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Launch: Dearest Folks

May 28, 2016, 4.30 PM-5.30 PM

Free
Dearest Folks cover image

Reflect on an Avondale alumna’s mission experience and celebrate the launch of a book based on the letters she sent home to family in Australia.

It’s 1956, and Margaret and husband Horrie begin the adventure of a lifetime: mission service in Vanuatu (then the New Hebrides) and on Bougainville in the then Territory of New Guinea. In these letters sent home to family in Australia, Margaret gives a thorough account of daily life working as a missionary nurse in the South Pacific.

The launch of Dearest Folks: Letters Home From a Missionary Wife and Mother features:

  • Reflections from Margaret and co-author Dr Robyn Priestly; and
  • A keynote from retired educator and raconteur Dr John Hammond.

Hosted by Signs Publishing Book Editor Nathan Brown.

Includes: afternoon tea.

Sale!

Dearest Folks will be available for sale at the launch-only price of $20.

It will also be available from Adventist Book Centres and from hopeshop.com for $24.95 from Monday, May 30.

Links

Honouring missionary wives
Dearest Folks an insight into those who faithfully go to often-lonely and isolated places

History in the details
Historian Robyn Priestley reflects on the value of letters

Purchase Dearest Folks

Details

Date:
May 28, 2016
Time:
4.30 PM-5.30 PM
Cost:
Free
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Organiser

Avondale University
Phone:
(02) 4980 2222
Email:
events@avondale.edu.au
Website:
http://www.avondale.edu.au

Venue

Ella Hughes Chapel
582 Freemans Dr
Cooranbong, NSW 2265 Australia
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