ONLINE GRATITUDE WALL

This is the space where colleagues, parents, community members, students and ex-students

can express their appreciation and gratitude for a particular chaplain or educator

 

Example:

Revival in 1875:

Who was Kate Morcombe

and why this incredible revival?

 

ALL those people obviously knew exactly why … read (as copied) below what happened:

“Moonta is on the western coast of the York Peninsula in South Australia. Moonta Mines
is about 1 kilometre from the town of Moonta.
A funeral service was held Sunday 4th April 1875 for Kate Morcombe, a young woman
from the Bible Christian Church Sunday School.
After the service a Prayer meeting was held and fifteen souls affected by the death of a
much loved friend, were won to Christ.
Meetings were held daily in the ensuring week and a further forty five were converted.
On Sunday the 11th April the circus was in town but no one was really interested in
going. They were off to church where there was much excitement.
The evening Prayer meeting was accompanied with cries for mercy and another forty
souls were saved. The circus left the next day.
Revival returned to the Wesleyan church at Moonta Mines the following Sunday 18th
April 1875. After another funeral service and in the ensuing week ninety claimed to
have forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
The movement of God’s Spirit did not stop for about twelve months. In that time other
churches in nearby towns reported conversions.
Little Cornwell reported sixty conversions in one week, by May 9th the Bible Christian
had doubled its membership to nearly four hundred.
The number of conversions in all the churches was estimated by the Bible Christian
Church at 1,250 and by the Wesleyans 1,550.
Extracts from a paper from Associate Professor Stuart Piggin Macquarie University
NSW”