Last year I asked the women of the diocese for a special Jubilee Offering of one thousand dollars. I now report one thousand and fifty dollars as the result of that appeal. It has been decided by the Bishop and the Diocesan Officers to give this sum to the Mission at Selma; and with the help of the earnest Church people there we are now building a Chapel. This is to be known as St. Gabriel’s Church, and will be a permanent memorial of our Jubilee. And as the angel Gabriel carried the glad tidings of the Saviour’s coming to the Virgin Mother – so will St. Gabriel’s Church fulfill its heavenly mission, and carry the glad tidings of the Saviour to all who worship within its walls.

(Source: Kate Cheshire, Report of the Secretary, 1908 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Report, 6)