World’s Y.W.C.A.
WEEK OF PRAYER AND FELLOWSHIP In common with the World’s Young Women’s Christian Association, the Palmerston North Association in conjunction with the Y.M.C.A. will observe “World Fellowship Week” commencing with a sunrise service to-morrow in the Esplanade. In addition to other arrangements there will be a World Fellowship Ceremonial in tho Y.W.C.A. club rooms when the speaker will bo Mr. Joo Hon Ivow, a Chinese student whose subject will bo “Youth Problems in China To-day.” At this ceremony a free-will offering will be made to China War Relief on behalf of the Palmerston North Y.W.C.A. These funds are required for tho support of Miss A. M. Monecrieff, a New Zealander on loan to the Y.W.C.A. of China, while extra funds have also been promised this year for the training of Chinese secretaries. In her message to the world president, Miss Ruth Rouso says: “It is as a company of learners we enter our weok of prayer and fellowship. God is teaching through liistorj’, through experience, through His word; He teaches us also through each other.” More than ever is the importance of. this remembrance emphasised this year when so many members of the association are cut off from one another, as, with their countries, they have had to go behind the curtain of silence.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 266, 8 November 1941, Page 5
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