184. Melissa Conway - 15 September 2024

Australian Women Preach

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Mark 8:27-35 - Sacred Spaces – Where Human and Divine Meet

The Reverend Melissa Conway (BTh, Grad Cert Public Sector Leadership, Cert Financial Markets (Financial Planning), JP (Qual)) is the Associate Priest in the Anglican Parish of Toowoomba – St James’ in the Diocese of Southern Queensland, with primary responsibility for the Church of St Anne in Highfields.

Prior to entering ministry, Melissa served in the Australian Public Service for over 36 years, with extensive experience in leadership and managing projects, programs and change. Melissa brings experience, expertise, attention to detail, discernment and ompassion to the work she undertakes. Melissa takes a keen interest in community building and partnerships, discipleship, pastoral care, social justice, earth care, liturgy, liturgical music, and small group leadership. As a guiding principle, Melissa is motivated to share the love of God and the reality of God’s kingdom, here and now, with the people she meets.

Melissa currently serves on the Anglican Diocese’s Angligreen Committee, the National Board of the Movement for the Ordination of Women (chairing its Strategic Planning and Communication Committee), and the Management Committee for Religious Instruction at Highfields State School. She chairs the Local Chaplaincy Committee for the Highfields State School and State College and represents the Anglican Church on the Toowoomba Inter-Faith Working Group. Melissa was recently nominated as a representative of the Anglican Church on the Queensland Faith Communities Council.

Melissa is the child of a post-war refugee to Australia. She was born in Sydney and grew up in Toowoomba. Her adult children and young grand-children all live in Brisbane.