{"id":761,"date":"2014-11-25T21:36:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=761"},"modified":"2014-11-26T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:56:56","slug":"761","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"60 Year Milestone for Swan Hill Mother’s Union"},"content":{"rendered":"
On\u00a0 Tuesday 25th November the weather returned to perfect for one of the last days of spring;<\/p>\n
\"Audrey<\/a>

Audrey Walsh and Claire Stemmer contemplating the cream cakes.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Thora<\/a>

Thora Brown and Rev’d Jan Harper enjoying a cup of tea.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Around<\/a>

Around the table: Shirley Wilkie, Betty Dillon, Morwena Hobson, Marj Rogers, and Ada Wood<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Joan<\/a>

Joan Blackman giving the history of the Swan Hill Mother’s Union Group.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Alison,<\/a>

Alison Blair, Marg Finnemore and Marg Walsh, at the pretty in pink table.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Happy<\/a>

There were many smiles as Joan recalled the fun and fellowship of the group’s meetings and functions.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Shirley<\/a>

Thora Brown (right) as the most senior members present had the honour of cutting the cake with Shirley Wilkie.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Joan<\/a>

Joan and Audrey enjoyed browsing through the memorabilia collected over the 60 years, including minute books, letters, photos and tea towels.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/address>\n

just the setting for the celebratory \u201cHigh Tea\u201d for the 60th<\/sup> anniversary of the Swan Hill Branch of M.U. Australia.<\/a><\/address>\n
Visitors from the Nyah Branch of M.U. and other local churches were welcomed, including guests from St Luke\u2019s Anglicare.<\/address>\n
Joan Mellahn introduced Revd Jan Harper, who then said Grace before the feast.<\/address>\n
The tables were set with lovely linen, fine china and silverware.<\/address>\n
The catering ladies provided dainty sandwiches while members contributed special cakes and pastries.\u00a0 Maggie Williams provided the specially decorated birthday cake.<\/address>\n
Longest surviving member of the branch, Joan Blackman, read out entries from several old minute books and spoke of faithful members from past years.<\/address>\n
Visitors were very interested in the display of memorabilia including a souvenir tea towel from the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the 1876 founding in England.<\/address>\n
The cake was cut by Shirley Wilkie and Thora Brown.<\/address>\n
Jocelyn Ingram offered a vote of thanks on behalf of all the visitors who enjoyed such hospitality.<\/address>\n
With 4 million members worldwide, Mothers Union provides is a network through which members can serve Christ in their own community – through prayer, financial support and actively working at the grassroots level in programmes that meet local needs.\u00a0 Our vision is of a world where God’s love is shown through loving, respectful, and flourishing relationships.<\/address>\n
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\"Rev'd<\/a>

Rev’d Denis arrived back from takng a service at the Extended Care Unit of Swan Hill Hospital to partake of the delacasies and catch up with friends.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Marg<\/a>

Marg Walsh and Marg Finnemore enjoyed looking at the spread of memorabilia collected and displayed.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/address>\n

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On\u00a0 Tuesday 25th November the weather returned to perfect for one of the last days of spring;<\/p>\n

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just the setting for the celebratory \u201cHigh Tea\u201d for the 60th anniversary of the Swan Hill Branch of M.U. Australia.<\/a> Visitors from the Nyah Branch of M.U. and other local \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3Zkbl-761","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}