On 11th
July 2006, Women’s Fellowship met for the last time after 61 years of
fellowship and friendship.
WOMEN’S
FELLOWSHIP began in 1945 with a sewing circle - or so I understand –
there being more of a need for that kind of activity then. Like a lot
of things this served its purpose and then became the meeting we have
known over more recent years.
When I joined
WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP in 1962-63 there was a thriving membership of 60-70.
The minutes from the Secretary’s report in1989 reads “A very
successful year for WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP. Although we have through
various circumstances lost a few members, we have had as many as 70
members present each week, and sometimes more.”
Our weekly
meetings were devotional meetings; once a year there was a “Sale of
Work” with stalls of various kinds and quite of lot of money was
raised. Once a month we had speakers, usually missionaries on furlough
from overseas and collections were taken for missions – “Women’s Work”
as it was called then. The money raised each week and from sales was
distributed to church funds and to various charities, with some left for
WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP’s own funds.
The fellowship
was enjoyed by all. There were some sad times, many happy times and
sometimes hilarious times. The names of those who have made WOMEN’S
FELLOWSHIP memorable are too numerous to mention but all will be
remembered with great affection.
Although
WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP will no longer meet, the members can look back with
thanksgiving for all that it has meant to so many over the last 60
years.
Margaret
Luxmore
