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Outgoing
president Lorraine Walker acknowledged a tribute from world president
Dorothy Selebano and Women’s Department executive director Patsy
Davis.
Lorraine Walker, from Brisbane, handed the leadership baton
to New Zealander Julie Belding, a former editor of the NZ Baptist, who
has been elected president of BWUSWP for the next five years.
On
the picture Patsy Davis (2nd from left) commissioned new BWUSWP
officers Anne MacCarthy, Kaa Simon, Julie Belding and Judith Searle, as
world president Dorothy Selebano looked on. Kaa Simon from Papua New
Guinea is the new Vice President, Anne MacCarthy of New Zealand is the
new Secretary, and Judith Searle of Queensland is the new Treasurer. |
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Besides
the Australians, the colourful conference (themed Clothed in Christ)
hosted 9 women from New Zealand, 7 from Fiji, 55 from Australia, 41
from Papua New Guinea and 18 from Papua Indonesia. |
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A
special guest at the conference, which was held at the Cairns Colonial
Club, was Dorothy Selebano from South Africa, the current world
president of the BWA Women’s Department. Also present were Patsy Davis
(executive director) and Donna Groover (secretary/treasurer), who are
both based in Virginia, USA. As the Baptist women of New Zealand shared
about the ministries in which they are involved they would place a
strip of material representing the different ministries on a
cape. The inside of the cape was lined with red representing the
blood of Christ. The cape is a part of the Maori tradition that
is given to the leader of a group. The cape that was made at the
conference was wrapped around Dorothy Selebano president of the BWA
Women's Department as a symbol of being “Clothed in Christ” the theme
of the conference. |
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