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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!