Spring has arrived – in Australia. But “down under,” where the seasons are the reverse of those in Europe and North America, members of at least one church consider that spring’s refreshment came very early in 1986.

Thanks to seven summer (North American summer, that is) workers from the PCA’s Servants in Missions Abroad, the Buderim congregation of the Westminster Presbyterian Church on the Sunshine Coast experienced vitalization and growth. Elsewhere in Australia’s northeastern state of Queensland, two other SIMA summer workers helped new missionaries in Brisbane.

It was the first time that SIMA had sent a group for a two month assign