FLETCHER, Charles Thomas, Rev (1878-1956)
Assembly memorial minute 1956
Born at Rokewood, Victoria, on 3rd April, 1878.
Education: Home Mission Coarse commenced in 1906; studied under the Rev. J. Caldwell, Mount Gambier, South Australia.
Home Mission Stations: Poowong, Victoria.
Koonwarra.
Hamilton.
Tylden.
Ordained and inducted into the charge of Yackandah on 17th June, 1918, and remained there until 1923.
Other parishes: St. Arnaud, from 1923 to 1935.
Blackburn, appointed in 1935, called in
1936.
East Brunswick, from 1945 to 1948.
North Launceston.
Boronia.
Died on Wednesday, 4th July, 1956.
Although Mr. Fletcher retired from a settled ministry 20 years previously, in 1935, he continued to serve the Church in struggling charges, growing causes, outer suburbs, and in new and developing ones. His earlier ministry was spent among the outposts of the Church, and in many outback settlements the name of Charles Fletcher will long be remembered. He was a young home missionary at Buchan in 1908 when the Fairy Caves were discovered, and he laboured also in the cattle country of Gelantipy and Wulgulmerang. He worked, too, amid bush fires and floods of the Snowy River hill country, where he made lasting friendships. He was a genial personality in camps, conferences and youth rallies. Parents of families visited him, in his last long illness, to thank him for his teaching and influence in their earlier Bible Class days.
Charles Fletcher was intensely evangelical in his pastoral and pulpit work. Ever conscious of a divine trust, he endeavoured to discharge it to the honour and glory of his Master.
To Mrs. Fletcher and her two daughters, Mrs. S. B. Halford and Mrs. T. Collins, and to his brother, the Rev. A. H. Fletcher of Geelong, the Assembly tender their sincere sympathy.
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