2024 marks 10 wonderful years of Common Grace!

Thank you for being part of this incredible movement!

We are so grateful for the vision and passion of so many who have sown into and fueled this beautiful movement for change since 2014, helping nurture this movement to grow into one of more than 60,000 Christians across the country engaged in pursuing Jesus and justice together with Common Grace.

Through God’s grace, the tireless passion of numerous volunteers, the vision of Common Grace’s initial leadership team, and the generous support of many donors, Common Grace is now established as a trusted public Christian voice fuelled by a passionate movement.

"I am convinced that Common Grace has the most appropriately grace-filled and prophetic voice that the Church in Australia will benefit from listening to. That voice is speaking God's truth into reality for times such as this, uncomfortable truths that come at a cost to the people who are speaking." Graeme Anderson, Senior Pastor, Northside Baptist Church, Former Common Grace Board Chair (2020-2021)

To mark this moment, we have released a special Annual Report celebrating our 10 year anniversary.

You can read our 2024 Annual Report here.

Join us in reflecting on the work of this wonderful movement of Christians, pursuing justice together. Our efforts have focused on four key justice areas:

  • being led by our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christian Leaders to walk together in friendship to pursue justice, healing and flourishing for First Nations peoples
  • calling together for the care and protection of God’s beautiful creation by addressing climate change to ensure the environment and generations to come flourish
  • embracing people seeking asylum with open hearts and open arms, pursuing peace, restoration and welcome for all
  • calling together for all households to be places of nurture, safety and support, where violence against women is eliminated

We’d love to hear your memories and reflections of the last 10 years! Share your reflections, and what makes you thankful to celebrate 10 years of Common Grace, with us at [email protected] or with a comment on Instagram or Facebook. 

Thank you for being on this journey pursuing Jesus and justice together!

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Together for the common good, discovering common ground, sharing in common grace. 

Snapshots from the past 10 years

Movement Photos L - R: July 2013 Founding Retreat Group (Jessica Carol Smith, Tim Quadrio, Michelle Farrell, Tim Dickson, Duncan Lockard, Byron Smith, Michael Poland, Hannah Quadrio, Scott Sanders, Nick Moraitis, Jody Lightfoot, and Jarrod McKenna); March 2015 #AcceptTheGift urging PM to accept Solar Panels (Jody Lightfoot, Jacqui Remond, Wies Schuiringa, David Gore, Sister Jan Barnett and Byron Smith); 2019 Palm Sunday Rally; 2015 Initial Campaign planning day for Domestic and Family Violence Justice (Erica Hamence, Bruce Chan, Rachel Neary, Cameron Smith, Natalie Lammas Williams, Kylie Beach, Jarrod McKenna and Jessica Carol Smith); 20 September 2019 Global #Climate Strike; Brooke Prentis (Common Grace CEO 2020 - 2022), Bianca Manning (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice Coordinator 2020 - present) and Jessica Carol Smith (Common Grace Operations Director 2014 - 2021) at the first Common Grace office space 2019; Safina Stewart, Dr Aunty Jean Phillips and Bianca Manning at ‘Voice & the Church’ event 2022; Sydney ‘Walk for Yes’ march 2023; Safina Stewart, Mick Pope, Bianca Manning, Jane Kelly and Rachel Saravanamuthu at 2023 Surrender Conference; Common Grace team 2023 (Safina Stewart, Monique Hughes, Emma Lalic, Abbey Sim, Ellaina Welsman, Bianca Manning, Gershon Nimbalker and Jane Kelly); ‘Yes’ creative rock action 2023; Jane Kelly and Monique Hughes with Knit for Climate Action knitters at the Museum of Australian Democracy ‘Blue Print’ exhibition featuring a Common Grace climate stripe scarf, 2023.