Aims & The Collect 

• BPW clubs strive to... 

• Organise business and professional women to use their combined abilities and strengths for the attainment of the following objectives.

  • To attain high standards of service in business and the professions.

  • To stimulate and encourage in women the realisation and acceptance of their responsibilities to the community, locally, nationally and internationally

• Encourage women and girls to:

  • acquire occupational training and advanced education, and use their occupational capacities and intelligence for the advantage of others as well as themselves.

• Work for:

  • equal opportunities for women in the economic, political, social and cultural  life in Australia,

  • the elevation of the status of women and

  • the removal of discrimination.

• Promote world wide cooperation and understanding between business and professional women.

• Collect and present the views of business and professional women in public, to local government, to local authorities, to the State Division and to the Australian Federation of the Business & Professional Women Inc.

• Develop individual club strengths which benefit members of that geographical region. Sharing these unique attributes with other BPW clubs strengthens women throughout Australia and the world.

• BPW International Collect 
  • What is a collect? A collect is a short prayer. it was originally a title in a very early Christian liturgy used in Gaul (France) from the early sixth century AD. [It denoted the 'collecting' of the petitions of several members of the congregation into a single prayer. It is not connected with collecta, the assembly (collection) of the congregation for worship, as often supposed (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 1996)] Churches, using traditional services, have a different collect for each week and special day. The collect is used early in the service, and fits in with the reading set for that day. We can imagine that when the late Mary Stewart composed our collect, (originally called the Clubwoman's Collect), she may have had friends who suggested different topics and then she compiled a single prayer from that. It can still be seen as collecting the hopes of all our members, as we pray together. 

  The collect  

  Keep us from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed.

  Let us be done with fault finding and leave off self-seeking.

  May we put away all pretence and meet with each other face to face, without self-pity and without prejudice.

  May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous.

  Let us take time for all things; make us grow calm, serene, gentle.

  Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straightforward and unafraid.

  Grant that we may realise it is the little things that create differences, that in the big things of life we are at one.

  And may we strive to touch and to know the great common human heart of us all, and let us not forget to be kind.

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