Newsletter

Sunday 31st March, 2013 EASTER 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 well into action Collect for today: God of glory, fill Your Church with the power that flows from Christ’s resurrection, that, in the midst of this sinful world, it may signal the beginning of a renewed humanity, raised to new life with Christ, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever Amen Today’s Readings Easter read by Trevor T Readings Acts 10: 34—43 and 1 Corinthian 15: 19 - 26 GOSPEL John 20: 1—19 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, Jan and Mollie, Eddy Klose, Allan Pressley, Ben Forster and Leslie Kay HAPPY BIRTHDAY Angus Bruce, Paul Hilbig HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - YEAR’S MIND— Jeannie Moffatt (2008) Audrey Windram (1999) Ronald Dickson (2010) William Spencer (1996) PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY Easter 2 Readings Acts 5: 27—32 and Revelation 1: 4—8 GOSPEL John 20: 19—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 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. Next Saturday is the day! GREAT BIG THANK YOU Our very great thanks go to all those people involved in the previ-ous READY SET GO FOR EASTER event. It was a fairly noisy time, but warmly appreciated by those who came and those who did all the work. Catch your breath, everyone, till next time!!!! One result of last Sunday’s Annual Meeting was David Hall’s resignation as Warden. Our great thanks go to him for his contribution in that role. That no one offered for the position makes a statement of the difficulty of the position! Friday Morning HI Tea and Coffee is on again from 8.30am. Don’t miss the chance for a yarn . CHAPEL SERVICES AT FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE Holy Innocents' parish is rostered to help on four occasions each year. We visit patients in the wards and take those who are able, to the service in the chapel at 11am. We also make a list of people who would like us to pray for them during the service. The NEXT date is 14th April, Helpers are asked to be at the chapel by 10am. If anyone would like to be part of this worthwhile and rewarding ministry, please speak to me or phone me on 8278 2837. Jean Fordham. Delivery of food offerings to the Magdalene Centre Offers from parishioners who could help in the transport of the weekly food offerings to the Magdalen Centre in Angas Street, Adelaide, would be welcomed by Joan Durdin, who pre-pares the roster. Each driver's turn comes once every 6 or 7 weeks. It entails collecting the goods from the church, and taking them to the Centre in Angas Street, Adelaide. Please contact Joan (81780704) if you can assist in this way. 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 Min Araki or Cynthia Macintosh READER AND INTERCESSOR ROSTER Next Sunday Reader Mary V Intercessor Wendy M Sunday after Reader Family Araki Intercessor Sue D-T SANCTUARY ROSTER Next Sunday Flowers Sue D-T Brass Margaret Carruthers Cleaning Group 5 Parish Camp Friday 8 - Sunday 10 November 2013 at Pt Elliot Caravan Park Powered site $33/night Units $115/night, Cabins $90/night For more details refer notice board in the hall or contact Wendy Morecroft awsc@internode.on.net 0400576364 RONBLOG on today’s Readings Our Lord’s Cross and Resurrection are the pivots on which an alternative modus operandi for living is offered. No one is forced to accept it, but I have to say one is foolish to turn their back on it. This is not a matter of believing or refusing to believe in the (facts of the) Resurrection, but to head in the direction that those events point present. When one ponders the arrest, trial and execution of Jesus, one sees the dread hand of human refusal to follow where truth lies, and to destroy whoever stands in its path. The cross underlines the refusal of Jesus to retaliate (with 12 legions of angels, for in-stance) for to do so would be to do nothing other than to multiply the evil. In other words, evil is not destroyed by putting the perpetrators to death, or any other form of punishment, but by offering a solid and substantial alternative – a path most risky, but also most productive. First off, evil is—in Biblical terms, destroyed when it is shown up for what it is. Then you have the choice to avoid it …. And not to succumb to it. The Resurrection is making the statement that truth cannot be destroyed permanently but will always come back and face you; that love cannot be overcome but will rise again; that justice cannot be dealt with and destroyed, but will rise again just as Jesus did. One does not even need proof of the resurrection of Jesus to become aware of this – in fact simple observation of life and people and history will offer its own evidence that this is a moral universe despite all of our attempts to determine otherwise. All this is rather exciting stuff, and (as I have often argued with atheists) I must still follow Christ even if there is no life after this. Also, the refusal of the greater part of humanity to see the wonderful possibilities have no effect upon my commitment. Easter has moved life’s goal-posts, and it has to be said that this has always been the telos, the goal, the direction of the Hebrew-Christian Faith, and makes the most sense of life that I have ever encountered from any other source or philosophy or ism. (And yet, this has been the goal of all those human searches.) Church 29 Sheoak Road, Belair SA 5052 Post to PO Box 156 Belair SA 5052 Phone 08 8370 3530 Email innocents@adam.com.au Services Sunday 8.00am Holy Communion (APBA) 10.00am Contemporary Communion Thursday 9.30am Holy Communion MINISTRY TEAM Rector Rev’d Dr. Warren Huffa 83703530 Mob 0438 988 448 Wardens Sue Parham 0418816413 Hon. Priest Canon Ron Keynes 8298 7160 or ronpkeynes@internode.on.net Items for the Newsletter need to be sent to Fr. Ron by Tuesday afternoon please ……. Holy innocents Calendar https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=innocents.belair% 40gmail.com&ctz=Australia/Adelaide