Newsletter

Sunday 6th November, 2011
Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost—All Saints’ All Souls’
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 the go!
COLLECT FOR TODAY
Eternal God, neither life nor death can separate us from Your love; grant that we may serve You faithfully here on earth, and in heaven rejoice with Your saints, who ceaselessly proclaim Your glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever Amen
;TODAY’S READINGS All Saints’ Day
Revelation 7: 9—17 & 1 John 3:1-3 read by Vanessa D
GOSPEL Matthew 5: 1—12
Fr Ron’s Notes available at http://www.anglican-belair.blogspot.com/ but not on All Saints’ Readings…..
PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Don B
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. Also Ivanka Cosic, Jim and Geoff (fighting cancer) and Caroline Sweet doing a little better lately.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Jim Scrivens, Lola Strods
HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY -
YEAR’S MIND— Mary Barrow (1992) Valerie Loftes (2004)

PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY
Readings: Judges 4: 1—10 and 1 Thessalonians 5: 1—11
GOSPEL Matthew 25: 14—30

YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN to the Mission Action Plan Meeting to be held after Church at 11.30am on Sunday 4th December. This is to help set goals for the year or so ahead. All welcome to contribute ideas.

Ven. Timothy Harris is to be consecrated Assistant Bishop in St. Peter’s Cathedral at 4.00pmon 20th November. Please RSVP by Thursday 10th November 2011 at kpalmrose@adelaide.anglican.com.au if you plan to attend.

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.
Grateful thanks have rung out to all those who participated in the big Clean Up Day around the Church. The list of people involved was great and the effort stunning. Thanks to all involved.
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. 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 If 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 attend 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

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 Min Araki or Cynthia Macintosh
Next Sunday Craig Deane or Don Caddy

READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER
Next Sunday Reader Eric D Intercessor Max A
Sunday after Reader Iris D Intercessor Vanessa D

SANCTUARY ROSTER
Next week Flowers Sue D-T Brass Rosemary Conlon
Cleaning Group 3

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—not the All Saints’ day readings, sorry .....

If there is one thing about life today, and outcomes from life, today’s readings really do offer a different but wholly sensible response to choice and action. It is a day or two since, as I write this, (quite some time ago now) there was a remarkably tragic and foolish road accident just north of the Barossa Valley. Apparently, two young women were riding on the bonnet of a motor vehicle on the main, sealed road when one fell of and was killed. Her sister, we are informed by news outlets, went to her aid and she too was killed by a passing car. The two children of one of the women were in the vehicle and apparently witnessed the hideous event. This is said to have occurred at about 3.00am.
The sad point of mentioning this tale is to illustrate the way that all manner of excuses were offered in the attempt to explain what had happened. It was nobody’s fault; its cause was inexplicable..... With all due respect, the truth of the situation lies rather elsewhere, does it not? If I carry on like foolishly and dangerously, drunk or sober, I am responsible for the ghastly outcome no matter how I attempt to get around it all.
Should you think that to be unfair, then look at almost any other situation where the attempt is made to lay the blame on someone or something else. This is not the preserve of the ordinary person; it is a constant from our political leaders down to the humblest citizen, Not just with road accidents, but with decisions made about the Murray, the Desal Plant, and it won’t be long before it applies to the Adelaide Cricket Ground or the RAH, new or old. So much of society is taken up by those who seem to delight in avoiding issues and side-stepping responsibility. And that is the top part of a very slippery slope indeed.
So much of the emphasis of today’s readings point in exactly that direction. From Israel’s story as the people entered to Promised Land, to that odd little parable about a wedding. You have a task to fulfill; so go ahead and do it properly.
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\BUSH CHURCH AID SOCIETY invites all to Bishop’s Court, North Adelaide from 4.00pm to 8.00pmon 19th November 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 …….