RURAL Ministry Group

The Rural Ministry Group is a support network for religious and their colleagues in often isolated ministry in rural New South Wales, Victoria and southern Queensland. The animator of the group, Ann McRae, lives in Wagga. The group communicates mostly by email and meets only infrequently, often at gatherings instituted by other organizations. However in 2002, the Year of the Outback, the Rural Ministry Group inaugurated their biennial weekend gatherings. In 2002 and 2004 the group met in Carcoar and in 2006 at Galong. March 28-30, 2008 was the date of our most recent gathering, again at Galong. Twenty women gathered for a weekend that offered opportunities to release the inner clown and the inner artist, to update on sustainability, to walk the Sacred Circle at Galong, to pray together, celebrate together and share the challenges and richness of ministry in a rural setting. Some of the resolutions as we evaluated the weekend were:

Persons with connection to the Rural Ministry Group

Margaret Barclay pbvm

Catherine Blake

Judy Breen rsm

Madeline Breen rsj

Pat Bundock op

Kay Cole rsm

Margaret Anne Crowe rsm

Maria Cunningham rsc

Ann Dooley (CWL)

Joy Mary Edwards

Joan Farrell rsj

Margaret Fitzgerald rsc

Marjorie Fitzgerald rsm

Kate Fitzpatrick rsc

Anne Forbes rsm

Claire Gaynor pbvm

Joanna Healy  osu

Maureen Healy rsm

Christine Henry rsc

Tricia Johnson rsm

Margaret Kelly  rsm

Marguerita Kosseris csb

Bernadette Madden mss

Virginia Mahony rsc

Anne Mayberry rsc

Colleen McDonald rsc

Joan McKenna rsc

Ann McRae pbvm Animator

Maria Murphy rsm

Colleen Noonan rsc

Bernadette Pattison pbvm

Carol Pedersen rsc

Carmel Piffero

Carmel Sheridan rsj

Fran & John Spora

Patricia Vagg rsm

Maria Wheeler rsc

Pat Whitby csb

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The following article, submitted by Madeline Breen rsj, is written from a rural perspective. Dr Maarten Stapper is presenting a seminar at the Country Energy Ag Expo in Nyngan on Saturday, August 2 related to the material in the article.  
     

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