| Contents |
|---|
| Preface | 8 |
| Prologue | 10 |
| Early Days in Victoria | 12 |
| Westward-Ho! | 13 |
| Gnowangerup and The Great Southern | 14 |
| Mount Margaret and the Goldfields | 15 |
| The Birdsell-Tindale Report | 16 |
| Surveying Unevangelised Fields | 17 |
| Marriage in Perth | 17 |
| Sunday Island Mission via Derby | 18 |
| Derby - Mission Base | 19 |
| Roelands Mission Farm | 20 |
| Historic return to the Kimberley | 21 |
| Champagny Island via Sunday Island | 21 |
| Medical interlude - Derby | 21 |
| "Troubles on every side" 1945-1954 | 22 |
| -Five important maxims | 22 |
| Onward for Christ and His Church! | 23 |
| King Sound and Sunday Island | 23 |
| A Remarkable Opportunity | 23 |
| Fitzroy Crossing: The Challenge | 24 |
| Mission Council Concurrence | 24 |
| Third Evengelistic Itinerary Inland | 25 |
| Fitzroy Crossing Vision Revived | 25 |
| Derby Base | 26 |
| "Faith Principles" & Government Aid | 27 |
| Superintendent of Native Institution | 29 |
| Feeding Depot-cum-Mission | 29 |
| Official Welcoming Party | 30 |
| God's time had arrived and we were ready | 30 |
| "Catch 'em up more of God's way!" | 31 |
| A Children's Boarding Hostel | 31 |
| A Cathedral - Bush Style | 31 |
| Building a village in the spinifex | 32 |
| Staff Arrive from Perth - Mr and Mrs Smoker | 32 |
| A Local Breakthrough Nearby | 33 |
| Transforming a Society by His Spirit | 33 |
| Health and the Flying Doctor | 34 |
| The Annual Picnic Races | 34 |
| UAM Federal Councillors visit Fitzroy Crossing | 35 |
| The Indigenous Church in Action | 35 |
| Contemporaneous Developments in Kimberley | 36 |
| The Real Pioneers | 38 |
| Pictures |
| Tom and Beryl Street | 39 |
| Ern and Alice Faulkner | 39 |
| Howard Coate | 39 |
| Preston and Kath Walker | 39 |
| Captain Beau Davis, Norman and Emily Williams and Kath Walker | 40 |
| Bruce and Pearl Smoker and their family | 40 |
| Glyne and Pam Cranwell and family | 40 |
| Western Australia map | 41 |
| Sunday Island? map by WH Douglas | 42 |
| Sunday Island Mission Area | 42 |
| Mission house overlooks Bardi-Djow Camp | 42 |
| Preston and Kathleen Walker and family | 43 |
| Rev Edward Hogg President UAM WA | 43 |
| Mission house Derby UAM base | 43 |
| Staff Bible Conference, Derby | 43 |
| Boab prison tree, mission personnel, Norm Williams, Ruth Allen, Kath Walker, Rhys, Derby | 43 |
| UAM Church Derby Leprosarium, Kimberley Area | 44 |
| Eleven Worora believers for Baptism, Derby | 44 |
| Ern Faulkner, Norman and Emily Williams, Preston Walker | 44 |
| Fitzroy Crossing Mission, initial stage | 45 |
| Fitzroy Valley Communities map | 45 |
| Preston Walker and Bruce Smoker with the entire camp, Fitzroy Crossing | 46 |
| Four curious stockmen | 46 |
| The eager people in Bush Chapel, Fitzroy Crossing | 46 |
| Don calls on us | 46 |
| The Walker's first home, two seekers, Fitzroy Crossing | 46 |
| Superintendent's House, Fitzroy Crossing, 1952 | 47 |
| Our first Nissan ready for the boys! Fitzroy Crossing | 47 |
| Team of gardeners, Fitzroy Crossing, 1952 | 47 |
| Kathy - Mother - Phillip, home school, Lake Cargelligo NSW | 48 |
| Bruce & Pearl Smoker with son Joel, Fitzroy Crossing | 48 |
| Pastors Jonathan Bates, Ross Bilson and Bob | 48 |
| UAM Staff Fitzroy Crossing, Mr and Mrs Smoker, Nash and Walker | 48 |
| Nancy and Ginger | 49 |
| Faithful Oogie | 49 |
| Maginty, Stockman & tribal Elder | 49 |
| Cripple Mick | 49 |
| Maudie | 49 |
| Smiler | 49 |
| Government provided Aboriginal housing, Fitzroy Crossing, 1993 | 50 |
| Junjuwa mission church | 50 |
| Original Superintendent's house | 50 |
| Art centre in our teachers college | 50 |
| 1986 Monsoonal floods | 51 |
| Growth of mission village from the air | 51 |
| Caring Amy and wee Kathryn - Prize winning snapshot (Keith Walker) | 52 |
| Certificate of Appointment of Protector | 53 |
| Telegram SP Walker appointed superintendent Fitzroy Crossing 23/8/1951 | 53 |
| UAM Reference 1955 | 54 |
| Melbourne Bible Institute Reference 1956 | 54 |
| NSW Aborigines Welfare Board Reference 1963 | 55 |
| Anglican Church Moree Reference 1962 | 56 |
| St Johns Presbyterian Church Reference 1982 | 57 |
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| 1st Education Report - Mrs Pearl Smoker | 58 |
| Wycliffe Bible Translations - an appreciation | 59 |
| Moola Bulla Station, WA - an explanation | 60 |
| Providential Accommodation at Fitzroy | 61 |
| Staff Succession (1955-1963) | 61 |
| Building Christ's Church from the Crossing | 63 |
| "Ten Thousand Kilometers of Blessing" | 64 |
| Welfare Facilities for Australia's Aborigines | 65 |
| Some Aboriginal Missions and Stations | 66 |
| Pioneering Assignment Completed | 68 |
| Ministries in the Eastern States | 69 |
| Murrin Bridge Station | 69 |
| Area Welfare Officer | 69 |
| Land Rights are in Heaven | 72 |