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Sunday 23rd December, 2012 Fourth Sunday in Advent Welcome to Joshua and Daniel WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Collect for the day Gracious God, You have visited Your people and redeemed us in Your Son; may our hearts leap for joy at the sound of your word, and move us by Your Spirit to bless Your wonderful works. We ask this through Him Whose coming is certain, Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Today’s Readings Fourth Sunday in Advent read by Arndrae L Fourth Sunday in Advent Readings Micah 5: 2—5a and Hebrews 10: 5—10 GOSPEL Luke 1: 39—45 SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NOTE …. Ifl you have spare flowers for Christmas arrangements in the church, we would like blue and white flowers eg agapanthus, jasmine as well as lots of foliage. I will leave containers of water in the Germein Room on Sunday 23rd so that flowers can be left then or early Monday morning. We will be arranging on Monday morning (some may be done Sunday evening) Many thanks for your generosity Anna (Sanctuary Guild) PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Ann Daughtry, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Janet Phillips., Jan and Mollie Hal Shaw-Calverley has had surgery last week. Robyn Keynes’ older sister Pam is ailing in NZ. Praying for Warren Warren has been diagnosed with a blocked artery in his heart. The news is not all that good, with further examination and tests ahead. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sascha Williams, Danny Hodgson HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY YEAR’S MIND— John Furnival (2002) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Sunday after Christmas read by Trevor T Readings 1 Samuel 2:18—20, 26 Colossians 3: 12—17 GOSPEL Luke 2:41—52 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – please note changes due to expected absences Christmas Eve Don Caddy or Cynthia Macintosh Christmas Day Barb Capon or Trevor Tregenza Next Sunday Joy Campbell ot Craig Deane READER AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Christmas Eve Reader Paul H Intercessor Wendy M Christmas Day Reader Neil T Intercessor Max A Next Sunday Reader Trevor T Intercessor Don B SANCTUARY ROSTER Christmas Eve Flowers Anna Kelly Brass Yvonne Caddy Cleaning Group 3 Next Sunday Flowers Sue D-T Brass Rosemary C Cleaning Cleaner We are reinstituting the 30 second rule for notices at 10 am. Please keep your notices to a maximum of 30 seconds. if your notice needs to go longer than this please see Warren before the service or advise him during the week. One way to help people give information is by giving Warren the information by Friday so he can put it on the wall. So when you give a notice what you say will be behind you on the wall. So for example, times and dates are better on the wall. As a general rule, when giving notices, please adhere to the following: 1. Say what the event is 2. short description of the event 3. venue, date and time 4. who is invited (everyone, women, children, etc) to finish. If you give Warren the details to get on the wall it will be an effective notice. SPECIAL N.B. A small triptych of the Nativity was left in the Germein Room. Owner please collect from foyer. Also a small wooden cross has been taken from the Germein Room, used for Sunday School for 3 years. If anyone has seen it, please let Robyn Keynes know. HI T & COFFEE This usual Friday morning will close for two weeks over the Holiday period. We will re-open on 11th January, and look forward to your patronage. Fr. Ron wishes to thank people of Holy Innocents’ for the lovely celebration of his 50 years as priest. In Fr. Warren’s name, similar thanks are offered celebrating his 23 years, and Fr. Stephen for his two weeks. Ron is always glad to see that God still calls people to His ordained ministry, even after all those years! RONBLOG on today’s Reading ...for the Psalm I have told the story before, but it bears repetition. In a new parish, where the Mothers’ Union was active and alert, I was asked to speak to members about this Magnificat, the Song of Mary. I responded to the invitation by asking the President if she had any idea what to expect. She thought she did, so I warned against being too laid back about it. When it came to the day, I asked that the members present put on their hard hats, and engage their seat belts. My reason for that was because I suspected that none of the dear ladies present had ever thought about the words of this song. The Lord has shown strength with His arm: and scattered the proud in their conceit Casting down the mighty from their thrones: and lifting up the lowly God has filled the hungry with good things: and sent the rich away empty He has come to the aid of His servant Israel: to remember the promise of mercy The promise He made to our forebears: to Abraham and his children for ever. To make it easier we will begin at the end, just to be different. This reference to Abraham is a clear and unequivocal statement that the whole Christ thing, the whole Hebrew Christian Faith thing goes right back to the beginning of God’s movement towards humanity – and that was to offer a solution to what we used to call the human dilemma to all and any human beings who ever inhabit this planet. . Why is it that whatever we try to do, we never seem to find this solution to man’s inhumanity to man, to the whole stuff-up that makes so much of life so hard to bear? Wars, and rumours of wars, hatreds, all destructive things, do I need to keep going? This is what the Hebrew/Christian Faith has always offered, and for the greater part of history since Abraham, very few people have been listening. We are quite happy to rejoice in the promise of heaven and ignore the greatest gift of all. This Faith is all about the upsetting of country and culture and race and all divisions: casting down the mighty from their seats means restoring the balance of equality; but who is that going to antagonize, even amongst Christians? Fill the hungry with good things and send the rich away empty? Now Christmas Bowl will be facing us very soon, apart from anything else including the famine in Africa and elsewhere. CHRISTMAS SERVICES 23rd Dec 5.30pm “Clown of God” Children’s Event 24th Dec 11.00pm Midnight Mass 25th Dec 8.00am Christmas Communion 10.00am Christmas Communion

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Sunday 16th December, 2012 Third Sunday in Advent WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Collect for the day Almighty God, You sent Your Son into a world where the wheat must be winnowed from the chaff, and evil clings even to that which is good; let the fire of Your Spirit purge us of all corruption, so that we may wait eagerly for Him Whose Day draws near, Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen Today’s Readings Third Sunday in Advent read by John F Readings Zephaniah 3: 14—20 and Philippians 4: 4— GOSPEL Luke 3: 7 - 18 SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NOTE …. If you have spare flowers for Christmas arrangements in the church, we would like blue and white flowers eg agapanthus, jasmine as well as lots of foliage. I will leave containers of water in the Germein Room on Sunday 23rd so that flowers can be left then or early Monday morning. We will be arranging on Monday morning (some may be done Sunday evening) Many thanks for your generosity Anna (Sanctuary Guild) PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Sue D-T We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Ann Daughtry, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Janet Phillips., Jan and Mollie Hal Shaw-Caserley has also had surgery last week. Praying for Warren Warren has been diagnosed with a blocked artery in his heart. He is having an angiogram tomorrow. No more information until the results of the angiogram are known. Please pray for him this week, and Harper, Kirby and Thea. We will be praying for him just before the Greeting of Peace. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jennifer Jeffreys HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY YEAR’S MIND— Harold Morris (`1993) Anne Kernot (1993) Robin Pinnock (2003) Alfred (Bill) Mayne (2002) James Arnold (1076) 50th ANNIVERSAY AS PRIEST Conrad Patterson, (21st) Ron Keynes(15th) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Fourth Sunday in Advent Readings Micah 5: 2—5a and Hebrews 10: 5—10 GOSPEL Luke 1: 39—45 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS ( most activities will close over Christmas and January)_ PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm every second Sunday 14th at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm—next meeting February WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. Again, not till February Friday morning tea in the Hall has recommenced All are welcome. And bring a friend. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – please note changes due to expected absences Next Sunday Joy Campbell or Don Caddy Christmas Eve Don Caddy or Cynthia Macintosh Christmas Day Barb Capon or Trevor Tregenza READER AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Arndrae L Intercessor Mary V Christmas Eve Reader Paul H Intercessor Wendy M Christmas Day Reader Neil T Intercessor Max A SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers No flowers Brass Caroline and Sid Sweet Cleaning Cleaner Christmas Eve Flowers Anna Kelly Brass Yvonne Caddy Cleaning Group 3 See note re flowers for Christmas The Quire St. Nicholas will be singing their Annual Lessons and Carols at the Cathedral at 3.00 pm on Sunday 23rd December. You may well need to make your plans early ….. We are reinstituting the 30 second rule for notices at 10 am. Please keep your notices to a maximum of 30 seconds. if your notice needs to go longer than this please see Warren before the service or advise him during the week. One way to help people give information is by giving Warren the information by Friday so he can put it on the wall. So when you give a notice what you say will be behind you on the wall. So for example, times and dates are better on the wall. As a general rule, when giving notices, please adhere to the following: 1. Say what the event is 2. short description of the event 3. venue, date and time 4. who is invited (everyone, women, children, etc) to finish. If you give Warren the details to get on the wall it will be an effective notice. Spies tell us that Sue Parham received her Diploma in Early Childhood Development recently. Congrats, Sue!!! Family Fun Day Sunday (Christmas Bowl): The children and families who came were invited to donate to the Christmas Bowl and $248.90 was raised. A wonderful effort, a wonderful afternoon, well done and thanks to the Ready Set Go Team for a marvellous event. SPECIAL N.B. A small triptych of the Nativity was left in the Germein Room. Owner please collect from foyer. Also a small wooden cross has been taken from the Germein Room, used for Sunday School for 3 years. If anyone has seen it, please let Robyn Keynes know/ RONBLOG on today’s Readings There is one thought that comes to mind from the readings this Advent, and that is the fact ‘we are human, ergo we are responsible.’ Neither I nor anyone else can remove oneself from how my actions (or lack of them) will have an effect on people around about me or you. That is the way life is; and we avoid the perception to our mutual damage, which will often be extreme. It may be ‘the wisdom of age’ to run contrary to this, but I have always been grateful for parents who underlined this for us kids from way, way back. The point of realizing all this from a Biblical perspective came, not from great fear of hellfire (which never was a factor in my youth) but from extra-curricular reading. I decided to read John Steinbeck’s East of Eden when I realized that it was a sort of commentary on Genesis 4, the story of Cain and Abel. Whilst it is not the prettiest of stories (and nor is life anyhow is it!) it spells out some issues that lots of people avoid. The real point of huge impact from this story was when the Chinese cook decided to engage the efforts of the Jewish rabbi in trying to work out what should be the real translation of Genesis 4:7. Footnotes in most translations offer options: If you do well, hold up your head; if not sin is a demon crouching at the door; it will desire you, and you will be mastered by it. (REV). The footnote is ‘you must master it.’ Here is control called for, either by sin or by Cain. Neither of those translations seemed to convey the meaning of what Steinbeck called ‘timshel. After almost a year of discussion and debate, the old rabbi produced a subtle variation: you may master it ..... at which point in the story both rabbi and Chinese cook exploded in huge delight. ‘You MAY, you MAY, you MAY!’ It was a choice, and that choice offered both responsibility and enormous room to move. This what makes humans great,’ ejaculated one of them, and so it is. The sky is the limit, and the possibilities are so enormous. CHRISTMAS SERVICES 23rd Dec 5.30pm “Clown of God” Children’s Service 24th Dec 11.30pm Midnight Mass 25th Dec 8.00am Christmas Communion 10.00am Christmas Communion

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Sunday 9th December, 2012 Second Sunday in Advent WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Collect for the day God of our salvation, You straighten the winding ways of our hearts and smooth the paths made rough by sin; keep our hearts watchful in holiness, and bring to completion the good You have begun in us. We ask this through Him Whose coming is certain, Whose day draws near Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen Today’s Readings Second Sunday in Advent read by Iris D Readings Malachi 3: 1—14 and Philippians 1: 1—11 GOSPEL Luke 3: 1—6 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Wendy M We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Ann Daughtry, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Bonney Tomlinson, Janet Phillips., Jan and Mollie HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ray Wilkins HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Pat and Graham Pater YEAR’S MIND— Walter Betson (2008), Christabel Dolan (2000) Hazel Ashworth (1992) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Third Sunday in Advent Readings Zephaniah 3: 14—20 and Philippians 4: 4—7 GOSPEL Luke 3: 7 - 18 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS ( most activities will close over Christmas and January)_ PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm every second Sunday 14th at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm—next meeting February WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway Station Bridge. Again, not till February Friday morning tea in the Hall has recommenced All are welcome. And bring a friend. WORLD DAY OF PRAYER 1st March 2013 With our Parish hosting the Day of Prayer next year, we need to be ready for all the duties involved. The focus next time is France. We need to be ready for speaker, publicity, in the kitchen, and other matters. Please be ready to play your parts in this important event. Yvonne Myers. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – please note some variations to the roster Next Sunday Trevor Tregenza or Joy Campbell Sunday after Barb Capon or Cynthia Macintosh READER AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader John F Intercessor Sue D-T Sunday after Reader Arndrae L Intercessor Mary V SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers No flowers Brass Joan Durdin Cleaning Group 2 Bonney Tomlinson would like to thank the many people in the parish who helped during her recent illness—with transport, phone calls, food etc. It was very much appreciated. The Quire St. Nicholas will be singing their Annual Lessons and Carols at the Cathedral at 3.00 pm on Sunday 23rd December. You may well need to make your plans early ….. Spies tell us that Sue Parham received her Diploma in Early Childhood Development recently. Congrats to Sue!!! SUNDAY AFTERNOON FAMILY FUN DAY Our first Family Fun Day Sunday on Advent Sunday was a HUGE success! 45 children attended! Families enjoyed the mild summer weather with afternoon tea and games outside, followed by inside activities, and finishing with a short child friendly worship in the church. The Mother's Union members laid on a scrumptious afternoon tea, and the Ready, Set, Go! Team was sensational. Josh's amazing balloon twisting was unsurpassed! Thank you to our large band of helpers-you know who you are! On that subject, as many as possible of the Ready, Set, Go team hope to have a de-brief meeting after Church today, to discuss last Sunday evening’s event. This will be valuable for planning the next RSG event in March next year. Family Fun Day Sunday From Yvonne Caddy The children and families were invited to donate to the Christmas Bowl and $248.90 was given. That is a wonderful effort, reflecting a wonderful afternoon! Well done and thanks to the Ready Set Go Team for a marvellous event. RONBLOG on today’s Old Testament Reading People familiar with Handel’s Messiah will know the words, quoted from this last book of the Old Testament although it must be said that words to songs, even ‘religious’ songs, are often not listened to with any care. But please stop and have a look. Old Testament prophets were reputed for their emphasis on doom, gloom and judgement; but I ask you to look again. In fact much of this passage in particular could be levelled at our own day and age, looking not at ‘judgement’ in the clinical sense, but presenting seriously the need to act with fairness and consideration of those around about us. Those ancient prophets railed against the refusal of Israel to live with justice, integrity and truth – for the simple reason that failure to do so reduced life into mediocrity and damage – especially for the poor. If that is judgemental or even ‘religious,’ I have to say that I am quite happy to be associated with it. In fact it is another rarity today—common sense.’ Something of an oxymoron in this day and age. It may help to comment also on the tirade against sorcerers and idolaters. On the surface, we might laugh in our beer at trying to find those sorts of people these days; but stop a while. The issue for Old Testament prophets and for John in the New, was the awful capacity of people to distort the image and nature of God into something that they feel they could manipulate to their own advantage. Modern-day idols do exactly that as they have the tendency from truth to a self-serving distortion of it. In fact, the disease spreads rather wider than sports or entertainment gurus. In Hebrew imagery, idolatry was equated with prostitution – turning something important into rubbish! The connection is clear is it not? Now do you note the emphasis on those who live and act unjustly against ordinary people: workers, widows and orphans and even the aliens - a significant issue for Australians with the continuation of the boat people ‘invasion.’ There is not a lot of comfort to be drawn from this passage, and rather a considerable challenge. Never let it be said that the faith, Hebrew or Christian, is a comfortable easy path to travel. However it is remarkably redemptive and re-creative.

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Sunday 25h November, 2012 CHRIST THE KING - Sunday before Advent WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is back in action, young people! Collect for the day Everlasting God, Whose will it is to restore all things in Your well-beloved Son, our Lord and King; grant that the people on earth, now divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under His gentle and loving rule; Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever, Amen. Today’s Readings read by Vanessa D Readings 2 Samuel 23: 1—7 and Revelation 1:4b—8 GOSPEL John 18: 33—37 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Vanessa We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. (coping reasonably) Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Ann Daughtry, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Bonney Tomlinson, - home again now - Janet Phillips., Jan and Mollie HAPPY BIRTHDAY Marcia Wilkins, Dorothy Richardson, Joyce Arnold HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Marilyn and Peter Little, Marlene and Ray Dixon YEAR’S MIND— Violet Arnold (1980) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY First Sunday in Advent Year C begins on 2nd December Readings Jeremiah 33: 14—16 and 1 Thessalonians 3: 9—13 GOSPEL Luke 21: 25—38 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm every second Sunday 14th at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. This means next Saturday!!!!! Friday morning tea will recommence on this Friday 30th November, thanks to the return of the Baines from the UK. All are welcome. Planned-Giving Confirmation Letter Thank you for being in the Planned-Giving Scheme. Parishioners who have handed in their pledge form by the 11th of December will find their confirmation letter on the table in the foyer. Parishioner who hand it in after this date will receive confirmation letter later on. Min The Recorder minaraki@adam.com.au 7129-6758 WORLD DAY OF PRAYER 1st March 2013 with our Parish hosting the Day of Prayer next year, we need to be ready for all the duties involved. The focus next time is France. We need to be ready for speaker, publicity, in the kitchen, and other matters. Please be ready to play your parts in this important event. Yvonne Myers. Saturday 1st December, 10am at St. Peter’s Cathedral, clear for Stephen Daughtry’s Ordination as priest. Please remember if you are going, that we are to help provide refreshments after the service in the Cathedral Hall afterwards. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Cynthia Macintosh or Ron Keynes Sunday after Min Araki or Cynthia Macintosh READER AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Eric D Intercessor Ben L Sunday after Reader Iris D Intercessor Wendy M SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers No flowers Brass Margaret Carruthers Cleaning Group 1 The Quire St. Nicholas will be singing their Annual Lessons and Carols at the Cathedral at 3.00 pm on Sunday 23rd December. You may well need to make your plans early ….. SUNDAY AFTERNOON FAMILY FUN DAY 2nd December Do not forget our Sunday afternoon Family Fun Day on December 2nd at 4.00 pm. We are asking folk to help with craft and activities and the Mothers’ Union for refreshments, and in the meantime would you (a) bring to Church any old Christmas cards (preferably no Santas!) and (b) any catalogues advertising Christmas gifts and shopping (junk mail really!) Robyn Keynes asks people to save their 2 ltr wine-casks, please—they are very useful as building blocks for junior Sunday School. Friday 7th December is the Blackwood Pageant. As in previous years it will be led by the churches and it is hoped as many of you as possible can turn out and walk with our church banner. Meet in Gulfview Road, near Hungry Jacks end at about 5.30 pm for a 6.30 kick off. Anglicare Christmas Toy Appeal is back with the request for donations , toys that can be put in the toy box from today until 15th December,. Further information from Joy Campbell on 8398 5163. RONBLOG on today’s Readings Are you aware that the real battle between the People of God and those who are not is often over the issue of what truth is and what it is not? Then one realizes that while the issue is hugely significant, the boundaries between the two ‘sides’ are somewhat quite blurred. From quite early in Jewish history, the Chosen People were made aware of the rather large gap between the faith of Abraham and the religion of most of their contemporaries. Amos and the early prophets were first to punch the drum on those factors, and were not met with general acceptance. Fancy that! And dear old Daniel was heavily into pointing out the religious and moral threats posed by Hellenism, Greek culture. (Later, John was to see and understand similar threats to the Faith from Roman culture ..... and increasing opulence.) So they were all about truth and falsehood. No room for spin, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics.’ It is small wonder then that the critical issue for Pilate, during Jesus’ trial, lay along the lines of ‘what is truth?’ That, understand this most clearly, was the real issue behind Jesus’ arraignment and trial and execution. What is truth? Truth is hugely important in life, and not just in matters religious. If one cannot trust those with whom you do business, the whole scheme of things comes crashing down. Even in our own day and age when ‘truth’ is for ever painted as relative, the basic necessity remains unchanged. Most little kids are profoundly aware of where fairness lies, even in minor matters. The matter of responding to hideous tales of child abuse wracking Churches and people underlines the utter necessity of complete and transparent honesty, without which the distrust will continue unabated. Not only honesty but preparedness to stand up for it. This is not a matter of Christians against others. It is a matter for humans with humans; for the future possibility of living and working together with each other. It is no small wonder that the authors of so much of the Christian Scriptures focussed so heavily and importantly on the matter of truth. There is no room for white lies or any other modification of truth. It is either true or it is not.

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Sunday 18th November, 2012 TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY OF PENTECOST WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is back in action, young people! Collect for the day O God, welcoming refuge for the outcast, and upholder of justice for the oppressed: maintain the hope of the poor, so that the time may soon come when no one need want for food and shelter, and all will learn to share freely following the example of Your Son, Who gave His very self; Who now lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Today’s Readings read by David C Readings 1 Samuel 1:4—20 and Hebrews 10: 11—14 & 19—25 GOSPEL Mark 13:1-11 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Don B We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family, Dianne Cordes. (coping reasonably) Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Ann Daughtry, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Bonney Tomlinson, - home again now - Janet Phillips., Jan, Mollie and Margaret. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pat Pater, Sue Daw-Thomas, David Hale HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY YEAR’S MIND— Beryl Wilson (1995) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Christ the King - Sunday next before Advent Readings 2 Samuel 23: 1—7 and Revelation 1:4b—8 GOSPEL John 18: 33—37 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm every second Sunday 14th at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. Friday morning teas will recommence on Friday 30th November, thanks to the return of the Baines from the UK. All are welcome. Planned-Giving Confirmation Letter Thank you for being in the Planned-Giving Scheme. Parishioners who have handed in their pledge form by the 11th of December will find their confirmation letter on the table in the foyer. Parishioner who hand it in after this date will receive confirmation letter later on. Min The Recorder minaraki@adam.com.au 7129-6758 WORLD DAY OF PRAYER 1st March 2013 With our Parish hosting the Day of Prayer next year, we need to be ready for all the duties involved. The focus next time is France. We need to be ready for speaker, publicity, in the kitchen, and other matters. Please be ready to play your parts in this important event. Yvonne Myers. OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD - SHOE BOXES. We are pleased to let you know that we sent 29 Shoes Boxes and l donation to the Samaritan’s Purse this year. Slight improvement over last year. Thank you all so much for filling these boxes. Much appreciated. Marlene Dixon Saturday 1st December, 10am at St. Peter’s Cathedral, clear for Stephen Daughtry’s Ordination as priest. Also Wendy Morecroft and Clare Bruce have been selected for Discernment by the Diocese, in moves towards training and possible Ordination. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Joy Campbell or Ron Keynes Sunday after Min Araki or Cynthia Macintosh READER AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Vanessa Intercessor Vanessa Sunday after Reader Eric D Intercessor Ben L SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Noelene Carter Brass Rosemary Conlon Cleaning Cleaner SUNDAY AFTERNOON FAMILY FUN DAY 2nd December Do not forget our Sunday afternoon Family Fun Day on December 2nd at 4.00 pm. We are asking folk to help with craft and activities and the Mothers’ Union for refreshments, and in the meantime would you (a) bring to Church any old Christmas cards (preferably no Santas!) and (b) any catalogues advertising Christmas gifts and shopping (junk mail really!) Robyn Keynes asks people to save their 2 ltr wine-casks, please—they are very useful as building blocks for junior Sunday School. Friday 7th December is the Blackwood Pageant. As in previous years it will be led by the churches and it is hoped as many of you as possible can turn out and walk with our church banner. Meet in Gulfview Road, near Hungry Jacks end at about 5.30 pm for a 6.30 kick off. Anglicare Christmas Toy Appeal is back with the request for donations, toys that can be put in the toy box from today until 15th December. Further information from Joy Campbell on 8398 5163. The Quire St. Nicholas will be singing their Annual Lessons and Carols at the Cathedral at 3.00 pm on Sunday 23rd December. You may well need to make your plans early ….. RONBLOG on today’s Readings People, Christian and otherwise, seem to have a fascination with end of the world themes. Movies pander to the urge, but if all this is thought to respond to Biblical imagery, then the point is missed entirely. It is a remarkable thing to note, even if you are not a student of history, that it is important to realize that most cultures and civilisations come to the end of their life not from invasion from outside, but by collapse within. That collapse tends to emerge through a rather common failure of people to react in terms compatible with justice and truth, compassion and equity. This is what the Old Testament prophets were all about, as is the Kingdom of which Jesus spoke constantly. The further I have gone in my ministry and pilgrimage, the more I am surprised how few people really understand John’s Revelation. Apocalyptic writings are sadly misunderstood and mis-interpreted. St. John was not, repeat NOT talking about the end of the world any more than Jesus was, as per today’s Gospel passage. Both our Lord and John were underlining the fact that moral decadence is the chief factor that brings about its own collapse in peoples. Jesus expected calamitous events to follow the Crucifixion, and although it took some time, happen it did. John expected the end of Empire (Roman of course) because of the exploding trade in luxuries and the gap between rich and poor, and while it took rather longer than John expected, happen it did. It is not so much a matter of wealth, as it is a matter of unfair distribution of wealth, with widening gaps between those who had and those who had not. If I am wealthy and you are poor, and I give not a damn about you, then I have strayed too far from where truth and justice lies, and my disregard for you is blasphemous – even if I have no God. It is very telling stuff, and should make us all look very much more closely at how we live and operate as humans in a world where we Australians, rich or poor in relation to each other, are living like kings when compared to much of the rest of the world’s population.

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Sunday 11th November, 2012 TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY OF PENTECOST Welcome to Campbell and his family WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is in action, young people! Collect for the day Blessed Lord, You have caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; grant that we may so hear them, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of Your Holy Word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of eternal life which You have given us in our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen Today’s Readings read by Clare B Readings Ruth 3:1-5 & 4:3—17 and Hebrews 9:23 –28 GOSPEL Mark 12: 38—44 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family, Dianne Cordes. Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Margaret Pressley, Danny Hodgson, Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Bonney Tomlinson, - - home again now - Janet Phillips., Jan, Mollie and Margaret. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pip Bruce HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY YEAR’S MIND— Jane Matthews (1996) Audrey Gaskell Crouch (2002) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Readings 1 Samuel 1:4—20 and Hebrews 10: 11—14 & 19—25 GOSPEL Mark 13:1-11 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm every second Sunday 14th at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm Mothers' Union reports that the result of the Trading Table was $350.00, for which they thank everyone. This amount goes to East African Women’s Literacy programmes - and some Men’s, too, - which is a major effort of MU in Africa. WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. Craig Deane wishes to thank all who were involved in the recent Working Bee at the Church. So much necessary work was done and all manner of improvements done!! Friday morning tea recommences on Friday 16th November, thanks to the return of the Bains from the UK. All are welcome. OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILLD - SHOE BOXES. We are pleased to let you know that we sent 29 Shoes Boxes and l donation to the Samaritan’s Purse this year. Slight improvement over last year. Thank you all so much for filling these boxes. Much appreciated. Marlene Dixon Please keep Saturday 1st December, 10am at St. Peter’s Cathedral, clear for Stephen Daughtry’s Ordination as priest. Also Wendy Morecroft and Clare Bruce have been selected for Discernment by the Diocese, in moves towards training and possible Ordination. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 Friday 7th December is the Blackwood Pageant. As in previous years it will be led by the churches and it is hoped as many of you as possible can turn out and walk with our church banner. Meet in Gulfview Road, near Hungry Jacks end at about 5.30 pm for a 6.30 kick off." POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Ron Keynes 0r Barb Capon Sunday after Joy Campbell or Ron Keynes READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader David C Intercessor Don B Sunday after Reader Vanessa Intercessor Vanessa SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Iris Downes Brass Yvonne Caddy Cleaning Group 5 SUNDAY AFTERNOON FAMILY FUN DAY 2nd December Plans are shaping up well for our Sunday afternoon Family Fun Day on December 2nd at 4.00 pm. We are asking folk to help with craft and activities and the Mothers’ Union for refreshments, and in the meantime would you (a) bring to Church any old Christmas cards (preferably no Santas!) and (b) any catalogues advertising Christmas gifts and shopping (junk mail really!) Robyn Keynes asks people to save their 2 ltr wine-casks, please—they are very useful as building blocks for junior Sunday School. (No rude comments please!!!) Friday 7th December is the Blackwood Pageant. As in previous years it will be led by the churches and it is hoped as many of you as possible can turn out and walk with our church banner. Meet in Gulfview Road, near Hungry Jacks end at about 5.30 pm for a 6.30 kick off. Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Also there is to be a BBQ lunch after service on 25th November to mark the end of the Church Year and the move into Advent. A list will go up in the foyer, announcing this and asking for contributions of salads and sweets—usual procedure. Plan to be part of this event!!! Please put your name on the list if you plan to attend the BBQ. Packs of Fun Anglicare has a terrific new project some young people of our parish will be promoting over the next six weeks - 'Pack of Fun'. We will try to fill a couple of backpacks for refugee children settling with their families in South Australia. If you would like to contribute something or make a donation, just tick off an item from the sheet or make a donation to one of the Senior Sunday School young people. RONBLOG on today’s Readings One of the old axioms ( axia?) used to be that ‘politics and religion’ do not mix! However, little could be further from the truth. In fact, I suspect that axiom was an attempt to stifle any discussion of either matter, particularly in pubs – where an outcome may become frazzled. One of the major ‘drums’ that I have punched’ over the years has been to underline the extent to which the Judaic-Christian Faith says far more about what may be called political issues than it does about ‘religious’ ones. I would point anyone who questions this to read the Old Testament prophets, especially the early ones like Amos. They had no difficulty pointing to issues social and political as illustrations of how Israel had wandered from the faith path. Read the Old Testament and see there is no room in Judaism for the emergence of a rich elite or a poor underclass. Sadly much of the Torah did not seem to be adhered to, such as the jubilee business of returning sold fields and paddocks so that families could remain soundly based. However the main points of the Biblical faith have to do with matters of truth, justice, integrity and compassion. (When non-believers rant against religionists, they manage somehow to sidestep the realities and elevate the idiot fringe instead. That makes for far easier pickings apparently.) It is only recently that the ugly and violent response from people of other faiths has underlined the disparity between some religions, though it has to be said that even those of such faiths have protested that such ugliness is not part of their religion. The only reason for mention of this is that one needs to be sure of each Faith’s realities as opposed to the views of any radical adherents. Sadly every Faith manages to produce some strange and sometimes dangerous and radical variations on their theme!

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Sunday 4th November, 2012 All Saints’ Day TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY OF PENTECOST WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is back in action, young people! Collect for the day 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 all 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 read by Arali family Readings Revelation 7: 9– 17 GOSPEL Matthew 5: 1—12 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Hal S-C We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Margaret Pressley, Danny Hodgson, Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Bonney Tomlinson, Janet Phillips., Jan, Mollie and Margaret. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Colin Davies, Vic Carpenter, Iris Downes, Jim Scrivens, HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY YEAR’S MIND— Olive Forster (1992), Jane Matthews (1996) Mary Barrown (1992) Valerie Loftes (2004) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Readings Ruth 3: 1-5 & 4: 4—17 and Hebrews 9: 23—28 GOSPEL Mark 12: 38—44 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm every second Sunday at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm Mothers' Union reports that the result of the Trading Table was $350.00, for which they thank everyone. This amount goes to East African Women’s Literacy programmes - and some Men’s , too, - which is a major effort of MU in Africa. WALKING CHURCH (Yesterday evening!) First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. And keep Saturday 1st December, 10am at St. Peter’s Cathedral, clear for Stephen Daughtry’s Ordination as priest. Also Wendy Morecroft and Clare Bruce have been selected for Discernment by the Diocese, in moves towards training and possible Ordination. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Jill Hilbig or Joy Campbell Sunday after Ron Keynes 0r Barb Capon READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Clare B Intercessor Max A Sunday after Reader David C Intercessor Don B SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Marilyn Little Brass Sweets Cleaning Cleaner SUNDAY AFTERNOON FAMILY FUN DAY 2nd December Plans are afoot to put together our Sunday afternoon Family Fun Day on December 2nd at 4.00 pm. We are asking folk to help with craft and activities but in the meantime would you (a) bring to Church any old Christmas cards (preferably no Santas!) and (b) any catalogues advertising Christmas gifts and shopping (junk mail really!) Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Robyn Keynes asks people to save their 2 ltr wine-casks, please—they are very useful as building blocks for junior Sunday School. (No rude comments please!!!) Also there is to be a BBQ lunch after service on 25th November (can you remember that far ahead?) to mark the end of the Church Year and the move into Advent. A list will go up in the foyer, announcing this and asking for contributions of salads and sweets—usual procedure. Plan to be part of this event!!! Please put your name on the list if you plan to attend the BBQ. On Thursday 8 November, at Christ Church, North Adelaide, the centenary of the Anglican Board of Mission will be celebrated. By Bishop David McCall will be the celebrant at the Eucharist, and the Rev'd Martin Chittleborough, patron of the National ABM Auxiliary, will be the guest preacher. Following the Eucharist there will be a shared lunch in the hall and an ABM Auxiliary History exhibition. ABM Christmas cards will also be available for purchase. Joan Durdin would be happy to provide transport for up to three parishioners who would like to attend this event. RONBLOG on today’s Readings It is only a couple of years since the Roman Church was all excited about the canonisation of Mary McKillop, but before then, and now, I have wondered what Mary herself would have said in response to all the fuss. I wonder if she would have said ‘that this work was her calling, and that’s that!’. Even her earlier brawl with the Church of the day would have been seen as part of her calling and ministry, for if she had not persisted, then the Little Sisters may well have wilted on the vine. So what is the point of All Saints’ Day? For mine, it is not to have readings – and perhaps sermons! – on the life hereafter, but to take hold of the hugely important Biblical emphasis on the fact that ‘God has no hands but your hands.’ No saints = no progress. And Biblical saints aren’t all special but remarkably ordinary. Where would we have been without Abraham, without Moses, or David (well, moot point there!) without the prophets, and Mary, ………. The list is enormous. The point is that each of those ancient and ordinary people responded positively to the call of God – and so became agents of change. The old manner of celebrating saints, like Mary McKillop and the search for miracles from her, does nothing but isolate such apparently high and holy ones from hoi polloi like us. In other words, they did what they did and that is way beyond the reach of mere mortals such as us is it not? That view of things renders us safe from any challenge, or any sense of call, and leaves us well within our comfort zone, untouchable, and supine. Instead, let’s get the real picture that we are as likely as any of them to be called to some challenge! In other words, the whole outlook changes. “You don’t mean me, do You, Lord?” And the answer quite probably is in the affirmative. ******************************************************************************** Hard at work - Alison, Anna, Sue, Jocelyn, Marcia and Iris have been making a set of 4 stoles to give to Stephen Daughtry to celebrate his ordination to the priesthood. We plan to give him the Advent (purple) one at the BBQ on 25th November as a taste of what is to come (as we finish the rest)!! On that day we will celebrate the finish of the current year (in the church calendar!) and wish Stephen well as he prepares for his ordination! The stoles have been designed by Vanessa and we have become really excited at how they have 'turned out' as we were asked to do some new (to us!) things. Its great to see them all coming together and we are sure you too will be excited!!

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Sunday 28th October, 2012 TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY OF PENTECOST WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is back in action, young people! Collect for the day O God, You give light to the blind and comfort to the sorrowing, and in Your Son You have given us a High Priest Who has offered the true sacrifice for us and yet can sympathise with us in our weakness: hear the cry of Your people and lead us home to our true country, where with Your Son and the Holy Spirit You live and reign, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen. Today’s Readings read by Max A Readings Job 42: 1—6 and Hebrews 7: 21—28 GOSPEL Mark 10: 46—52 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Warren We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Danny Hodgson, Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Bonney Tomlinson, Margaret Pressley, Janet Phillips., Jan, Mollie and Margaret. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Alan Pressley Peter Little, HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Cathy and Graeme Browne YEAR’S MIND— PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Readings Ruth 1: 1—8 & Hebrews 9: 11—15 GOSPEL Mark 12: 13—17 & 28—34 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm every second Sunday 14th at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. And keep Saturday 1st December, 10am at St. Peter’s Cathedral, clear for Stephen Daughtry’s Ordination as priest. Also Wendy Morecroft and Clare Bruce have been selected for Discernment by the Diocese, in moves towards training and possible Ordination. Church Spring Cleaning Working Bee Saturday 3rd of November Please make a diary note now!. Should anyone prefer to work during the week preceding, please note that St. John’s exams in the Hall preclude any work being done before 4.00 pm. A list of jobs needing doing is not in the foyer—please check it out and put your name on one of the jobs you can do. Operation Christmas Child - Shoe Boxes LAST DAY FOR RETURN OF BOXES . 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Cynthia Macintosh or Don Caddy Sunday after Jill Hilbig or Joy Campbell READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Araki family Intercessor Hal S-C Sunday after Reader Clare B Intercessor Max A SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Bains Brass Joan Durdin Cleaning Group 3 SUNDAY AFTERNOON FAMILY FUN DAY 2nd December Plans are afoot to put together our Sunday afternoon Family Fun Day on December 2nd at 4.00 pm. We are asking folk to help with craft and activities but in the meantime would you (a) bring to Church any old Christmas cards (preferably no Santas!) and (b) any catalogues advertising Christmas gifts and shopping (junk mail really!) Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Robyn Keynes asks people to save their 2 ltr wine-casks, please—they are very useful as building blocks for junior Sunday School. (No rude comments please!!!) Also there is to be a BBQ lunch after service on 25th November (can you remember that far ahead?) to mark the end of the Church Year and the move into Advent. A list will go up in the foyer, announcing this and asking for contributions of salads and sweets—usual procedure. Plan to be part of this event!!! NB: Rather too frequently foreign coins and other matter appears in the collection plate and our long suffering Treasurer has had to replace the offending items. Please carefully check any coins for the Collection Plate that they are Australian currency. Planned-Giving Scheme Thank you for participating in the Planned-Giving Scheme for our church. The statements for the last quarter are now available. Please find them on the table in the foyer. The Planned-Giving Scheme helps our church to make its annual budget. Anyone who would like to join or rejoin in this scheme for next year is welcome to do so. Please contact Min or Cynthia for the pledge form to fill in. Min The Recorder RONBLOG on today’s GOSPEL I an constantly asking people to follow what I call ‘the fine print.’ in the Sunday readings. Not only was this poor man Bar-Timaeus disqualified from the synagogue because of his ailment, it is clear that – as far as everyone was concerned, he was a nobody, non-existent, zero. That is what his name means. Nobody, son of nobody! What a load for anyone to carry? But not as far as Jesus was concerned. Those of us at Church at Belair last Sunday had a preview of this tale, and a rather noisy one from Stephen, bless him. Stephen was underlining our rather terribly human trait of wanting to be ‘with the strength,’ and of James and John’s penchant for wanting positions of power and note alongside Jesus in His ‘glory.’ Stephen was preaching about being servants. And that is exactly how Jesus operated, identifying Himself with a man such as this Bart – nothing to do with the Simpsons. Bart-was a second or third generation drop out, it seems, and blind to boot. He was certainly and completely unwelcome in the synagogue, on at least two grounds,: of ailment and of non-existence. Poor sod, what chance did he ever have, for religious people are proper people! Well, aren’t they? But our Lord threw all that aside, as well he might, because real religious people are accepting people, prepared to see further than the surface with anyone and everyone, just like our Lord. And the story indicates the effect Jesus had on that poor solitary, once-blind man. This is what the faith is about: not sorting people into high and low, wealthy or poor, well or ill. It is about meeting people right where they are, and being prepared to offer a next step forward for them to be part of the fellowship of those who care. What price caring, eh? On Thursday 8 November, at Christ Church, North Adelaide, the centenary of the Anglican Board of Mission will be celebrated. Bishop David McCall will be the celebrant at the Eucharist, and the Rev'd Martin Chittleborough, patron of the National ABM Auxiliary, will be the guest preacher. Following the Eucharist there will be a shared lunch in the hall and an ABM Auxiliary History exhibition. ABM Christmas cards will also be available for purchase. Joan Durdin would be happy to provide transport for up to three parishioners who would like to attend this event.

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Sunday 21st October, 2012 TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY OF PENTECOST  WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is back in action, young people! Collect for the day God of unchangeable power, when the heaven and earth were made, the morning stars sang together and the host of heaven shouted for joy: open our eyes to the wonders of creation and teach us to use all things for good, to the honour of Your glorious name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Today’s Readings read by Mary V Readings: Job 23:1-9 & 16-17 and Hebrews 4: 12—16 GOSPEL Mark 10: 17—31 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Warren We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, Danny Hodgson, Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Bonney Tomlinson, Janet Phillips., Jan, Mollie and Margaret. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ron Keynes, James & Laurence Musolino, Dominic Vialls, Denholme Hale HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Valda & Wolf Seith YEAR’S MIND— Colin Cook (2007) 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 Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm every second Sunday 14th at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm SPECIAL NOTE FROM MU: Mothers' Union will be holding a Cake Stall TODAY!—we HOPE you have come prepared!!! WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. And keep Saturday 1st December, 10am at St. Peter’s Cathedral, clear for Stephen Daughtry’s Ordination as priest. Also Wendy Morecroft and Clare Bruce have been selected for Discernment by the Diocese, in moves towards training and possible Ordination. Church Spring Cleaning Working Bee Saturday 3rd of November Please make a diary note now!. Should anyone prefer to work during the week preceding, please note that St. John’s exams in the Hall preclude any work being done before 4.00 pm. Operation Christmas Child - Shoe Boxes Please return all boxes by TODAY. Thank you Marlene Dixon. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd    8278 4260   and Lucinda Hale    8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Min Araki or Ron Keynes Sunday after Cynthia Macintosh or Don Caddy READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Max A Intercessor Sue D-T Sunday after Reader Araki family Intercessor Hal S-C SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Jan T Brass Margaret C Cleaning Group 3 Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Also there is to be a BBQ lunch after service on 25th November (can you remember that far ahead?) to mark the end of the Church Year and the move into Advent. A list will go up in the foyer, announcing this and asking for contributions of salads and sweets—usual procedure. Plan to be part of this event!!! NB:Rather too frequently foreign coins and other matter appears in the collection plate and our long suffering Treasurer has had to replace the offending items. Please carefully check any coins for the Collection Plate that they are Australian currency. Planned-Giving Scheme Thank you for participating in the Planned-Giving Scheme for our church. The statements for the last quarter are now available. Please find them on the table in the foyer. The Planned-Giving Scheme helps our church to make its annual budget. Anyone who would like to join or rejoin in this scheme for next year is welcome to do so. Please contact Min or Cynthia for the pledge form to fill in. Miin The Recorder Packs of Fun Anglicare has a terrific new project some young people of our parish will be promoting over the next six weeks - 'Pack of Fun'. We will try to fill a couple of backpacks for refugee children settling with their families in South Australia. If you would like to contribute something or make a donation, just tick off an item from the sheet or make a donation to one of the Senior Sunday School young people. RONBLOG on today’s readings We really do muddy up the scene for people looking in and wondering whether or not to be part of us. And surely we can see that! But to try and put into words what this Faith is about tends to be rather completely beyond us. Where do we go to get some help? In the hope that this may be useful, I offer some thoughts, but a word of warning! This is a hard hat and seat belt on area. This ancient book of Job has lots to offer, but it will take some thought to get it. Back to today’s readings for a mo. That Old Testament Lesson is a warning in itself. In his extreme difficulty, Job still had the Lord breathing down his neck and calling him for everything. If you don’t believe me, read the passage again, and quite some of what precedes and follows it. God was not so much into making Job feel like a midget, but getting him to face reality. A God, Job, you are NOT, repeat NOT!!! You had nothing to do with putting this cosmos into place boyo! Like Knut, you cannot even hold back the tide, or the sun, or the weather. Get your feet back on the ground. Or notice how Jesus always managed to relate what He was on about to all those people to whom He spoke. And so can we, if and when we get real. This is for your benefit, not someone looking at the Faith. Get real, honest, fair dinkum. So much of what we try and pass on to others has little or no connection with the ordinary life of ordinary people. And then we wonder why our contemporaries turn their backs. And what is a most telling end to a Gospel passage, is it not? He came not to be served, but to serve, and to give Himself. And that is the pattern for all who follow Christ. One cannot do otherwise and claim to follow Him. ***************************************************************** The Rev’d Canon Ian Barlow, of Clare, and The Venerable (Emeritus, Adelaide) Conrad Patterson were ordained Priest by The Rt Rev’d T E Jones in the Church of St Augustine, Port Augusta on St Thomas. Day, December 21st, 1962. On St Thomas’ Day, in the Church of The Good Shepherd, Plympton, where Fr Ian developed his lay ministry and where Fr. Conrad worships when he is home, there is to be a Eucharist, celebrated by the Archdeacon, and the Sermon preached by the Canon on Friday evening, December 21st, at 6.00 pm. Contact Fr. Conrad for more info— so was Fr. Ron ordained priest in Sydney that same day.

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Sunday 14th October, 2012 TWENTIETH SUNDAY OF PENTECOST WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is back in action, young people! Collect for the day Merciful God, in your Son You call not the righteous but sinners to repentance: draw us away from the easy road that leads to destruction, and guide us into paths that lead to life abundant, that in seeking Your truth, and obeying Your will, we may know the joy of being a disciple of Jesus our Saviour; Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Today’s Readings read by Trevor T Readings Job 23: 1-9 & 16-17 and Hebrews4: 12—16 GOSPEL Mark 10: 17—31 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Jim (fighting cancer;) Tommy Ferguson, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Natasha Campbell, Dennis Smith and Janet Phillips. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Lily Conlon, Chloe Laycock HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— Doris Caddy (2000) Stan Shepherd (2001) Miriam Lindley (2004) George Ridout (1993) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Readings: Job 23:1-9 & 16-17 and Hebrews 4: 12—16 GOSPEL Mark 10: 17—31 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm every second Sunday 14th at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm SPECIAL NOTE FROM MUI: Mothers' Union will be holding a trading table on the Sunday 21st October—we suggest that you come prepared!!! WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 5.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. Bonney reports some delay to her medical treatment, and will be around today—BUT this only underlines the need for some of us to offer to fill in at the Morning Tea counter for several weeks or so very soon. . And keep Saturday 1st December, 10am at St. Peter’s Cathedral, clear for Stephen Daughtry’s Ordination as priest. Church Spring Cleaning Working Bee Saturday 3rd of November Please make a diary note now!. Should anyone prefer to work during the week preceding, please note that St. John’s exams in the Hall preclude any work being done before 4.00 pm. Robyn Keynes thinks she has lent her book, Call the Midwife, to someone in the Church and asks for it to be returned please. Operation Christmas Child - Shoe Boxes Please return all boxes by 21st October or 28th at the latest. Thank you Marlene Dixon. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Barb Capon or Trevor Tregenza Sunday after Min Araki or Ron Keynes READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Mary V Intercessor Warren Sunday after Reader Max A Intercessor Sue D-T SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Jan T Brass Margaret C Cleaning Group 3 Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Also there is to be a BBQ lunch after service on 25th November (can you remember that far ahead?) to mark the end of the Church Year and the move into Advent. A list will go up in the foyer, announcing this and asking for contributions of salads and sweets—usual procedure. Plan to be part of this event!!! Foreign Coins in the Collection Plate! Fairly frequently foreign coins appear in the collection plate and our long suffering Treasurer replaces the offending item. Please carefully check any coins for the Collection Plate and ensure that they are Australian currency. Planned-Giving Scheme Thank you for participating in the Planned-Giving Scheme for our church. The statements for the last quarter are now available. Please find them on the table in the foyer. The Planned-Giving Scheme helps our church to make its annual budget. Anyone who would like to join or rejoin in this scheme for next year is welcome to do so. Please contact Min or Cynthia for the pledge form to fill in. Miin The Recorder Packs of Fun Anglicare has a terrific new project some young people of our parish will be promoting over the next six weeks - 'Pack of Fun'. We will try to fill a couple of backpacks for refugee children settling with their families in South Australia. If you would like to contribute something or make a donation, just tick off an item from the sheet or make a donation to one of the Senior Sunday School young people. RONBLOG on today’s readings It has long been said that without inquisitive and exploring human beings, we would still be living in caves and wearing animal skins, probably even trying to live without the wheel. Most human progress has relied on a tiny handful who had not been satisfied with ‘the way things were.’ Thank God for them, and for the disturbance they raised and the outcomes of their respective struggles. But why is it, even in our own rather push-button age, that most people seem to want the moon yet refuse to move out of their comfort zone in the search for it? Scripture is full of stories of people dissatisfied with the pious and pat answers purveyed by those who should have known better. The book of Job is a quite vivid example, as the star of the story searched for answers to the great issues he had to face. The very person who should have been the most help to him was herself a disaster area!!! It would have been enough to drive a person to drink! If you know the book, you will be aware that Job was surrounded by a trio of quite useless human beings, who could offer no more than the pathetic orthodoxy of the time, insisting that this experience was karma for all of Job’s sins. You may well have come across people even today whose refusal to go past their boundaries do nothing but hold other people back from far better discoveries. Two passages today underline what strikes me as the most important way forward. There are no quick fixes, no buttons to press, but rather the slower and far more effective process of looking where the issues point. Truth, honesty, being fair dinkum are the only tools, and even then the answers may be a long way off. But one needs only to offer illustration from real life to show how rarely the realities or the facts are called upon to find a way forward So that person who asked the question of Jesus had enough in him to earn the respect of our Lord. That says a great deal about the man. But there was one area of truth that he was not prepared to head or to commit himself. Mind you, it was a rather hard direction, even if it underlined the basis on which that person had erected his security. He was not prepared to lose his security whatever else it might mean to others less fortunate. Not too many of us would be so prepared. Would we? The Rev’d Canon Ian Barlow, of Clare, and The Venerable (Emeritus, Adelaide) Conrad Patterson were Ordained Priests by The Rt Rev’d T E Jones in the Church of St Augustine, Port Augusta on St Thomas. Day, December 21st, 1962. On St Thomas’ Day, in the Church of The Good Shepherd, Plympton, where Fr Ian developed his lay ministry and where Fr. Conrad worships when he is home, there is to be a Eucharist, celebrated by the Archdeacon, and the Sermon preached by the Canon on Friday evening, December 21st, at 6.00 pm. Contact Fr. Conrad for more info— so was Fr. Ron in Sydney that day. A vacancy has recently opened within the Adelaide Diocese for an Administrative Assistant working with Diocesan Office and The Professional Standards office. Please see attached the job description for the role of Diocesan Administration Assistant. Interested applicants should write a letter of no more than two pages to the Registrar outlining their suitability for the position. Applications close Friday, 19 October 2012. Diocesan Administration Assistant Roles and Responsibilities Reports to: Professional Standards Director (and TBC) Position Status: Permanent-Part time; Initial 12 month contract PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS: The position reports to the Professional Standards Director and is accountable to the Professional Standards Director for the delivery of quality and administrative support and services in the Professional Standards directorate. The position works independently in an office, shared with the Professional Standards Director, located outside the main Diocesan Office. The position has contact with clergy and lay members of the Diocese, and members of the public. DIOCESAN OFFICE (including SAFER MINISTRY ACCREDITATION [Screening and Education]: The position works within the Diocesan Office and responsible for the scheduling and arrangements for delivery of Safer Ministry Education and regular monitoring and screening for clergy and laity licenses. From time to time, there may be the requirement to assist with the day to day workings of the Diocesan Office. Employment Conditions •This is a permanent part-time position (0.8FTE), offered on an initial 12 month contract. •Flexible working hours are possible. Work may take place on days other than the regular work days by prior arrangement. The position may require some work outside the normal hours specified, including evenings. This out of hours work is an exception to the terms of your employment and no additional payment or benefit will be paid for or given for such out of hours work unless it has been previously agreed to by your manager. Where time in lieu is provided it will be at the rate of one hour for every hour worked. • To be an active member of the Anglican Church, or to be empathetic to the values of the Anglican Church • To be subject to background checks as required by the Diocese’s Safer Ministry screening process for lay church workers • To sign a confidentiality agreement • To hold a current driver’s licence and be willing to drive •To be prepared to travel both intra and interstate as required Page 2 of 3 Roles and Responsibilities – Professional Standards Administrative Services •Provide a confidential administrative service to the Professional Standards Director. •Monitor telephone and email inquiries to the office Professional Standards office and provide a timely and appropriate response, within client services guidelines. •Provide word processing, filing, mailing, correspondence, photocopying and appropriate recording and records management systems services to the Professional Standards Director. •Prepare materials for meetings for the Professional Standards Director. •Draft routine correspondence and prepare other documents, presentation material and correspondence for the Professional Standards Director. •Coordinate travel arrangements for the Professional Standards Director. Records Management and Office Administration •Develop and maintain the Professional Standard’s Access database, recording the status of notification information. •Conduct queries and produce reports from the database. •Develop and maintain both hard copy and electronic filing systems. •Develop and maintain the administrative systems in the Professional Standards Office. •Coordinate presentations and training conducted by the Professional Standards Director. •Provide the information required from the Professional Standards office to ensure the Diocesan website is kept up to date. •Liaise with Diocesan Office in relation to accounting, property and purchasing services. Executive Support Services •Provide support services to meetings of the Professional Standards Committee including the assisting the Professional Standards Director in the preparation and distribution of the agenda, papers and minutes. •Perform the role of Secretary of the Professional Standards Committee by maintaining the minutes of Professional Standards Committee and record resolutions on the Professional Standards database. •May be required to act as Secretary to the Professional Standards Board. Roles and Responsibilities – Safer Ministry Accreditation Administrative Services •Monitor telephone and email enquiries and provide a timely and appropriate response. •Provide filing, mailing, correspondence, photocopying and appropriate recording and records management services as needed. •Draft routine correspondence and prepare other documents, presentation material and correspondence for the Safer Ministry Educators. •Coordination of venues for Safer Ministry Education. •Confirmation of education/training with attendees. •Process incoming clergy and laity license applications in line with the Safer Ministry Accreditation guidelines. •Preparation of laity licenses. Out of Office Services •Preparation of venue for Safer Ministry Education. .../cont’d Page 3 of 3 Records Management and Office Administration •Maintain the Diocesan Access database, recording the status of individual’s Education/Training and screening. •Conduct queries and produce reports from the database as requested. •Maintain the Diocesan Access database, recording the status of individuals’ Safer Ministry Accreditation. •Provide the information required for Safer Ministry Education to ensure the Diocesan website is kept up to date. •Maintain policies and procedures for Safer Ministry Accreditation for the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide. Occupational Health and Safety •Adhere to OHS&W policies and procedures including the utilisation of personal protective and other safety equipment, and to ensure own action or lack of action does place at risk own health and safety or that of others at the workplace; •If required, participate in OHS&W training and development programs and consultative processes; •Assist in the evaluation of hazards and in the implementation of control measures and report immediately all accidents, hazards and near misses; •Report for duties in a fit state to perform allocated duties so as not to endanger own or other persons safety at work.

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Sunday 7th October, 2012 NINETEENTH SUNDAY OF PENTECOST Welcome to Alexander and his family Did Daylight Saving change catch you out? WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is back in action, young people! Collect for the day O God, Your Son has taught us that we must receive Your sovereign rule like a little child: help us to turn to You in faith and simplicity of heart, so that we may receive Your blessing and enter the kingdom Your Son has promised; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. Amen. Today’s Readings read by Caroline S Readings Job 1: 1:1 & 2: 1-10 and Hebrews 1: 1-4 & 2: 5—12 GOSPEL Mark 10: 2—16 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Jim (fighting cancer;) Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, (doing well, back playing piano!) Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Natasha Campbell, Dennis Smith and Janet Phillips. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Yvonne Myers HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— Mary Willoughby (2005) Fr. Allan Biggs (2000) Joyce Cook (1995) Maurice Paternoster (1999), PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Readings: Job 23: 1-9 & 16-17 and Hebrews 4: 12—16 GOSPEL Mark 10: 17—31 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.30pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm Sunday 14th at Daughtry’s home MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm SPECIAL NOTE FROM MUI: Mothers' Union will be holding a trading table on the Sunday 21st October—we suggest that you come prepared!!! WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 4.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway Station Bridge. FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE It is our turn to visit the wards and take patients to the service in the chapel on Sunday 14th October. Please be at the chapel by 10am to allow plenty of time. If you are able to help in this outreach to the community please come and join us. Enquiries to Jean Fordham ph. 8278 2837 Bonney Tomlinson will be away for a while soon and calls for volunteers for Morning Tea roster during her absence. At the time of printing, no one has offered, so there may be some lack of morning teas ahead of us!!! Church Spring Cleaning Working Bee Saturday 3rd of November Please make a diary note now!. Should anyone prefer to work during the week preceding, please note that St. John’s exams in the Hall preclude any work being done before 4.00 pm. Bottles and Cans and Cartons Readers are advised that these are still being called for, as the income goes towards Children’s and youth ministry. Please leave these in the Germein Room for Robyn to collect. Robyn Keynes thinks she has lent her book, Call the Midwife, to someone in the Church and asks for it to be returned please. Operation Christmas Child - Shoe Boxes There are still a few boxes left so please take one home to fill. Let’s beat last year’s total. Take a leaflet as well for further information. Return by middle of October please. Thanking you. Marlene Dixon. Retiring Collections for Interchurch School Chaplaincy—$397.75 was received, an excellent effort and our thanks to all who donated so generously. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Joy Campbell or Craig Deane Sunday after Barb Capon or Trevor Tregenza READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Trevor T Intercessor Wendy M Sunday after Reader Mary V Intercessor Warren SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Sue D-T (?) Brass Rosemary Conlon Cleaning Susan Lee Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Also there is to be a BBQ lunch after service on 25th November (can you remember that far ahead?) to mark the end of the Church Year and the move into Advent. A list will go up in the foyer, announcing this and asking for contributions of salads and sweets—usual procedure. Plan to be part of this event!!! Foreign Coins in the Collection Plate! Fairly frequently foreign coins appear in the collection plate and our long suffering Treasurer replaces the offending item with an Australian coin acceptable to our Bank from her own purse. This week it was a gold 10cent Euro coin which looked, at a casual glance, to be an Australian $2 coin. Could you all please carefully check any coins for the Collection Plate and ensure that they are Australian currency. Other coins are not accepted by the Bank. Many thanks for your co-operation. Yvonne Caddy RONBLOG on today’s section of JOB I have looked back to see if, over past years, I have told the story of my first real introduction to the Book of Job. It was in my early years at Theological College that an uncle of mine, brother of my Dad, was diagnosed with a particularly virulent and ugly form of cancer. His tongue was affected, and like most men then and farmers in particular, did nothing about it for so long that all became inoperable. Lawrence was a normal sort of person, Churchwarden at his Parish Church, and – like me – given to colourful language if the need arose. As I visited him in a Sydney Hospital, he wanted to know if his ailment was coming to him as a punishment from God, for some sin or sins he had committed. Like most people then - and even now sadly, - that is what we had understood. (In fact the Service of the Ministry to the Sick in the BCP expresses exactly that view, and the Churching of Women is equally squalid!) Why do Christians take so little notice of their own Scriptures? And part of the answer lies in the fact that other religions suffer from the same ailment. Back to Uncle. He expected a serious and significant response from his theological student nephew. The search began, looking for sources of Biblical information, that kept me turning to the Book of Job. Like many of us I had heard of Job’s (reputed) comforters though it was not until I struggled through the book that my patience with those hidebound people ran out. This story could be extended longer than any sermon should be, but the outcome was as helpful to me as it was to Uncle. As the Job story evolved, and it did so rather very slowly, it emerged that, in the first instance, it became clear that the discovery showed that Job, sin and his ailment had no connection whatever. What did emerge – and this is the star issue – that the very search by Job found no other answer than the fact that the whole experience drew him far, far closer to the God Whom previously he had known only by reputation but now he knew far more intimately. My uncle found the same sort of outcome!

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Sunday 30th September, 2012 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY OF PENTECOST WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is in recess over School holidays Collect for the day O God, Your Son has taught us that those who give a cup of water in His name will not lose their reward: open our eyes to see those who are in need, and teach us to set no store by riches and earthly rewards, so that, in surrendering ourselves to serve You in Your children, we may labour for the treasure that endures; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Today’s Readings Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost read by Hal S- Readings Esther 7:1 ...22 and James 5: 12—20 GOSPEL Mark 9:38—50 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Ben L We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Jim (fighting cancer;) Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, (doing well, back playing piano!) Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Pat Pater, Susan Daulby, Natasha Campbell, Dennis Smith and Janet Phillips. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Warren Huffa (late) Thomas Downes HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— Eddie Schmidt (2001), Marjorie Norton (1990) John Halstead (1995) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Readings Job 1: 1:1 & 2: 1-10 and Hebrews 1: 1-4 & 2: 5—12 GOSPEL Mark 10: 2—16 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.45pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm Sunday 30th at Daughtry’s home SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm SPECIAL NOTE FROM MUI: Mothers' Union will be holding a trading table on the Sunday 21st October—we suggest that you come prepared!!! WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 4.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. That means next Saturday!!! FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE It is our turn to visit the wards and take patients to the service in the chapel on Sunday 14th October. Please be at the chapel by 10am to allow plenty of time. If you are able to help in this outreach to the community please come and join us. Enquiries to Jean Fordham ph. 8278 2837 Bonney Tomlinson will be away for a while soon and calls for volunteers for Morning Tea roster during her absence. Please see Bonney herself in the kitchen after Church. Church Spring Cleaning Working Bee Saturday 3rd of November Please make a diary note now!. Should anyone prefer to work during the week preceding, please note that St. John’s exams in the Hall preclude any work being done before 4.00 pm. Bottles and Cans and Cartons Readers are advised that these are still being called for, as the income goes towards Children’s and youth ministry. Please leave these in the Germein Room for Robyn to collect. Operation Christmas Child - Shoe Boxes There are still a few boxes left so please take one home to fill. Let’s beat last year’s total. Take a leaflet as well for further information. Return by middle of October please. Thanking you. Marlene Dixon. Retiring Collections for Interchurch School Chaplaincy—$397.75 was received, an excellent effort and our thanks to all who donated so generously. Has everyone noticed the marvellous job Craig Deane has done on the steel chairs in the Church? Beautifully coloured and upholstered! Thanks, Craig! 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Jill Hillbig or Barb Capon Sunday after Joy Campbell or Craig Deane READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Caroline S Intercessor Mary V Sunday after Reader Trevor T Intercessor Wendy M SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Iris Downes Brass Yvonne Caddy Cleaning Group 2 Mary V mentioned the project for making stoles for Stephen and would appreciate offers of help in making same. Contact Mary if you are able to assist. Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Inter-Church Family Picnic Day - 7th October The Inter-Church Council is winding back the clock for a family day out. Please mark this event in your diary and plan to join the local churches at the Weymouth Oval, Coromandel Valley for a good old fashioned church picnic on Sunday 7th October from 12.30pm – 4.00 pm. Bring your lunch and picnic gear (rug, chairs etc.). This event is part of the Coro Alive 175 celebrations marking the first settlement of Coromandel Valley in 1837 – “they jumped ship to settle at Coromandel Valley”! 40 Hour Famine Ross Hill-Brown would like to thank all those who supported him in taking part in the 40 Hour Famine and he is pleased to announce family Hill-Brown reached its target of $400." RONBLOG on today’s Readings Salt ….. Have I told you before of the time, many years ago, when a busload of Adelaide students was travelling down the Oodnadatta Track (and it was no easy journey in those days!) and the vehicle broke down a few miles north of the William Creek pub, which was far less-well-known then than it is now, and far less well equipped. One of the teachers volunteered to walk to the hotel for help in the heat of summer, and set off expecting to reach his destination, about eight kms away. Time passed, and no rescue came for the students – and there would have been minimal traffic around then. It emerged subsequently that the volunteer never made it, perishing on the road as he had neither water nor salt – both elements absolutely essential in those hot and dry conditions even today. Back to salt: too much of it is damaging; yet none renders things tasteless. Changing expressions, asking or offering is more productive than demanding; serving is better than ordering. And it is not just in the New Testament that we find such wisdom appearing, but also in the Old. Now, to be a servant is hardly attractive stuff these days, now is it? It all sounds so meek and mild and pathetic. So it is if your ego is at stake; but if the issue is not me but all of us, then the reality has to move away from power, force, violence and destruction. One of the saddest lessons never learnt by humans was that World War I was meant to be the ‘war to end all wars.’ When will we ever learn? So the answer lies largely in the need for followers of Jesus to be followers of Jesus. ST BARNABAS’COLLEGE VALEDICTORY SERVICE CELEBRATION OF GRADUANDS St Andrew’s Walkerville Friday, 9 November 2012, 6.30 pm Please join us for this celebration of the College’s first graduands from Charles Sturt University PREACHER: The Rev’d Jenny Wilson 6:30PM Evensong (robing from 6.15) 7:30PM Drinks and Supper - Hall Please let us know by 1 November 2012 if you are coming to our celebration: admin@sbtc.org.au; or 8340 0411 An offering will be collected for the work of the College

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Sunday 23rd September, 2012 SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY OF PENTECOST WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Breakfast is available in the Hall after the 8 am service and morning tea after the 10 am. All are welcome. Sunday School is in recess over School holidays Collect for the day God and Father of all, You have taught us through Your Son that the last shall be first, and have made a little child the measure of Your kingdom: give us the wisdom from above, so that we may understand that in Your sight the one who serves is the greatest of all. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Today’s Readings Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost read by Arndrae L Readings Proverbs 31: 10—31 James 3: 1—12 GOSPEL Mark 9: 30—37 PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Vanessa D We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Dianne Cordes. Jim (fighting cancer;) Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, Ann Daughtry, Dennis and Walter, Chris Barber, Natasha Campbell, Dennis Smith and Janet Phillips. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Gary Campbell, Sue Harry HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— John Newland (1987) Trevor Tomlinson (2002) Dallas Bruse (2007) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings Esther 7:1 ...22 and James 5: 12—20 GOSPEL Mark 9:38—50 REGULAR GROUPS AND BOOKINGS PRAYER CIRCLE meets noon on the 2nd Tuesday each month at 36 Penno Parade North BIBLE STUDY 10am Wednesdays at Pressley’s THURSDAY 9.30am Eucharist 5.45pm Evening Prayer with Wendy YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP 5pm Sunday 30th at Daughtry’s home SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome MOTHERS’ UNION - meets third Thursdays each month at 2.00pm WALKING CHURCH First Saturday of each month at 4.00pm at Belair National Park gates near railway station bridge. Operation Christmas Child - Samaritans Purse Please take and fill a shoe box from the table in the foyer. To be returned by middle of October. I would like to be able to send 25 boxes like we did last year. If in doubt see me. Thanking you Marlene Dixon. 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, and other types of assistance. Call Stephanie Lloyd 8278 4260 and Lucinda Hale 8278 8814 POWERPOINT ROSTER – Next Sunday Don Caddy or Cynthia Macintosh Sunday after Jill Hillbig or Barb Capon READER- AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Hal S-C Intercessor Ben Luks Sunday after Reader Caroline S Intercessor Mary V SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Noelene Carter Brass Sweet family Cleaning Susan Lee Mark your diary please ...... St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 Inter-Church Family Picnic Day - 7th October The Inter-Church Council is winding back the clock for a family day out. Please mark this event in your diary and plan to join the local churches at the Weymouth Oval, Coromandel Valley for a good old fashioned church picnic on Sunday 7th October from 12.30pm – 4.00 pm. Bring your lunch and picnic gear (rug, chairs etc.). This event is part of the Coro Alive 175 celebrations marking the first settlement of Coromandel Valley in 1837 – “they jumped ship to settle at Coromandel Valley”! 40 Hour Famine Ross Hill-Brown would like to thank all those who supported him in taking part in the 40 Hour Famine and he is pleased to announce family Hill-Brown reached its target of $400. RONBLOG on today’s OT Reading in particular This will certainly raise the ire of some, but I ask then to be patient as the story unfolds to its conclusion. It was many years ago now, around 35-odd, at the height of the Feminist struggle, especially within the Church. The Bishop of the time has asked me to be our rep at the Council of Churches annual gathering so I went as requested. It took not more than a few moments to realize that this body of people was entirely at the mercy of a rather large band of vociferous and pugnacious women, who used every opportunity to nail their colours to the mast and prove themselves superior. At that stage in my life, I could manage to cope with most people, situations and things, but this was becoming something of a very unpleasant experience. The agenda had nothing to do with Council of Churches – and everything to do with their demands. Whatever contribution or comment I or anyone made was mis-read and mistranslated as being an expression of male superiority. Being the fourth child in our family after three girls, and having never had any superior airs for that reason, it was all rather bewildering—and actually stupid and self-destructive. In the end, I exploded gently, suggesting that the agenda for the gathering be brought back to the issues that were listed. As you might imagine, I was over-ruled with considerable noise, and I determined not to return next year. Whilst I understood that the womenfolk must have felt similarly whenever they found themselves over-ruled, I have never had any sympathy with any revolution that simply changes the roles of oppressed and oppressor. I doubt if you have either! If you want the best illustration of what I mean, then hang on to your hat. The example par excellence, is the Cross of Christ. There was your Lord, facing all the expression of power and control of the time, quietly showing it up for its falsity, even allowing it to express its power over life and death, and yet simply, as Servant, beating it at its own game. What is more, He still left room for those rather hideous perpetrators to stop and realize what they had done, repent from their actions, and change direction. It cost Jesus His life, but then being true often has that sort of outcome. It is no mistake that, over 2,000 years from that event, our Lord is neither forgotten nor despised by a very large proportion of the population of the world. The radical love of Jesus as seen though the eyes of a young man named Francis: How can this generation show God's love to the world? A ONE-DAY SEMINAR presented by The Third Order Society of St Francis (SA) Cost: Free for all Date: Saturday 6th October 2012 9:00am to 9:00pm Venue: St Paul's Anglican Church, Port Adelaide in St Vincent Street, in front of the Birkenhead bridge Please bring: A plate to share for lunch and/or a salad or dessert for dinner More information: St Paul’s Church Office - 8447 7050 or 0421 278 345 (David) or 0419 800 542 (Wayne