All night long! This photo taken at 5.30am on New Years Day 2020. The Cairns Street Chaplains team served all through the night to see in the new year until the sun came up. Looks like we’re wide awake and ready to go for another year! We fielded at team of 10...
For the 2019 Cairns Grand Parade many of the crowd along the esplanade were astonished to see an army of what appeared to be purple and white jellyfish approaching. As the jellyfish came closer it was plain to see that this was not an invasion from the barrier reef....
Cairns Street Chaplains has just received official notification by way of a visit from the Honourable Coralee O’Rourke MP, Minister for Communities and Minister for Disability Services and Seniors and Michael Healy, Queensland state member for Cairns, that funding for...
A team of ten of us (including one Swiss back packer who rode in the wheelchair) proudly wore our purple shirts in the Cairns Festival Parade on Saturday 25 August 2018. Les drove the van with Alysse riding shotgun, Brett pushed the wheelchair and the rest of us...
What a great night we had on New Year’s Eve! Thirteen Street Chaplains (including three gracious volunteers roped in just to give out cups of water) worked tirelessly from 9pm to 5am. We gave out 1,004 cups of water from the Rest and Recovery van on that one night...
The Cairns Festival got underway with a Grand Parade of around 85 floats and other vehicles together with crowds of people processing down the Esplanade on 26 August 2017. A good number of our Street Chaplains joined in with Bill driving our Street Chaplains’...
We are a group of specifically trained Christian volunteers from across all Church denominations who want to make a practical difference in the city of Cairns, by caring for alcohol and drug intoxicated or other vulnerable people and by helping keep the night club precinct safe.
