MU Diocesan President of the Diocese of Gippsland
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This Victorian diocese is located in the south-east part of Victoria and is mostly rural.
Gippsland has 9 MU Branches - from Orbost to Phillip Island with 120 members. (2018) Gippsland MU holds 3 major events each year:
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History of the Diocesan President’s badge
The idea for a Diocesan President’s badge came in 1992.
Diocesan President, Joyce, and Diocesan Secretary, Ethel, attended the Australian MU Conference held at Monash Uni in Oct. 1992. Most of Diocesan Presidents wore a badge in honour of their position, but not Gippsland. The vision for our own President to be so recognised and valued became a project to be worked towards.
The Diocese had, in our possession, an MU badge given to us by Mrs. Edith Littleton, one of our Life Members at that time!
This badge was not in any way special, other than it had been Edith's own badge! Joyce and Ethel had been wondering how to use it in some special way to acknowledge the character of the donor.
So the thought of using Edith's badge as a basis for our President’s Badge was born.
Jewellers were approached, with the request for a design and cost for producing the badge, incorporating the one we had.
Each Diocesan MU Branch contributed to the cost, so have an ownership of the President’s badge. It belongs to All MU members.
Diocesan President, Joyce, and Diocesan Secretary, Ethel, attended the Australian MU Conference held at Monash Uni in Oct. 1992. Most of Diocesan Presidents wore a badge in honour of their position, but not Gippsland. The vision for our own President to be so recognised and valued became a project to be worked towards.
The Diocese had, in our possession, an MU badge given to us by Mrs. Edith Littleton, one of our Life Members at that time!
This badge was not in any way special, other than it had been Edith's own badge! Joyce and Ethel had been wondering how to use it in some special way to acknowledge the character of the donor.
So the thought of using Edith's badge as a basis for our President’s Badge was born.
Jewellers were approached, with the request for a design and cost for producing the badge, incorporating the one we had.
Each Diocesan MU Branch contributed to the cost, so have an ownership of the President’s badge. It belongs to All MU members.
The Work of AMUA Gippsland
Outreach Activities
Music Awards
- 260 toilet bags to women’s refuges and hospitals.
- Activity bags filled for the children’s ward at the Warragul Hospital.
- Support parish initiatives, particularly community meals, Samaritan’s Purse and ‘mainly music’ programs.
- A luncheon raised $650 for the Rwandan Seeds of Peace Project Bible studies.
- Distribution of Marriage and Baptismal kit.
- St Barnabas MU Family Retreat Fund
- Allowing two families invited to the MU Abbey of St Barnabas Family Retreat holiday at Paynesville with the MU Chaplain and her family acting as host family.
Music Awards
- sponsorship of the student Music Awards program at St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School, and Gippsland Grammar.