Local Mission

We have several local mission initiatives including support for our local schools and Pastoral Care Workers, running chapel services regularly in the Adelaide Remand Centre, support of women’s shelters, and support of the homeless through the WestCare program run by Baptist Care.

Overseas Mission

Parkside Baptist Church has a long and rich history of sending people to serve on mission overseas. Apart from sharing God’s love many have served in providing training and skills in literacy, medical work and community development. The first missionary recorded was Gladys Collins who went to India in 1913. Since then Parkside has always had a missionary actively serving on the field somewhere in the world for the past 100 years.

We have had around 60 missionaries over this period serving in many countries and with a wide variety of mission agencies. Currently we have 6 people working in long term mission who are supported by the church and they are working with 4 separate mission organisations.

Parkside also has a great history of sending short term teams and supporting young people in experiencing what it is like to serve in developing nations. In the past few years we have sent 6 teams to Papua New Guinea, India and Indonesia. We have also sponsored young people on 6 month YWAM discipleship training schools on a regular basis.

National mission and Social Justice

As a church we are passionate about issues of social justice both in Australia and around the world. We seek to support movements like the Fair Trade Movement and encourage our members to buy coffee and chocolate that is grown and sourced in a sustainable way and does not involve slavery.

We have been involved in lobbying our politicians both locally and nationally to meet their commitments to overseas aid as agreed to under the Millennium Development Goals. We believe the church should have a prophetic voice in this area of our national government.

We have also been involved in campaigns against child slavery and sex slavery. In all of this we want to reflect God’s heart for justice and concern for the poor and marginalised in our world.

A portion of our annual budget also goes to the development of young Aboriginal leaders as well as supporting Aboriginal churches throughout South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Each year we also raise funds for those in the majority world which goes to programs that improve living standards run by Baptist World Aid.