This week, let’s have a closer look at some of the preparations for the 1965 Fellowship Day. 1965 was the year that Australian Church...

O loving Creator, we present ourselves in your divine presence to thank you for all the bountiful gifts of life. We are especially...

At the 4th Assembly of the Asian Church Women’s Conference (ACWC), Mrs Betty (Elizabeth) Ashton was an observer for Australia. A brief...

It was decided at the ACW National Meeting in February 1972 to establish a Memorial Bursary Fund for contributions received in tribute to...

A couple of weeks ago, my attention was caught when I was reading some of our old newsletters in the archives of Australian Church Women...

For the first decade after the formation of Australian Church Women (ACW) in 1965, an annual national committee meeting was held and...

We extend thanks again to the family of Edna (Roughley) Beales for supplying further information to give us a clearer picture of who Edna...

Yesterday, I received another unexpected email; this time from the grandson of Edna Roughley Beales. If you read last week’s blogpost,...

[Updated 6 June 2020 and 29 July 2020] Another request for information, from our ACW blog, has been answered by the delivery of a very...

In 1971, Australian Church Women (ACW) suggested projects to be assisted by grants from the Fellowship of the Least Coin (FLC): the...

In the early days of Australian Church Women, our newsletter was called Women at Work. The following 1970s description of women at work...

With Mother’s Day almost upon us, I was attracted by a heading that I spotted when browsing the Archives of Australian Church Women...

Almost 12 months old, the infant National Committee of Australian Church Women (ACW) held its second gathering in January 1966 at St...

This was the theme of the third assembly of the Asian Church Women’s Conference (ACWC) in 1966. Two Australians attended this assembly...

Many organisations today lament that their membership numbers are not increasing and that bureaucracy, as well as distractions of other...

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...

THE GATE OF THE YEAR ‘God Knows' And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into...

The Fellowship of the Least Coin is an extraordinary vision that was given to Shanti Solomon, the founder of this prayer movement. It...

‘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....