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Deacon, St Anne's, Highfields

The Rev'd Melissa Conway

About The Rev'd Melissa -

The Rev’d Melissa Conway is deacon at St Anne’s, Highfields. She has a Certificate in Financial Markets, Securities Institute of Australia; a Graduate Certificate in Public Sector Leadership, Griffith University; and, a Bachelor of Theology, Charles Sturt University. She is also a Justice of the Peace (Qualified), Queensland.

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Articles by The Rev'd Melissa

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Movies That Matter

“The five-year collaboration between St James’, Toowoomba and the Amnesty International Toowoomba Group presenting Movies That Matter is going from strength to strength,” says The Rev’d Melissa Conway

“A woman’s place is in the house of bishops”: The Rev’d Jeannette McHugh, The Rev’d Dr Ann Edwards, Archbishop Kay Goldsworthy, journalist Julia Baird, The Rev’d Sandra Kjellgren and The Rev’d Danni Clark at the 40th anniversary conference of Sydney MOW in 2023
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40 years of national women’s ordination advocacy to be celebrated at Brisbane conference

Australian and international Christians are set to gather in Brisbane for the 40th anniversary of the national Movement for the Ordination of Women at a conference in November

Reflections

Canterbury tales: pilgrimage highlights and insights

Assistant priest The Rev’d Mel Conway from St Anne’s, Highfields and St Francis College formation student Allana Wales from St Andrew’s, Indooroopilly recently received a scholarship so they could participate in an annual pilgrimage for seminarians and clergy in the early years of their ordained ministry. In this special joint reflection they share their pilgrimage highlights and insights