About Us

The AEF is a nationwide Christian fellowship mainly designed to encourage Aboriginal Christians in leadership, fellowship and responsibility.

Aboriginal Christian leaders began discussing leadership issues as early as 1962. Over the next eight years they worked hard to bring recognition to their leaders.

Its originator is the God who laid the burden on the hearts of Aboriginal Christians in Australia to form such a fellowship.

Its is God’s answer to the prayers of the pioneering missionaries who prayed such a thing would eventuate.

In January 1970, at a conference at Port Augusta South Australia, seventy delegates, mainly Indigenous Christian leaders, representing Christian Missions and Denominations, decided it was time to unite their efforts into one national body.  It was here that the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship of Australia (AEF) was formed.

                       FIRST AEF FEDERAL COUNCIL 1970
Left to Right: Lyle Browning, Wali Fejo, Cecil Grant, Cedric Jacobs, David Kirk, Sonny Graham, Jack Braeside, Ossie Cruse, Ben Mason, Denzil Humphries, Bill Bird, Ron Williams.

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