Dear friends
Greetings from Frontier Services, Parkin Sturt Remote Area!!!
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved”. Mother Teresa
2020 was a year for the entire world experienced the feeling of being in isolation. “Isolation” – it was a word not much used in our busy schedule before but the Covid-19 pandemic compel all to realise the fact that how sad it would be in social isolation. How mad to live inside four walls of our home for long, how sad to live the life with restrictions everywhere! How bad to live a life hiding our smiles inside the face masks!
Last week, I read the newspaper headline: “Covid Christmas bubbles and the safety of solitude”. We are asked to comply with the restrictions and to be inside the safety bubble physically, but don’t let ourselves be inside these bubbles mentally.
So, this Christmas and New Year season, even though with lots of differences from previous years, let us remember our friends who are affected Covid-19 pandemic and those who are going through in its impacts. Let us remember our friends who are grieving, friends who are affected financially and friends who are left alone in their life. Let us remember all of them for a moment and also let us remember our entire world for a moment.
Let us express our love each other better than before, even though there are restrictions to stay at home, even though we cannot cross our state borders, even though we cannot fly overseas, even though we cannot hug or kiss each other, even though we have to hide our smiles under our masks! Let us reach out to others in thoughts and prayers if possible with a helping hand! Together, let us fill our world with love, peace, joy and hope and let us keep it safe. No one feel isolated and unloved!
May you have wonderful & joyous Christmas and safe & peaceful New Year – 2021.
God’s richest blessings to you…
Sunny Kadaparambil
Parkin Sturt Remote Area, Frontier Services
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2021 HELPING HAND PROJECTS – Parkin Sturt Remote Area SA |
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Dates |
Venue |
Number of volunteers |
Working days |
Distance from Port Augusta (Approx.) |
Distance from Adelaide (Approx.) |
Job Description |
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26th to 31st March
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Terowie Roadhouse |
15 |
4 |
158 kms |
230 kms |
Cleaning & Repair Swimming Pool, Cleaning Motel Premises,
Pavement Works, Carpentry jobs Painting Doors and Windows
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28th April to 03rd May
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William Creek |
8 |
4 |
580 kms |
823 kms |
Painting, Carpentry work,
Plumbing and Electrical General Repair Work |
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25th to 30th June
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Kingoonya Hotel |
7 |
4 |
331 kms |
638 kms |
Painting General Repair Works
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19th to 22nd ??? August
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William Creek Bronco Branding event |
5 |
2 |
580 kms (via Maree) |
823 kms |
Cooking and Serving Meals to Bronco Branding Participants |
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Sunil (Sunny) Kadaparambil Bush Chaplain, Parkin Sturt Remote area, Frontier Services UCA SA. (PO Box 322) Quorn SA 5433. Mob: 0428 941 393. Email: parkinsturt@sa.uca.org.au |
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| PARKIN Sturt remote area bush chaplaincy
REMOTE AREA VISITS – yearly Planner 2021 |
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DATE
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LOCATION OF VISITS |
| 3rd to 31st January | Quorn, Hawker, Parachilna, Wilpena, Carrieton, Orroroo & Wilmington |
| 1st to 5th February | Off Days |
| 6th to 28th February | Gawler Ranges – Iron Knob, Kimba, Wudinna |
| 1st to 5th March | Off Days |
| 6th to 31st March | Barrier Highway-Yunta, Mannahill, Olary, Cockburn, Peterborough
Terowie (SA Synod Work Party) |
| 1st to 14th April | 14 DAYS – Annual Holidays (Part I) |
| 17th to 26th April | Mannahill & Yunta (Anzac Service & Yunta Race) |
| 28th April to 3rd May | William Creek (SA Synod Work Party) |
| 6th to 31st May | Iron Knob, Nonning (Gymkhana), Kimba, Mt Ive, Wudinna,
Cowell (FS OBL Work Party) |
| 1st to 5th June | Off Days |
| 6th to 30th June | Oodnadatta Track, Marla, Cadney Park, Glendambo, Pimba
Kingoonya ( SA Synod Work Party) |
| 1st to 5th July | Off days |
| 6th to 31st July | Leigh Creek, Copley, Arkaroola, Innamincka & Strzelecki Track, Cockburn (FS OBL Work party) |
| 1st to 5th August | Off Days |
| 6th to 31st August | Maree, William Creek (Bronco Branding) & Birdsville Track |
| 1st to 5th September | Off Days |
| 6th September to
10th October |
Lyndhurst, Copley, Arkaroola,
Nepabunna (FS OBL Work Party) |
| 18th to 31st October | 14 DAYS – STUDY LEAVE |
| 1st to 21st November | 21 DAYS – Annual Holidays (Part II) |
| 22nd Nov to 24th Dec | Barrier Highway – Terowie, Yunta, Mannahill, Olary, Cockburn
Peterborough, Wilmington, Quorn, Hawker, Carrieton, Orroroo Gawler ranges |
| 24th to 31st December | Off Days |
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Rev Sunil (Sunny) Kadaparambil Bush Chaplain, Parkin Sturt Remote Area prepared on 23/12/2020 |
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