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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.