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The National Evangelical Anglican Congress is a conference for evangelical churches within the Anglican Communion. It was first held in 1967 at Keele University, Staffordshire.

The Australasian Board of Missions was established in 1850 and led by the Bishops of the Church of England in Australia and New Zealand. It was constituted as a Board of the church by a Canon of General Synod in 1872. In 1995 the name was changed to the Anglican Board of Mission.

Originally part of the Gerringong Ward of the Municipality of Kiama. In 1948 it was merged with surrounding municipalities to form the Shoalhaven Shire Council. Some documents record the name as Broughton Vale. It is likely that the area was named after an Aboriginal guide named after the Bishop of Australia W.G. Broughton, by local pastoralist Alexander Berry.

Edge Hill is a district of Liverpool, England. Frederic Barker, later Bishop of Sydney, was the rector from 1835-1854.

The Inter Varsity Fellowship in Australia formed in 1936 from a network of groups at universities around the country. They had begun to form as a result of Howard Guinness' Australian tours in 1930 and 1933-4. In 1947 the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students was founded, and in 1973 the Australian IVF changed its name to the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students. https://www.afes.org.au/about/history

The Sydney College of Divinity is a consortium of theological colleges. It was formed in 1983 with six member institutions, when the Bachelor of Theology course was accredited. The SCD was approved by the Commonwealth Government as a higher education provider in 2004.

The New University Colleges Council was formed as a company limited by guarantee and held its first meeting on 13th September 1960. It arose from an informal group known as the 'Halls of Residence Committee', inspired by residential university colleges in the UK. The first committee included Broughton Knox, Dr Lawrence Lyons and Edwin Judge. One of the first colleges was New College at UNSW.

The NSW Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society was formed in 1817 due to the influence of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie. The first committee included 52 men, all of whom were leading citizens and who were also founding members of the Bank of New South Wales. The Auxiliary operated independently, but under the leadership of the Commonwealth Secretary when that committee was formed in 1925.

The National Youth Department coordinated programs and activities to engage children and teenagers with the work of the Bible Society. The department offices were in Melbourne.