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Typescript newsletter with updates on Deaconess House, the Homes of Peace, the prayer fellowship, and a devotional message from the Head Deaconess. Also includes mailing list from 1976.

Correspondence and reports relating to the nomination of people associated with ADM for honours and awards.
Nomination of Deaconess Joan Hartley for an award within the Order of Australia - 2005
Nomination of Mr Adrian Scarra (councilor and director of the Anglican Deaconess Institution) for an award within the Order of Australia - 2006-2007

Collected notes and brochures on ministry to and by the elderly. Includes circular letters, copies of Synod resolutions, reports, Christ Church Carers Set 1989 report, Cluster Support Groups Guidelines and Aims, TABA (To and By the Aging) Newsletter August 1995.

Continuing the witness: a service of thanksgiving - recognising the past, present and future ministry of women, St Andrew's Cathedral, 24th February 1996.
Celebrating the 125th anniversary of Anglican Deaconess Ministries, 1891-2016, 2nd June 2016, St Philip's Church Hill.

Donation appeal brochure - undated (1950s?)
'Pallister - an era past' article from Dawson's Directory, 1981
History of Pallister Girls' Home - typescript summary - covers 1891-1986 - copy dated 3 Mar 2000.

Copies of ordinances issued by Synod regarding Deaconesses and women deacons
Notes on women's ministry and the role of Deaconesses
Reports from General Synod on the role of Deaconesses
Correspondence between Mary Andrews and Marcus Loane on the role of Deaconesses
How could mission thinking affect the role, structure and function of women's ministry? (Narelle Jarrett, 2010)
A note on School Chaplaincy and the need for change (Narelle Jarrett, 2011)
Further notes on women's ministry (Narelle Jarrett, 2011)
Policy document: ordination in the Diocese of Sydney (2014)
The Order of Deaconesses: possible re-activation in the Sydney Diocese - position paper from Anglican Deaconess Ministries (2014)
The ministry of women in the Diocese of Sydney - Archbishop Glenn N. Davies, 2014.

Correspondence and reports relating to the property and management of the Lisgar Children's Home at Arncliffe.

Correspondence and reports relating to the use and sale of Norbury House, Croydon, which was used as a hostel.

The Church of England Migration Council brought out young women from the United Kingdom, and placed them under the care of Deaconess House. The young women were then placed in domestic service jobs in households. Deaconess Ruby Short took out a licence for the scheme under the Industrial Arbitration Act on 9th October 1939. Includes lists of 'girl domestics' with arrival dates, ship name and name of employer or caretaker. Also includes lists of Australians requesting domestics, and which type.

Deaconess ordinations - 1952-1996
Deaconess parish institutions - 1957-1996
Deaconess lists
Documents on the history of Deaconesses
Sydney Deaconess/Diaconal Fellowship - 1957-1996
Australian Anglican Diaconal Association - 1958-1996
Australian Anglican Deaconess Conference - 1947-1985
Deaconess ordinations - other dioceses - 1962-1966
Deaconesses - Church of England - 1915-1995
South East Asia & Pacific Area Deaconesses - 1968-1977
International Deaconesses - 1972-1980
International Federation of Deaconess Associations - conference - 1975
Diakonia - 1959-1978
Diakonia News - 1967-1975
Diakonia - conferences - 1969-1987
Documents on lay ministry
Koinonia Fellowship - newsletter - 1989-1991
Order of Deaconesses in England - 1947-1975