CHURCH MARKS CENTENARY OF OUTBACK CARE.   ABC News: July 18, 2012.   The Uniting Church is marking a century of outback work by its caring network, now known as Frontier Services. A national church meeting in Adelaide has discussed the need for a continuing …

STUDENTS TO GET TASTE OF RED CENTRE.   ABC News: June 18 2012.   Eight high school students from the New South Wales central coast are beginning a week-long educational experience in Alice Springs. The national director of Frontier Services says the trip has been …

I was appointed to birdsville Hospital with the AIM in the 1970s. It was an amazing experience which I hold in my heart forever. Later I married a farmer and, after we lost our farm, we again served with Frontier services for 4 years at …

Judy Williams has created a blog containing transcripts of the diaries of her Father, Howard Kettle, called ‘Hey Jude – Outback Travels of my Father… 1929 – 1935.   Howard was a Patrol Padre with the Methodist Inland Mission, now the Uniting Church in Australia …

‘A man and a truck’, a colour documentary produced in 1956, explores the work of the Australian Inland Mission patrol padres. The film follows the journey of a new patrol padre, Rev. Colin Ford and his wife, as they travel from the Australian Inland Mission headquarters in Sydney to …