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Well for a start it is big and it covers an area of 100,000 square kilometres.
It is not confined to any particular building but enjoys many.
It is not hung up on denominations but shows inclusiveness and respect for all.
It doesn’t meet regularly but meets often, that is, unless something else comes up.
In 2008 my wife Sally and I, along with our two dogs, came to this vast brown land.
Our role has been to bring the church, in the form of Christ’s hospitality, to individuals and families from Bollon in Queensland to Innamincka in South Australia, through Frontier Services.
When we have a church service, as such, it may be held in the Uniting Church building at Cunnamulla, but it could just as easily be in the Catholic or Anglican Church in Eulo, Thargomindah or Wyandra.
I may officiate on my own or with a congregation member or with the Catholic Priest to sixty people or two.
The service may precede a party at the pub, or it may be around a BBQ and it finishes when the meat is cooked.
Often the Catholic Priest and I travel together, arriving at the properties of people we both know and serve communion from either tradition.
We celebrate the fact that distance and traditions have no restrictions on the love of Christ.
Dennis Cousens is the Frontier Services Cunnamulla Patrol minister.
