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An Australian founded religious Congregation, the Missionary Sisters of Service are women working in Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Singapore. The Missionary Sisters of Service are women called in the Spirit to share life with one another and with people wherever they are. Sent to bring Good News into the highways and byways, they commit themselves to pastoral service, enabling others, as well as themselves, to be transformed by the power of the Gospel. The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Service was founded in 1944 by Father John C. Wallis, a priest of the Archdiocese of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Originally from Yea in Victoria, he served as a Catholic priest in Tasmania for over 65 years. The needs of people in isolated rural communities awoke in him a vision of a community of women who would go out to those people. Their mission would be to enable people to deepen their faith and know they were an integral part of the wider Church community and supported in their commitment to their families. The Missionary Sisters of Service invite you to come and share their story as they have travelled the 'highways and byways' from 1944 to today. Latest News 11 June 2010 is the centenary of the birth of Father John Wallis, Founder of the Missionary Sisters of Service. To celebrate this event, the sisters are launching the John Wallis Foundation as a way to support the continuing mission of the Congregation during and beyond the life of the Missionary Sisters of Service. The missioning of the Foundation will take place at launches in Melbourne on June 10, in Toowoomba on July 11 and in Hobart on August 3.