Notices_Third Sunday of Advent_11th December 2022

NOTICES:

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

 

 

TODAY: Par­ish Coun­cil meet­ing will be held after morn­ing tea.

 

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NEXT SUNDAY – 18^th December:

• Present­a­tion of gifts to Chil­dren under 12 years at 9.30am service.
• Car­ol Singing and gift giv­ing at Stan­more Nurs­ing Home:  After the 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.  Please note: Parish­ion­ers are advised that they must wear a mask and com­plete a pri­or-to-vis­it neg­at­ive cov­id test (RAT) to participate.
• 6pm Car­ol Service.

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Zoom Advent Study — 7.30pm on Monday nights:  All wel­come to join in. Please email Fr Jeff and he will send you the zoom link and information.

 

 

A funer­al Ser­vice to cel­eb­rate the life of Eliza­beth Arm­strong will be held at St Luke’s Enmore on Tues­day 13^th Decem­ber at 10.30am.

 

 

Christ­mas Flower Dona­tions: Please see Moya or Ruth.  Thank you.

 

 

Stan­more Nurs­ing Home Gifts:  Your dona­tion no mat­ter how small helps the par­ish to pay for a selec­tion of equal value gifts — usu­ally chocol­ates, or some­thing suit­able for those patients who are dia­bet­ic.  If you would like to donate please place your dona­tion (in a marked envel­ope) in the offer­tory plate, or donate online ref­er­ence “Stan­more Nurs­ing Home”.  Many thanks for your generosity.

 

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Christ­mas cards for sale: 2023 Stock — $13 per pack

Sup­port the Lep­rosy Mis­sion.  Avail­able from the Par­ish Resource Centre.  Please see Stephan Gates dur­ing Morn­ing tea.

 

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Sat­urday 17^th Decem­ber- Work­ing Bee for Christ­mas from 9.30am: Garden & Car­park, as well as all Kit­chen & Church.  If you can help please come!

 

 

CHRISTMAS DAY HOSPITALITY – Is any­one avail­able to volun­teer to do morn­ing tea on Christ­mas Day???  Please speak to Ruth Champion.

 

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The Radio Com­munity Chest’s Han­del Mes­si­ah 2022 – Sat 17^th & Sun 18^th Dec at 3pm:

Com­bined Churches Choir includ­ing mem­ber of our congregation.

At Sydney Town Hall —  For Tick­ets Call (02) 8256 2222 or visit

www.cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/events/handels-messiah

 

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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 teabags.  (NB — no dairy, cit­rus, onions or meat).  Worm cast­ings are avail­able.  See Fr Jeff.

 

 

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Pau­line Newell; Johnny Nitchareon & Eed Intapan; Kath­er­ine Old­field; Julie Olston & Phil­ippa; and Fr Jeff & Michelle Parker.

Monday: Andrew Pat­ter­son; and Ann Petersen & Rachel.

Tues­day: Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj.

Wed­nes­day: Joyce, Andrew, Rachel, Bianca, Belinda & Bryson Reddy.

Thursday: Eddie, Susan, Stephanie, Edwin, Leil­ani & Car­men Reddy.

Fri­day: We pray for Fr John Bunyan’s pas­tor­al care min­istry at Bank­stown Hos­pit­al and all those he min­is­ters to.

Sat­urday: Lov­ing God, we pray for the people of Ukraine, for all those suf­fer­ing or afraid, that you will be close to them and pro­tect them.  We pray for world lead­ers, for com­pas­sion, strength and wis­dom to guide their choices.  We pray for the world that in this moment of crisis, we may reach out in solid­ar­ity to our broth­ers and sis­ters in need.  May we walk in your ways so that peace and justice become a real­ity for the people of Ukraine and for all the world.  Amen.

 

 

Pray­ers for the sick: Pau­line Newell; (Fr) John Hawkins; Lyn Ban­ner­man; Bax­ter Min­gis-Per­kins; Craig; Val Thomas; Rose­mary Brad­ford; Maria & Trish; Kev­in Tib­bey; Simone Abra­hams; Ed Leuen­ber­ger; Salochna Devi; Ruth Dodd; Robyn Palmer; (Rev) Helen Phil­lips; Peter Cinelli; Tony Brown­low; Julie Ankers; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; and Geor­gia Keighery.

 

 

Recently Depar­ted: Iso­belle Gid­ley (Sis­ter of Cyn­thia Berke­mei­er and wife of Richard Gid­ley); and Mark Trav­is (Kay Younie’s Brother).

 

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Mary Crowth­er; James Gav­in; Allen Wells; Oswald Coombs; Florence Thomas; and Sarah Kettlewell.

 

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 13^th: Lucy, Mar­tyr and vir­gin (d.304); and 14^th:  John of the Cross, mys­tic and teach­er (d.1591).

 

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list:  Mary Middleton; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; John Dick­son; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Kuwert; Rev Laurie MacIntyre; Kiki Chun; Raul of Radio Skidrow and his fam­ily; Andrew Strat­golda; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; Noel Jeffs; and Singla Pallav.

 

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Advent

First Read­ing: Isai­ah 7.10–16                    Psalms: 80.1–7, 17–19

Second Read­ing: Romans 1.1–17            Gos­pel: Mat­thew 1.18–25

 

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Christ­mas 2022 Services 

Sat­urday 24^th Decem­ber — 11pm Christ­mas Eve Service.

Sunday 25^th Decem­ber – 9.30am Christ­mas Day Service.

 

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The Christ­mas Bowl Appeal — annu­al appeal of the Acts of Peace, the inter­na­tion­al aid agency of the Nation­al Coun­cil of Churches.

 

 

 

 

 

We encour­age parish­ion­ers to scan the code link and donate online (our par­ish is registered as ‘Enmore-Stan­more Anglic­an Par­ish’), or call 1800 025 101.

 

ABM Advent and Christ­mas Appeal

We encour­age parish­ion­ers to scan the code link to donate online.

 

Please note: There are a lim­ited num­ber of dona­tion envel­opes for both ABM and the Christ­mas Bowl Appeal avail­able in the church foy­er for those who do not use smart mobile phones with cameras.