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Sunday 19th August, 2012 TWELFTH 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 Collect Ever-living God, Your Son, Jesus Christ, gave Himself as living bread for the life of the world: give us such a knowledge of His presence that we may be strengthened and sustained by His risen life to serve you continually; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You in unity with the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Today’s Readings Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost read by Vanessa D Readings: 1 Kings 2:; 10-12 3:3 –14, and Ephesians 5: 11—21 GOSPEL John 6: 51—58 Those who follow my blogs may prefer to receive them by email.. If that is so, please email me to receive said notes. Or check it out on the Facebook page that Wendy has opened. 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;) Michelle and Jack,. Tommy Ferguson, Judith Manning, Bob Arnold, baby Mitchell, Helen, Yuri and family. Kathy Pennos, Danny Hodgson, Hilary Seith, Ann Daughtry, Rachel Milosevic, Dennis and Walter. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Wayne Parham HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Barb & Nick Capon, Wayne and Sue Parham YEAR’S MIND— Ted Newland (1993) Win Lamden (1992) Edith Biggs (2010) Rosemary Mayne (2005) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: 1 Kings 8: 22-30 & 41-43 and Ephesians 6:10-20 GOSPEL John 6: 56 –69 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 and Sue 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. Archbishop Driver will be here on 9th September, with the possibility of a Confirmation on the day. Warren asks if anyone wishes to reaffirm their baptism or Confirmation on that day to get in touch with him. Also please note that Cheryl Wiseman takes her vows as a member of the Order of St. Barnabas and Cecelia at Melrose on that day. Mitcham Council is keen for parishioners to have this information please. ‘ To improve traffic safety on Sheoak Road Mitcham Council has erected NO STANDING signs for a 30 metre section on the approaches to the bend opposite Holy Innocents. This will effect some parking but will help prevent the likelihood of a traffic accident.’ Michael Whiting Over the weekend Ross Hill-Brown is taking part in the World Vision Forty Hour Famine (finishing at midday after the 10.00 am service this morning). His aim is to raise $300. Over the next few weeks Ross can be sponsored for having taken part. Forty Dollars ($40) can help feed a family of five for a month. Donations can be made before by September 2012 through http://www.worldvision.com.au/40HF/ProfilePage.aspx?preferredurl=RossHillBrown . Donations can also be made by BPAY Biller Code: 199745 Ref: 600830400. Donations over $2 are tax deductible For a series of reasons, the Friday coffee morning will take a break from the last Friday in August (24th) and will re-open on 16th November. Please take careful note. The Schools Ministry Group will be held between September 9-17th 2012. On 16th, Sara Walding, the Christian Pastoral Support Worker at Belair Primary School, will be preaching." Also as part of this there will be an after service plate collection on 9th and 16th September for Christian Pastoral Support Workers (School Chaplains) and for the funding of transition bags. The Annual ABM Lamington Drive will take place towards the end of August. Orders for Lamingtons (at $10.00 per dozen) may be placed by writing your name and the number required on the yellow form on the notice board in the hall near the servery. Please make payment by placing your money in the box near the form. Also tick 'paid'. Lamingtons may be collected from the kitchen on Friday 31 August (p.m.) until Sunday 2 September. Joan Durdin Wendy Morecroft is the Administrator for the new Holy Innocents' Anglican Church Belair Facebook page. If you are on Facebook, please visit the page and press "Like" so that you will receive any updates. If you have news items that you would like to be uploaded to the page please email Wendy at awsc@internode.on.net or call 0400576364. 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 Eric D Intercessor Warren Sunday after Reader Iris D Intercessor Hal S-C SANCTUARY ROSTER Next week Flowers Audrey & Graham Bains Brass Yvonne Caddy Cleaning Group 4 Mark your diary please ...... (a) St John's Exams 29/10-14/11 The Bush Church Aid Society of Australia Annual Spring Lunch 14 September 2012 at 12:00pm at Holy Trinity, North Tce, Adelaide. Admission $15 each. Limited seating, bookings essential before 5 September 2012 to Helen or Vivien sa@bushchurchaid.com.au 8351 5950 RONBLOG on today’s Gospel I suspect that very many moderns would have difficulty with today’s Gospel... sounds like something ugly. It may help to go back a little to unwrap the power of this eating business. Please go back to Moses and Sinai and the Book of Exodus if you would. There Israel was losing hope for their journey through lack of sustenance. Manna and quail was the answer then, giving people strength to move on. Mind you, in that situation there was only sufficient food offered for each day. Jesus feeding was over-abundant. Of course, the food from Moses or Jesus, was simply a sort of parable for what one needs to keep going, progress and develop, and obviously pointed to something rather more significant than mere satisfaction of one’s gut!. What does a person need when living in a world in which conflict and dysfunction seem so often to be rife? The answer is to ponder the entire Gospel response to life and its bends and twists, to see that living with truth, equity, love and justice makes the most sense, and produces the best outcomes. There is no sense of superiority in this! It is pointing to where the best is possible for all involved. While it does mean subsuming one’s personal demands for the betterment of all, it does offer a clear and solid break from the usual checkmate situation. May I underline the complete lack of egotism in all this! When one sees Eucharist as illustrating all of our Lord’s response to conflict, all of His teaching and living, all that is clear and present in His Cross and resurrection, then a far clearer picture emerges, and makes far more composite sense. This all includes such risky things as refusing retaliation – as Jesus did in His arrest trial and execution. It also takes up all that the Psalm this week and the Epistle underlines, reminding us that the Gospel has more to do with redemption of life and living now than it does about getting to heaven.