After serving as chaplain at St Paul’s Cathedral in Portman Square, London, Mullins moved to India in 1952, where he worked for the Children’s Service for the next ten years.
For the next 12 years, he served as a priest at St. John’s Church in Bangalore, South India. He attended children’s camp every year. His helmet was passed around the campfire and the story of his miraculous rescue was retold.
In 1974, Mullins moved with his family to Canberra, Australia, where he was senior pastor of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, outside Weston. He then spent four years in ministry at St Nicholas’ Church in Goulburn, New South Wales.
After retiring in 1989, Mullins and his wife Edith toured Australia in a caravan, visiting bush church aid parishes in the outback. They also returned to Bangalore and traveled regularly to England and New Zealand. He took an active part in missionary work and continued his preaching until he was 99 years old.
In 1998, he was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir William Dean, for his services to the community.
Joe Mullins married Edith Helen Gooding in 1956 at All Saints Cathedral in Allahabad, North India. Edith is from St. Philip, Barbados, and they met the previous year in India, where she was studying Hindi. She passed away in 2009, leaving him with her four daughters and her two sons.
Joe Mullins, born July 16, 1920, died December 2, 2023