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Our History
Revd Horace Hall and his wife Amy, taken about 1980
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Our Twelve Clergy
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1. Revd Norman Fettell The cycling Padre making his calls on the Blockies |
Revd Norman Smith Fettell, the first Vicar of this parish, died in his 83rd year on Friday, 6th September 1967. He arrived in Red Cliffs on May 9th, 1922, and so the Parish of Red Cliffs came into being, a mere six months after the first soldier settlers arrived. The first church, now part of the Parish Hall, was erected on 15 July 1922. Fr Fettell, like many of the settlers, lived in a tent until a house was built the following year, and he conducted services in the most unlikely places (such as a billiard saloon and a dry dam). The Padre travelled among his people usually on foot or by bicycle as he negotiated the sandy tracks and unmade, often boggy roads (the irrigation channels were newly dug, and not lined). In 1973 the Vestry decided to put up a plaque naming the Fettell Room, and received a letter of thanks from his widow Elsbeth Fettell who was living at Pt Lonsdale. The Revd Leslie Cula, assistant Priest of Red Cliffs, took services at St John's Merbein during the interregnum, 5 July to 23 August, 1925. He also admitted seven full members and one associate to the Merbein CEMS on Sunday 29 Nov 1925, when there were 66 present at the service. The Revd Fettell left for Ballarat on 4 Oct 1925 and his assistant Revd Cula left soon after. Revd Cula became a Padre in World War II and died on active service in New Guinea. |
| 2. The Reverend Tone-Holmes | Revd Tone-Holmes ministered at St Mark's in 1925-7. |
| 3. 1927 - 1929 The Reverend John Stafford Farrer | The Reverend John Stafford Farrer ministered during 1927-30 - a time of serious financial depression and hardship. Revd Farrer later served in the parishes of Maryborough and Swan Hill within this diocese. He died on 23rd March 1971, and a Requiem Eucharist was held at St Mark's at 10 am on Weds 5 May 1971 |
| 4. Revd Walter Walter | Revd Walters ministered at St Marks from 1930 to 1933. He took services at St John's Merbein during 1931. |
| 5. 1933 - 1941 Revd Ronald Thompson Millar | Revd R T Millar had the Parish Hall built and dedicated by Bishop James on 19 April 1938. After hearing that the Vestry put up a commemorative plaque, Mrs M Grace Millar wrote on 6 Oct 1973 from Burwood. "Thank you for sending me regularly a copy of your Parish Paper. I was of course interested in the note about the "Millar Room" and appreciate the gesture of the Vestry. You may perhaps have heard of the recent death on August 6th of my son Frank, aged 42 who died of cancer of the mouth. He had been on the staff of the Timboon Consolidated School for 10 years. A few days after his death the school collected $600 for the Anti Cancer Fund. "My best wishes to all at the Vicarage and to any old friends who still remember the Millars. |
| 6. 1941 - 1945 Revd Albert Louis Donald Rivett | Revd Rivett was Vicar of St Mark's before going to St Arnaud. He took a Holy Communion service in Nov 1940 at St John's, Merbein |
7. 1945 - 1951 Revd Horace Alphonso Hall
 Name and signature written on a Certificate of Marriage dated 8th October 1966. | Revd Horace Hall arrived in February 1945 and led us from the fears of a world war to the prosperity of 1950s. He took religious education classes in our schools, and his students still remember those lessons. Horace came to Australia in 1926 under the Big Brother movement, and after working at Rochester and Milloo he offered to the then Bishop of Bendigo, the Rt Revd Donald Baker. This led to Horace becoming a stipendiary Lay Reader for seven years, and he preached his first sermon at Hepburn in 1929. He became a distance student at Ridley College, attending lectures for a session then continuing by correspondence, till his ThL was completed. Horace was deaconed in the Diocese of St Arnaud in 1936, and ordained priest there in 1939. His service with St Arnaud Diocese includes our six years at Red Cliffs, then from 1953 - 56 he was a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, St Arnaud. He served in three dioceses, Bendigo, St Arnaud and Melbourne before retiring in 1975, and becoming part of the Service Relief Team until quite recently. On Weds 24 Feb 1999, Bishop David of Bendigo visited the parish of Eaglehawk, to take part in their celebration with Horace of his ordination to the Priesthood on St Matthias' Day, 1939, and 60 years of preaching the gospel. Sadly, Horace's wife Amy died in 1996. |
 8. 1951 - 1966 Canon Garth Younghusband Cracknall | Canon Garth Younghusband Cracknall was the special Preacher for the 9 am Jubilee Eucharist on Sunday 7th May 1972. He is fondly remembered for going around and collecting the young people and training them for confirmation, and also for leading the work parties in building our church. He would not allow a soloist to sing during marriage services, so Yvonne Janson was instead married at St Margaret's Mildura. (How the service has changed in two generations).
This photograph was taken on the 18 Oct 1998, when Canon Cracknall was the Special Preacher at St Luke's Irymple, for St Luke's Patronal Service. |
| 9. 1965 - 1969 Revd Reginald James Gorrie | Revd Reg Gorrie proposed on behalf of the Rural Deanery of Mildura, that the Bishop give permission to specified laymen to administer the chalice at Holy Communion at the discretion of the Clerk-in-Charge, and so began our Lay service within the Eucharist. The Parish Newsletters began with one issued by Revd Reginald Gorrie in August 1967. |
 10. 1969 - 1974 Revd Clive Ernest K Beatty. | The typewriter was joined by the Gestetnar and its waxed master pages so that producing a monthly newsletter and a weekly pew note became practical. Many remember turning the handle to produce each page. Mrs Fettell, widow of our Founder-Priest, the Reverend and later Canon N S Fettell, also Canon Cracknall and his son Jim, attended the Golden Jubilee services on 9th May 1972. All enjoyed the contributions by our Youth Fellowship who presented a cheque for $80 to pay for new Communion rails, and at the evening service, music by the Vibrants, trained by Lloyd Gale and Marion Tyrrell. |
 11. 1974 - 1984 Revd David Baldwin Claydon | Revd David Claydon lost his holiday home at Airey's Inlet in the Ash Wednesday 1983 bushfires (The summer was very dry, and prayers were made for rain - we did not foresee that the rain would be preceded by very severe fires). David is remembered for the many teenage musicians he encouraged, the choir that led our singing, and the band he formed to assist Les Zimmer with the music. He also nurtured and supported St Mark's missionary - Mary (now Mrs Hollingworth), who gave three years serving in Saipan for Youth With A Mission. |
 12. 1985 - 1997 Revd Ronald Henry Wood | The Lord brought Ron and Jan from a successful, thriving ministry at All Saints Old Cathedral, Bendigo to Red Cliffs where they spent 12 years in ministry. During his time at Red Cliffs, Ron was also involved in Industrial Chaplaincy with ITIM for 8 years. He was also an Army Chaplain for 12 years. He then became Priest Associate in Northern Mallee Parish, and Rural Dean of this North West Area of the Diocese of Bendigo and a Canon of St Paul's Carthedral, Bendigo in April 1998. He retired in October, 2000. |
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 The Lion of St. Mark : The Winged Lion is the traditional symbol of St. Mark the Evangelist. St Mark is remembered on 25 April. |
The book of Acts mentions a Mark, or John Mark, a kinsman of Barnabas. The house of his mother Mary was a meeting place for Christians in Jerusalem. When Paul and Barnabas, who had been in Antioch, came to Jerusalem,
they brought Mark back to Antioch with them, and he accompanied them on their first missionary journey, but left them prematurely and returned to Jerusalem. When Paul and Barnabas were about to set out on a second missionary journey, Barnabas proposed to take Mark, but Paul thought him unreliable, so that eventually Barnabas made one journey taking Mark, and Paul another journey taking Silas. Mark is not mentioned again in Acts. However, it appears that he became more reliable, for Paul mentions him as a trusted assistant in Colossians 4:10 and again in 2 Timothy 4:11. The Apostle Peter had a co-worker whom he refers to as "my son Mark" (1 Peter 5:13). Papias, an early second century writer, in describing the origins of the Gospels, tells us that Mark was the "interpreter" of Peter, and that he wrote down ("but not in order") the stories that he had heard Peter tell in his preaching about the life and teachings of Jesus. The Gospel of Mark, in describing the arrest of Jesus (14:51f), speaks of a young man who followed the arresting party, wearing only a linen cloth wrapped around his body, whom the arresting party tried to seize, but who left the cloth in their hands and fled naked. It is speculated that this young man was the writer himself, since the detail is hardly worth mentioning if he were not. Tradition has it that after the death of Peter, Mark left Rome and went to preach in Alexandria, Egypt, where he was eventually martyred. It is natural to identify the John Mark of Acts with the Gospel-writer and interpreter of Peter, and this identification is standard in liturgical references to Mark. However, "Mark" is the commonest of Latin first names, and they may well have been separate persons. |
| PRAYER (contemporary language) | Almighty God, who by the hand of Mark the evangelist have given To your Church the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God: We thank you for this witness, and pray that we may be firmly grounded in its truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. |
| The coat of Arms of the Anglican Church of Australia: The four stars represent the four original dioceses of the Australian Anglican Church. |
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