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The Voice of Compassion Issue 58
In this issue the story of Janet, the experience of Father James Lyons as a Compassion Soup Kitchen volunteer, Celebration Sunday, the activities during the Heritage Week, Hokianga Farewell and much more.
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Sister Bonaventure
Jean Marie Bannerman was born on 19 March, 1910, in a hotel in Mangonui in the far north where her parents, George and Christina, were hotel keepers. A few years after her birth her father went to War, was reported missing and never returned...
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Sister Ambrose Pender
Jessie Jane was the daughter of John and Ellen Pender. She was born in Greymouth just prior to the outbreak of World War I. Jessie spent her early childhood years in the small mining township of Runanga within the loving environment of her large family of five sisters and four brothers...