Accordingly, we decided in 1990 already to develop new contacts only with churches who were geographically close to us, for whom we therefore have a greater responsibility. Our current practice, then, resembles what your Committee for Relations with Churches Abroad has recommended to this Synod. As to mission work, the Free Reformed Churches of Australia have for years been busy in Papua New Guinea. Of late responsibility for the work that s been done in Port Moresby and Ekoro has passed to Toronto - here s an example of helping each other. We for our part are investigating possibilities in the PNG city of Lae.
Efforts are also under way in our midst to establish mission work in India and in China.
Maybe, just maybe, we can do more work together in mission. Dear brothers in the Lord, I must come to an end. Your sister churches in Australia greet you in the name of the Lord, and wish you God s indispensable and promised blessing on all your labours. May we meet more often, consult together more often, do more things together. When all is said and done, we need each other as brothers of one culture, one language, one heritage, one faith.