What is The Mission?

Broughton Vale Tramway was originally built for a number of reasons. I wanted to try new things in my modelling, I wanted a project that my best friend Nicole and I could share, and I needed a place to run the HOn30 models I had built. But in all of this, there was something missing.

Throughout this site, you may have noted the watermarked logo, and the logo on the front page, both of which feature a fish emblem. For a number of years now I have been part of a small group of Christian modellers who operate an exhibition layout called Swan's Crossing here in Australia. The Mission of this layout is, and has been, to encourage fellow modellers in their endeavors, share modelling techniques and info, and most importantly, to spread the Gospel of Jesus to the model railway community at large. At it's first exhibition at Liverpool in 1999, Broughton Vale Tramway continued this Mission. Both layouts bear similar plaques identifying this aim.

As a modeller, I aim in my modelling to recreate the wonderful world my Lord created, and to celebrate the machinery that He gave us the ingenuity to invent. In my life I find that there are many things that, in all honesty, are not as He would want them to be. He gave mankind a perfect world, and an intelligence and freewill to enjoy it. It is us as humans that choose not to acknowledge our Creator and the plan He has for our lives.

I hope that you enjoy the modelling on this site, and pray that this gives you something more to think about..

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