biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911– )
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| biography:
| Methodist clergyman and social activist, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He studied at Sydney University, and was ordained 1935. His ministry in a coal-mining area of New South Wales first prompted his Christian social views, further developed while superintendent of the Waverley Methodist Mission (1944–54) and in the influential Sydney Central Methodist Mission (1958–78). He began a telephone counselling ministry that soon spread throughout the world, and after official retirement was the World Methodist Council's director of evangelism (1978–89). He became Principal of the Pacific College for Evangelism (1989–95, now emeritus). |
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