ROSIES OBLATE YOUTH MISSION’S ministry is being "Friends On The Street." Each Wednesday and Friday night a team of up to a dozen eighteen to thirty year-old volunteers operate a coffee bus offering friendship and hospitality through the simple gesture of a free hot or cold drink.

ROSIES volunteers are not social workers and we are not an accommodation agency (although we do give referrals). We give those people at Flinders street, especially if they appear to be homeless or lonely, a comfortable and safe environment in which they belong.

ROSIES volunteers witness Christ’s love for the poor and abandoned, through developing friendships and being a listening ear. One of the most severe problems for the homeless is not simply getting food and shelter, but getting someone to listen to their story and to be their “Friend On The Street”.

ROSIES is a missionary work of the Catholic Church, under the auspices of a religious order called the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.