01 Australia South Aust Pioneers
Baartz, John & Garry Rohrlack
John Baartz and Gary Rohrlack
Baartz & McCoy Bank Account.
Baartz and McCoy Bank Account Records
Campbell, Ron
Ron Campbell
Campbell, Ron #2
Ron Campbell grew up in Mannanarie, near Peterborough in South Australia. He went into the work in 1926, labored in the USA and was put out around 1950 He died in 1978.
Hughes, Willie
Willie Hughes
Hughes, Aggie (1904) & Laura Falkiner (1902)
Aggie Hughes entered work in 1904 and Laura Falkiner entered work in 1902. Aggie was from Ireland and went to West Australia in January, 1906. Laura went to West Australia in Jan.1906. Apart from a couple of years in Victoria and Queensland, she preached in WA until her death in 1967.
Hutchinson, Adam
Adam Hutchison professed in Great Britain, entered the work in 1902 and is on the 1905 Workers List He wrote Hymn Nos. 330, 237 and 199. On October 18, 1905, Adam along with Francis Hodgins, Maggie McDougall and Joe Williamson, arrived in South Africa. Later they went to Australia and New Zealand. He pioneered South Australia. Adam Hutchison and Joe Williamson pioneered the South Island with two Sister Workers in 1905. Finally, Adam went to India - and in Rangoon, Burma where he died from smallpox in Jan 1925.
Letterhead-Australasia
Letterhead for Australasia "The United Christian Conventions of Australia and New Zealand"
McCoy, Arthur - sidecar
Arthur McCoy with his sidecar
McCoy, Arthur's sidecar
Arthur McCoy --- sidecar visable.
1919 Bethel Convention, South Australia
1919 Bethel Convention, South Australia
Bethel Lutheran Church 3
Bethel Lutheran Church 1660 Lutheran Church in Bethel, South Australia. Some German immigrants settled in Bethel, South Australia and were attending the Lutheran Church in Bethel, established in 1660 AD. In 1910, 24 walked out of the Bethel Lutheran Church church. "That same night he [Sam Jones] gave them opportunity to declare their support of the Gospel that he and Jim [Vallance] had preached to them, and the same 24 raised hands." Read full story of the Bethel Mission at: https://tellingthetruth.info/history_pioneering/australia-bethel.php
Oxenbridge, Fan -
Fan Oxenbridge
Punke, Em & Ernst Reimann
Em Punke and Ernst Reiman Em Punke arrived in Germany in 1924-25. His first companion was Ernst Reimann. Ern Punke professed in 1913 and started in the Work in 1919. After five years in SA went to Germany with Olga Hasting and Frieda Schmidt in 1924. He spent several years prior to WW2 in Austria, then during the War (1939-1945) preached in Switzerland. He had difficulty getting permission to visit Australia after the War and returned to Austria. He married Finny who went into the Work with him. They spent several years in SA during the 1950s and returned to Germany in 1959 where Ern died in 1964.
India, Sid Maynard
Sid Maynard was a pioneer of India where he spent the last 29 years of his life. He had oversight of all of India from 1925 until his death in India in 1954, aged 68. He was first person to profess on continent of Australia and the FIRST native worker to go out to preach. He labored in two states, the West, and South Australia for 10 years before going to India.
SA Brother Workers
Southern Australia Workers
Schmidt Home in SA
Schmidt Home in South Australia
Smith, Bruce & John Potter
Bruce Smith & John Parker
Vogt, Ben
Ben Vogt
Woodside Conv Sisters
Sister Workers at Woodside Convention
Schmidt, Frieda -
Between 1924 and 1925, Frieda Schmidt & Olga Hastings arrived in Germany. Frieda was from Australia while the Schmidts were one of the 1910 Bethel Mission families.
Thumbnail Aust South Aust
Barbour, Robert, Archie Turner, Nelson Retchford
Robert Barbour, Archie Turner, Nelson Retchford. Robert Barbour from New Zealand, began as Overseer of South Australia in 1946. Archie Turner pioneered Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland in 1928, He labored in Canada; Overseer of Queensland Australia 1959-1971 and was Overseer of Scotland 1971. Nelson Retchford from South Australia entered work in 1924, preached mostly in India and South Australia He was one of pioneers to Burma (Myanmar) and he died in 1989.