Flying padre

A word of comfort

We fly between 250 and 300 hours per year, covering approximately 1.2 million square kilometres of northern Australia, encompassing over 120 remote cattle stations, communities and small towns.

Flying over isolated and often wild terrain, coming into land on a tiny homestead strip to bring a word of comfort at a time of crisis, this service is a fascinating style of ministry in the top end of Australia.

The use of a plane enables the rural and remote chaplains to visit tiny homesteads, remote cattle stations and isolated communities two to four times a year to provide much-appreciated pastoral care, friendship, counselling and practical help.

The people the rural and remote chaplains meet on their travels varies from station owners, managers, those on holidays travelling the Top End and station personnel including cooks, governesses, home tutors, ringers, jackaroos and jillaroos.