We share a vision for reaching Australia with the gospel of Jesus through planting and building healthy evangelical churches. We can pool resources, encourage one another in our shared vision, share our joys, and carry one another’s burdens. We can seek to build one another through teaching from God’s word at conferences and courses, and commit to regular prayer for our members. 

Each church is self-governed, with its own constitution, leaders, and ways of doing things. We are independent, but you could probably call us all little ‘i’ independents!

Ours is a fellowship that is shaped by firm beliefs. We are persuaded that true Christianity is evangelical in its very essence. That is, people are reconciled into relationship with God, and churches are created and grow, through the work of God’s ‘evangel’ - the good news that Jesus Christ was crucified for the forgiveness of sins and was raised physically from the dead to rule over God’s world. We learn this good news from the Bible - not people’s best ideas about God, but God’s specific revelation of himself.

We are a fellowship of churches - evangelically persuaded and independently governed churches. We don’t view FIEC as ‘our church’, ‘the church’, or even ‘a church’. Rather, we are a network comprised of many churches who voluntarily take steps to fellowship with one another in various ways. It is impractical for all of our churches to meet together - we are scattered across this vast country. However, we seek to gather members of each of our churches together at different events during the year so as to encourage personal and practical fellowship. The representatives of each church - usually the senior pastors - meet together at formal meetings of the FIEC to review, plan, and pray for our fellowship.