Notices — Sunday 26th July 2020

NOTICES:

Please avoid attend­ing church if you have any symp­toms which are lis­ted on the NSW Health website: 

Symp­toms of COVID-19 include:

• fever (37.5 ° or higher);
• cough and/or short­ness of breath (dif­fi­culty breathing);
• sore throat;
• loss of taste and/or loss of smell;

Oth­er repor­ted symp­toms of COVID-19 include fatigue, runny nose, muscle pain, joint pain, diarrhea, nausea/vomiting and loss of appet­ite.

 

Today: Sunday School/Children’s Min­istry resumes with social dis­tan­cing and hygiene meas­ures in place.  Please come and join Fabi­an in the hall.

 

Next Week:  Even­ing Pray­er at 5pm.

 

Remem­ber Mis­sion Giv­ing: The par­ish has benefited greatly from mem­bers switch­ing to elec­tron­ic giv­ing.   Thank you all again for this.  How­ever, with this change, our mis­sion giv­ing may have been neg­lected.  If this is so, you can leave your mis­sion giv­ing at the church in an envel­ope clearly marked to ABM or oth­er mis­sion agency.  The Web­site giv­ing but­ton also allows us to nom­in­ate a dona­tion to ABM as well.  In the cur­rent cir­cum­stances, our mis­sion agen­cies, like the churches, are in great­er need.  Please remem­ber to sup­port ABM and our oth­er missions.

 

Wed­nes­day Heal­ing Ser­vice — has resumed and is observing Cov­id-19 restric­tions re seat­ing and receiv­ing com­mu­nion.  A bib­lic­al dis­cus­sion takes place fol­low­ing morn­ing tea in the hall – all are invited.

 

Con­firm­a­tion – Booked in for Sunday 23^rd August: Bp Michael Stead will be here for con­firm­a­tion.  Please keep our four Con­firmees Alex, Lucy, Nich­olas & Nam in your prayers.

 

Any notices for the ser­vice book­let will need to be sub­mit­ted to the Par­ish Office email by Wed­nes­day even­ing at the latest.

 

Food for our little friends — Thanks for the food scraps which are now not going to land­fill and so redu­cing the pro­duc­tion of harm­ful green­house gasses, espe­cially meth­ane.  If you would like some worm cast­ings for your garden you can leave a buck­et or bag at the rect­ory with your details.  Our little fer­til­izer factor­ies have been doing a won­der­ful job and the fruit of their labours is now available.

 

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:  Sunday: Moya Holle; Anne Hywood & Peter Tre­gil­gas; Noel Jeffs; Diana Jef­fer­ies;  Monday: Eddy, Mint, Atom & Arty Kit­tir­at; and Fabi­an LoS­chiavo;  Tues­day: Joseph, Esth­er, Joyti & Joshlyn Kumar; and John Lo;  Wed­nes­day: Geoff Lind­say & Mandy Tib­bey; and Evelyn Maack;  Thursday: Lea McNeil & Don­ald Thomas; and Jen­nifer McGov­ern.;  Fri­day: John M.; Jo Middleton; Fran Mor­ris; and Ian Myl­chreest;  and Sat­urday: We pray for all health work­ers deal­ing with our cur­rent Cov­id-19 pan­dem­ic, par­tic­u­larly med­ic­al pro­fes­sion­als deal­ing with those affected by Cov­id-19.  We pray for every­one strug­gling psy­cho­lo­gic­ally or fin­an­cially at this time, that they may know they are not alone and are able to ask for and receive the help and sup­port that they need. 

 

Pray­ers for the sick: Kristen Har­ley; Steph­en Thur­ley; Kev­in Tib­bey; Glen; Kiki Chun; Br Noel Jeffs (SSF); Edna Cham­bers; Br Michael Sam­inath­am (SSF); Sam George; Mary Middleton; Louise Middleton; Bar­bara Reyne; Vic­tor­ia Keighery; Fr John Bunyan; John Hardy; Louise Trott; Christina Rees (CBE); John Bowen; Ver­ity Wright; She Kar Nair; Ron Nath; Ron­an Nath; Veron­ica Nath; Ram Chander; Rev’d Val Tib­bey; Maur­een Clunas; Wolf Winter; Linda Mac­qual­ter; Rose­mary Brad­ford; Esth­er Middleton; Suz­anne Camp­ton; and Peter Cinelli.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Rita Green; Queenie Balk­well; Harry Har­ris­on; Pearl McCal­lum; Mar­garet Munns; Sydney Row­lands; and Mais­ie Caddis.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 29^th July: Mary and Martha of Beth­any; 30^th July:  Wil­li­am Wil­ber­force, social reformer (d. 1883); 3 1^st July: Joseph of Arimathea;  and 1^st Aug: Holy men and women of the Old Testament.

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Andrew Reddy; Jen­nifer B.; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Beth Arm­strong; Ann Jeffs; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Ruth Cham­pi­on; Gary & Kar­en Stein­er-Hill; Ken­neth Bar­ongo; Pau­line Newell; Bar­bara Beec­roft; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; Ann Con­nolly; the Per­kins Fam­ily; Fr Peter Carls­son; Day­alan Sam­inath­an; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Vic­tor Any­ar­isi; Baby Anaisha, & her par­ents Anu & Digvi­jay; Robert & Lyn­dall; Kit & Ben; Hiro Itadani; and Mea­ghan Patterson.

 

Read­ings for Next Sunday — Ninth Sunday after Pente­cost: First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 32.22–31;  Psalm: 17.1–7, 16;  Second Read­ing: Romans 9.1–8; and  Gos­pel: Mat­thew 14.13–21

 

Read­ings for the com­ing week: Even­ing Prayer