Global Market Day is a fair-trade, ethical and sustainable market event and movement founded by Anne Simpson and Arana Hills Church of Christ in partnership with other local churches in Australia. Global Market Day is a non-profit, community run organisation.
Global Market Day (GMD) has been a part of the Arana Hills Church of Christ community ministry programme from 2007 and is rapidly expanding across Queensland and Australia as other churches join our passion for social justice and fair-trade. 

Global Market Day is the host of an event that raises the profile of the poor in the name of Jesus Christ. GMD is run as an expression of our experience of God's love and heart for the oppressed and our commitment to serve others.

GMD creates an opportunity for the public to purchase goods and support projects that empower developing communities in Australia and overseas - in one spot.  We seek to raise awareness about how we can use our money and voices to ensure that manufacturers, retailers and governments work together for a more just world.

Global Market Day charges each stallholder present at the market a small fee. This amount is not used for running costs  or profit, rather GMD chooses to raise its funds through separate fundraising activities so we can give this money away.

We donate the stallholder fees to a local, national or international project in a disadvantaged community.  We donate to a different project each market. Visit the Beneficiaries page to see who we have donated to in the past.

It is part of the integrity of GMD that no stallholder fees are retained by the church for its own financial benefit.

1. Raise awareness of ethical and fair trade issues within our church and our community
2. Provide an opportunity for the public to access fair trade information and products, advocacy and aid organisations and to do so as a church-based event
3. Raise money for a broad range of organisations that support poor and disadvantaged communities locally, nationally and internationally
4. Foster connections between groups that share our passion and commitment to the global poor
5. Foster connections between churches that share our passion and commitment to the global poor
6. Create personal relationships in which we will be able to witness to our commitment to Jesus as a prime motivation for our passion for the poor
7. Provide our church members with the chance to give of their time as an expression of their faith and commitment to the poor and as a witness to the community