The Anglican Parish of Parkside Emmanuel, Wayville and St Oswald's, Parkside

History

EMMANUEL -- Corner of Young and Clark Streets, Wayville Early History The Wayville Mission began on April 5th1914 and services began in the Wayville Institute led by Archdeacon W J Bussell, the Organising Chaplain of the Bishop's Home Mission Society.  After the end of the 1914-1918 War work began to plan and build a church on land [the present site] that had been bought in 1917.  The foundation stone was laid on April 28th 1923 by the Governor of South Australia, Sir Tom Bridges, and the church was dedicated at the first service in the completed building by the Bishop of Adelaide, the Right Reverend Arthur Nutter Thomas, on 6th August 1923.For many years, from 1922 to 1985, Wayville was part of the Parish of Unley, but then was invited to develop new styles of worship to serve a wider cross section of ages groups.  The Reverend Grant Bullen was appointed in 1988 and three separate styles of worship were establish -- early, Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion; a mid morning Family Eucharist with children taking a lively part; and an evening contemplative, reflective, Eucharistic liturgy.  Grant was followed by the Reverend Suzanne Pain and Wayville had an active and lively ministry until Sue left to serve in the Diocese of Sydney.When it proved impossible to find a priest to follow Sue, negotiations were begun to amalgamate with the nearby, and in some ways, not unlike, parish of St. Oswald's Parkside.	ST. OSWALD'S -- 5 St. Ann's Place, Parkside Early History St. Oswald's Parkside began on October 4th 1883 when a group of local people met with the Organising Chaplain of the Bishop's Home Mission Society, the Rev'd F.T. Whitington.  Worship began in the Eastwood schoolroom, a small rented wooden building in Moar Street. Land was then bought fronting both St. Ann's Place and Alfred Street and a Mission School Church was built and open for worship on 25th January 1885 and dedicated in the name of St. Oswald the following Sunday, 1st February, Septuagesima Sunday.  St. Oswald's Church Day School opened in 1888, with colours of purple and gold and continued in lively co-operation with the church until the school closed in 1939.Various B.H.M.S clergy, Lay Readers and visiting clergy led the worship until the first Priest-in-Charge was appointed in 1891.  The Rev'd John Hussey, Mission Priest from Easter Day 1893 and then Priest-in-Charge from August 1895 began the building of the present church building.  The foundation stone was laid on 14th June 1902, the building was opened and dedicated on January 24th 1903 and  with the debt on the building fully paid, it was consecrated by Bishop Harmer on September 1st 1904.  Sadly Mr Hussey had died from tuberculosis just a few weeks after the foundation stone had been laid, but his sister, Miss Charlotte Hussey was able to lay the foundation stone of the parsonage on January 31st 1906. The parsonage was named "Oswestry" after the place in England where St. Oswald had been killed in 742.  It was dedicated by Bishop A. N. Thomas on May 26th 1906.
Dedication Emmanuel means "God is with us" and comes from the prophecy of a saviour in Isaiah 7.14 which is applied to Jesus in St. Matthew's Gospel 1. 23.  The festival day of the Church of the Emmanuel is kept on Holy Name Day, 7th August each year.	Dedication St. Oswald was an early English king and saint [705 to 742] and his festival is kept on 5th August each year.  Read more about St. Oswald.
Amalgamation This arose out of negotiations between the two during most of 1999.  Sadly and unfortunately the then Rector of Parkside, the Reverend Andrew King, became seriously ill during that year and his grace, goodness and wisdom were much missed.  However the negotiating group, with members from both parishes was able to agree to the amalgamation, which came into effect on 1st January 2000