The Very Rev. Dr. John Flynn

1880 - 1951

John Flynn devoted his life to making Australia's vast inland safer and less isolated. 

Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1912, he was posted to Beltana in the Flinders Ranges.

In his 1912 report titled 'The Northern Territory and Central Australia - A Call to the Church' Flynn outlined the practical and spiritual needs of the inland - and the Australian Inland Mission was born.

'Flynn of the Inland' as he became known, threw himself into a range of projects, from establishing bush hospitals to coordinating a group of 'Patrol Padres'.