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On February 4th I presided at a Sydney Deaconess Fellowship meeting for the first time. An occasion I did not look forward to because of my youthful inexperience. My fears were...

Women’s Auxiliaries flourished in the middle of the 20th century, mostly as wartime adjuncts to the armed services. By the 1980s the name was starting to be considered very outmoded....

When Billy Graham’s regular column in the Adelaide Advertiser ceased to be syndicated, the paper asked the rector of Holy Trinity North Terrace to start his own column. Lance Shilton’s...

Lancelot Edward Threlkeld began his career as an actor with the Royal Circus in London. When he moved to Devonshire with his wife Martha, he was influenced by the local vicar...

“There is no place like the university for the sharpening and expansion of Christian faith” – Charles Troutman, IVF General Secretary. The Inter Varsity Fellowship in Australia, now known as the...

The Archbishop of Sydney, William Saumarez Smith, encouraged the Sunday School teachers of the diocese of Sydney to form an association, and the first meeting of the Sunday School Teachers’...