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Instead, they had established the order of deaconesses for women interested in serving a pastoral role. [3] Ling completed a Bachelor of Ministry degree and then worked full-time as a deaconess in Ballarat, Victoria. [2] After years of debate on women's ordination, in 1966, the general council of the Methodist Church in Australia allowed annual ...
Freer Helen Latham (1907–1987) was an Australian schoolteacher and leader in the global Methodist women's movement. She served as vice-president for the Australasian Federation of Methodist Women and also as world president of the World Federation of Methodist Women. She helped to grow these women's organizations at the local, national and ...
The Methodist Church of Australasia was a Methodist denomination based in Australia. It existed from 1902 to 1977, when the Uniting Church in Australia was formed. It did missionary work in Australia through two organisations: the Methodist Overseas Mission (founded 1916), which focused mainly on Aboriginal Australians, and the Methodist Inland Mission (founded 1926), which served settler ...
The Methodist Church of Australasia first ordained women (Rev Margaret Sanders and Rev Coralie Ling) in 1969, while the Presbyterian Church of Australia ordained its first woman minister in 1974. After formation of the Uniting Church in Australia, the continuing Presbyterian Church of Australia reversed the decision to ordain women in 1991.
Alice Maude Mofflin MBE (26 May 1878 – 23 March 1961) was an Australian Methodist lay leader and charity worker. She helped establish the Methodist Children's Home in Victoria, Australia, and oversaw its management as the head of the Women's Auxiliary committee for thirty eight years. She served many other charitable causes through the ...
Sophia Blackmore. Sophia Blackmore (18 October 1857 – 3 July 1945) was an Australian Christian missionary. [1] She founded the Fairfield Methodist Schools, and also Methodist Girls' School [2] in Singapore.
Lilian Lelean Scholes was born on 14 May 1902 in Northcote, Victoria to Samuel and Clara (Lelean) Scholes. Her maternal grandfather and uncle were Methodist ministers in Australia and Fiji, and her father, also a Methodist minister, was President of the Methodist Conference of Australasia in 1917.
Methodist Ladies' College, c. 1930. Methodist Ladies' College (commonly referred to as MLC) is a non-selective, non-denominational private day and boarding school for girls, located in Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school has two additional outdoor education campuses known as "Marshmead" and "Banksia".