Australian & Asian Missions Association trains and resources leaders, sponsors leaders summits, sends short-term mission teams, facilitates child sponsorship and sponsorship of field workers in Asia, India and Africa.

AAMA fundraises for specific relief & development projects, plants churches, provides typhoon and natural disaster relief, clean water projects, medical clinics. Donations to approved relief and development projects are tax deductible. Contact enquiries@aama.org.au

What We Do

AAMA networks with Australian churches and overseas NGOs to promote the cause of Christ, with relief, aid, development, biblical instruction and other training to improve the situation of those who are socially disadvantaged, financially impaired, persecuted, or who have been traumatised by natural disaster.  We resource indigenous people, build children’s respite centres, schools, educational facilities, fellowship/community centres, vocational colleges, medical facilities including hospitals, conduct dental and medical clinics, and send teams from Australia to assist in various ways.

Funding

AAMA networks with Australian churches and overseas NGOs to promote the cause of Christ, with relief, aid, development, biblical instruction and other training to improve the situation of those who are socially disadvantaged, financially impaired, persecuted, or who have been traumatised by natural disaster.

We resource indigenous people, build children’s respite centres, schools, educational facilities, fellowship/community centres, vocational colleges, medical facilities including hospitals, conduct dental and medical clinics, and send teams from Australia to assist in various ways.

History

AAMA (Australian & Asian Missions Association) was founded in 1986 by Drs Gladwyn & Helen Turner as the missions arm of Southside Christian Fellowship, Sydney.  The Turners are co-founders of SCF.  AAMA grew from the desire to co-ordinate with churches in Australia and overseas to promote world missions.

Their first project in India in 1984 was the establishment of an orphanage, school and seminary, working with Dr PJ Titus near Visakhapatnam, AP.  Other countries and projects soon followed as others caught the vision of church planting and serving the needs of the socially, financially, educationally and medically disadvantaged.  AAMA Inc, a registered charity in NSW, was formed for fiscal accountability and networking the vision.

Policy

AAMA’s policy is to encourage those we recognise, empower, release and resource, to become self-propagating, self governing and self-supporting, as they are able, to make them less reliant on funding.  To this end we help them establish training programs e.g. vocational schools, and various businesses where they can raise funds locally.

We also encourage Australian churches to become involved with mission work, and are committed to assisting local churches by providing missions resources, instruction and encouragement.