Mrs Dorothy Black (nee Lennox) is Sydney’s oldest living deaconess and today celebrates 70 years of being set apart for Christian service as a deaconess with the Anglican Church.
Twenty women serving in churches across Sydney and beyond have received funding to support their ministries in 2021.
Attendees at ADM’s 2021 School of Theology, Culture & Public Engagement look back on how they were shaped by the masterclasses they attended at this year’s online STCPE.
After 11 years of faithful ministry, Rev. Jacinth Myles is retiring from her role at ADM as Chaplain to the Deaconesses and Retired Deacons. She will be replaced by Rev. Jan Donohoo, who will take on the role of ADM Chaplain.
Australians are invited to celebrate together under the theme of ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’. As the NAIDOC Week website notes, “’Always Was, Always Will Be’ recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years.”
The ADM Fellowships program aims to raise up Christian women to engage a sceptical and hurting world with the good news of Jesus, as they serve in our churches, communities, nation and world. It gives Christian women the time, space, finance and collegial support to complete a major project and pursue avenues to engage the public with their work.
ADM is pleased to announce the appointment of Jo Gibbs as its new CEO, effective 17 November 2020.
Jo Gibbs joins ADM from St Pauls Castle Hill, where she has been the Care and Assistant Discipleship Minister. Prior to this, Jo spearheaded work in international and cross-cultural settings.
Each year, Anglican Deaconess Ministries (ADM) welcomes pitches from Christian women around Australia for grants for gospel-shaped initiatives and ministries at all stages. This year’s online event looked very different from previous years, but the focus was still on supporting Christian women who have “identified a need that they’re seeking to address through what they’ve created.”
Mary Andrews College has appointed Dr Louise Gosbell as Dean of Students. The new position has been created to strengthen support for students from application to graduation.
Since ADM launched the Mental Health & Pastoral Care Institute (MHPCI) in 2016, the Institute’s Co-Directors, Keith & Sarah Condie, have been working within Anglican Deaconess Ministries to resource the local church throughout Australia in mental health and pastoral care. On July 1, a new season started for the Institute and its two Co-Directors.
ADM awards $80,000 Restoring Sanctuary Innovation Grant to innovative model for churches to create safety for domestic abuse survivors
ADM is honoured to announce today the awarding of the Restoring Sanctuary Innovation Grant, an $80,000 grant to support the development of an effective church-based response supporting domestic abuse survivors, to Dr. Wilma Gallet and her group.
100 Years Ago, Deaconesses battled the Influenza epidemic
They didn’t have Zoom. But the Deaconesses in Sydney were well prepared to care for those around them during the “Spanish flu” pandemic of 1919…
“The Pleasures of Pessimism” continued with Dr Natasha Moore
Dr Natasha Moore’s address for ADM’s 2019 Annual Public Lecture provided an insightful, far-reaching and even optimistic guide through what she called, “The Pleasures of Pessimism: On hope, culture and the end of the world”. Then came a pandemic. And we at ADM wondered how the new isolation affected Dr Moore’s perspective.
New Deacon Rev. Polly Butterworth helps retool school chaplaincy for COVID19
Following Polly’s ordination in February 2020, it was back to school, but not for long. The global pandemic upended the year’s plans. That meant she and the team of which she’s a part— under the leadership of Chaplain Rev. Jenni Stoddart, also Chair of ADM’s board—had to rethink school chaplaincy without losing their passion.
How MAC Lecturer Jill McGilvray connects with Christian women around the world
One Monday night, Jill McGilvray made a cup of tea and sat down in her home in the Blue Mountains to take part in a virtual meeting... That night, her screen lit up with Christian women leaders of all ages – a tapestry of faces from lounge rooms and home offices around the world.
Rev. Suzanne Gorham, Katie Tunks Leach and Rev. Kerrie Newmarch shared their stories of chaplaincy in hard places at ADM's Engage Dinner in February 2020. Rev. Gorham is Senior Chaplain to the Specialist Units in the New South Wales Police Force. Tunks Leach is an Ambulance Chaplain and Rev. Newmarch is a Chaplain at Bankstown Hospital and was previously a Chaplain for the Professional Standards Unit (Safe Ministry) for the Sydney Anglican Diocese.
After almost five years of service as CEO of Anglican Deaconess Ministries, Dr Kate Harrison Brennan has accepted a new role at another philanthropic organisation to lead a Civil Society program. The move builds on Harrison Brennan’s lifelong pursuits to address economic injustices and cycles of disadvantages, areas she has addressed throughout her professional and educational careers.
The new Principal of Mary Andrews College, Rev. Dr Katy Smith, has a special message in regards to MAC’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
What I learned from a time of flood, famine, pestilence and epidemic for such a time as this
Kate Bradford, Chaplain, 2018 ADM Senior Research Fellow & former CMS Missionary, reflects on her time as a missionary in Tanzania.
Q&A with Amanda Mason, 2020 ADM Senior Fellow
Amanda Mason is an Evangelist and Community Chaplain with the Sydney Anglican Department of Evangelism and New Churches. During her Fellowship at ADM this year, she’s creating accessible resources to equip Australian churches in discipling Buddhist-background believers and mobilise them to reach their families and social networks.
