CHURCHES
ST. MALACHY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
Parish Administrator: Fr. Andrew Fewings, Phone 57953048
Parish Pastoral Care Worker: Julie Price, Phone 57941691
The Church is situated in High Street, up the north end.
Masses: Sundays at 8.30am, Wednesday at 9.00am
For Easter/Christmas/ Special Feast Days/ check local papers or contact Fr. Andrew.
SACRAMENTS:
Weddings and Baptisms by appointment (Fr. Andrew Frewings 57953048)
Short instruction courses are recommended prior to these sacraments
Reconciliation, Eucharist and Confirmation are Parish-based programs, which are run in conjunction with the school. This year the sacramental program will culminate in a ceremony on October 28th, where Bishop Joseph Grech will be in attendance. (Children who attend State Schools are also welcome to be part of this.)
FUNERALS:
Contact Fr. Andrew Frewings 57953048 or Julie Price 57941691 for Requiem Mass, Prayer Service, Graveside Service.
Music, flowers and refreshments can also be organized for funerals.
ST.MALACHY’S PASTORAL CARE VISITING TEAM:
St. Malachy’s have a group of dedicated and willing parishioners who regularly visit the sick, lonely and bereaved. They take Communion to the hospital, aged hostel, and house bound on a weekly basis.
ST. MALACHY’S LADIES GUILD:
This group gather bi-monthly, to encourage fellowship and faith sharing through guest speakers and outings for meals. They also have occasional fundraiser for the needy and provide refreshments for funerals. As well as this they take responsibility for the upkeep of linen and brass supplies at the Church. Subscription fees are very minimal and new members are always welcome. For further information phone Alice Cahill, 57941901.
ROSARY GROUP:
Rosary Group meets Monday mornings in the Church at 9am, and Sunday mornings at 8am (just before 8.30 Mass). During October, Our Lady’s month, the Rosary is said on a more regular basis. Times are displayed on the church doors during this time and also on the bulletin.
WELFARE:
Welfare can be accessed by phoning the Seymour Branch of St.Vincent de Paul 57924094
ST. JOHN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Parish of Central Goulburn - Nagambie, Seymour, Avenel.
Contact Father Cliff Pinniceard 57921101
SERVICES:
St. John’s Nagambie at 11am every Sunday.
St. Paul’s Avenel at 8am first Sunday of month
Seymour 9am
Baptisms, weddings, funerals, confirmation, Bible studies, and parish visits.
Mothers Union:
Contact: Di Grant 57941720
Annual fete;
September 15, 2007. Coordinator Di Grant. HELPERS NEEDED!
September 25:
Mothers Union Kids Club Holiday Program: Parachute games, craft, cooking, lunch, games. Avenel Neighbourhood House. 10-2 Di Grant
September 27:
Mothers Union meeting at Christ Church Seymour, 1.30pm
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Session Clerk: Bonnie Purbrick , Elder: Bill Day
Contact: Pastor Rob Myers 57991295
SERVICES:
Nagambie, Sunday 4pm
Communion quarterly (check local paper)
Monthly luncheon in Seymour
Weddings, Baptisms by appointment
UNITING CHURCH
Contact: Rev. Ralph Mayhew 57992132 Avenel-Nagambie-Seymour
(www.seymouruc.org.au)
Ladies are invited to join the UCF group 1st Wed. month (Jan Bassett 57921919)
Services: Avenel 9am and Seymour 11am.
Gravit8 Youth Group Fri nights 7pm - 9.30 www.seymouruc.org.au/gravit8
ECUMENICAL:
P.O.U.R (Prayer Options Unified for Rain) is the Nagambie Churches’ response to the drought. Every fortnight, a different church holds a prayer service at midday, followed by a light lunch and great fellowship. Every 3 months a service is held in the evening to cater for people in the workforce. The drought is still a serious problem and the prayers will continue. For more info. call Julie Price 57941691.
Nagambie is a small, growing town of around 1900 people, situated at the southern end of the Goulburn Valley, 123 km north of Melbourne on the Goulburn Valley Highway, between Seymour and Shepparton, and 130 metres above sea-level. The townscape is dominated by picturesque Lake Nagambie which lies beside the main street. The area is given over to vineyards, cereal, sheep, cattle, horse studs and tourism.
It has been claimed that one of the Natrakboolok, Ngooraialum or Thagungwurung Aboriginal tribes occupied the land around what became Nagambie. The first white men in the district belonged to the party of explorer Thomas Mitchell which crossed the Goulburn River just to the south-west at what became Mitchellstown. Overlanders followed in his footsteps and therefore used the same river crossing, as did the postman on the mail route from Melbourne to Sydney, established in 1838. It was at this crossing that John Clark built the first licensed inn outside of Melbourne in the territory that would later become Victoria. That same year Mitchellstown became the first inland town site in Victoria to be surveyed (though it never developed) and it was here that the survivors of the massacre at Benalla arrived, also in 1838.
An Aboriginal Protectorate was briefly established at Mitchellstown in 1839 but was moved the following year to what is now Murchison. The land on which the town would develop was taken up as a squatting run in 1845 by Hugh Glass and John Purcell. Chateau Tahbilk was established in 1860 on a part of this run with the help of French vigneron Ludovic Marie who was also instrumental to the genesis of Murchison.
A hotel, church and blacksmith were set up to cater for the through-traffic of teamsters journeying along the river system to Adelaide.
Hugh Glass had the township surveyed in 1868 by Marie. Land sales proceeded in 1870 and it was proclaimed as the private town of 'Nagambie' in 1872, said to be derived from a local Aboriginal word meaning 'lagoon'.
When floods killed off the mine at Graytown in 1870 many businesses relocated to Nagambie. However, the arrival of the railway in 1880 had a detrimental effect when Nagambie lost the coach and teamster
