As a follow up to last week’s blog on Fellowship Day, I found a companion piece to the 1978 service that I mentioned. This piece appeared in the July 1978 issue of Women at Work, the newsletter of Australian Church Women (ACW). It was written to the members of ACW by Doris Mitchell, Secretary of the 1977–79 NSW National Executive, before she departed overseas for several weeks. [One day soon, we’ll be able to do this too.] The message that Doris left with her ACW friends unde

With the 2021 Fellowship Day not far away, this week’s post is focused on this Special Day on the calendar of Australian Church Women (ACW). Our theme this year is in two parts: ‘Moving Forward in Faith’ is the overall theme for the current National Executive during their two years in office. ‘Holiness in the Ordinary’ is the sub-theme prepared by the Australian Capital Territory Unit of ACW. When I perused the old Fellowship Day orders of service from the earlier days of ACW

As I’ve been working my way through the National Archives of Australian Church Women (ACW), I’ve been finding more and more snippets of interest about Mrs Maisie McKenzie. You will remember that last week’s blog post told of how Maisie was instrumental in the founding of the NT Unit of ACW. I have now discovered that Maisie also found time in her busy ministry schedule to write several books. I know this is probably not news to our Uniting Church sisters but for those of us f

The Northern Territory Unit of Australian Church Women (ACW) became inactive recently, after more than forty years of service. The unit had a slow beginning in April 1975, only four months after the devastation of Darwin on Christmas Day 1974 by Cyclone Tracy. That was a huge leap of faith during an extremely stressful time when the population was seriously depleted and 80 percent of Darwin destroyed. It took three and a half years for the population to return to its pre-Trac