In fact, it was Ken Ham’s Australian home! Two rooms were soon added on as the ministry grew.Īfter establishing the Australian CSF ministry and conducting a few teaching tours in the United States sponsored by Master Books of California (now based in Arkansas), Ken and Mally (and their five children) temporarily moved to Arizona for six months in 1986 to work with Films For Christ. As a result, my cry to the Lord was: ‘Why can’t we have a creation museum that teaches the truth?’” God answered Ken’s prayer, but it was many years later and on a different continent, America, and in the face of heated opposition, in 2007. Just prior, Ken had been in a secular Australian museum, and, standing near an “ape-man” exhibit, overheard a father telling his young son, “This was your ancestor.” Ken said that “My heart ached. Ken, along with a businessman friend (who would later become a board member), prayed about building a Creation Museum. To this day, Ken praises the Lord for Mally and the great sacrifices she made back then (and over the subsequent years) indeed, for the first few years of the ministry in Australia, they had no salary and relied on personal gifts from family members and friends.Įven with such a humble beginning, the ministry had a dream-but it was one that took over 25 years to accomplish. When he resigned from his teaching position in 1979, Ken used a small retirement payment to buy the ministry’s first photocopier and electric typewriter. 1 At a special service at his church, Sunnybank Baptist in Brisbane, the pastor and deacons laid hands on Ken and Mally to set them apart to the work of what Ken was to eventually call the “Creation Science Foundation” (cofounded by John Mackay).īefore the ministry was to change its name to CSF, it was run in two parts: a book ministry called “Creation Science Supplies” and a teaching ministry titled “Creation Science Educational Media Services.” These two outreaches were based in the home of Ken and Mally (who personally borrowed money to build extensions on their home). Ken Ham left a position as a public school science teacher in Queensland, Australia, in 1979 after being engaged in part-time creation speaking for three years (primarily on weekends). I hope this brief history will encourage you as you read how God has mightily blessed the proclamation of the creation/gospel message. It’s been a wonderful 40 years of full-time creation ministry. God’s providence was especially seen during the pioneering days of the late 1970s in Australia, when He provided for our needs time and time again (e.g., friends and family helping us with groceries and other things during the lean first months). In so many ways, my wife, Mally, and I can give testimony after wonderful testimony as to how the Lord called us into the creation ministry in Australia-and how He has blessed us all along the way (including the many years we have now spent in America).
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