November Frontier News is out now. This edition, we focus on growing up in remote Australia and the challenges and blessings for children in the bush. In the magazine, we take a look inside the RAFS kit boxes provided to isolated families in Queensland so parents can help their children learn through play. We hear …

Acclaimed Australian writer Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh has published a collection of stories about faith in the outback, including many tales from Frontier Services’ Patrol Ministers, past and present. In his book, Amazing Grace, Bill presents an array of first-hand stories from (and about) priests, pastors, preachers and ministers working in remote and regional Australia. The …

To have a stranger come to lend a hand means an awful lot when things are stacked against you. That is what makes Geoff Bond so special and so deserving of the title Mid North Coast Volunteer of the Year. As a volunteer with the Frontier Services program, Outback Links, Geoff travels to remote properties …

Frontier Services board wishes to advise that the Reverend Scott Kelly has resigned from the position of National Director of Frontier Services as from Friday 10 October 2014. The Board accepts his resignation and wishes to thank Scott for the important contribution he has made to Frontier Services since May. In particular, the Board wishes …

If you live within cooee of the Cape York Patrol of Australia and you have anything to do with Frontier Services, chances are you’ll end up fishing. Rev Ron Watson is Frontier Services Patrol Minister in the Cape York Patrol and an avid fisherman. It’s a region where the fish are bountiful, the crocs are …

Frontier Services celebrates 102 years of a Mantle of Safety   Friday, 26 September, marks the 102nd anniversary of Rev John Flynn being commissioned to head the Australian Inland Mission. Flynn’s vision was to spread across the Inland a ‘Mantle of Safety’, bringing aviation, radio, medicine, spiritual comfort, gladness and rejoicing to the lonely and …

Frontier Services is sharing an important message at the Royal Adelaide Show this week: when it comes to men’s health, blokes from bush are straggling behind their city counterparts. For the next two weeks, Frontier Services has a spot in the Farm Expo at the Royal Adelaide Show. Frontier Services is using the opportunity to …

There’s a romantic notion of an Aussie bloke from the bush: rugged, indestructible and tough. While this may be true, there’s another side to the real life story of men’s health in remote Australia. Research shows that men in remote Australia are in poorer health; both mentally and physically, compared to their city counterparts. Some …

Rev Sunil Kadaparambil is currently completing his Uniting Church studies, and joins Frontier Services in the Cunnamulla Patrol. After being a Catholic priest for nine years in India, and then nearly three years in Australia, Sunil, who has always had a passion for mission, joined the Uniting Church. “From my childhood onwards I had a …

The Men’s Issue: August Frontier News Out Now Much as we ‘know’ it, statistics prove that there is a great divide between men living in metropolitan Australia, and those who live in remote and very remote Australia. The August edition of Frontier News has just been released and we look at ‘Men’s Issues’. We take …