The Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship of Australia (AEF) is an Indigenous Australian Christian organisation that was formed in January, 1970, in Port Augusta, South Australia.
There are a number of churches, in New South Wales and Western Australia, with two bible colleges, "AEF Bimbadeen College" is on the site of the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls at Cootamundra, New South Wales and "Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship Bible College Of WA" at Forrestdale, Western Australia.
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