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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