On Sunday 29 December our mission had services for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday after Pentecost and the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers.  The Hours and Divine Liturgy were served in Barraganyatti at the home of Evan and Katerina Cotten.  In his sermon at Divine Liturgy Father James spoke about the faithfulness of the Holy Forefathers despite all around them worshipping false gods, the Parable of the Banquet (Luke 14:16-24, the appointed Gospel reading), and the principles of Christian life that the Apostle Paul sets out in his Letter to the Colossians (3:4-11, the appointed Epistle reading).

On the weekend of Saturday 28 September and Sunday 29 September, our mission had services for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost and the Sunday after the Great Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.  On Saturday morning a home was blessed in Wirrimbi, just north of Macksville.  On Sunday morning, the Hours and Divine Liturgy were served in Barraganyatti at the home of Evan and Katerina Cotten.  At the end of Divine Liturgy there was a blessing of water, after which an icon of Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye, the work of mission member Liubov Sleaford, was blessed.  Later in the day prayers of blessing were read and holy water was sprinkled over beehives belonging to the Cotten family.

With the blessing of Bishop George of Canberra, on Friday 21 June and Saturday 22 June Archpriest James Carles made an initial pastoral visit to the New South Wales Mid North Coast.  A home was blessed in Port Macquarie on Friday afternoon and in the morning on Saturday, the day of the Apodosis of Pentecost, the Hours and Divine Liturgy were served in Barraganyatti at the home of Evan and Katerina Cotten.  Approximately 20 people were present.  Following Divine Liturgy Father James baptised an eight year-old child, Aarya, the daughter of Ashish Sinha and Evgenia Biryukova.  In baptism Aarya was given the name Anastasia.  At a festive meal afterwards those present discussed the possibility of further services and the establishment of a mission under the heavenly protection of Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye.