Roma North Patrol

The big blue sky around Roma is home to Australia’s largest cattle saleyards. The region also produces crops, timber, oil and gas that make a significant contribution to the Australian economy.

In amongst all this economic activity, is a small Presbyterian Church where the Gospel is proclaimed, the fellowship is warm and disciples of Jesus are grown.  The Roma congregation are lovingly supported by the Miles Presbyterian Church, 150kms to the east. But with limited resources and vast distances it is hard to reach the lost in the town and on the cattle stations, mining camps and in the small communities across the region. For many years, local church elders, PIM Teams and other faithful servants of the Lord having longingly asked ‘What can be done to reach more people in this area with news of God’s great rescue plan?’

It’s a story that PIM sees repeated across our enormous continent. Beyond Australia’s thriving capital cities live significant numbers of people with very little access to Bible teaching churches, Christian fellowship or opportunities to hear the Gospel, perhaps for the first time. In remote and rural areas of our nation, there are people who are born, live out their lives and die without ever having the Gospel of the Lord Jesus explained to them. It is in this places that PIM carries out our work.

PIM Teams have long worked in the South West corner of Queensland, proclaiming the Gospel, caring for hurting people, providing friendship to many and supporting small churches in small towns. Some years ago, the PIM Committee recognised the needs of this part of Australia and expressed a desire to do more there.

PIM’s experience in remote area ministry, combined with the love and enthusiasm of God’s people in Miles, Roma and from across the Presbytery of the Darling Downs has resulted in a brand-new partnership being established. This exciting new initiative aims to place a new worker in Roma. This worker will spend half their time serving the local church and seeking to make disciples in the town of Roma and the other half of their time employed by PIM to develop a new disciple-making patrol ministry in the surrounding area.

If you are ready for a new challenge and would like to find out more about this role, call Glen Perkins at Miles Presbyterian Church on 0487 135 179.

If you’d like to contribute financially to getting this new ministry off the ground please donate.