Newsletter

Sunday 30th October, 2011
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
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 is on again.

COLLECT FOR TODAY
Creator God, You have filled the world with beauty; open our eyes to behold Your gracious hand in all Your works, that, rejoicing in Your whole creation, we may learn to serve You with gladness, for the sake of Him through Whom all things were made, Your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
;TODAY’S READINGS Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Readings: Joshua 3: 7—17 & 1 Thess. 3: 5—13 read by David C
GOSPEL Matthew 23: 1—12
Fr Ron’s Notes available at http://www.anglican-belair.blogspot.com/

PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE
We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, the Swaby family, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, Aileen Shepherd, Olive Marston, Kate Jennings. Genevieve Forster, and Blake Vause.
Yvonne and Maxine Myers are deeply grateful to Joan Durdin for her constant care through all of this year. This, together with the practical care of Helpline, (delicious meals, and transport,) has been love in action, and has enabled complete healing.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Peter Little, Colin Davies, Iris Downes
HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Cathy & Graeme Browne
YEAR’S MIND— Olive Forster (1992) Jane Matthews (1996)

PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY
REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS
PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North
BIBLE STUDY 10am at Pressley’s
THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist
SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome. And don’t they make a lovely contribution as they sing during Communion.
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 Iris Downes on 8278 3260 and Marlene Dixon on 8278 8568..
Iris is calling for more volunteers for this special ministry—please contact her if you are able to be part of this work.

St. John’s Grammar will be using the Hall for exams from 31st October. From 8.30am to 5.00pm A list of dates and times is available in the foyer.

CHURCH CAMP AT NORMANVILLE – November 18,19,20
This fantastic weekend is fast approaching. Please check the list of names for sites or cabins booked at the Normanville Caravan Park. If you will be attending the Sunday Beach service at 10:30 am and would like us to order the fish and chip lunch, please add your name to the Sunday lunch list. Jan Tregenza
ADDED NOTE - URGENT
Deposits are urgently required to ensure the managers keep our cabins and campsites! If you have registered, please pay your deposit ASAP, or you may miss out. If you would like to join the camp, please call Jan on 8278 9536.

SAMARITAN'S PURSE - OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD.
Thank you to everyone who has filled a Shoe Box for the above. We are sending 24 Boxes and 3 Donations on behalf of the Church this year. Everyone of these will be gratefully received by the young children. Marlene Dixon

POWERPOINT ROSTER –
Today Craig Deane or Trevor Tregenza
Next Sunday Min Araki or Cynthia Macintosh
READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER
Next Sunday Reader Vanessa D Intercessor Don B
Sunday after Reader Eric D Intercessor Max A

SANCTUARY ROSTER
Next week Flowers Anna Kelly Brass Yvonne Caddy
Cleaning Susan Lee

Treasure Market—Special Meeting
Today we plan to meet after the 10am service to ‘regenerate’ the Treasure Market for 2012. We need people and ideas to raise funds and mission—see Jan Tregenza please.

Warren offers the 11.45am timeslot after service each Sunday for people to raise issues from sermons. Fifteen minutes should not make a great deal of change to plans on a Sunday.
Special Note: The Blackwood-Belair Catholic Parish is holding a Monster Fair on13th November (from 11am) to help raise the faire for their priest to return to Kenya for Christmas. All are welcome

RONBLOG .... On today’s Readings
If there is one particular issue that stands out for me in today’s readings, it has to do with the passing of responsibility from Moses to Joshua. I find echoes of that movement forward in the other readings as well. And it is an important issue, especially in this day and age where so many of the older Christians wonder quite what lies in front of faith and Church when we are pushing up daisies. The same issues arise for this State with the change of leadership there.
There is always a sense of loss and of disconnection when someone in leadership hands over the reins to a lesser light, a younger person, someone apparently inexperienced. If someone well-loved has been leading the show for a long time, there will always be those who try to hold on to the comfort of known directions and familiar patterns. Anything different is felt to be threatening. So the feet go to the brakes, and hesitancy tends to become the order of the day. As we express it these days, our comfort zone has become threatened and we like that NOT. However, try being a Joshua! You have huge shoes to fill, as the saying goes, and you will be painfully aware of resistance from all sorts of directions. But you will also be aware of the size of the task, and will almost certainly have some ideas that you would wish to pursue. Any young priest, or any new priest in a parish will know all about that.
I am fairly certain that I am glad not to be in that same situation again. Old age does have some advantages. I am also aware of the fact that so-called new ideas can be of valuable .. or useless. I am also painfully aware of the fact that simply because something has been sanctified by long practice, it does not mean that it needs to be continued without variation. Or rejection.
The point and purpose of this soliloquy is to encourage younger people in exploring quite where it is that God is leading as we move into another century and into new territory. There is also a great sense that, while we need to move ahead, we need also to be VERY aware of the basic realities of the Faith. Retain what is important; let go of what is not. Remember, though, that sometimes an individual vision of what is important may well be rather myopic ….. limited and narrow.
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BUSH CHURCH AID SOCIETY invites all to Bishop’s Court, North Adelaide on 19th November from 4.00pm to 8.00pm for the SUMMERTIME MARKET—free entry, and homemade food and entertainment available. Lots of fumn for kids and adults ... More info on www.bushchurchaid.com.au

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