Legends
Legends, George Taplin friend of the Ngarrindjeri Taplin, George (1831–1879) was born on 24 August 1831 at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England. Committed Christian and Congregationalist, from the age of 15 he had desired to become an overseas missionary. He arrived in Adelaide in the Anna Maria on 12 October 1849 and worked as a labourer and as a lawyer’s…
Legends, The Barley Five Mothers day_five barley loaves 132 years ago in 1885 Silas Mead, first pastor of Flinders Street Baptist Church in Adelaide, preached from John 6 on feeding the 5000 and likened the first missionaries they were sending to the ‘five barley loaves’. The implication being that the work these five women were…
Legends – Adoniram Judson, Jr. (1788 – 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years.
Legends, John G Paton (1824-1907) The life and ministry of John G Paton has all the mystery intrigue and suspense of any of Hollywood’s best thrillers – only better. This story centres on the islands of the PPT New Hebrides in the South Pacific. In 1606, a chain of eighty islands in the South Pacific…