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Welcome to the Christian History Research Website! In this site are many online books of Christian history in Australia and South Pacific. Please click on any of the book covers or links below to find material relevant to your church or personal needs. There are also several indexes and a search engine to help find material.

John Flynn: An Interactive Biography

John Flynn interactive biography

John Flynn was a Christian Missionary who created the Royal Flying Doctor Service. In this application you will learn how Flynn, by trusting God, would become one of Australia's greatest leaders.

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This application may be used and distributed freely for personal interest, education and research purposes. It may not be sold, copied or used for any commercial purposes without written permission of the copyright owner.

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download history presentationNEW DOWNLOAD: Our Australian Christian Heritage 97 Slide Presentation
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download flag presentationNEW DOWNLOAD: The Meaning of Our Flag
(a PDF file of 91KB)


download MP3 from historymakersradio.comNEW DOWNLOAD: History Makers Radio with Matt Prater - interviews many high profile people including Australians
(iTunes Podcast - HistoryMakersRadio.com)

download Ralph Naden storyNEW DOWNLOAD: Don't go to Gilgandra or you will get converted: a story of the Aboriginal Naden Family
(a PDF file of 1.44MB)
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view The Anzacs and Israel - a common destinyThe Anzacs and Israel - a common destiny by Kelvin Crombie (HTML)

download One Blood: 200 years of Aboriginal encounter with Christianity: a story of hope by John Harris, Albatross Books, 1990 download One Blood: 200 years of Aboriginal encounter with Christianity: a story of hope by John Harris, Albatross Books, 1990 NEW DOWNLOAD: One Blood: 200 years of Aboriginal encounter with Christianity: a story of hope by John Harris, Albatross Books, 1990
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view Historical Revisionism in the National CurriculumHistorical Revisionism in the National Curriculum by Prof Augusto Zimmerman (HTML)

National Day of Prayer Feb 19, 2012, Canberra

National Day of Prayer Feb 19, 2012, Canberra

http://www.nationaldayofprayer.com.au/

Join pastors, leaders and prayer warriors from all over Australia to pray for a release of souls into the Kingdom and a revival and reformation.

Blow the trumpet in Zion,
declare a holy fast,
call a sacred assembly.
Gather the people,
consecrate the assembly;
bring together the elders,

Joel 2:15-16

Date: February 19, 2012
Time: 10am-4pm
Location: Great Hall, Parliament House Canberra

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Christian History for Schools

This is a new section of our site which will be expanded with more material for schools. In it are books, links and downloads for children and youth to help with study and assignments on Australian Christian History.

Australia's first Bible

On Sunday 3 February 1788, the first Christian Service in the colony of New South Wales was conducted by the chaplain, Richard Johnson. Johnson's text came from Psalm 116, beginning 'What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?' The Bible was the large leather-bound King James Version which Johnson carried with him on the First Fleet. Johnson's Bible, and his Book of Common Prayer, foundational documents in the formation of Australia, now reside under the care of St Philip's York St Anglican Church in Sydney. The current rector of St Phillip's, The Reverend Justin Moffatt, considers Johnson's KJV to be one of our greatest treasures...

View video ( 7 Minutes ) http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/08/24/3301174.htm.

400th anniversary of the King James Bible



I got off at George St: the story of Mr Jenner

A remarkable story of commitment - take your pick, 2 versions


Christianstogether.net

Mr Jenner of George St Sydney



Fighting Mackenzie - Podcasts

fighting Mackenzie
biography
William McKenzie (1869 - 1947),
by unknown photographer, 1918, courtesy of Australian War Memorial. P00329.001.

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Source: Salvos Media: ANZAC Radio Program, 2006

Mitchell on Law - Podcasts

David Mitchell

Summit Ministries talk by David Mitchell in January 2007 in Canberra. Speaking on Origins of Australian Law.

Dr David Mitchell is an Australian Lawyer and a leading authority on Constitutional and Human Rights issues, being a graduate of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. Amongst many attainments he was Attorney-General of the African nation of Lesotho, is an ordained Presbyterian Minister residing in Hobart, Tasmania and was an elected delegate to the Constitutional Convention held in 1988.

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[ Understanding Our Christian Heritage Volume I ] [ Understanding Our Christian Heritage Volume II (Chapter 10: Australia's priceless heritage of freedom) ] [ South Land of the Holy Spirit : A Christian History of Australia (including Chapter 11: Pioneers) ] [ Early Evangelical Revivals in Australia ] [ Glorious Gospel Triumphs: John Watsford, Methodist Missionary to Fiji ] [ Unto God and Caesar: religious issues in the emerging Commonwealth 1891-1906 ] [ A South Australian Romance: how a colony was founded and a Methodist Church formed ] [ Ten Decades (London Missionary Society)] [ Is this the End of Religious Liberty?: the place of United Nations Law in Australian Law (ebook) ] [Anzacs, Empires and Israel's Restoration] [ The Life Story on an Australian Evangelist: William George Taylor, Sydney Central Methodist Mission ]

Other Articles/Documents

Links


New Books and More of
God in Australasia and the Pacific


Missionary Triumphs
Among the
Settlers in Australia
And the
Savages of the South Seas
By
John Blacket 1914



A Narrative
Of
Missionary Enterprises
in the
South Sea Islands
By
John Williams 1837


The Story of
John G. Paton - 1892


Live
A History of Church
Planting in the
New Hebrides
to 1880
By
J. Graham Miller - 2001



James Chalmers
His Autobiography and Letters
By
the late Richard Lovett, M.A.
With a supplementary chapter by
Rev. A.N. Johnson. M.A.

1st Edition 1902
Re-prints in 1903 - 1912 - 1925



The Life of
John Hunt
Missionary to the
Cannibals in Fiji
By
George Stringer Rowe
1859


Pearls from the Pacific
By
Florence S. H. Young



Pearls of the Pacific
Being sketches of Missionary life
and work in Samoa and other
Islands in the South Seas
By
V. A. Barradale, M.A.

1907


History of
South Australia
By
John Blacket 1911


The Story of
The Pioneer Church
In Van Diemen's Land
By
Karl Von Stieglitz, O.B.E. 1954


Anzacs, Empires
and
Israel's Restoration
1798 - 1948
By
Kelvin Crombie

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