Millions of families in Australia are affected by drug and alcohol use and abuse every year. Help us combat this problem.
TO PROMOTE A DRUG-FREE LIFESTYLE AND CHRISTIAN VALUES IN THE HOME AND COMMUNITY
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WCTU - Woman's Christian Temperance Union
WCTU is an organization of Christian women devoted to social reform and is an internationally active union with chapters around the world.
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WCTU was organized by women who were concerned about the destructive power of alcohol and the problems it was causing their families and society. They met in churches to pray and then marched to the saloons to ask the owners to close their establishments. Brave women!
These activities were referred to as the 'Women's Crusades' and their success was both the forerunner and the impetus for the founding of WCTU.
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WCTU members choose total abstinence from all alcohol as their lifestyle and have adopted Xenophon's definition of temperance:
..moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful
What's Happening
New South Wales
​Thanks to the excellent and faithful leadership of Helen Palmer, the Newcastle Circle group met on Monday, November 4. Twelve ladies heard Roberta Hodgson from WBFE (Warm Blankets for Everyone) who spoke about her traumatic childhood and first marriage. Alcohol was the ruining factor of her father and husband who both died from use and abuse of alcohol. At 35 years of age, Roberta found the Lord and her life was miraculously turned around. She cares for the beautiful ministry of providing blankets for poor people, much of this caused by alcohol. In 2022 WBFE provided over 2,200 blankets to some 35 charity organisations in 40 weeks. Volunteers knit, sew and patch together fabrics in a workshop or at home. You can read more about this ministry on their website www.wbfe.org
The next meeting will be at Sunnyside hall at Avondale Road, Cooranbong on Wednesday December 4 at 11 am. Talk and lunch. Doctor John Ashton, writer of ‘Uncorked - the Hidden
Hazards of Alcohol’ will be the speaker. He will talk about the danger of alcohol on the developing brains of our teenagers.
Reported By: Joy Butler - President New South Wales
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Victoria
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South Australia
The new Vaping advertisements
on the backs of five buses are
now current in Victoria. They are in Bendigo, Geelong, Shepparton, Latrobe Valley and Mildura. If you live in those towns, watch out for these attractive and eye-catching messages.
The WCTU Drug-Free Lifestyles 2025 AGM will be held at our office in Langhorne Street, Dandenong at 10.30 am on Tuesday 8th April.
We are planning to have a luncheon at St. Thomas’s Church, Burwood, on Monday 26th May. The topic will be Vaping and the speaker will be Shane Varcoe. We hope to invite some students and teachers. Please pray that they will come and learn and listen and be influenced to help their schools.
Reported By: Anne Bergen -
President Victoria
Our member, Sharon Bird in Alice Springs, has been doing a mighty work travelling to remote Roadhouses through the Northern Territory. Sharon has been leaving WCTU literature at these businesses and most have been very accommodating. Sharon had some good news about a Roadhouse at Aileron, which is the first Roadhouse approx 130kms north of Alice Springs. New owners have taken over the Roadhouse and will no longer be serving alcohol (grog), cigarettes and bad
stuff. We need to pray that Aileron Roadhouse will be an example to other Roadhouses to follow suit.
Reported By: Karen Edwards
(South Australia) and Sharon
Bird (Nothern Territory)
BECOME A FRIEND
Becoming a Friend of WCTU means helping us stand against drugs and the dire consequences they are causing to Australian individuals, families and communities.
For as little as $20 per annum for a full membership you can become a Friend of WCTU and contribute to spread our valuable mission of building awareness and stopping the use of drugs which is destroying the lives of many.
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DRUG FREE YOUTH
THE TEEN BRAIN IS UNIQUELY
VULNERABLE TO SUBSTANCE USE
The adolescent brain is actively and rapidly developing until about age 25, making it particularly vulnerable to the effects of substance use. The earlier substance use begins, and the heavier the use, the more likely a person will develop addiction, also known as substance use disorder.
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DRUG FREE SCHOOL
OUR CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE
WCTU is active in facilitating
Drug Education Programs to school throughout Australia. We believe the prevention is better than cure. Our mission is to educate young people about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. This will equip individuals to make healthy decision for their lives as they become responsible adults.