Notices_Sunday 18th August 2024 — Mary Mother of Our Lord

NOTICES:

 

Wel­come to any vis­it­ors with us today.  Please join us for morn­ing tea.

 

 

The flowers in the church today are donated by Maur­een Byers, Eddie, Susan, Edwin, Leil­ani, Stephanie & Car­men Reddy, Dav­id Byers, Josie Stathis, and Anthony & Pamela Papadi­mitri­ou in lov­ing memory of Henry Byers; Hus­band, Dad, Fath­er-In-Law, Nannu,& Buz Nan­nu.  May he rest in peace.

 

 

 

TODAY – Par­ish Coun­cil meets in the church after 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

 

 

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NEXT SUNDAY – 100th Anniversary of St Luke’s Rectory:

Please join us in the rect­ory for a BBQ after the 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea to cel­eb­rate the Rectory’s 100^th Birth­day.  All welcome!

Saus­ages, onions, bread rolls and some soft drinks provided.  BYO choice of soft or alco­hol­ic drinks.  (*Please note: St Luke’s pro­motes the respons­ible con­sump­tion of alcohol)

If any­one would like to bring a salad or fruit – that would be very wel­come.  Let’s celebrate!

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Cop­ies of Fr Jeff’s Sunday Ser­mons are made avail­able in the church foy­er each Sunday for those who would like to take a copy.

 

 

If you would like a home or hos­pit­al vis­it from Fr Jeff for any reas­on, please con­tact him on his Mob: 0409 719 927

 

 

7.30 pm — Tues­day Night Bible Study at Fr Philip’s home, 5 Lin­coln St Stan­more.  All wel­come.  A new study will start this week on the book of Gen­sis.  Please bring a bible.

 

 

Sat­urday 31^st August @ 6 for 6.30pm – Men’s Night Out (MNO):   The next MNO will be held at the Bangkok Bowl, 195 Enmore Road, Enmore.  Please see Kev­in Green for more details or Mob: 0405 691 055

 

 

2024 St James’ Inter­na­tion­al Organ Fest­iv­al:  *Sunday 1^st Septem­ber @ 5.30pm – Fea­tur­ing: Fr Daniel Dries (Rect­or, Christ Church St Lawrence); Dav­id Drury (Former Dir­ect­or of Music at St James’); Peter Jew­kes (Former Organ­ist of St James’); and Andrej Kouznet­sov (Assist­ant Dir­ect­or Music, St John’s Cathed­ral Bris­bane).  Held at St James’ Church, 173 King Street , Sydney.  Tick­et avail­able at cost – In Per­son or livestream.  Vis­it https://www.sjks.org.au

 

 

Wed­nes­day 4^th Sept at 3.30pm — Meet the Rt Rev Regin­ald Makele, Bish­op of the New Guinea Islands:

ABM invites you to come and meet the Bish­op of the New Guinea Islands, Regin­ald Makele.   Hear first-hand the good news stor­ies about how God is work­ing in his dio­cese.  Bish­op Reg will be inter­viewed at the inform­al gath­er­ing and there will be oppor­tun­ity for ques­tions to be asked.

Ven­ue: ABM Offices, Level 6, 51 Druitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000

Please RSVP for cater­ing pur­poses to info@abmission.org.au or call 9264 1021 by Fri­day 30 August.

 

 

Sat­urday 7^th Sept at 11am – ABM Feast of the Com­mem­or­a­tion of the New Guinea Mar­tyrs Ser­vice here at St Luke’s.

Euchar­ist cel­eb­rated by Fr Jeff Park­er (Rect­or), will be fol­lowed by a light lunch in the Hall.

Speak­ers:  We will wel­come the Bish­op of the New Guinea Islands, the Rt Revd Regin­ald Makele, & Robert McLean from ABM.

RSVP to Par­ish Office by 28^th Aug 2024.

 

 

 

Sat­urday 14 Septem­ber — Loc­al Coun­cil Elec­tions:    Our hall is to be a polling place.  We will be hav­ing a BBQ in the car­park and are look­ing for help­ers to come along between the hours of 9.00 am and 5 pm.  If you can help — Please put your name on the roster on the hall noticeboard.

 

 

 

Sunday 29^th Sept at 12pm — Myan­mar Lunch here at St Luke’s fol­low­ing church, and tea/coffee, and sim­il­ar to last year.  This is to help raise a fur­ther con­tri­bu­tion to the Myan­mar Clean Water Pro­ject.  It would be great to duplic­ate the sup­port our par­ish gave to this ABM ini­ti­at­ive last year.   RSVP to the Par­ish Office by 18^th Sept 2024.

 

 

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:

Sat­urday 26^th Octo­ber – Annu­al Sydney MOW Meet­ing at 2.30pm.

Sunday 27^th Octo­ber – St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al. (Our Guest Speak­er will be Bp Genieve Blackwell).

Thursday 28^th to Sat­urday 30^th Novem­ber – MOW Con­fer­ence in Brisbane.

Sat­urday 7^th Decem­ber – St Luke’s Christ­mas Mar­ket — 9am to 2 pm.

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2025 Aus­trali­an Anglic­an Church Cal­en­dar:   This 2025 edi­tion includes all the minor Feast days, fest­ivals, and Aus­trali­an com­mem­or­a­tions as lis­ted in the APBA and Pub­lic Hol­i­days.  A brief his­tory of each church is provided along with a bible quote provided by that church.   Avail­able now to pur­chase online from St Peter’s Book­room www.stpetersbookroom.com.au/australian-anglican-church-calendar   for $16.50 each (GST included) plus post­age costs.  Or see Jen­nifer for a prin­ted order form.

 

 

ST PAUL’S PANTRY needs food, health and clean­ing items:  A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for donations.

 

 

Lea MacNeil has jam, con­serves, pickles and vari­ous sauces to sell; please email her at lea.macneil@gmail.com to order them from her.   All pro­ceeds go to St Luke’s Parish.

 

 

Food for our worms – Leave your worm food gifts at church on Sundays or drop off dur­ing the week.  Please remem­ber to remove the strings from your teabags.  (N.B. — no dairy, cit­rus, onions or meat).

 

 

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Monday: John M.; Jo Middleton; Ron­ald Naidu; and Fran Neilson.

Tues­day: Anthea, Ron, Ron­an, Veron­ica & Rohan Nath; and Kath­er­ine Oldfield.

Wed­nes­day: Joh­hny Nitchareon & Eed Intapan; and Julie Olston & Philippa.

Thursday: Fr Jeff & Michelle Park­er; Andrew Pat­ter­son; Mea­ghan Patterson.

Fri­day: We pray for pas­tor­al care min­istry teams at all Hos­pit­als and all those who are min­istered to.

Sat­urday: Almighty God, we pray for those in areas of con­flict.  We pray for heal­ing and good med­ic­al care for those who have been injured.  For those who have lost homes and pos­ses­sions, please meet their daily needs for food, clean water and shel­ter and com­fort those who mourn the loss of loved ones.  And bless all who are help­ing those impacted.  Amen.

 

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: John Bowen (Priest); John Bunyan (Priest); Mar­garet Chiew; Ger­ald Grant; Bar­bara Ray­mond; Janet Walms­ley; Simone Crowth­er; Andy Ser­afin; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Bar­bara Allen; Marissa & Meg Maack, Jude, Isla, & Al Don­nell; Laurie McIntyre; Noel Jeffs; Laurie Bestel; Robert Gibbs; and Michael Aiken.

 

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday – 14^th Sunday After Pentecost

First Read­ing: 1 Kings 8.22–30, 41–43                 Psalm: 84

Second Read­ing: Eph­esians 6.10–20                   Gos­pel: John 6.56–69

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