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John Flynn was 51 when he married the secretary of AIM, Miss Jean Baird in 1932. The years to follow saw Australia struggle through the Great Depression and Mrs Flynn became a great support to her visionary and hard-working husband. Flynn, was twice Moderator General of the Presbyterian Church.
John Flynn OBE (25 November 1880 – 5 May 1951) was an Australian Presbyterian minister who founded the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) which later separated into Frontier Services and the Presbyterian Inland Mission, as well as founding what became the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance .
John Flynn (1880-1951), Presbyterian minister, founder and superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, was born on 25 November 1880 at Moliagul, Victoria, second son of Thomas Eugene Flynn, schoolteacher, and his wife Rosetta Forsyth, née Lester.
Jun 12, 2017 · The story of the Flying Doctor, over 90 years of rich history, and Australian icons like John Flynn, Alfred Traeger, Clifford Peel, Hudson Fysh.
John Flynn (born Nov. 25, 1880, Moliagul, Vic., Australia—died May 5, 1951, Sydney, N.S.W.) was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Australia (1939–42) and missionary to the country’s wild central and northern inland, who in 1928 founded what later became the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
In 1927, a Presbyterian Pastor by the name of Reverend John Flynn founded The Flying Doctor. Flynn’s vision was to put a ‘mantle of safety’ around the people of Australia’s remote communities, after he witnessed their daily struggles first-hand.
John Flynn: 'Flynn of the Inland'. John Flynn was born in 1880 and educated in Melbourne. Ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911 he was commissioned by his church to visit the Northern Territory in 1912 and report on its missionary needs.
