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Not just services for all Catholics, but Catholic services for all.

“Pope Francis constantly calls us to move beyond the security of status quo and take the risk of going to the periphery.

It is that precarious liminal space where the true cost of our discipleship is counted, because we dare to walk with the Samaritans of our time, just like Jesus did before us. They could be asylum seekers, the homeless, the Indigenous, the victims of injustice, the Muslim refugees, the LGBTQI persons et cetera. The crisis of diminishment that we face allows us an opportunity to divest ourselves of all the unnecessary trappings, to focus on what is our core mission, to act more prophetically and to live more fully, more creatively, more boldly, more at the periphery”.

Most Reverend Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM CONV

Bishop of Parramatta

Our strategic goals

We are integrated into our local communities

We prioritise gaps in community service needs

We journey beside people to achieve their goals

See our Strategic Plan

Our values

We embrace every journey with gratitude and love.
For our clients, the community and each other.

This value is fundamental to our work and the way we work together and is lived each day through the following individual values.

We are available with an open mind and heart.

We advocate with patience and passion.

We persevere with resilience and belief.

We build trust with integrity and respect.

See our values in action

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An important aspect of the Mamre Refugee Program is the continual pastoral support we’re able to provide, with practical issues and the many day-to-day aspects of living in a very different culture.

As I leave, I see a very different Mamre. The women are much more self-reliant and confident. So it is with a great deal of pride, satisfaction and gratitude that I look back over these years and I know that I have been blessed to have shared so many experiences with these wonderful, courageous spiritual women.

Sister Janet Woods RSM

Program Coordinator - Mamre Refugee Program (Retired)

Our Executive Director

Jason Oldridge

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Angela McKay

Chair

Angela is the Chief Executive officer of the Juvenile Arthritis Foundation of Australia and has more than 20 years’ senior leadership experience with a diverse background spanning not-for-profit and for-profit organisations in the charity, professional services, consumer goods and aged care sectors

Paul McMahon

Director

Paul is a passionate leader and advocate for aged care and social services clients. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of Southern Cross Care New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, and has more than 30 years’ experience in the social services sector.