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Assistant Curate, Maranoa Warrego Anglican Mission Area

The Rev'd Rick Gummow

About The Rev'd Rick -

The Rev’d Rick Gummow is Assistant Priest in the Maranoa-Warrego Anglican Mission Area; caring for the parishes of Mitchell, Charleville, and Cunnamulla. He has a Bachelor of Theology from CSU, with a special interest in reaching those who don’t feel they have been invited to the banquet of the King.

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Reflections

Articles by The Rev'd Rick

Unexpected generosity from unusual suspects

In his latest ‘Baru Beat’ update, The Rev’d Rick Gummow shares another story with us that warms the cockles, drawing upon a modern-day example of The Beatitudes

If you build it, they will come

“ ‘If you build it, they will come,’ as the oft quoted movie line goes, and lo, almost to the day of the new Mitchell art gallery’s opening, caravans started lumbering back into town like migrating herds. What a sight it was – you could almost hear the town exhale with relief,” says The Rev’d Rick Gummow

"Because of the Bush Ministry Fund (BMF), the Anglican Church gets to reach people in all these places, even where there aren’t buildings" (The Rev'd Rick Gummow)

Skyscapes, opal seams and scrub solitude

Find out the latest ‘Baru Beat’ news from The Rev’d Rick Gummow, including the characters he has met, the sights he has seen and the moments that have transformed his idea of solitude

Welcome to ‘The Baru Beat’: a joey in a nappy and a bush burial

“One of the things I love most about my ministry in rural and remote Western Queensland is the delightfully eccentric people I get to meet. I hope to introduce you to many more of these wonderful folk,” says The Rev’d Rick Gummow, as he welcomes us to his new anglican focus column, ‘The Baru Beat’

Celebrating Bishop Cam’s 25 years of priestly ministry

Clergy and lay people from across Southern Queensland honour Bishop Cam Venables, as he celebrates his 25th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood today

Sunday Devotion: 24 November 2019, Christ the King – The Reign of Christ, Last Sunday after Pentecost

The crucified King of Kings

Reflections on John Roberto: reimagining faith formation

John Roberto, as keynote speaker at our recent Clergy and Lay Conferences, spoke about reimagining faith formation for the 21st century – four conference participants share their reflections on engaging digital technologies and media, how to embrace change, the benefits of intergenerational approaches and how a faith-based school culture can nourish families and staff