THE ANGLICAN OUTBACK FUND
(National Home Mission Fund)

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ANGLICANS IN THE OUTBACK

The stories of how the Anglican expression of the Christian faith arrived in outback Australia is both moving and colourful. The stories include those of pioneering families of Christian faith gathering people in their own homes for worship – through to the heroic work of the Bush Brotherhoods and the planting of the Anglican Church in the outback.

The Anglican Church in Outback Australia today is faithful, scattered, small and under-resourced but nevertheless resilient and innovative. Outback Anglicans are known to travel 100 kilometres or more to and from worship in a small congregation. Clergy travel huge distances and the cost of that travel is very expensive. Many congregations are without clergy and have been so for some time usually because ordained ministry cannot be afforded. In many parts of Australia the Anglican Church is seeking to find new ways of providing ministry in the Outback.

In 1985, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia recognised the special needs of the remote area dioceses and set up the National Home Mission Fund or, as it is more readily known, the Anglican Outback Fund.