Newsletter

Sunday 6th August 2011 - Holy Innocents’ Day

WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. After the 8am service breakfast is served and morning tea after the 10am service. At 10 am everything in the service will be screened on the walls. Sunday School will continue today

Collect for Holy Innocents
Heavenly Father, Whose children suffered at cruel hands though they had done no wrong; give us grace neither to act cruelly nor to stand by indifferently, but to defend the weak from the tyranny of the strong, in the name of Jesus Christ Who suffered for us, yet is alive and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

TODAY’S READINGS
Readings Jeremiah 31: 15—29 and 1 John 1:5—3:2 reads by Paul H
GOSPEL Matthew 2: 13—18
Fr Ron’s Notes available at http://www.anglican-belair.blogspot.com/

PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Mary V
We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, the Swaby family, Chris Contro, Yvonne Myers, Joy Campbell, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, and others known to us,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Ben Luks, Amelia Hale
HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
YEAR’S MIND— Gwladys Currer (2008), Joyce Hannaford (1998), Linda Barber (1990) Older parishioners may remember Brian Fopp, a past parishioner, who passed away on 29th July. Our condolences go to his family

PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Readings Genesis 45: 1—15 and Romans 11: 13—32
GOSPEL Matthew 15: 21—28

REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS

PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North
BIBLE STUDY Wednesday at 10.00am at Pressley’s home
THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist Parish Council in evening
SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome.

MOTHERS’ UNION Branch meets at 2.00pm on the third Thursday of the month in the Germein Room. All are welcome.

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 Barb Capon 8278 3584 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS—
Holy Innocents’ Patronal Festival Sunday
There will be Sunday School artwork on display; families of the youngsters will be illustrating the old stories of Biblical innocents—and others of you may care to hang work alongside. Also there will be a gallery of photos of children, now adults. And the rest of us need to guess who! Lunch will follow the 10am Service, with a wide range of cuisine.
Plans are being laid for a Parish Dinner on 23rd September, with the Archbishop coming to speak. This has to do with plans for the future of the parish, and all are asked to set aside this date. More details to come and pamphlets are available. Also see item in the forthcoming Parish Magazine.

POWERPOINT ROSTER –
Today Barb Capon or Trevor Tregenza
Next Sunday Min Araki or Ron Keynes
READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER
Next Sunday Reader Arndrae L Intercessor Warren
Sunday after Reader Marg P Intercessor Vanessa D

SANCTUARY ROSTER
Next week Flowers Jan T Brass Yvonne C
Cleaning Susan Lee
OTHER ITEMS …….

ST. JOHN’S GRAMMAR JUNIOR SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS
Chaplain Clare and students at St. John’s Junior School invite parishioners to the School Assembly in the Gillian Clampett Hall on Tuesday 9th August at 9.00am celebrating the 20th birthday of the School. Guest speakers and a cake will follow.
On Wednesday 10tth August, 1.30pm a short service in the Chapel will be followed by Chapel tours and oral history sessions conducted by Year 4 students (where your assistance as interviewee may be required, please!) Please RSVP by email or phone on 8270 6445 or cbruce@stjohns.sa.edu.au

World Vision Forty Hour Famine. Warren reports that he has registration material for all people interested in being involved in this year’s effort. Speak to him to obtain further detail. This annual event occurs over 19th—21st August

People are advised that those planning to take part in the Parish Camp in November are advised to contact Jan Tregenza on 82789536 or direct to Normanville Jetty Caravan Park (Debbie) on 8558 2038 before the end of August

The time-honoured ABM Lamington Drive is looming. The S A Auxiliary of the ABM invites us to order Lamingtons at $10.00 per dozen. A list has been placed in the parish hall, with a container for your payment. The last day for orders will be Thursday 18 August. The lamingtons will be available for collection from Holy Innocents' parish hall after midday on Friday 26 August. 'It helps if the payment is made at the time of ordering. Joan Durdin will forward the orders, and the lamingtons will be available on Friday 26 August. Don't forget that lamingtons last well in the freezer, if you don't want to indulge immediately.
RONBLOG .... From today’s Gospel—Holy Innocents
So very often we hear of complaints that life is unfair or that God should step in and stop evil people doing their thing. Most of us would love to live quietly and without stress or risk, and feel disappointed whenever such is not the case. So when we come to stories like the slaughter of the innocents, our reactions rise to fever pitch. How could anyone be so savage? And why did not God stop all the horror of it?
Our good fortune has been to grow up in an atmosphere and community where such ugly situations did not exist! Any and all evidence to the contrary comes as a culture-shock, most unwelcome and fearful. Other people and cultures have not been so fortunate, and our experience has rarely been the case in other parts of the world. Perhaps we have been too protected in the past.
In fact, reality is showing that such savagery is becoming evident in our country and culture, and not just sourced by people who have arrived recently. One doubts that there will be any sudden and solid reversal of this process, so we had better get used to it. On the other hand, that is hardly a negative response, if you think on.
Two things come to mind: the first is that both Judaism and Christianity emerged as sound reactions to such evil. There was no sense of despair, but rather one of providing far better options in life. It is part of the background from which the Faiths both emerged. Never forget that. Always one must take evil, human evil, into account as one lives in this rather less than best of all possible worlds.
The second matter to realize is that the sort of downward spiral we are tending to experience is no proof of the non-existence of God and the non-viability of the Faith; rather the opposite. It is precisely because this Faith once delivered takes into account this human propensity for evil and offers a valid and workable alternative that it stands head and shoulders over the other ‘normal’ human responses to life. Thank God for the Gospel! ***********************************************************************************
Spirituality at the Cafe - Following Warren's sermon last week about living life in the present (a summary can be found on his blog at http://classic-theology-new.blogspot.com/2011/08/presence-and-near-life-experience.html) you are invited to join him at the Sheoak Cafe for a coffee on Thursday, August 11 at 2:15pm for a time to talk about the essential insight of the near-death and near-life experience.
Information for a second workshop on parish community engagement sponsored by the Joint Anglicare Diocese of Adelaide Parish Partnerships Committee (JADAPP) and the Church in Society Ministry Unit (CiSMU). A flyer is available at Church and details are as follows: Saturday 17 September 2011 9.30am – 3.30pm at St Luke’s Whitmore Square, Adelaide



Note from Mitchell Hill Inter-Church Council
Boys Brigade is an International, non-denominational movement for Boys aged 6 to 18 years of age. It was started in Scotland in 1883 by a Sunday School teacher who saw the need the Boys at his Sunday School to have “something positive to do and to be a part of”. The activities are based around the areas of Body, Mind, Spirit, Community and Creativity, and includes devotions, craft, & games, For Senior Boys outdoor activities including camping, hiking, environmental knowledge and practical work are added to the program. The age groups are Anchor Boys – ages 6 to 8, Juniors – ages 8 to 12, and Seniors aged 12 to 18. In Blackwood, the “host” Church is the Blackwood Church of Christ. Boys' Brigade has been operating there for nearly 50 years. We meet on Mondays from 6:50 to 9:00pm, depending on the groups ages. We would like to be able to attract more boys, but most of all we are in great need of new Leaders. We would love to hear from anyone who thinks they might be able to help. We especially would like to able to have help in running the Anchor Boys' group. It would need to start at 6:00 or 6:30pm and run for an hour, covering simple activities – a short devotion or Bible story, an activity craft of some sort and a game. We think that by starting “early” we would be able to attract more youngsters. Some training will be necessary as will a Police Check and clearance. Neither is very involved or time consuming. For further information please contact either Ric Williams (Captain) on 8270 1438 / 0408 858 685, or Kevin Burrows (Lieutenant) on 8278 6246 / 0402 833 040. Ross Hill-Brown

Items for the Newsletter need to be sent to Fr. Ron at 8298 7160 or ronpkeynes@internode.on.net by Tuesday afternoon please …….