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The aim of the Methodist Inland Mission, which was run by the Methodist Inland Mission Board, was to send missionaries into remote parts of Australia "to implant the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ". At the beginning, it relied on the work of travelling preachers, who worked in collaboration with the
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In May 1936, Rev. A. J. Barclay (president-general of the Methodist Church of Australia), at the request of the Methodist Federal Inland Mission Board and the Methodist Overseas Mission Board, was due to travel to every station in the West Australian sector of the Methodist Inland Mission, calling
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Superintendents at Yirrkala included founding superintendent Wilbur Chaseling, Harold Thornell, and Edgar Wells, who wrote about their experiences there. The residents were free to come and go as they wished and the interaction was on the whole positive in those early days, with a lack of dogmatism
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Churches came together to found a new church. Its organisational structure mainly followed the Wesleyan Methodist Church. This Methodist Church of Australasia established a General Conference, meeting triennially, for Australasia (which then included New Zealand) in 1875, with Annual Conferences in
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The Methodist Inland Mission (MIM), also known as the Federal Methodist Inland Mission (FMIM), was missionary organisation of the Methodist Church of Australia that existed between 1926 and 1977. While the Methodist Overseas Mission performed missionary work among Aboriginal people, the Methodist
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in 1941, originally designed to be a hostel for young single people who had moved to Alice Springs for work, but by the time it was opened, it was converted in to a social club for soldiers stationed in Alice Springs. After the war it became hostel accommodation for children from remote areas of
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The triennial conference was led by the President-General. There were a total of 25 Presidents General over the life of the Methodist Church of Australasia, from its formation in 1902 until the Uniting Church in 1977.
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in at Port Hedland, Derby, Broome, Wyndham, and Darwin, by boat, and then, with Rev. S. T. Vickery, whose headquarters are at Port Hedland, travel overland to will travel to Marble Bar, Nullagine, and Roy Hil.
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in May 1926, and had its first board meeting in Melbourne in November of that year. Five ministers were appointed in the first year, two to cover
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was formed. It did missionary work in Australia through two organisations: the Methodist Overseas Mission (founded 1916), which focused mainly on
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The Federal Methodist Inland Mission was established at the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia in
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There are still independent Methodist congregations in Australia, including congregations formed or impacted by
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by the missionaries, and the Yolngu people accommodating Christianity within a version of their own beliefs.
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The right amount of crazy : St Philip's College & Griffiths House, Alice Springs - 75 years
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in Sydney holds records of the Methodist Overseas Mission, including more than 300 boxes of
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Its first ministers were appointed in regional Queensland, including the towns of
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in northern Australia, moving across the islands from west to east, including
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Men on the frontier a brief history of the Federal Methodist Inland Mission
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Inland Mission served settler communities in the remote areas of the bush.
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in 1977, Frontier Services took responsibility for the missionary work.
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denomination based in Australia. It existed from 1902 to 1977, when the
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On 1 January 1902, five Methodist denominations in Australia – the
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Mount Isa Mines Limited.; M.I.M. Holdings Limited. (July 1961).
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Ambulance Car of the Methodist Inland Mission in Queensland
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This article about an organisation in Australia is a
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Index

Methodist
Uniting Church in Australia
Aboriginal Australians
Wesleyan Methodist
Primitive Methodists
Bible Christian Church
United Methodist Free
Methodist New Connexion
states
Congregational Union of Australia
Presbyterian Church of Australia
Uniting Church in Australia
Sydney
Arnhem Land
Goulburn Island
Milingimbi Island
Elcho Island
Yirrkala
Caledon Bay
anthropology
A. P. Elkin
Sydney University
Aboriginal Australian
Yolngu people
Mitchell Library
manuscripts
Cecil Holmes
Stolen Generations
cultural assimilation

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