Dear colleagues far and wide,
Jim and I are grieving the death of Brian, as so many of you have expressed.
I first met Brian in 1968 when Don Clark and I went out to Broken HIll to teach an RS1. There we also met Rob Duffy and Barry Oakley and Rusty Nicholls.
Rob was the Presbyterian Minister there, and the other three were part of a team, as Ministers of the then Methodist Church. ( In 1977 some of the Presbyterians, most of the Congregationalists and all of the Methodist Church in Australia, joined together to
become The Uniting Church in Australia. ) The Methodist Church was very strong in Broken HIll, as there were many miners there, who all came from a Methodist background. I witnessed a wonderful spirit amongst the team of ministers and their wives, a most
moving experience for me.
Brian had a laugh like no other, and a deep voice, beautiful to hear as he sang.
We miss his humour, and gentle ways of being himself.
At this time, we send our special sympathy and sad feelings to dear Rhonda, and Peter, Geoff, Rob and Jenny.
Later the Robins family came to join us in the Sydney House, and the rest, as ' they' say, is history…
The last time we worked alongside Rhonda and Brian was at the Consult in Lorne de L'Acadie, New Brunswick.
Vale, Brian.
In peace and love,
Isobel, for the while Bishop family.