donnabryan0Mar 282 minMarch is Women’s History MonthInternationally, March is Women’s History Month. As March draws to a close, many websites, blogs, and other forms of social networking will taper off in feat...
donnabryan0Mar 74 minInternational Women’s Day‘International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a cal...
donnabryan0Feb 294 minWorld Day of Prayer and Rathi SelvaratnamAs the first Friday in March rapidly approaches, Christians around the world will begin to heed the call to gather for the annual World Day of Prayer. Servic...
donnabryan0Feb 224 minA Transformed LifeAlmost 54 years ago, in June 1966, Australian Church Women awarded the second Winifred Kiek Scholarship to Miss Sabita Devi Swarup of Fiji for secretarial st...
donnabryan0Feb 143 min‘Come, See, Go, Quickly and Tell’The ASIAN CHURCH WOMEN'S CONFERENCE was conceived by women of vision and women who dared to dream dreams in the post-World War II years. The First Assembly o...
donnabryan0Feb 72 minACW is 55 Years YoungOn Tuesday 11 February 2020, Australian Church Women will celebrate 55 years since our constitution was ratified and our national body was born. So much has ...
donnabryan0Jan 314 minHonouring Australian Church WomenEach year on Australia Day, Australia celebrates and honours the significant achievements and contributions of various Australians by presenting them with aw...
donnabryan0Jan 244 minGetting to Know The Reverend Winifred KiekIn the National Archives of Australian Church Women, there is an inspirational bio of The Reverend Winifred Kiek MA, BD, that was deposited several years ago...
donnabryan0Jan 102 minThe Voice of Shanti SolomonWould you like to hear Shanti Solomon speaking to you? I know I would. In the National Archives of Australian Church Women, there is a transcript of a record...
donnabryan0Jan 21 minAn Old New Year MessageThis New Year message is from the January 1972 ACW National newsletter 'Women at Work'. ANOTHER YEAR has dawned and for all of us in A.C.W. it is a year of r...
donnabryan0Dec 27, 20195 minFirst Ecumenical Assembly of Asian Church Women Held in AsiaIn 1962, the Australian Council of Churches (ACC) received an invitation from Mrs Louise Paw, of Burma, for an Australian woman to attend a conference of Asi...
donnabryan0Dec 20, 20191 min'Of Christmas Past'A Christmas message from the pages of the November 1977 ACW National newsletter ‘Women at Work’. The members of the Working Committee send you warmest greeti...
donnabryan0Dec 13, 20196 minThe First Winifred Kiek Scholarship HolderMiss Connie Tan Kwie Hwa, a social worker from Djakarta, Indonesia, was the first woman to be awarded a Winifred Kiek Scholarship for one year of study. Miss...
donnabryan0Nov 29, 20193 minUncovering More FactsAs I slowly make my way through the archives of Australian Church Women, I am encountering some obstacles that are not unique in recording history—namely, er...
donnabryan0Nov 22, 20192 minAustralia is Introduced to the FLCIn 1963, the Interim Committee of Australian Church Women was advised that a mystery gift had arrived at the office of the Australian Council of Churches — a...
donnabryan0Nov 14, 20191 minDo you know the whereabouts?Do you have a copy or know the whereabouts of a 'pictorial history of the ACW' prepared by Mrs Joan Coates of Melbourne? Apparently, it comprised 50 colour s...
donnabryan0Nov 7, 20195 minThe Beginnings of Australian Church WomenDuring the 1940s and 50s, a growing number of church women had expressed a desire to fellowship at a national level with women of other
donnabryan0Oct 28, 20192 minThe Herstory of Australian Church WomenWelcome to the Herstory blog of Australian Church Women Inc. I’m Donna, the current National Archivist for Australian Church Women (ACW)
