I like to look at past minutes of Australian Church Women (ACW) because they are historical documents that record an on-the-spot view of the herstory of ACW, in chronological order. Minutes may not be easy reading, when compared to magazines or newspapers, but they are a vital primary source whereas oral accounts can become distorted over time. It’s like when someone claims to be related to the royal family because their ancestor lived in a castle. However, when that claim is

The television programme Four Corners influenced the choice of project for Australian Church Women’s 1972 World Community Day. According to a brief report in the July 1972 issue of Women at Work, the ACW newsletter, this is how it came about: ‘DID YOU SEE IT? – A recent "Four Corners" Programme underlined the fact that developing countries and the students from those areas could best be assisted by helping them to obtain, in their own environment and suited to its needs, the

I’m always surprised at what I encounter in the National records of Australian Church Women (ACW). Even though the report in today’s blog post is from 1982, it brought back personal memories for me when I read it because of my visit to Taiwan in 2008. In 2008, I was the Australian national representative and the Assembly Secretary of the Asian Church Women’s Conference (ACWC), and therefore was invited to attend both the General and Executive Committee Meetings of the ACWC. T

In the month of October, Australian Church Women (ACW) hold a service for the second of their two annual special days. This event is World Community Day, and it represents the desire of Church women to fellowship and pray together for peace and justice. These days, the general offering from the World Community Day services is shared equally between a special project and the Asian Church Women’s Conference. Back in 1978, the general offering was allocated just to the special p