Notices_Sunday After Ascension_12th May 2024

 

The flowers in the church today are donated by Mat­ilda Rink­er in lov­ing memory of her hus­band, Peter Rinker.

 

 

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The war­dens and par­ish coun­cil are seek­ing a Vol­un­tary Hall Hire Admin­is­trat­or.  This needs to be someone fairly loc­al with a vehicle.  This vol­un­tary pos­i­tion includes per­son­ally show­ing poten­tial hall hirers the facil­it­ies, sup­ply­ing a con­tract with the rel­ev­ant details (tem­plate avail­able), pla­cing the book­ing into the church/hall events cal­en­dar, check­ing with the treas­urer that the book­ing fee and key depos­it have been paid (pri­or to the event), pro­vi­sion of a hall key or the key safe code pri­or to the event and per­son­ally check­ing the hall etc after each event to allow the depos­it to be returned (only if the premises left clean and tidy) and mak­ing sure the key has been returned.  It would also require the fol­low­ing up of reg­u­lar hall hirers to ensure pay­ment is made and premises is left clean after each event.

Stu­art Grigg and Stu­art Veitch, our pre­vi­ous hall hire admin­is­trat­ors have been doing it for many years and we thank them sin­cerely for their com­mit­ment and con­tri­bu­tion to the par­ish.  Our hall hirers’ dona­tions bring in quite a bit of rev­en­ue for the par­ish and we are grateful!

If you would like fur­ther inform­a­tion or to volun­teer for this pos­i­tion, please speak to one of the war­dens or to Stu­art Veitch.

 

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7.30 pm — Tues­day Night Bible Study at Fr Philip’s home, 5 Lin­coln St Stan­more. All wel­come.  The study for this term will be The Acts of the Apostles.  Please bring a bible.

 

 

Next Sunday 19^th May is Pente­cost Sunday.  Please remem­ber to wear some­thing red to church – if you have it.

 

 

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Wed­nes­day 22^nd May – The Sixth Shar­wood Lecture:

The Sixth Robin Shar­wood Lec­ture will can­vass where there have been appar­ent col­li­sions between anti-dis­crim­in­a­tion law and church law and prac­tice (for example, on women and LGBTQI issues), wheth­er there needs to be a col­li­sion, what the lim­its of anti-dis­crim­in­a­tion law are as it inter­acts with church law and affects churches and where our val­ues may sug­gest that we sup­port anti­discrim­in­a­tion law.  The guest speak­er will be Mandy Tibbey.

Time: 7.15pm (pre­ceded by Even­song at 6.15pm)

Ven­ue: St James’ Church, King Street, Sydney NSW 2000

RSVP: By 5pm, Wed­nes­day 10 May 2024

Enquir­ies: St James’ Insti­tute |institute@sjks.org.au | 02 8227 1300

 

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Sunday 26^th May - Christ­mas Mar­ket Com­mit­tee meet­ing:   After morn­ing tea, the com­mit­tee will meet to over­see the plan­ning and oper­a­tion of the Mar­ket this year.  If this is some­thing you would like to be involved with, please see the War­dens or Andy Serafin.

 

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Sunday 14^th July at 6.30pm — Oxford Move­ment Evensong:

The Par­ish of Christ Church St Laurence (812 George St, Hay­mar­ket) extends an invit­a­tion to Fest­iv­al Even­song, Pro­ces­sion and Bene­dic­tion. This ser­vice will com­mem­or­ate Oxford Move­ment Sunday, giv­ing thanks for the litur­gic­al tra­di­tion with­in Anglic­an­ism. The ser­vice will be fol­lowed by light refresh­ments. No RSVP required. All welcome.

 

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East­er Appeal 2024

Envel­opes are avail­able in the church foy­er to place on the col­lect plate Or Scan the QR code to make a dona­tion online.

You can also donate online at www.abmission.org/Lent2024

 

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

 

 

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).

 

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Kath­er­ine Old­field; Julie Olston & Phil­ippa; Fr Jeff & Michelle Park­er; and Ann Petersen & Rachel.

Monday: Andrew Pat­ter­son; Mea­ghan Pat­ter­son; Rick Prat­ley & Simon.

Tues­day: Jo, Ramendra, Thomas & Lucy Raj; and John Reimer.

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

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

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.

 

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Pray­ers for the sick: Joyce Grant; Don­ald Thomas; Michelle Park­er; James Ray­mond; Louisa Sil­ver­man; John Bowen (Priest); Alex Regos; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Ruth Dodd; Helen Woell­ner; Douglas Sey­mour; Dav­id Brad­ford; Evelyn de Zoysa; Douglas John­ston; Susie Brooks; Sarah & Mari­on; Laurie Bestel; Robert Gibbs; Peter von Wran­gell; Mal­colm Hughes; Delia Bone; Judith Beveridge; Michael Aiken; and (Dr) Tre­vor Smith.

 

 

Recently Depar­ted: Jason God­dard; and Dav­id Sully.

 

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Peter Rink­er; George Nix­on; Ben Doyle; Edelmira Lorca; Ron Cross; Myra Hack; and Ada Mitchell.

 

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 14^th: Mat­thi­as, Apostle & Martyr.

 

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: John Bunyan (Priest); Mar­garet Chiew; Ger­ald Grant; Bar­bara Ray­mond; Janet Walms­ley; Simone Crowth­er; Ruth Cham­pi­on; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; Andy Ser­afin; Florence Shel­lard; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Bar­bara Allen; Marissa & Meg Maack, Jude, Isla, & Al Don­nell; Ann Jeffs; Noel Jeffs.

 

 

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Read­ings for Next Sunday – Day of Pentecost

First Read­ing: Acts 2.1–21                      Psalm: 104.26–36

Second Read­ing: Romans 8.22               Gos­pel: John 15.26–27; 16.4b-15

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