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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Churches

Churches, 1954

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News from the Churches Church Concerts Marked Success

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 October 1954 · page 3

Concerts held last week by the Band of Hope at Wattle Park Methodist Church and by the Knights and Comrades of the Queanbeyan Church were each a marked success…

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Church Musicals

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 October 1954 · page 3

A pleasant afternoon was spent in the Presbyterian Church Hall at a musicale arranged by the Women’s Guild…

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Anglican Parish is 116 years Old

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 1

On October 24 and 31 special services at Christ Church of England, Queanbeyan, will mark the 116th anniversary of the…

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News from the Churches CELEBRATING 90th Anniversary of Bungendorechurch

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 2

Special services this Sunday at 8 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. will mark the start of the 90th anniversary celebrations of St. Philip’s Church of England, Bungendore…

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Big Tableaux at Catholic Congress

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 1

Under the direction of the Sisters of Mercy from the Yass, Temora, Gundagai, Cootamundra, Murrumburrah and Young Conven’s,…

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At Church [?]

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 2

MRS. A.P. FARR, wife of the Congregational Minister in Canberra, opening the fete at O’Connor Methodist Church on Saturday afternoon. With her is Rev. R. Howe, Superintendent Minister at Reid Methodist Church…

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Presbyterian

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 2

Owing to the illness of Rev. S. Robertson, which necessitated his going away for a change, there will not be any Service m the Presbyterian Church…

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News from the Churches Gay Program for Big Concert at New Youth Centre

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 3

The Methodist Memorial Youth Centre ir Queanbeyan will present a gay scene a weel after its opening when a widely varied concer program by performers of all ages will be staged…

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Church Teams for Night Tennis

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 5

Christ Church Tennis Club has entered three teams in the - Tom Hunt Shield night tennis competition. The teams are :—…

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News from the Churches Special Services on Two Sundays to Mare Anniversary

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 3

During October each-year the Parish of Queanbeyan celebrates its foundation. On this and next Sunday special services will commemorate the foundation of the Parish…

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Fete for New Church Building

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 3

A fete to help raise funds for the proposed West Queanbeyan Church of England building will be held in he Parish Hail on Saturday,…

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Church, Sunday School Parents’ Apathy Amazes and Shocks Minister

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 1

’I am amazed, nay, shocked, at the apathy of parents toward Sunday School and Church, the places where the character of their…

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Church News Youth Centre Opening Tomorrow

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 2

Rev. Guy L. Walker, chairman [?] Goulburn District Methodist Synod will officially open the Queanbeyan Methodist Memorial Youth Centre…

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Presbyterian Fete

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 1

Preparations for the Queanbeyan Presbyterian garden fete on November 13 are well in hand. Compositions have been arranged for the…

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Many Attend Impressive Ceremony Methodist Memorial Youth Centre Opened

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 1

“This Youth Centre is the most appropriate, most useful and most statesmanlike thing you could have done in the memory of the fallen of two world wars,” the Chairman of the ABC (Mr…

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Here and There Church Attack

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 2

A letter has reached the "Review Office, unsigned, with a nom de plume. With it was a pound note, presumably' as payment for insertion of the letter…

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Local and General Church Objected to Baths

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 2

The Methodist Church of Young has complained to the Municipal Council that the noise from the baths of a Sunday evening disturbs the services at…

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News from the Churches Bishop to Dedicate Lych Gate in Memory of Fallen

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 3

A lych gate at the entrance to Christ Church, Queanbeyan, will be dedicated by the Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn (Dr. E. H. Bergmann) on Sunday week, November 14, at 10 a.m…

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Methodist Memorial Youth Centre Opened

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 November 1954 · page 3

THIS SPACIOUS new building in Rutledge Street, Queanbeyan was opened on October 30, as a Methodist Youth Centre. It was dedicated to the memory of district men who gave their lives in the two WorId Wars. The centre brick structure includes a hull 62ft x 25ft. An ever-burning Torch of Remembrance is in the Memorial Shrine in the vestibule…

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Wed at Christ Church Couple Attended by Sisters and Brothers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 November 1954 · page 2

Brothers and sisters of the bride and groom were the attendants when Miss Joan Ellen Gruber married Mr. Raymond…

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