Brooke Prentis is a Wakka Wakka woman and Aboriginal Christian Leader. She has national ministries including as a theologian and preacher, and as Coordinator of the Grasstree Gathering, a growing network of over 200 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christian Leaders from across the church denominations and all church backgrounds. She is also the producer of the national prayer service Change the Heart.

Listen to her interviewed by Meredith Lake for ABC Radio National, while she was in Alice Springs attending the ‘Exploring the Labyrinth’ retreat at Campfire in the Heart.

Christians often use the word “ministry” to describe the work of the clergy, but in Aboriginal contexts, its meaning is more expansive. There are hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples right across these lands now called Australia engaged in ministry work, but much of it is unpaid, and might not fit into non-Indigenous ideas of what ministry looks like.

Listen to the recording of Aboriginal ministry — the who, what and how, first broadcast on Thursday 27 June 2024 at 2:30pm on ABC Radio National’s ‘Soul Search’.