NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK: 14-20 May, 2012 With National Volunteer Week about to begin, Outback Links is calling on more people to lend a hand off the beaten track. The theme for the Week is “Volunteers – Everyone Counts” and we believe this is especially true for Outback Links, as every volunteer placement counts as we …

Share the word about Outback Links! Outback Links has gathered a range of resources to help you share the message about Outback Links with your friends and local community. Whether it’s sharing your story at your local church or community group, emailing a friend or posting a poster at your local cafe, here are a range …

Rev Craig Mischewski will feel right at home when he takes up his new post with Frontier Services as the Flinders Patrol Minister tomorrow. The 50-year-old Minister says he was built for work in the bush. “I’m hard wired for the west,” Mr Mischewski said ahead of his official induction on Wednesday. “The more I …

Frontier Services’ supporters and their guests came together at a Centenary Dinner at Bungaree Station in the Clare Valley of South Australia on Saturday night. Frontier Services took the opportunity to acknowledge the support it receives from its corporate partners in NSW and South Australia, as it celebrates the centenary of the establishment of the …

Forget the slump or hump in the middle of the week – it’s going to be Wacky Wednesdays at the Frontier Services Community Support Service in Andamooka. An expanded day care program for elderly people and those with a disability was launched at a special community celebration in Andamooka this week. Coordinator Marianne Mullally said …

Communication. Everybody needs it to survive, yet it will always come more easily to some than to others. Not simply the words to shape an idea, but the infrastructure to shape a network. In the world of communication, there is no such thing as complete equality. It was Rev John Flynn himself, back in 1929, …

On the sixth night of an unprecedented downpour that engulfed their home, Phyllis and Charlie Carmichael, both 80, slept inside their cars. Phyllis in a Prado inside the shed while Charlie comforted his distraught dog in a car parked outside. They had nowhere else to go to escape the rising waters. A little after midnight, …

The following extracts appear in Trevor Foote’s book ‘Kimberley Horizons: Life Transforming Experiences’, which explores his four years as a Minister in the West Kimberley Patrol, based in Broome WA, under the Federal Methodist Inland Mission from 1967.  To preview or purchase a copy of ‘Kimberley Hozizons’ visit Blurb today.  “Chapter 8: The Patrol Ministry In …

People gathered not only to celebrate the past but to look to the future of ministry in remote Australia, at a special service yesterday, marking the final day of Centenary celebrations of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) in Alice Springs. The AIM Centenary Service took place at the John Flynn Memorial Church. With the theme, Looking Back …