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	August 2004				Pictured at the farewell L-R: the Rev. Warwick Letchford, retired Archdeacon Emeritus; Lesley Duff, Diocesan President Mothers' Union; Father Andrew Lang; the Rev. Colleen Grieve; the Rev.Wendy Knott, Parish of Franklin and Esperance, who was ordained at the same service as Father Andrew; Louise Lang; Maureen Bayles, AWF President; and Ronald Gibson, Rector’s Warden. Photo courtesy John Watson Country Courier
		Northern Midlands will miss the Lang family
			The Parish of the Northern Midlands has farewelled its Parish Priest, Andrew Lang, his wife Louise and family: Oswald, Esther and Rupert.Their last service was the annual Feast of St Peter Parish Service held at at Peter’s Church, Fingal on 27 June followed by a shared luncheon. Members from the five parish centres (Avoca, Campbell Town, Fingal, Mathinna and Ross) attended and a presentation was made by Parish Treasurer and Warden, Tony Freeman. The departure of the Lang family is a great loss to the parish. They have had a big input into the area in spite of Andrew’s being Rector of the Cressy Parish as well. Louise has been involved with the Mothers’ Union and Chaplaincy work at the Campbell Town School. The parish Associate Priest, Kent Small, has been appointed locum tenens on the basis of three days a week until a decision is made regarding future ministry in the area. We give thanks for Andrew and Louise’s friendship and ministry over the last three years and wish them every blessing in their new parish, Horsham in Victoria. John Watson in the Country Courier wrote: The Cressy Parish Hall was the scene of an emotional farewell as parishioners and friends of the Cressy Anglican Church farewelled (the Lang family)]. It was mentioned that the whole parish had become much more computer aware, as Father Andrew was a prolific publisher of newsletters, news sheets and pamphlets, which prompted the comment that Father Andrew introduced a computerised ministry. The influence of the Lang family spread much further than the confines of the church, as they shared an involvement with the local school, scouts, RSL and the community at large. A measure of the respect in which the family was held was that so many people from within the community attended the final service conducted by Father Andrew. The first service delivered by a new minister can fill a church with curiosity, but to fill the last service is a measure of the affection and appreciation shown by the parishioners, it was said at the farewell. Reprinted with permission from Country Courier July 2004, the Northern Midlands newspaper that Andrew helped set up.