St Stephen's Anglican Church

Kambah

25 Years of History

 

Mount Neighbour Primary School

First site of the original Uniting-Anglican Church

   
Urambi Primary School

Second Church Site

   
Kambah High School

Third Church Site

   
Mount Taylor Primary School

Fourth Church Site

   
Vicarage/Rectory

First Church Building

   
Shearing Shed

Site of Phil Morrell 'Stir Fry' Church Picnic

   
Wyatt Memorial

First church founder to be interned in the Churchyard. She died as a result of a tragic accident. A tribute is below.

   
Memorial Rose Garden in Churchyard where Janet Wyatt rests in peace.
   
Stain Glass windows were a commissioned work with a theme of renewal represented by a typical Australian bushfire.
   

 

Tribute to Janet Wyatt

From 1974 she was a Senior Editor at the Australian Government Publishing Service and at
the time of her death she was acting as Supervisor of Editorial work.

Janet gained first class honours in the Licentiate of Theology and a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of London.

In 1963 Janet went to Tanzania with the Church Missionary Society and became a lecturer at St Philip's Theological College, Kongwa.  During this time she became involved in the Central Tanganyika Press.

On her return to Australia in 1972 Janet helped to found Acorn Press Limited in 1979, as a non-profit organisation to serve church and community. Within St Stephen's Janet was on Parish Council, and licensed as a lay reader.

Janet was elected to the Diocesan Synod and from there to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia.  From there she was appointed to the Doctrine Commission of General Synod, was later elected to the Missionary and Ecumenical Council

Janet's missionary commitment was also evident in her service as the first woman member of the Translations Committee of the Bible Society in Australia and as the Diocesan Secretary of S.P.C.K.Australia.  In the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn she served on Bishop-in-Council and on the Board of the College of Ministry.  She was also an early supporter of the Movement
for the Ordination of Women although she had no personal ambitions or vocation to an ordained ministry believing that her work was in itself a valid ministry.

Janet was a member of the Canberra Ornithologists Group, Anglican Women, the Society of Editors, the Colophon Society and the National Press Club.