The final section of the complex to be completed was the dining room, kitchen and living quarters for the Bethel family. The family moved out of their previous home during February 1982, in time for the new owners of the Strathfield buildings to take occupancy.

For some of the older members of the family, such as George Gibb and Maude Johnston, who had lived at the Bethel home in Strathfield since it was transferred from Melbourne in 1929, there was, of course, a tinge of sadness at saying “good-bye” to the old home. Others who have been in the family for 40 or more years​—Wallace Baxter, Charles Randall (who subsequently died at the age of 87 on May 18, 1982), Madge Dunham, Vi Horton, Linda Moir and Melva Wieland—​also felt a degree of nostalgia when it came to leaving the home they had grown to love for so many years. But what excitement these older ones showed, along with the rest of the Bethel family, at being settled into their comfortable rooms in the beautiful new Bethel home at Ingleburn! Those who have been part of the Bethel family for so many years are so grateful to have lived to see the thrilling expansion Jehovah has granted, which has made such a new complex necessary!

A further change took place in branch administration with the arrival of Brother Harold V. (Viv) Mouritz and his wife, Ann, on September 1, 1981. Brother Mouritz had served in the Australian Bethel as a young man prior to his marriage in the early 1950’s and then shared in circuit work and other full-time activity before attending the 33rd class of Gilead in 1959. Since that year Brother and Sister Mouritz served at the Bethel home in Finland. At the invitation of the Governing Body, they have come to join the Australian Bethel family once again, where Brother Mouritz is a member of the Branch Committee and serves as branch coordinator.