– by Harris

Brett and Justine Wiltshire are the national directors of Australian Aboriginal Outreach Ministries (AAOM). In 2000, they moved with their children to Halls Creek in the Western Australian Kimberly region to pastor a local church. After planting an additional six churches, an indigenous couple took over as local pastors, releasing Brett and Justine to be the AAOM coordinators for 14 churches, some of them in the most remote and isolated communities in Australia.

Then, in September 2014 they became the national directors for AAOM. They are still based in Halls Creek but have moved out of their home and now live in a bus which serves as the mobile home, office and teaching base. As national directors they travel all across Australia setting vision, encouraging pastors, ministering at the churches, speaking into the pastor’s lives and supporting them in any way they can.

There are nearly 400 aboriginal communities in Australia, some of which are on the outskirts of the hottest and most inhospitable deserts and hundreds of kilometers from shops, schools and services. AAOM is a national church planting movement that reaches out to Aboriginal communities in the outback as well as urban areas. AAOM’s motto is ‘working in unity, transforming communities’.

On a visit to CityLife Church, Brett shared some remarkable stories of how the redemptive power of God is working through their ministry into the lives of Aboriginal people. This is one of them…