St Margaret's News February 2016 | Page 6

25 Years after 7th WCC 25 years ago (from 7 to 20 February 1991) the 7th World Council of Churches Assembly was held in Canberra. Many of us participated after working for years on various aspects of the planning. Here’s a couple of photos taken during the event by Brian Rope. The one on the right shows one then St Margaret’s member providing AV (presumably) services. "The incredibly complex issues that came to the fore in the 1991 WCC Canberra Assembly continue to echo in contemporary ecumenical history," writes Prof. Victor Wan Chi Hsu, Associate General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT), in a post for the #PilgrimageofJusticeandPeace blog which looks back at the #WCC 7th Assembly in Canberra, exactly 25 years ago. You can read it here http://blog.oikoumene.org/ wccpilgrimage/posts/a-sobering-retrospective-of-the-canberra-assembly-25-years-ago Contributions Wanted All members of St Margaret’s and the broader Hackett-DownerWatson community are invited to contribute articles and photographs about things that have happened or are going to happen at the St Margaret’s/Holy Cross complex or in the local community. Articles about members of the community’s own involvements in things of interest to others in the community may also be submitted for potential publication. The deadline for material for the next issue is 11 March, with that issue being published on 18 March. Material should be given to the editor Brian Rope or to Lynda at the church office. It may be handwritten or typed. It may be posted, emailed or personally delivered. The Editor reserves the right to edit, or even not use, material. St Margaret’s News 6 February 2016