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Bush parson
Dr Leon Morris, former Principal of Ridley College, Melbourne was best known as a respected Bible scholar and lecturer of international stature.
Few would know that he spent the years of the Second World War with the Bush Church Aid Society among the people of the Minnipa Mission on the Eyre Peninsula. With a population depleted by the war effort and tough farm conditions, Leon and Mildred Morris carried out their ministry in a parish covering thousands of square miles. The joys and difficulties of these years among the caring people of the outback are told with affection in this book.
This ... is my tribute to the big-hearted people I met in the outback. I want to acknowledge my debt to so many battlers in their very difficult situations. And with them I want to link those in our cities who are interested enough in what is done in this vast country to support with their prayers and their gifts those who go out to minister to their outback cousins. I am indebted to them both.
Few would know that he spent the years of the Second World War with the Bush Church Aid Society among the people of the Minnipa Mission on the Eyre Peninsula. With a population depleted by the war effort and tough farm conditions, Leon and Mildred Morris carried out their ministry in a parish covering thousands of square miles. The joys and difficulties of these years among the caring people of the outback are told with affection in this book.
This ... is my tribute to the big-hearted people I met in the outback. I want to acknowledge my debt to so many battlers in their very difficult situations. And with them I want to link those in our cities who are interested enough in what is done in this vast country to support with their prayers and their gifts those who go out to minister to their outback cousins. I am indebted to them both.
88 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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July 16, 2019
Bush Parson is a good little read of just on 100 pages. I have been to some of the places Bush Parson Leon Morris and his wife have been to with the Bush Church Aid group. He was in the dusty outback in WW 2 and he and his triple certificate nurse/wife did a wonderful job preaching faithfully to little groups of isolated farmers. At the same time his wife cared for the sick (for free!). An easy read written in an interesting, witty, humorous and engaging style. Republished to commemorate the BCA's 100 years of service to our mighty rural areas. Morris was the author of 50 books. He died in 2006.
June 27, 2024
Wonderful, very short, description of life as a pastor in a very remote part of Australia in the 1940's. I loved the honesty about the reality of ministry and the humility of him and his wife. They were the real deal.
August 2, 2020
Inspiring, engaging, informative and humorous!
I'm very keen to read some of his theological works now.
I'm very keen to read some of his theological works now.
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