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OAC Ministries' teams visit hundreds of primary and secondary schools throughout Australia each year "by invitation", according to the group's website.
The national co-ordinator of OAC Ministries, Geoff Westlake, told Guardian Australia its members were "Christian evangelists in some settings, but that does not include state schools".
The FIRIS campaign co-ordinator, Lara Wood, said OAC Ministries visited her daughter's state primary school but the group had never been properly accredited.
The co-founder of FIRIS, Scott Hedges, said: "OAC has limitless numbers of street corners on which to preach at my kids.
OAC Ministries – whose presentations often feature puppetry, music, games and storytelling – confirmed it was seeking legal advice on its continued ability to visit schools in Victoria, having attended at least 200 last year.
"We, OAC Ministries, do claim to be Christian evangelists in some settings, but that does not include state schools," he said.
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* OAC Ministries says it is "committed to taking the Gospel... to unchurched people, wherever they are".
"OAC Ministries is not an accredited provider and, as such, is not permitted to offer religious instruction in schools in any circumstances," a departmental spokesman said.
But pressed on whether schools still had the option of hiring OAC Ministries for occasional seminars outside of the specific category of weekly religious instruction, he said principals regularly made decisions about engaging external providers "and in doing so, should assess the nature of the organisation and the content of the programs".
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