The Bush Brotherhoods
This Bishop of Rockhampton is credited with establishing the Bush Brotherhood, building on the vision of his mentor, Bishop Webber
Who is Bishop Nathaniel Dawes?
This Presbyterian minister was ordained in 1911 and became the driving force behind social welfare in the outback.
Who is Reverend John Flynn?
This famous Australian founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in 1866 to provide education for bush children.
Who is Mary MacKillop?
This mission, established in 1877 in Central Australia, was founded by Pastors Kempe and Schwartz
What is the Finke River Mission (or Hermannsburg)?
The BCA was established in 1919 by this faction of the Anglican Church to counteract the High Church influence of the Bush Brotherhoods.
Who are the Evangelical Anglicans (specifically from Sydney)?
Influenced by university graduates from Oxford and Cambridge, the Bush Brotherhoods maintained this specific theological stance, which sometimes drew criticism from Protestant counterparts
What is Anglo-Catholic (or High Church) Anglicanism?
Following a comprehensive report on outback difficulties, the Presbyterian Church established this organization in 1912 with Flynn in charge.
What is the Australian Inland Mission?
The Catholic Church’s strong rural presence was largely due to its focus on ministering to this specific immigrant working-class group
Who are the Irish?
Unlike some other groups, Lutheran missionaries believed the Gospel must be presented in this way to be successful among Aboriginal communities
What is in the language of the Aboriginal community?
The first BCA was established in this Australian state with support from the Colonial and Continental Church Society
What is Tasmania?
To serve in the Brotherhood, these men were required to be single and adhere to three temporary vows: poverty, chastity, and this third vow
What is obedience (to their appointed 'superior')?
The tragic death of this stockman, who died despite a DIY operation guided by Morse code, inspired Flynn to establish a flying doctor service
Who was Jimmy Darcy?
By the turn of the century, the Catholic Church ran approximately this percentage of all orphanages in Australia
What is forty percent?
These two ministers established the first Lutheran Aboriginal mission along the Torrens River in 1838 after learning the Kaurna language
Who were Schumann and Teichelmann?
In 1925, the BCA opened its first hospital in this South Australian town
What is Ceduna?
This was the total number of English brothers who eventually became bishops, with eighteen of them serving in Australia
What is twenty?
Working with Flynn, this man developed the pedal-powered radio, allowing isolated bush residents to communicate in emergencies
Who was Alfred Traeger?
These specific Catholic schools, which began in Western Australia in 1927, were designed to provide religious education to children in remote wheat belt regions.
What are “Bushie” schools?
In 1840, the missionary Schumann was appointed to this official government position before moving to Port Lincoln
his BCA pilot flew some 15,000 miles in 1938 to provide medical services to 200 patients
Who was Allan Chadwick?
Established in 1897 by the Reverend George Halford, this was the first specific mission house of the movement, located in Longreach.
St Andrew’s Mission House?
In 1913, Flynn launched this illustrated magazine to connect and inform those living in remote areas.
What is The Inlander?
This order of sisters arrived in Yass from Ireland in 1875 to provide schooling for Aboriginal children and pastoral care for their families
Who are the Sisters of Mercy?
This mission in Northern Queensland was started by the Lutherans in the 1880s
What is the Hope Vale Mission?
The BCA utilized this type of vehicle, equipped with a lantern outfit, first aid, and a gramophone, to reach scattered homesteads off the beaten track
What is a motor mission van?