ABSTRACT
On 9 October 1866 there was great excitement in the Barossa Valley. Pastor Oster based his sermon of consecration upon the Apostle Paul’s words on the spiritual armour of the Christians. In South Australia, there had been previous attempts to missionise the indigenous population. The Germans in their heavy European clothes soon felt the brunt of the Australian inland. The successors of Kavel’s former Langmeil-Lights Synod joined with the Lutheran church in Victoria to form the Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Synod of Australia. At the age of 28 Theodor Harms gave him his chance to redeem himelf in the eyes of God and appointed him as a lay helper in Australia. Heidenreich had come from the Mission Institute to South Australia in 1866 and was pastor at Bethany parish, a position he held until his death in 1910.
