AUSTRALIA
Statistics
Population: 26,584,000
People Groups: 206 (16% unreached)
Largest Religion: Christianity
Vision
The VISION of GLO Australia is to glorify Christ by helping the Church to fulfil the Great Commission.
Mission
Our MISSION is to work together with the church to DESIGN discipleship pathways that DISCOVER, DEVELOP and DEPLOY committed disciples of Jesus to do evangelism, discipleship and church planting in Australia and abroad.
Core Ministries
- Evangelism
- Discipleship
- Training
- Short Term Mission
- Support
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More about the work of GLO…
Encounter Taiwan
The Taiwan Encounter Team visited Taichung City from 7 to 15 July 2024. The team comprised of four Singaporeans (Valerie, Michelle, Jodi, and Joey), one Indonesian (Litha), and one Australian (Scott Fisher, Team Leader). The objective of this trip was to encourage and...
CHRISTINE BELL: The Power of a Willing and Available Heart
Christine Bell has served at GLO, first in Smithton, Tasmania and then in Riverstone, Sydney, for many years, and we were tasked with finding out more about her life and ministry. It was our great pleasure to sit with Christine and hear the love she has for God and...
JOAN DONSWORTH: Following in the Footsteps of Jesus
As I sit across from Joan in her garden, I see a woman who has followed the footsteps of Jesus for many years through her humility, her ministry, and most of all her heart for prayer.I begin by asking how she became a Christian. She responds that she cannot remember a...
CYNTHIA NAISMITH: On Mission with the Gospel
In 1965 GLO Ministries was founded by Colin Tilsley. His wife Cynthia was a strong support from the beginning, but especially so in Colin’s later years as she nursed him through his motor neurone disease until he passed away in 1981. From the early days until now,...
MARGARET COWELL: Compassion on Mission
If I were to sum up my mum, Margaret Cowell, in one phrase it would be “Compassion on Mission”. My best working definition of compassion is “feeling your pain in my heart”. When it comes to the word “mission”, I think of someone leveraging their time, energy, and...
CrossConnect: Getting Equipped Together
CrossConnect is a discipleship training course that equips students to become fruitful disciples of Jesus. Over a period of 9 months, students are provided with the skills and knowledge they need to transform their communities by multiplying disciples of Christ....
CrossTalk: Learning English Together in Community
Praise God for a wonderful start to 2023, as CrossTalk resumed classes after a two-year break. Not exactly a break, though, as teachers Belinda, Jenny and Marion were kept busy during that time developing a new curriculum plan. We pray this will be used by God to help...
Training Together with 2 in 1
There are many products advertised as “2-in-1” from shampoo-conditioner to coffee and even laptop computers. I am pleased to announce that GLO Ministries is now offering its own “2-in-1” product – two courses running together on one campus! Until 2023 the GLO College...
Open for Business
The core work of GLO Ministries is discovering, developing, and deploying multiplying disciples of Jesus all over the world. For the past two years, however, largely due to the global pandemic, GLO College of Ministries has paused residential training so that we could...
CrossConnect: Equipping Disciple Makers for the Work
A lot has changed since 2020, and there have certainly been a lot of changes for the CrossConnect course and team too! Spearhead asked the CrossConnect training coordinator, Stuart Thomson, to tell us a little more about all the exciting developments. Our readers may...









