Newsletter

SUNDAY 9th May 2010
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Our Preacher today is Stephen Daughtry
Our Celebrant is Rev’d Dr. Warren Huffa
WELCOME
Please join us for breakfast in the hall after the 8am service or for morning tea after the 10am service. At 10am you will find all prayers and hymns projected onto the sanctuary walls.

THE PRAYER FOR TODAY
Loving God, Your Son has chosen us and called us to be His friends: give us grace to keep His commandments, to love one another, and to bear fruit which shall abide: through Him Who is the True Vine, the source of all our life, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

TODAY’S READINGS Acts 16: 9-15 & Rev’n 21: 10-14 and 21:22 – 22:5 read by Arndrae L
GOSPEL John 14: 21 – 29
PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Sue D-T
We pray for those in need Warren and Thea, Janet and Peter, Ron Teague, Barbara Corbett, Michael Boere,

We give thanks for the life of Catherine Cordes (2006) Christine McAuliffe (1983) Philip Lockwood (1997) and Lorna Mengler (1995)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sid Sweet and Olive Marston
HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY – Margaret and Allan Pressley and Jocelyn and Craig Deane

PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY –
Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 16: 16-34 & Rev’n 22: 12 - 21
GOSPEL John 12: 20 - 26
Refer Fr Ron’s Notes at try looking up diowillochra.org.au/Archives Sermons /Ron /Sermons Canon Keynes/May 2010
POWERPOINT ROSTER –
Today Trevor Tregenza or Ron Keynes
Next Week Araki Family or Don Caddy

REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS
PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North
BIBLE STUDY 10am every Wednesday at 378 Main Road Coromandel Valley looking at the book of Job
The Germein Room is booked for counselling , Mondays noon – 7.30pm and Wednesdays 9am – 7.30pm: 19 – 27 July St John’s Grammar have booked the Hall each day for Yr 12 exams from 19 to 23 July and 26th.
OTHER COMING EVENTS
QT 3 - Sunday 16th May at Holy Innocents 7.30pm Is God deaf?
13th June Patronal Festival
HELPLINE
Part of being a Christian community is the support offered to each other in times of need. We offer short-term delivery of food where needed, local transport, phone calls, visits and other types of assistance. Call Iris Downes 8278 3260 or Marlene Dixon 8278 8568

The Sunday School group will be grateful for (refundable) bottles, cans and packs being made available: the proceeds will be put to good use for Children’s Ministry. See Robyn Keynes for more info.
BUSH CHURCH AID BOX OPENING
Margaret Pressley advises that May is Box-opening month, and asks all box holders to bring their boxes so that the collections can be sent on.

Family Packs
On a table in the narthex, are Family Packs, for parents and grandparents to help with teaching young ones the Faith All this for only $5.00. Robyn Keynes has more information

School Chaplaincies:
Coffee and Cake . The MH Inter Church Council continues to need additional funds to support its projects. The idea of Coffee and Cake is a plan for people to give a small amounts each week based on what they would spend on a weekly basis on coffee and cake so the money can go to support School Chaplains .You can place an envelope with your donation in the offertory plate addressed Coffee and Cake for the work of School Chaplains
Beacon. Beacon an MHICC endorsed project sets out to help the needy in the area. To this end it urgently needs donations of long life food. Donations can be taken to the Blackwood Church of Christ Office during office hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.　 　Ross Hill-Brown

ABM LENTEN APPEAL
"This week a cheque for the sum of $2,618.40 was forwarded to the Anglican Board of Mission - Australia of which $2,174.25 was the parishioners' response to the Lenten Appeal, and $444.15 from other parish fund raisers.
The Lenten Appeal funds will be directed to the support of a Community Library in Ethiopia, one of the projects promoted by ABM-A. This library is operated by St Matthew's Anglican Church in Addis Ababa. In a country where opportunities for education are limited, children who have access to a library are able to pursue their interest in learning beyond the classroom. As a result they will be better prepared to seek employment or further education when they leave school. It is good to know that we are able to help children in Africa in this way. Thanks to all who contributed to the Lenten Appeal." Joan Durdin

NOTES FROM WARREN
We've got a few extra things happening at Holy Innocents in the next few weeks. Each Thursday night (beginning this Thursday) I'll be running sessions on some of the spiritual practices of the church, studies and a monthly Eucharist. One Thursday a month will also be a follow up on the QT topic. So this Thursday (May 6) at 6:45pm I will be introducing the practice of silence, leading into (in future weeks) the tradition of the prayer of the heart and contemplation which is so deeply embedded in the Christian tradition. And then at 7:10pm I will be celebrating the Eucharist in a simple, bare essentials way, concluding at 7:30pm. Come along to both sessions or either one.

On Thursday May 13 I'll be starting a 6 part series on 12 Big Passages of the Old Testament. if you would like a way to understand the Old Testament as a whole, especially as it was then used by the early church after the resurrection of Jesus, this will help. The session will begin at 7:00pm with some silence/meditation followed by the study of the Old Testament at 7:30pm. Come to both parts or either.

On Sunday, May 16 the next QT will be held, entitled 'Is God Deaf?' following the questions raised last month about the efficacy of intercessory prayer. Details to follow, but on the Thursday following, May 20, I and/or Stephen Daughtry will be hosting a night to follow up the discussion from QT.

Our Sunday services at 8am and 10am continue as usual, with a special BBQ on 16th May at 11:30am where we will say thank you to all those who contribute to the life of our church. So if you do anything that keeps our church alive come along so I can say thanks on behalf of us all. And if you would like to say thanks to everyone else, come along too!
Hope to see you soon. Regards, Warren

More on the THANK YOU BBQ
Please tell us us if you plan to be at the BBQ on 16th May when we will express our thanks to all who contribute to the life and family of the church in this place. There is a list in the foyer.

Also,, - If there is anyone who has a use for some removalists’ cardboard packing cases, please talk to Mary Vandepeer (phone; 82272838) as there are quite a few available and I don't want to just consign them to the recycling!!


"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."