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A Quiet Achiever
Doris Mabel Mitchell was born in Victoria, in 1908, but spent most of her life in New South Wales (NSW). She attended Petersham Primary...
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Dec 7, 20215 min
Remembering the Advent Service
We are now in the season of Advent as Christmas approaches with its message of hope for the world because of the birth of Jesus Christ,...
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Nov 28, 20211 min
A Gift for ACW
This week Australian Church Women (ACW) received a generous gift from a relative of Maisie McKenzie, the woman who began the Northern...
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Nov 24, 20213 min
Looking back at the Vic Unit
The Victorian Unit of Australian Church Women (ACW) continued to be known as the Women’s Inter-Church Council (WICC) of Victoria until...
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Nov 16, 20214 min
FLC Snippets
The newsletters of Australian Church Women (ACW) have often been employed to promote the Fellowship of the Least Coin (FLC), and to...
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Nov 8, 20216 min
Revisiting the 1978 ACWC Assembly
Last year, on 3 October 2020, I posted a blog on the 6th Assembly of the Asian Church Women’s Conference (ACWC) held at the Tozanso YMCA...
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Nov 2, 20213 min
Second things first
A couple of ‘second’ things have occurred lately for Australian Church Women (ACW) as we continue the journey through the second year of...
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Oct 25, 20215 min
Birth of the ACT Unit
I like to look at past minutes of Australian Church Women (ACW) because they are historical documents that record an on-the-spot view of...
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Oct 18, 20213 min
'4 Corners' and an ACW decision
The television programme Four Corners influenced the choice of project for Australian Church Women’s 1972 World Community Day. According...
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Oct 11, 20214 min
Mrs Kao visits the Vic Unit
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...
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Oct 4, 20214 min
From Australia to India
In the month of October, Australian Church Women (ACW) hold a service for the second of their two annual special days. This event is...
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Sep 25, 20213 min
100 Blog Posts
This blog post is number 100 for our ACW Herstory Blog, which means our blog will celebrate its 2nd birthday in four weeks. How quickly...
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Sep 20, 20214 min
From ‘snail mail’ to video conferencing
It is always interesting to look back and see what resources have been used over the years for the various ministries and programs of...
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Sep 12, 20214 min
A Mystery Page
This week, I’m puzzled by another mystery page in our ACW National Archives. It concerns the 4th Assembly of the Asian Church Women’s...
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Sep 6, 20213 min
Quiet Day
Last Wednesday, in the Pause for Thought segment of our website, we were reminded of God’s ‘life-giving water’ in the Gospel of John,...
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Aug 29, 20213 min
Even the Queen Commented
We’re travelling to Adelaide this week and going back to 1986 when South Australia celebrated their 150-year Jubilee. In that same year...
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Aug 22, 20212 min
Signs of the Times
Sometimes we encounter a document that has a message so appropriate for our time that it fairly leaps off the page. Whilst continuing to...
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Aug 15, 20212 min
Elsa Matilda Warner
Elsa Warner was one of the early representatives of the Baptist Church on the Women’s Inter-Church Council of Victoria, the forerunner of...
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Aug 7, 20213 min
1971 FLC and WDP Drama
Shanti Solomon, founder of the Fellowship of the Least Coin (FLC), was the guest of Church Women United (CWU) USA in April/May 1971 when...
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Aug 1, 20213 min
Agnes Loyall of ACWC writes to ACW
May of 1978 was a significant month for the Asian Church Women’s Conference (ACWC). The ACWC Executive Committee had been invited by...
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Jul 25, 20212 min
Lo, Here is Fellowship
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...
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Jul 19, 20213 min