Right Around Australia 2025
February 20, 2025
2025 Mission Journey: Right Around Australia
Join us in retracing the mission trip of 22-year-old Seventh-day Adventist Nevill Westwood on his exhilarating 1925 journey around Australia. Just as Nevill set off in his trusty Citroën 5CV, we are retracing the expedition he and Greg Davies undertook a century ago, in an identical reconstructed vehicle, on our 2025 journey “Right Around Australia“.
The Men – Nevill Westwood & Greg Davies
After becoming an Adventist in 1921 at the age of 18, Nevill Westwood enrolled in the missionary course at Darling Range School; today it’s called Carmel Adventist College. It is here where he met the two-years-older Greg Davis. Nevill responded to a call for missionaries to travel through the northwest of Western Australia to sell a book explaining the prophecies of the Bible. It was entitled “Our Day in the Light of Prophecy”. He also had a keen interest in automobiles and possessed exceptional mechanical skills, which served him well during his journey. There he made some fascinating experiences and learned a lot about his fellow Australians during the journey.
The Citroën 5CV – “Bubsie”
The Citroën was a 1923 5CV model. Nevill bought this car second-hand in Perth. He named the little car Bubsie and left Perth with his friend, Greg Davies, in the Citroën on 4 August 1925, on his trip around Australia. See his original trip and our planned journey in the graphics below. The original Bubsie can be seen in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. Go here to find out about the reconstruction of our Citroën 5CV for the 2025 journey.
Retracing an Incredible Journey
Just as the Apostle Paul’s missionary journeys captured the imagination of Nevill Westwood, so Nevill’s missionary journey has captured our imagination at ‘The Incredible Journey‘. And so, after 2 years of planning and discussion with Citroën Australia and the National Museum in Canberra, where the original ‘Bubsie’ is on display, ‘The Incredible Journey‘ has big plans to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this pioneering event in 2025 by retracing this incredible Journey.
These plans include:
1. Retracing the steps of Nevill Westwood on his missionary trip around Australia in a similar 1923 Citroën 5CV
2. Re-enacting a number of scenes from the original expedition
3. Sharing the Everlasting Gospel as we go, in the true spirit of Nevill’s journey. This will include conducting major evangelistic campaigns in all the state capitals of Australia, as well as outreach programs and other forms of evangelism in many of the smaller regional centres, and across rural Australia.
4. Producing a number of television programs for national and international broadcast
5. Producing social media content on a daily basis that portrays each day’s activities
6. Engaging with all forms of local and national media to promote the incredible journey of this young Seventh-day Adventist missionary/evangelist pioneer, and the message he shared along the way
The Plan and Proposed Stops
Get ready to embark on an incredible journey with us in 2025! We have an awesome overview map showcasing our route’s planned stops. And guess what? You can even zoom in to get more details about each location.
We want everyone to feel included! If your city isn’t on our plan yet and you’d love for us to swing by, give us a shout. We’ll do our best to work it out. So don’t hesitate to contact us, and let’s see if we can add your town!
