Press Releases26 Feb 08

Mothers' Union to attend Regional Meeting in Australia

Three members of Mothers’ Union from Ireland are going to Toowoomba in Brisbane Diocese, Australia to take part in the first of a series of Regional Meetings at which members from a number of countries will come together to share experiences and to plan for the work of the Mothers’ Union during the next decade.

Roberta McKelvey from Belfast is Chair of the committee which has been responsible from the planning of the series of meetings which will be held throughout the world over the next three years. As the Representative Provincial Trustee, elected by the Presidents of the Mothers’ Union in provinces of the Anglican Communion outside Britain and Ireland, Roberta has a network which relates to 3.5 million members in seventy three of the seventy eight countries in which the Mothers’ Union works. A former President of Connor and former General Trustee of Mothers' Union, she is active also at branch level in Belfast Cathedral where her husband is the Dean.

Also selected to take part is Margaret Schultz, Diocesan President of Limerick ,and Killaloe  and Geraldine Beattie, President of Clogher Diocese.

Eighty members from New Zealand, USA, Canada, Papua New Guinea, South India, Melanesia, West Indies, Myanmar,Korea and Australia will be joined by ten Diocesan Presidents from Britain and Ireland and seven members of the Central Trustee Body and staff from the Mothers’ Union Central headquarters at Mary Sumner House in London.
 
The meeting in Australia will run from 2nd to 7th March at  The  James Byrne Centre, Toowoomba, which is two hour drive inland from Brisbane .

The series of meetings over the following three years will provide opportunities for leaders worldwide to meet together to practice and explore the spirituality of the organisation, to celebrate diversity of cultures, to build relationships, to identify goals and to plan for the future.