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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Churches

Churches, 1968

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Married at Christ Church

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 January 1968 · page 3

Christ Church, Queanbeyan, was decorated with white gladioli and phlox for the wedding on Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Edward Lee, pictured with…

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Methodist Minister Induction on Thursday night

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1968 · page 1

Queanbeyan’s new Methodist Minister, the Rev. L. A. Hartshorn, will be inducted at a ceremony at the Methodist Church in Rutledge Street this Thursday…

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Methodist Minister Inducted

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 January 1968 · page 1

A crowded congregation witnessed the induction of Queanbeyan’s new Methodist Minister, Rev…

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Special feature St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Burra Centenary and Restoration Appeal Shingles for a Century

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 February 1968 · page 7

In the time of bullock teams and bushrangers, of exploration and establishment — when men were resolute pioneers and women their devoted slaves, the Anglican Parish of Queanbeyan determined to build a Church for the faithful settlers of the Burra…

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Church Records Disappeared

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 February 1968 · page 1

Parts of the carpet and valuable records dating back to the early 1860s disappeared during the depression from Burra’s historic St. Paul’s Anglican Church. The ceremony of the…

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Stalwarts of Christ Church farewelled

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 February 1968 · page 5

Parishioners of Christ Church of England and St. Mary’s, West Queanbeyan, assembled In the Parish Hall on Sunday evening to say farewell to Mr. and…

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“ Full house ” at centenary Anglican Diocese has century-old history

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 February 1968 · page 14

The Anglican Diocese of Goulburn was declared in 1863. Bishop Mesac Thomas, its first Bishop, arrived in Australia in 1864 and set about the task of making the Diocese a reality. Goulburn was of course…

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Presbyterian Congregational Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 February 1968 · page 3

Queanbeyan Presbyterian Church had managed its finances well in 1967, the auditor (Mr. J. A. Girvan) told the annual congregational meeting on…

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Presbyterian Women’s Guild

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 February 1968 · page 3

Mrs. D. G. Hughes was re-elected president of the Presbyterian Women’s Guild at its annual…

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Anglican Women’s Conference

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 March 1968 · page 3

The Anglican Church-women’s Union Regional Conference will be held at Queanbeyan on…

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Discussion during Anglican conference

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 March 1968 · page 3

The Rev. K. S. Crossly, Rector. of Christ Church, and Bro. Andrew, of New Guinea, chat with delegates to the Anglican Churchwomen’s Union Regional Conference. at the Parish Hall yesterday. The ladies pictured speaking with Bro. Andrew are (from left to right): Mrs. G. Thomas, Mrs. H. S. Taylor Rogers and Mrs. K. Clements. Bro. Andrew is at present on furlough from New Guinea .and…

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Valdals in new raid on church

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 March 1968 · page 1

A $300 reward has been offered in a bid to bring about the conviction of vandals who have struck twice in the past five months at St. Thomas’ Church,…

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Anglican Synod to assemble in Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 March 1968 · page 3

The 1968 Anglican Synod, will meet in Goulburn commencing on Sunday, June 16, with Synod…

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Churchill Fellowship

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 March 1968 · page 6

JUDY BAILEY, a home economist and Elizabeth Schneider, ABC Rural Officer who will tour America on a Churchill Fellowship to observe American rural radio and TV programmes Elizabeth Schneider usually…

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New parish for the Rev. Reeve

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 March 1968 · page 1

The Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn (The Right Reverend K. J. CIements) announces the…

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Piped From the Church

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 April 1968 · page 2

Members of the Canberra Burns Club and Highland Society Pipe Band provided music at St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, Queanbeyan, on Saturday for the marriage of Miss Frances Louise Williams McKenna to Mr. Maxwell ray Morton…

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Easter holiday feature Good Friday, Easter and the church

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 April 1968 · page 9

“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”…

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Presbyterian Aviation Fellowship

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 11 April 1968 · page 3

Queanbeyan Presbyterian Church was visited by two members of the Missionary Aviation…

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leaving the Church

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 May 1968 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hinkley are pictured leaving the Queanbeyan…

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Bungendore Church Damaged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 May 1968 · page 1

Vandals in Bungendore have again smashed in Windows of St. John’s Presbyterian Church in…

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