Current Office Bearers
Who we are
Let us introduce ourselves.
Rev Margaret Moore
President and first Nominating Authority
Many years ago I crossed paths with Reverend Mandy Stone of the Aquarian Spiritualist Centre, Boronia. I was searching for direction for my spiritual growth. Having come out of a 10 year marriage two years previously, I set up a career to sustain a lifestyle for myself and my two sons, Ashley and Nathan. I was now ready to resume my personal spiritual growth. So off I went for a psychic reading from Mandy.
Feeling an instant soul connection of rightness, I attended Mandy’s church and development circle to reopen my psychic faith and intuitive directive. Needless to say, with Mandy recognising my natural abilities, she had me up on platform and involved in her church activities in next to no time.
Through Mandy’s connection, I became one of the National Council of Spiritualists’ (later to become the International Council of Spiritualists Inc) first certified Healer/Medium members. A Pocket Full of Rainbows was born from those beginnings. Psychic readings had been a source of supplementing my income for quite a few years to survive, but it wasn’t until my commitment to a spiritualist religious body did I teach others to develop their core strength of spirit. Through the grace of the ICS Inc I became a minister of religion and marriage celebrant.
Through the alignment with a spiritualist religious body I began my healing journey of trust that had been shattered through main stream churches I had sought out to connect to the God Source and my personal life choices.
Today, many years later, my spiritual centre offers people through my higher guidance, a healing path of their past emotional choices to survive, through meditation and development classes, individual spiritual counselling, spiritual readings and spiritual healings.
In August 2011, I left the Lysterfield address and moved A Pocket Full of Rainbows to my home address in Hampton Park where spiritual counselling, readings and healings are now conducted. A meditation/development class is held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and this move has assured my continued contribution to sharing the light of spiritualism.
I have served on the executive committee of the ICS Inc, and for many years held the position of treasurer which I surrendered to accept the position of Vice President. Even as we have stumbled along the way, both the ICS Inc and I have refined ourselves to best serve the Masters of the Light in the advancement of pure spiritualism.
I look forward to many more years of service, and will endeavour to support the ICS Inc in maintaining its growth and love integrity.
Rev Margot McNamara
Secretary
Rev Margot McNamara has spent many years travelling her spiritual path. As a child and later as a young woman she attended Sunday school and conventional church but found that this stream was unable to fulfil her needs and answer questions, so it was later in life that she came to spiritualism but has since made this her way of life.
Margot is the leader of Spiritual Research Society, which is the oldest spiritual group in Victoria.
Margot has studied spiritualism under the guidance of Rev Carmel Hughes and later Rev David Saul. She now has her own spiritualist healing circle and holds meditation classes. She helps many of her students and clients with spiritual counselling and is an accredited Chiron Healing® practitioner and teacher.
Margot was the Public Officer for the ICS Inc for many years and in this role and after many changes by the Justice Department in 2012 realigned the ICS Inc rules with statutory regulations.
Margot is now secretary (formerly Public Officer) and Vice President of the ICS Inc.
In 2016 and following the resignation of Rev David Saul she was appointed to the position of Head of Education for the ICS Inc.
Margot has supported the ICS Inc for many years and hopes to give the association and spiritualism many more productive years.
Rev Val Hood
Chief Minister
Based in Sydney Australia, Val has worked as a professional medium for over 30 years. Her compassionate and loving approach has helped many people overcome any fears they may have surrounding mediumship, as well as coping with the loss of a loved one.
Originally from the UK, Val trained mainly at the Arthur Findlay College, and has since worked in the UK, Ireland, USA, Israel, Greece, Turkey, New Zealand and Australia.
Val has a passion for teaching and as a qualified teacher/assessor, she continues to work internationally with accurate results both in person and online.
Val has also been a Spiritualist Minister for over 10 years.
Rev Brett Thomas
Administration Officer
Like many who find themselves drawn to spiritualism, I felt the closeness of departed loved ones coming very close. In 1998, while searching for understanding, it was recommended by a medium and close friend that I attend the local spiritualist church. I took myself off to the Wollongong Spiritualist Church and it felt like a homecoming. I quickly found myself attending their development circles and Sunday services, plus soon thereafter being welcomed onto the committee.
In the development circles my connection with Spirit flourished, and with the support of the congregation it wasn’t too long before I was running their Sunday services. I also started taking bookings for other churches in the surrounding areas before training with the Rev Sue Edmonds (the minister at Wollongong Spiritualist Church) with myself being ordained a minister in 2013.
After moving to the Inner West in Sydney and finding that there were no spiritualist gatherings to attend, and with the encouragement of some likeminded friends, we established the Inner West Spiritualist Centre in August 2014, where we hold regular services to this day. The Rev Sue Edmonds and I, with the support of our church members, brought our respective organisations under the umbrella of the International Council of Spiritualists in 2018.
Outside of spiritualism my other major interest is tennis, both playing and as an administrator. I have been an active committee member of the local tennis association since 1983, and President since 1993.
With my previous committee and volunteering experience, I very much look forward to continuing my work for Spirit as the ICS Administration Officer.
Past office bearers
The following list details all those who have held office in the International Council of Spiritualists since incorporation.