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Tell Me the Old, Old Story
Palm Sunday Tomorrow, 5 April 2020, is Palm Sunday, and as I searched the archives of Australian Church Women for past messages on...
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Mar 28, 20202 min read
March is Women’s History Month
Internationally, March is Women’s History Month. As March draws to a close, many websites, blogs, and other forms of social networking...
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Mar 7, 20204 min read
International Women’s Day
‘International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The...
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Feb 29, 20204 min read
World Day of Prayer and Rathi Selvaratnam
As the first Friday in March rapidly approaches, Christians around the world will begin to heed the call to gather for the annual World...
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Feb 22, 20204 min read
A Transformed Life
Almost 54 years ago, in June 1966, Australian Church Women awarded the second Winifred Kiek Scholarship to Miss Sabita Devi Swarup of...
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Feb 14, 20203 min read
‘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....
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Feb 7, 20202 min read
ACW is 55 Years Young
On Tuesday 11 February 2020, Australian Church Women will celebrate 55 years since our constitution was ratified and our national body...
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Jan 31, 20204 min read
Honouring Australian Church Women
Each year on Australia Day, Australia celebrates and honours the significant achievements and contributions of various Australians by...
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Jan 24, 20204 min read
Getting to Know The Reverend Winifred Kiek
In the National Archives of Australian Church Women, there is an inspirational bio of The Reverend Winifred Kiek MA, BD, that was...
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Jan 10, 20202 min read
The Voice of Shanti Solomon
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...
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Jan 2, 20201 min read
An Old New Year Message
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...
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Dec 27, 20195 min read
First Ecumenical Assembly of Asian Church Women Held in Asia
[Updated 6 June 2020] In 1962, the Australian Council of Churches (ACC) received an invitation from Mrs Louise Paw, of Burma, for an...
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Dec 21, 20191 min read
'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...
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Dec 13, 20196 min read
The First Winifred Kiek Scholarship Holder
Miss Connie Tan Kwie Hwa, a social worker from Djakarta, Indonesia, was the first woman to be awarded a Winifred Kiek Scholarship for one...
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Nov 29, 20193 min read
Uncovering More Facts
As I slowly make my way through the archives of Australian Church Women, I am encountering some obstacles that are not unique in...
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Nov 22, 20192 min read
Australia is Introduced to the FLC
In 1963, the Interim Committee of Australian Church Women was advised that a mystery gift had arrived at the office of the Australian...
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Nov 15, 20191 min read
Do 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...
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Nov 7, 20195 min read
The Beginnings of Australian Church Women
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
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Oct 28, 20192 min read
The Herstory of Australian Church Women
Welcome to the Herstory blog of Australian Church Women Inc. I’m Donna, the current National Archivist for Australian Church Women (ACW)
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