling in the world. In a nutshell, we want to grow contagious followers of Jesus and pave ways for the Church of the future.

If you see the same vision we do, we’d love to partner with you. Your donation increases our capacity for growth, the vitality of Sundays, our pastoral care, ministry teams, staffing and missionary output. With a strong platform beneath our feet we can continue to offer all that we do as a lighthouse community in the Catholic Church.

To support Emmanuel is to support the future of the Church.

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Bank Details

  • Account Name: Emmanuel Community

  • BSB: 064 123

  • Account Number: 1025 2685

  • Reference: Please use '2023 APPEAL [your name]'.

A Bold Vision for the Future

Emmanuel continue to pursue our dream to build an exciting new mission centre on our new land at Ellen Grove in Brisbane. A Development Application is already underway for a future community, worship & mission centre on the site, supported by a ‘coalition of mission’ working together in collaboration. This is an exciting project that goes beyond Emmanuel and will serve both the Archdiocese of Brisbane and greater community. We need people beyond ourselves who can see what we are trying to do and feel called to help us achieve it. If that’s you or someone you know, let’s get in touch and discuss how we can partner together to advance this venture.

If you’d like to talk about giving to Emmanuel or any of our ministries, contact us at (07) 3217 5199 or email give@ec.org.au.