Gift Day - Sunday, 25 March 2025

The story of Figtree Anglican Church (FAC) is one of providence and generosity. FAC is rich with resource and has been a blessing to others because of a history of the saints being generous with the provision of God. FAC’s annual Gift Day has been an opportunity to walk in the legacy of generosity and continue to see FAC accomplish various projects for the good of the Kingdom of God. 

Each year, Gift Day provides an opportunity to contribute to various projects across our church and beyond. Past Gift Day projects have contributed to essential maintenance on our church property, supported new or existing ministries, or provided opportunities to share our resources with others.

Watch the video below to hear from our Senior Minister, Robin Kinstead, about the projects for Gift Day Day 2025:

Last Gift Day, we provided seed funding for our ministry across the generations.

Our Youth and Young Adults Ministers, Ruth and Pete, now serve us full time, enabling, empowering, and raising up young people for service, setting direction at 6pm, sowing into intergenerational relationships, equipping and preparing our church family for changes, managing critical moments of transition, helping to create rites of passage, and helping develop of our ‘birth to graduation’ pathways, firmly rooted in the promises of God.

Giving to this year’s generations funding project moves us from seeding to scaffolding as we grow our regular giving investment in youth, young adults, and intergenerational health across our Figtree Anglican Church fellowship.

*Our Senior Minister and Wardens have agreed that all funds received, even if there is an over-subscription, will stay with this project.

‘Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field”.’

Matthew 9:37-38

The air-conditioning system in the auditorium/Children’s Ministry Centre is more than 20 years old and coming to the end of its scheduled life expectancy. We might be blessed to get another five years’ service from it, or it could begin failing within the next 12 months. Either way, it will need to be replaced sometime soon at a cost that will run into six figures.

This Gift Day project is part of a multi-year campaign to raise the funds needed to replace the auditorium/CMC air-conditioning. It is offering a gift for the Lord’s building at Figtree, maintaining good stewardship of the wonderful legacy He has given us to preserve and pass on in good condition to a future generation.

Giving to this project will allow FAC to continue to provide a comfortable environment for all - both those in our church family and the wider community - who use our auditorium and Children’s Ministry Centre.

*Our Senior Minister and Wardens have agreed that any additional funds received may be distributed to another project that has a shortfall. The redistribution will be at the discretion of the Wardens.

‘Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.’

2 Corinthians 9:7

‘How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?’

Romans 10:14

Ignite is Figtree Anglican Church’s annual youth camp that exists to evangelise and disciple teenagers. The ministry has prayerfully set a $15,000 fundraising goal for Ignite 2026 to assist in subsidising costs for its leadership team and sponsoring campers. This Gift Day, we are asking for $5,000 towards this target, with funds raised used exclusively to sponsor campers who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford to attend Ignite.

*Our Senior Minister and Wardens have agreed that all funds received, even if there is an over-subscription, will stay with this project.

"Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward."

Mark 9:41-42

At Figtree Anglican Church, we take seriously the responsibility to be good stewards of the resources God has entrusted to us. This includes the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of the facilities He has blessed us with.

The ‘bundle’ Gift Day opportunity focuses on three separate upgrade projects across our church site, each with an approximate cost of $5,000. They include:

The carpet in St Peter’s Hall, which is heavily used on a weekly basis by our many children’s and youth ministries, is in a poor condition and in urgent need of replacement. The carpet and vinyl flooring in the adjoining Hub and Narthex was replaced early last year on the back of a successful grant application, and this Gift Day project seeks to raise the funds required to complete the carpet replacement in the older part of our church complex.

As Figtree Anglican Church expands its livestream and other audio/visual services the demands on our sound desk also increase. This project seeks to upgrade our sound desk to combat some of the reliability issues, such as audio occasionally dropping out on the livestream, that have been an outcome of asking equipment to perform tasks that it wasn't designed to achieve.

Anecdotal evidence clearly suggests that many people in our community are not familiar with how to access our church complex. This project seeks to raise funds to construct a simple yet eye-catching ‘Figtree Anglican Church’ sign in the immediate vicinity of our driveway that will clearly signpost the way into the complex.

‘For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.’

1 Corinthians 3:9