• UPDATE • Plans have been before Goyder Council for Provisional Development Planning Consent, and have been approved • The Footeside Centre Inc. Board has now completed the Mission Statement "Christ focused opportunities in a natural & caring environment for individuals, families and community groups to retreat so that they rest, relax & be restored" • The site for Footeside Centre was dedicated on October 15th 2005 |
Once the blustery afternoon of Saturday the 13th was over the weather
settled just in time for the start of
Footeside Centre’s informal gathering to some 40 people.
The twilight still air allowed the sounds of native birdlife to be
clearly heard
and for us to appreciate the true beauty of the location.
It had been just on 3 years since the dedication of the sight for
Footeside Centre on Peter & Linda Hoffmann’s farm.
The centre’s board decided that it was time to remind people that “we are alive and well”
& to show that we are fully dedicated in getting the centre up & running.
Making it a place in which people can have a life changing transition being released
into the freedom that God has for them so that they can be all that they were created to be.
With a beautiful starry moonlit night, bonfire ablaze and BBQ cooking a near perfect atmosphere
was set so that new friendships could be made as people from Eudunda,
Barossa Valley & Adelaide came to be a part of the evening’s gathering.
Symbolic placing of the cross in the high place 19.10.08
having the cross held above Footeside Centre and the surrounds to signifies the finished work Christ did at Calvary
once and for all, and we stand under that, receiving these blessings into our lives
The Footeside Centre Committee at the dedication service
Two date palms were planted along the driveway entering the approved Footeside Centre during
the Dedication of the site on Saturday October 15 at 3-30 pm. With overcast skies and a few raindrops
approx 35 people gathered to praise God, bless the venture and plant the palms. A barbeque and
bonfire were enjoyed by those who stayed. The Board of Footeside Centre would like the thank
Michael Reimann for supplying the holes for the palms and clearing the entrance.
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Peter Hoffmann Placing in one of the two date palms
DEDICATION HISTORY
before 1830 The Aboriginal tribe of the Mid North the Ngadjuri Tribe lived here
1838 – 1870 Overland Drovers watering stock at the springs
1866 Hundred of Neales subdivided with only a small quantity purchased for wood value
1868-69 German settlers moved into the area and forming their own congregations
1870 Wine Store opened in Township of Eudunda South
1908 Eudunda proclaimed a town by the state government
The area of Neales Flat once cleared of wood has been used consistently for grazing and cropping
Section 95 was purchased by Vic Hoffmann in 1951
Transferred to PN and LD Hoffmann in 1993
Linda and Peter Hoffmann Planting the Palms (the ones who came up with the vision for the Footeside Centre)
