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COPLEY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Outback South Australia

Copley was established in 1882 as a service stop on the extending Great Northern railway line. Copley was surveyed in 1891 and named after William Copley, the then Commissioner of Crown Lands.

UAM purchased the church property and established an indigenous congregation in early 1970s. An Aborigines couple was appointed as pastor approximately thirty years ago and served for more than ten years before moving to the nearest town of Port Augusta because of ill health. Subsequently Copley has been without a pastor for almost another ten years until Apollos and Jean Kalialaha arrived in 2006.

Apollos and Jean Kalialaha are based in Copley and conduct outreach visitations among Aborigines of the Flinders Ranges of outback South Australia. These are towns, homelands and pastoral properties within a radius of some 30 - 300 kilometers off Copley.

Originally from the South Seas Evangelical Church in Solomon Islands, the family arrived in South Australia in 2002 with Apollos coming as an international student. Apollos completed three years (2002 - 2004) of study with Adelaide College of Ministries, followed by another year (2005) with Bible College of South Australia.
Apollos and Jean Kalialaha have four Children two girls, Rita and Nita and two boys, Eleuther and Eliud. Eleuther, Eliud and Nita are in South Australia with the family, while Rita now married is living with her husband in Solomon Islands.

Apollos has served for twenty three years as a public servant with the Solomon Islands Government and Jean worked with the National Bank of Solomon Islands for twenty one years.  They both resigned from their jobs and took this step of faith in response to what they believed was God’s calling for them into full time ministry where-ever God leads them. Apollos and Jean Kalialaha are currently serving as missionaries to the Aborigines of the Flinders Rangers in South Australia.

Back (L-R) Eliud, Eleuther, Apollos   Front (L-R) Rita, Nita, Jean