FRONTIER SERVICES CELEBRATIONS.   Uniting Church in Australia, Northern Synod website, 3 May 2012.   In April 2011 Stuart Traynor, chairman of the Alice Springs National Trust invited the Uniting Church in Alice Springs to celebrate the heritage of the AIM during Heritage Week in April 2012… The day arrived with Frontier Services Patrol Minister Colin …

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS AT THE HEART OF REMOTE AUSTRALIA.   Journey, 10 April 2012.   Frontier Services will turn 100 this year and the celebrations will reach some of the most isolated communities in thecountry. On 26 September 1912, Rev John Flynn encouraged the Church to support the work approved by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian …

Volunteers are travelling outback and picking up tools, paintbrushes and scrubbing brushes to assist with the vital upkeep of Frontier Services buildings across the country. A Work Party consisting of 12 people from across Queensland, NSW and Victoria has met in Charleville for a two-week stint to complete vital jobs at a number of the …

Volunteers are travelling outback and picking up tools, paintbrushes and scrubbing brushes to assist with the vital upkeep of Frontier Services buildings across the country. A Work Party consisting of 12 people from across Queensland, NSW and Victoria has met in Charleville for a two-week stint to complete vital jobs at a number of the …

100 YEARS AT THE HEART OF AUSTRALIA.   Insights, 1 April 2012.   “Frontier Services, an agency of the Assembly, is still serving rural and remote Australia through the provision of ministry and community services, striving to break down the disadvantage created by distance and isolation. In the centenary year, it is celebrating Flynn’s vision for …

OUTBACK OUTREACH 100 NOT OUT.   Crosslight, 1 April 2012.   “It is 100 years since ‘Flynn of the Inland’, the famous Rev John Flynn, set up the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) in 1912.  The Uniting Church Historical Society invited Frontier Services national director Rosemary Young to be guest speaker at their AGM to mark …

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS AT THE HEART OF REMOTE AUSTRAIA.   Insights, 9 March 2012.   “Difficulties of a serious nature will arise in the shoals of every fertile mind. To each one, a reply can only be made in words already made familiar; do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers …

Can you spare $20 to help build a brighter future for the people of remote Australia? Frontier Services today launches its Cover the Country campaign to raise the money it needs to continue to care for the people of remote Australia for the next 100 years. Every $20 that is donated will help Frontier Services …

This National Volunteer Week, 14-20 May, Frontier Services celebrates the work of its Outback Links volunteers who provide hands-on support to hundreds of families in rural and remote Australia every year. This is a story about the experience of one family in WA. During the summer of 2011-12, while much of eastern and northwest Australia battled …

During National Volunteer Week, 14-20 May, Frontier Services celebrates the work of its Outback Links volunteers who provide hands-on support to hundreds of families in rural and remote Australia every year. This is a story from one of our great volunteer couples. Queenslanders John and Shan Sharp from Mt Tyson on the Darling Downs have discovered …