William Creek, on the Oodnadatta Track, is one of the most remote and isolated communities in Australia but is used as a vital community hub for stations in the area. Frontier Services volunteers led by Parkin Sturt patrol minister Paul Glazbrook will spend a week working on repairs to the gymkhana and bronco branding grounds.
Stations near the outback town of Cobar NSW will soon be the focus of a diverse group of Frontier Services Outback Links volunteers who will converge on the town in late June. Thirty church and community volunteers will arrive from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and even South Australia to lend a helping hand for a week.
In this issue we celebrate 40 years of the Uniting Church, visit our High Country Parol Minister, review our recent Cunnamulla Outback Links trip, and introduce you to our new National Director and Centralian Patrol minister.
Frontier Services held a bush Christmas at St Stephens Uniting Church to thank our supporters.
The November 2016 issue of Frontier News looks at the September Outback Links trip to Charleville, Queensland which is in Cunnamulla-Burke & Wills country, where patrol minister Rev Sunil Kadaparambil joined the team for the week. It was a time of many people coming together for a good cause, to help the people of remote ...
The Man on the Twenty Dollar Notes A review by Frontier Services correspondent and longtime supporter Dorothy Haensel I have just taken a trip down memory lane, as I read Everald Compton’s story of John Flynn. Everald rightly states that this is not a biography, but nor is it a novel. It is rather a …
Outback Links is preparing to lead a team of 54 volunteers including Rotarians, RACQ mechanics, Qantas engineers, cabin crew and a 747 captain to south west Qld in September 2016, on a trip to lend their time and skills to farmers. The aim is to raise spirits in the drought-affected community by offering a week of hard work.
Frontier Services recognises 26 September 1912 as its foundation date. On this day a Presbyterian minister, Rev John Flynn ‘Flynn of the Inland’ was appointed the first superintendent of the AIM (Australian Inland Mission). Flynn was a great humanitarian. He believed outreach to disadvantaged people in remote Australia should be practical and beneficial.
The August 2016 issue of Frontier News looks at the two recent Outback Links trips – to Lightning Ridge and Longreach. It also speaks to the theme of mobility.
Fred Vanclay was patrol padre in the Tennant Barkly Patrol during the late 80s and early 90s.
