In 2019, I spent Easter in Perth visiting my parents. The year before, I celebrated Easter with friends in Louisville, Kentucky, in the...

Palm Sunday Tomorrow, 5 April 2020, is Palm Sunday, and as I searched the archives of Australian Church Women for past messages on...

Internationally, March is Women’s History Month. As March draws to a close, many websites, blogs, and other forms of social networking...

‘International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The...

As the first Friday in March rapidly approaches, Christians around the world will begin to heed the call to gather for the annual World...

Almost 54 years ago, in June 1966, Australian Church Women awarded the second Winifred Kiek Scholarship to Miss Sabita Devi Swarup of...

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....

On Tuesday 11 February 2020, Australian Church Women will celebrate 55 years since our constitution was ratified and our national body...

Each year on Australia Day, Australia celebrates and honours the significant achievements and contributions of various Australians by...

In 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 by the South Australian Unit of ACW. It gives us insight to her groundbreaking involvement and ‘glass ceiling’ splintering in the areas of theology, social issues, peace, law, justice, and creative arts. It is no wonder she was called a pioneer in the life and work of Australian women in the church. I have reproduced thi

Would you like to hear Shanti Solomon speaking to you? I know I would. In the National Archives of Australian Church Women, there is a...

This New Year message is from the January 1972 ACW National newsletter 'Women at Work'. ANOTHER YEAR has dawned and for all of us in...

[Updated 6 June 2020] In 1962, the Australian Council of Churches (ACC) received an invitation from Mrs Louise Paw, of Burma, for an...

A Christmas message from the pages of the November 1977 ACW National newsletter ‘Women at Work’. The members of the Working Committee...

Miss Connie Tan Kwie Hwa, a social worker from Djakarta, Indonesia, was the first woman to be awarded a Winifred Kiek Scholarship for one...

As I slowly make my way through the archives of Australian Church Women, I am encountering some obstacles that are not unique in...

In 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 gift of US$1,000. It was sent on behalf of the Fellowship of the Least Coin from the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, and it was to be used for ‘work among Australian aboriginal girls’. But who or what was the Fellowship of the Least Coin? And why were they sending funds to Australia? Very few Australian

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...

During the 1940s and 50s, a growing number of church women had expressed a desire to fellowship at a national level with women of other

Welcome to the Herstory blog of Australian Church Women Inc. I’m Donna, the current National Archivist for Australian Church Women (ACW)