In the early 2000’s, one of our club’s major contributions and involvement, stemmed from The Minister’s Fraternal approaching the then Mayor (Joy Leishman) for a community prayer event to support local school Chaplains. Joy suggested the event be a breakfast with all funds raised to go to Scripture Union to assist funding for Chaplains at our local primary schools. Up until then, there had been no funding for Chaplains at schools other than what was raised by local churches and at the time, there were only two Chaplains in the whole of Caboolture and they were not full-time.

After a few years, the Mayors Chaplaincy Support Breakfast became quite well-known across Queensland and was adopted by other Mayors across the state. After the success of having Chaplains in schools both Federal and State governments provided annual funding to Scripture Union for Chaplains. Most schools today have Chaplains and their roles have saved, changed and enhanced the lives of many children and teenagers.