“Friends for life – A beautiful story” In the dozen or so years Maree Anning has been an Outback Links volunteer, our team estimates she has contributed more than 300 hours of unpaid service to farming families across Queensland. But Maree doesn’t measure her volunteering in hours, or even in the number of placements she …
” Its emotionally hard to try and continue to rebuild from one disaster after another” Some of our farmers have had to try to recover from a running of 4 natural disasters in the past 18 months. Frontier Services Jannine Jackson spoke with Jaynie Seal and Tim Gilbert on Sky News on Saturday. We have …
Frontier Services urgently need your help NSW Overrun with mice and devastating floods. Our hearts are broken. Regional NSW, Coonamble and its surrounds are trying to rebuild from the worst drought in Australian recorded history. The first good season and now they are overrun with Mice. I can only imagine how hard this must be, …
You really listen when a long standing and experienced Bush Chaplain says: “This has been the most difficult 12 months I’ve ever had as a Bush Chaplain.” Our Busch Chaplaincy is under pressure and needs your support. Of course last year was bad for lots of people. We all had some experience of the drought ...
8th March 2021 – International Women’s Day 2021 Today we celebrate International Women’s Day #internationalwomensday2021 With Colleen Geyer – Uniting Church in Australia, Claerwen Little – UnitingCare Australia, Jannine Jackson – Frontier Services, and Sureka Goringe – UnitingWorld. We hope you enjoy celebrating International Women’s Day 2021 with this incredible #womeninleadership talk with these 4 …
I want to share the inspiring story of two of our Outback Links volunteers, Michael and Wendy* who have been travelling around their home state of Queensland to support farming families experiencing isolation. Their story sharing of the children who don't expect much. They have been a source of hope and encouragement for a number ...
Quarantine, isolation and border controls throughout this year have had an impact on the work of our Frontier Services Buch Chaplains. But they’ve continued to find ways to reach out and connect with communities across Remote Australia. We chatted to Benjamin Quilliam and Peter Wait who work in the Centralian and Tennant Barkly regions of …
Today is International Day of Older Persons. The work that we do here at Frontier Services has a significant impact on the lives of older people living in rural and remote Australia. We have huge numbers of Outback Links volunteers who are "grey nomads", travelling the country and lending a hand where they are needed ...
Today is International Translation Day. At Frontier Services we work with all kinds of communities across Australia. And for many, English is not necessarily their primary language. This is particularly true in the West Arnhem Remote Area which is ministered to by our Bush Chaplain, Lindsay Parkhill. Lindsay’s wife Louise Macdonald, also works for an …
I was recently inspired by Merv's story, that of a kind hearted and brave 76 year old farmer, Merv, living alone on a 600, 000 hectare station near Cue, 700km from Perth in Western Australia, that I want to share with you. For many of us, COVID-19 has been our first experience of the social ...
