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New Anglican Minister for Bulahdelah
Saturday 8th January 2005 at St. Andrews Tea Gardens.
Robyn is seen here delivering a welcome to Allan Bate on behalf of the Bulahdelah community. Allan is the new Anglican minister for Bulahdelah/Tea Gardens Parish.
In his address Bishop Roger (Sri Lankan by birth), the Anglican Bishop of Newcastle told us how the recent Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean had wiped out a whole family of his relatives who were trapped on a train en route to the Sri Lankan coast. He explained to us how God's love can be seen in the wake of that disaster in the expression of human compassion and physical and prayerful response.
Allan, his wife Mellita
and daughter Kathryn come to us from Mt. Magnet in the Goldfields area of
Western Australia where the couple, working for Bush Church Aid, built a small church into a respectable sized
congregation of believers.
Allan grew up in
Caringbah, a suburb of Sydney. He worked for ICI as a chemical analyst for a
number of years before he received his call to the ministry at the age of 28. Allan had been in
the CEBS (Boys Society) as a leader from the time he was a teenager before a
Pastor suggested he should take a year off work to deepen his knowledge of
scripture by doing a course at the Church Army Bible College. It was while he
was here that he met Mellita.
Mellita a self-confessed rebel of a young lady, had grown up with her family in Cairns, North Queensland . Mellita's path crossed that of a Church Army evangelist whose message changed the course of her life. Not knowing about Jesus the Saviour prior to that . She embraced the Christian message wholeheartedly and from being a Bank Teller with the Westpac Bank she attended the same Sydney Bible College as Allan. The couple fell in love and married.
The couple have worked with BCA in several locations in Western Australia before accepting the invitation to lead the Bulahdelah/Tea Gardens Anglican Parish.
Allan recognizes the great challenges we face in our community today and he passionately seeks to reach the un-reached young and old people in our community with the Good News of God's love for each and every one of them.
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Sunday, 09 January 2005