Our Parishes in Australia and New Zealand have energetic, well organised Women’s Committees. These fabulous women use their skills and talents to ensure our Melkite community life continues to flourish―our joy in each other’s company, expressed through the frequent meals and social gatherings we share and how in need we come together to support one another in the trials of daily life.

Each Parish’s Women’s Committee arranges spiritual, charitable, social and fund-raising events―
 

• Visits to the family home, nursing homes, aged care facilities, and hospitals to offer a prayer, give comfort and simply share a conversation and listen.

• Charitable appeals to help our communities both here and in our homelands.

• Spiritual retreats to participate in our faith.

• Day trip excursions and picnics.

• Feast Day BBQs and dinners, to celebrate our faith, share a meal, enjoy each other’s company, and express with our children the joy of being Melkite.

• Celebratory luncheons to laugh, sing and dance together―Mother’s Day, Melbourne Cup, Father’s Day. 

• Fund raising through fetes and Parish gift shops―attend divine liturgy and then go shopping for statues, rosaries, candles, crosses, Qurban (holy bread).

At times, Parish Women’s Committees will work together to host joint Parish events, so the communities from our Parishes can come together in prayer and socially.