Contact Infomation
Parish Office / Presbytery
Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Phone: (07) 3372 5658
Fax:     (07) 3372 5863
stmarks@bne.catholic.net.au

96 Lilac St 
Inala Qld 4077

PO Box 352
Inala Qld 4077

Parish Youth Group:
Tam - 0433 466 049 youthofstmarks@gmail.com

Webmaster:
stmarksinalaweb@gmail.com

Church Location
Corner of Lilac & Eucalypt Streets Inala

St Mark's School
92 Lilac St Inala Qld 4077
Phone: (07) 3372 3408
www.stmarksinala.qld.edu.au

Parish Priest
Fr Vudinh Tuong

Pastoral Coordinator
Kathie Ober
curriculum vitae

Youth Group Coordinator
Tam Hoang

Parish Secretary
Joy Spratt



Parish Pastoral Council

Heather Murray (Chair person)
Doris Heffernan
(Deputy Chair)
Lusia Winterstein                   

Nhat Minh Pham                    

Christopher Tauelangi
Agostino Beccaria
Eileen Sullivan
Margaret Murphy
Mary Byrne
Cuong Pham
Anne Shinde
These councilors will meet monthly with Fr Tuong and ex officio members Kathie Ober (Pastoral Coordinator), Joy Spratt (Parish Secretary) and Garry Montgomery, the Principal of St Mark's Primary School.
Sue Stringer     3278 8414
(
Brisbane West Deanery Pastoral Council)
Newsletters (pdf)
Finance Group
Joy Spratt (Secretary)
Fons Mollee
Margaret Murphy
Thanh Vu
Thang Mai


VietCatholic.Net
Fr Tuong's Writings

Last updated: 27/8/10
Brisbane West Deanery  - Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane - Australia
 
Kathie Ober
Pastoral Coordinator


Dear Friends

As I will be working with you in St Mark's Parish, I think it is important that I share something  of my background with you. I am one of eleven children and I spent most of my childhood on a small farm outside Oakey, a small town west of Toowoomba.  At age 20 years I went to Papua New Guinea as a Lay Missionary, teaching in a village school west of Bogia in the Madang District for 3½ years.  I then returned to Papua New Guinea for a further 2 years to do welfare work in the villages around Madang. 

On leaving Papua New Guinea I joined the Queensland Public Service as a Liaison Officer in the Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement and was posted to Bamaga in far north Queensland.  I was then transferred to Townsville.  I was married in Townsville and have a son Edward who now has a little family of his own.

In 1992 I graduated from James Cook University in Townsville with the degree 'Bachelor of Community Welfare' and in 2001 I graduated from St Paul's Theological College with a 'Graduate Diploma in Theology'. 

I have worked in social welfare for 18 years in the fields of disability, child protection and youth justice.  From 1995 to 2005 I was employed firstly as a Case Worker and then as a Resource Officer in the Department of Families here in Inala.

The uniquely rich cultural diversity of this suburb has always impressed me and it is with great joy and gratitude that I am back to work with you all to further God's work in this area.  I hope you will introduce yourselves to me.  We need to work together to address the needs of all God's people.  I will be working from the Parish Centre on Thursdays and Fridays.  God Bless.

Kathie