Category: Dorcas ACTS

LIFE HAS BEEN KIND TO ME. MY CHARITY WALK AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS AN EXPRESSION OF MY THANKS FOR 10 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS.

On By Everald ComptonIn Ageing, Dorcas ACTS, Seniors, Uluru

Here are reasons why Monday, 5 October, 2026 will be a day of nostalgia.

*I celebrate my 95th birthday.

*Helen and I will enjoy the experience of walking eleven kilometres around Uluru, the spiritual heart of Australia.

*We will raise 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a community charity I founded at the Aspley Uniting Church 15 years ago. It makes cash grants to people in crisis situations, most of whom do not belong to a Church.

*It is 70 years since I began work as founding CEO of St.Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, raising its funding and supervising its construction in Brisbane in 1956.

*50 years ago in 1976 I founded National Seniors Australia which has gained many significant achievements for Senior Australians.

*It was 30 years ago in 1996 that I began a long battle to build an Inland Railway. I have not yet succeeded, but I have not given up and never will.

*I will submit to my publisher the latest of my seven books, LUCINDA. Its a vibrant history of the ship on which the Australian Constitution was written in 1891.

*Will also begin to implement my 5 year plan of the goals I intend to kick for Australia before I reach my century.

*Sadly, I will surrender my drivers licence after 74 years of motoring. I reckon its time for old drivers to get off the roads. Taxis, Ubers, Buses, Railways and Ferries will enable me to read lots of books.

*Five days after enjoying all of the nostalgia, Helen and I will celebrate 68 years of marriage. Its been a wonderful partnership that has been the cornerstone of our lives. If you look below, you will see a photo of us celebrating a quite special 66th anniversary on Lord Howe Island.

I neither expect nor deserve an accolade for any of those memories but I will be delighted if you will be my partner in raising 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS. Just click below.

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Thanks

Everald

MY 95TH BIRTHDAY WALK OF 11 KILOMETRES AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS ONLY DAYS AWAY. PLEASE SPONSOR ME RIGHT NOW. HUGE THANKS.

On By Everald ComptonIn Business and Enterprise, Dorcas ACTS, Funding and Finance, Good Books, Seniors, Uluru

I intend to raise at least 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a small charity I founded 15 years ago that makes direct financial grants into bank accounts of people in crisis situations anywhere in Australia. Last year we made 63 grants of $1000 each.

Will be great if you can click link below to join our team of donors.

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Many thanks

Everald

PLEASE JOIN MY FAMILY OF DONORS IN MY QUEST TO RAISE $100,000 FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’ ON MY 95th BIRTHDAY WALK ON 5 OCTOBER AT ULURU.

On By Everald ComptonIn Community and Values, Dorcas ACTS, Funding and Finance, Seniors, Uluru

The portrait below was painted by a good friend for my 90th birthday when I raised $35000 for DorcasACTS which is the caring and sharing community service of my local church, the Aspley Uniting Church.

On my 95th, I intend to treble that figure so that DorcasACTS can expand its good work of making cash grants direct to bank accounts of people in crisis situations.

Accompanied by friends, I will walk for eleven kilometres around Uluru, a mountain that I regard as the spiritual heart of Australia.

I will be proud and grateful if you can join me and my team of donors and remit a tax deductible gift direct to the DorcasACTS bank account. Here is a link.

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Click on Donate.

May I especially invite you to take one extra step and also sign up to walk with me around Uluru. 33 friends have already registered to join me for all (or part) of my 3 hour walk when we will reform the entire world as we chat all the way.

If you have an extra busy schedule, you can do it in just two days.

Fly to Uluru on Sunday morning, 4 October, join me and my walking team for dinner, walk with us at daybreak on Monday, 5 October, enjoy our ‘we did it’ lunch, then get an afternoon flight home.

Just go back to the link above and click Register.

Whatever you decide to do, let’s together enjoy a personal spiritual experience that encourages us to help Australia become a more caring and sharing nation.

See you at Uluru on 5 October.

Everald

5 OCTOBER 2026 (NOT 2025). MARK IT IS YOUR DIARY AS EVERALD’S 95th BIRTHDAY WHEN YOU WILL WALK ELEVEN KILOMETRES WITH ME AROUND ULURU TO HELP ME RAISE 100,000 DOLLARS FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’, A CHARITY OF WHICH I AM PATRON.

On By Everald ComptonIn Dorcas ACTS, History, religion, Uluru

My hope is that 100 friends will join me at ULURU on a WALK IN THE SPIRIT and each set a goal of funds they will raise personally for Dorcas ACTS.

I hope that another 1000 friends, scattered all over Australia, will do a ‘symbolic’ ULURU WALK IN THE SPIRIT of eleven kilometres in a rural setting somewhere near where they live and invite friends to walk with them, setting a target of funds they will raise for Dorcas ACTS.

I have chosen ULURU as it is in my view the spiritual heart of Australia set in the centre of our continent as the cornerstone of the land on which we live and move and have our being. My hope is that my walk will be a spiritual experience for us all, something similar to the Camino Walk in Spain.

About six weeks from now, DORCAS ACTS will open a special website on which you can sign up to participate and choose the type of accommodation we can reserve for you as well as record your attendance at a DINNER with an Uluru Elder the night before the Walk to learn about the place of ULURU in the Dreamtime, as well as your presence at a BRUNCH at the conclusion of the Walk to share our experiences and hear messages from fellow walkers all over Australia.

For now, just send me a message containing your email address and saying you are interested in taking part. You will then receive an email from Dorcas ACTS when bookings open. You can send the message right now on my website, everaldcompton.com, or by direct message on Twitter or Facebook. If you have my phone number, just send me a text.

I look forward to sharing a special experience with you on 5 OCTOBER 2026 as we WALK IN THE SPIRIT and raise funds for Dorcas ACTS so it can continue, as it has done for 15 years, to send cash grants direct to people in crisis situations.

Shalom

Everald