CHURCH ARMY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 272, 30 August 1935, Page 6

CHURCH ARMY

FORMATION IN NEW ZEALAND.

OPERATION FROM NOVEMBER 1. CAPTAIN BANYARD AJS DIRECTOR. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. One of the decisions reached by the Standing Committee of the Anglican General Synod this week was to form a Church Army in New Zealand. The object is to provide evangelists and mission sisters to assist the clergy in the evangelising work of the Church. Trained workers will be provided for caravan, parochial, mission, and social work. Twelve representatives of the Church Army in England have been in New Zealand for the last two and a half years. One .of these is Captain S. R. Ranyard, who will remain in the Dominion, and has been appointed by the Standing Committee of General Synod to he director of operations. He will be known as the field secretary. The permanent Church Army in New Zealand will come into being on the first Monday in November. The offer of a house in Auckland has been accepted as the temporary headquarters until more central headquarter’s can be established. A. small executive committee is to be appointed by the Archbishop in Auckland, and the bishops in the other co-operating dioceses are each to be asked to appoint a corresponding member of the committee. Before next August a central board of control is to be appointed from co-operating dioceses and in each co-operating diocese a small board of control is to be appointed to work under . the central board. !