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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Churches

Churches, 1953

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Church News Students and the Church

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 2

The World Day of Prayer for students is spreading rapidly and catching the imagination of Churches in over 50 different…

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Church News Mission to the Nation

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 2

As the month of September approaches, organisation for the Methodist Mission to the Federal Capital area is being set up, and…

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Churchwomen Celebrate 25th Anniversary

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1953 · page 1

The three foundation members of the St. John’s Churchwomen’s Canberra, Mesdames W. Tickner, F. Douthwaite and S. Gibbons, gathered around the cake at the silver jubilee birthday party of the Guild held at the Ainslie All Saints’ Hall last week…

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Church News Memorial Shrine Plans

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 July 1953 · page 2

Details of a Memorial Shrine to honor soldiers and servicewomen of World War II, a modern kitchen to assist the ladies of the…

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Church News Missionary Talk on Fiji

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 2

Stressing the urgency of the Church’s work among the unevangelised masses of the Pacific, Sister, Beth Davies of Ba Mission…

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Church News Missioner’s Visit Plans

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 2

With the approach of the dates down for the Visit of the Rev Alan Walker to the Federal Capital. Queanbeyan Methodists are…

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Street Signs to Churches

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 3

Queanbeyan Council will submit to the Main Roads Board- an application from the local Methodist Trust for permission to erect…

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Church News Early Days Recalled

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 2

Those who, enjoy recalling olden days will be interested to hear of an old -time circuit being revived by the Methodist Church…

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Church News Hall Plans Approved

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 August 1953 · page 2

Members, of the Methodist Trust learned with. satisfaction at their meeting last Wednesday . evening that the proposal to erect a new…

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Bishop at Anglican Clergymen’s Conference

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 2

IN A TYPICALLY informal attitude the Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Dr. E. H. Burgmann, addresses the annual conference of Anglican clergymen from the diocese at Canberra last week…

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Church News Planning for the Mission to Nation

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 2

The Queanbeyan Crusade Council, working in co-operation with a similar council in Canberra on the details of the Mission to the Federal Captal and Queanbeyan, is planning to run a special bus to each…

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Church of England Ball

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 September 1953 · page 2

The Church of England ball in the National Theatre on Friday night promises to provide grand entertainment. The organisers have gone to no end…

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Church News Big Mission in Q’beyan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 2

After taking past in the last two days of a successful Mission to Goulburn, during which the principal meeting was presided over…

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Church of England

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 2

The restoration of the parish church is now complete. Since the roof has been renewed early in the year, the damage done to the walls when the…

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Mission to Nation in Queanbeyan Crowds Heard Rev. A. Walker

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 September 1953 · page 2

Good crowds attended the Methodist Mission to the Nation when it conducted two meetings in Queanbeyan last weekends Leader of the mission, Rev. Alan…

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Choir at Mission to the Nation Service

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 September 1953 · page 1

HIGHLIGHT of the Mission to the Nation service in Queanbeyan’s Triumph Theatre last Sunday was the singing by the combined choir…

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Church Tennis Teams for Yass

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 September 1953 · page 1

The Christ Church Tennis Club has chartered a special bus on Sunday week to convey its two teams and supporters to Yass…

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Church News Methodist Synod Soon

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 2

The Methodist annual synod of the Goulburn District meets, this [?] Canberra, in the first week of November…

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Presbyterian Church Successful Fancy Dress Frolic

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 1

A succesful fancy dress frolic was conduted In the Presbyterian church hall, Queanbeyan recently, when many children and adults…

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Presbyterian Moderator-General Visited Canberra

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 3

REV. H. HARRISON (right) showed a model of the completed St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church to the Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, Right Rev. R. Bardon, and Mrs. Bardon, last Sunday when they visited Canberra in connection with the 19th anniversary of St. Andrew’s Church…

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