Staying with 1975 this week, we will look at annual reports for three of our Units of Australian Church Women (ACW). What was happening back then in these units just ten years after ACW became a national organisation? These reports were included in the 1975 National Working Documents and presented at the National Committee Meeting (NCM) held in North Adelaide at Lincoln College from 19–22 August. With Fellowship Day coming up in a few weeks, you may be interested in the comme

I’ve said many times that Australian Church Women (ACW) has had some legendary women in its ranks over the 56 years since it began. Throughout the course of this blog, I have listed and remarked on many of these women and there are many still to be mentioned. This week, I’m featuring another past member who first cracked the glass ceiling of church leadership, in her denomination, at the age of 67; then she smashed it aged 78. I’m referring to Reverend Elizabeth Alfred who ac

As the Executive Secretary of the Asian Church Women’s Conference (ACWC), Shanti Solomon was responsible for promoting the program of the ACWC between the quadrennial assemblies, keeping the records of the ACWC, and promoting the Fellowship of the Least Coin (FLC). This included producing publications such as the Circle of Prayer booklet. When I was looking back at the 1972–76 minutes of the ACWC, my eye was caught by an item in the 1973 Working Committee Minutes about the Ci

In a previous post (https://www.acw.org.au/post/such-a-disappointment), I told of the disappointment that members of Australian Church Women (ACW) experienced when the 1986 Asian Church Women’s Conference (ACWC) could not be held in Australia. The ACW members persisted with their desire to host the ACWC representatives, and they issued another invitation to the ACWC. This time it was for the Executive Committee to hold their 1987 meeting in Adelaide to coincide with the bienn