‘A chaplain at the centre of a national tragedy’

Posted on December 9, 2014 
Filed under Australia

Simon Flinders“As chaplain to Cricket NSW, Simon Flinders first met Phil Hughes as a bright young recruit who began playing for the NSW Blues in 2007. Simon has been a constant presence at training sessions and matches over his 10 years as chaplain, getting to know the boys from the sideline, and ministering from the bench. He’s ‘part of the furniture’ — not in the inner circle, but a regular fixture — someone to be called upon if tragedy were to strike…”

– Story from Bible Society Australia. Photo: St. Mark’s Northbridge.