Robin Trebilcock is a Pastor in the Uniting Church in Australia with forty years of experience in a variety of mostly small, rural and urban churches across Australia. He is currently engaged in writing and research in Christian spirituality, and is planting a spirituality-based, faith community in Port Adelaide, South Australia.
The Cornish Celtic Cross worn by Robin and used by him as a personal and family symbol is derived from the design of a stone cross on the moors of Cornwall, England. It reflects the Cornish origins of Robin's family name. In ancient Celtic culture, the battle-axe is believed to have been a symbol of power and small silver balls symbols of status and wealth. The Cornish Celtic Cross can be interpreted as being an arrangement of four battle-axe heads and five silver balls, enabling Robin to say,
"The Cross of Christ is my power.
The wounds of Christ are my status and wealth."
Robin commenced part-time work as Auxiliary Port Chaplain at Port Adelaide for the Sailors’ Society at the beginning of 2008. Based in England, the Sailors’ Society is a long established non-denominational missionary society ministering to seafarers, being founded in 1818. It ministers in ports all over the world and has been working in Port Adelaide since the earliest days of European settlement in 1837.