Mt Druitt is a multicultural area, with a high population on Aboriginal people. Mt Druitt is in Western Sydney, between Blacktown and Penrith. The UCA employs an Aboriginal Youth Worker, Mr Bradley Dodd, who works in partnership with the Bidwill UCA and the Mt Druitt Indigenous Church.

Key Features and Activities:

• Services at the Mt Druitt Indigenous Church and leading services, messages and bible studies.
• Two children and a youth group operating for Indigenous kids (across both locations). 
• Chaplain's work at Cobham Juvenile Justice Centre at Werrington.
  

Contact:

Bradley Dodd, Youth Worker.
Pearl Wymarra
Tel: (02) 8267 4300

Tabulam is a rural village in the far north east of New South Wales, Australia, 800km from the state capital, Sydney. Tabulam is located on the Highway 44 between Tenterfield and Casino and on the Clarence River. Tabulam is a picturesque village and its position on the northern catchment of Australias most volumeous river affords it geographical and environmental significance. According to the 2006 Census, there were 573 people living in Tabulam.

Originally, Tabulam and the surrounding farm and bushland was inhabited by Bundjalung Aboriginals. The land was first settled by Europeans in 1839.

Key Features and Activities:

• Sunday School every Sunday evening, including games and activities.
• Gospel meetings two nights a week, then reaching out to people. 
• Boogilmar Market Garden (for the Community). 
• Rev Harry Walker teaches Bunjalung language classes in Tabulam at the pre-school and public school, and at Bonalbo High School.

Contact

Annabelle Walker, Lay Pastor.
Rev. Harry Walker, Retired minister c/o Harry Mundine Place,
Tabulam, 2469
Tel: (02) 6666 1529

Tingha is a small town on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia in Guyra Shire. It is 30 kilometres south of Inverell and 629 kilometres north-north-east of Sydney. Tingha is an Aboriginal word for ‘flat or level'.
Before European settlement the Tingha area was occupied by the Anaiwan, a sub-group of the Murri Aboriginal people. Many of their descendants still live in the surrounding area.

Tingha was first settled in 1841 by Sydney Hudson Darby and became a mining town after tin was discovered there in the 1870s. Within a year Australia's first commercial tin mines were operating at a private settlement known as Armidale Crossing. Over 6,000 people arrived and more than 25% of the miners were Chinese. The Wing Hing Long Museum is a reminder of that heritage. The Post Office was established in 1872, initially under the name of Armidale Crossing.

The village was proclaimed a town in 1885. The first school was established by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1890. In the 1890s drought came to the district and the easily obtained deposits of tin were exhausted leading to a loss in population.

By the early 1900s the mining boom was over and Tingha's population had dwindled to just a few hundred people. Shortly after this, large companies moved into the area to mine the less accessible tin.

Key Features and Activities:

• Congress has had a presence in Tingha for over 22 years. God is bringing new life to this community through the Tingha Regeneration Program.
• The Tingha Regeneration Program is the first holistic (social, economic and environmental) small community regeneration program to be implemented under what is identified as a Natural Science of Small Community Regeneration. Commencing in September 2008, the Program has made excellent progress in its goal to help one of Australia's most socially challenged communities. (See website www.tingharocks.com.au for more details. The Program is being developed as a MODEL for many other similarly challenged communities to follow.
• Worship services are held on an informal, irregular basis at the UAICC Hall - 19 Ruby Street TINGHA - contact our Facilitator Bob Neville for details of service times. (02) 67233590
• Our Tingha Regeneration Program Office and Hall Facilities have been greatly upgraded during 2009 -10 to provide a very pleasant, practical and much needed community facility, including a Community Technology Centre for public Internet access.

Contact:

Mr Bob Neville - Tingha Regeneration Program FACILITATOR
Tingha UAICC PO Box 82,
Tingha, NSW, 2369

Tel: (02) 6723 3590
Email: tinghauaicc@bigpond.com

Congress Wellington is based in Wellington but services support the areas of: Wellington, Dubbo, Coonamble and Gulargambone. Ministry work has been occurring independently for nearly 5 years. Our vision is to establish ministries to meet spiritual, social and pastoral care needs of the people

Key Features and Activities:

• In Wellington: weekly church services and bible study, men's prayer group, community rallies (every month or so), women's ministry and fellowship.
• As needed, pastoral care, weddings and funerals, and visitation to juvenile justice detention centres 
• Partnership with Dubbo and Gilgandra Aboriginal Fellowships (support their work, e.g. rallies). 
• Partnership with Korean group for kids holiday programs Dreams for the future 
• Starting Sunday school 
• Outreach ministry 
• Develop new programs in Coonamble and Gulargambone
  

Contact

John Ah-See, Lay Pastor
57 Swift St,
Wellington, NSW, 2820
Ph: (02) 6845 3401