Photos '05

Welcome to the Spinifex Ministries Photo Album for 2005.

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The year started at the Calvary Presbyterian Church Brookton, giving the outside a facelift.

Our time at Coober Pedy Anglican Church was spent building a fence come side of shed and and interactive display of the church

Whilst working at CP, we were taken out to Oodnadatta and saw the famous Pink Roadhouse!

The next place of call was at AIM Alice Springs. Here are a few photos of some of what we did. 

After Alice, we spent 2 weeks at AIM Tennant Creek.

From TC, we moved onto AIM Elliot to fix the place up a bit.  

This year we finally got to KCC - Katherine Christian Convention.

After KCC we moved onto Kununurra to Bethel Community and then the People's Church where Phil preached for the 5 Sundays and we built them a shed and some seating

We then detoured to the Rectory of Wyndham Anglican to help with the extensions that we started by moving the electrical last year. 

At Fitzroy Crossing we helped out AIM at the Junjuwa People's Church (Junjuwa Aboriginal Community) modifying their pews, making doors for the doorless toilets, and many more numerous maintenance jobs.

Junjuwa People's Church is one of those churches that have real goats in the building!

While also at FC, Phil was asked to go out to Bayulu Community and help out.  

The toilets in the background (of the Bayulu church), Phil helped build in '99 when we were in MMM.

After FC we headed out to the Ngaliwanyan People's Church out at Looma Community

Our next visit was at St Hugh's Anglican Church, Marble Bar in the Pilbara.   The Mission truck.

At Marble Bar, we fixed the floor and renovated their kitchen.

How Marble Bar got its name.

We spent a weekend at Karijini   

At Broome Anglican, we renovated part of their old rectory   

Phil preaching at the Broome Anglican Cafe Church.   

 A Broome Sunset.

We got caught out in the rain when we dropped back into Looma!   

Joshua's 9th Birthday (September) at Katherine, NT. 

Family shot in Darwin 

In early October, we headed out to Numbulwar in Arnhem Land, NT to visit a MAF family. On the trip out there, we had to cross 2 rivers, the Roper   and the Rose.  With the Rose being tidal, we had to wait for low tide  

After 250km of dirt, we got bogged 5km out of Numbulwar!   

While at Numbulwar, we relaced the fly screens on both MAF houses as well as some maintenance.   

After church one Sunday, we headed out to a billabong for lunch and a swim.

And people complain about the price of fuel in the cities! 

A beautiful Rose river sunrise 

 The damage a wayward rock can do to a steel mud flap dropper! 

At Katherine AIM, we changed the bathroom vanity and retiled the floor   

Their were also many shelf systems to removed and make new ones   

During the year, SM also had some volunteers come and replace the kitchen as well. 

After Katherine, we headed to Borroloola AIM centre and proceeded to paint the inside of the mission house. Before After

The SM logo. A windmill on Brunette Downs, NT.  

The last "job" for SM this year was to help a young Christian farming couple move house  

In the process, we found out that the caravan tyres after only 40,000km had to be replaced due to all 5 developing side wall blisters. The night before we were to make the 350km return trip to get new tyres, it rained and the truck went down - again! It sunk down past the front axel and in sticky mud, it wouldn't budge! The end result, we tore up their front lawn!

Well that's it! It is really hard to know what photos to put in and what to leave out. I hope that you have enjoyed a quick trip through 2005 with Spinifex Ministries.