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11 September 2016 
17th Sunday after Pentecost

Weekly Bulletin

Welcome to everyone visiting our churches! Our services are all slightly different, but each offers a friendly space in which you can worship God and be part of God’s community.

St Andrew’s at 8am: Holy Communion is a less formal worship service. The first Sunday of the month is usually Morning Prayer.

St Luke’s at 10am: Holy Eucharist has a more formal style of worship. The Eucharist is also celebrated at St Luke’s on Thursdays at 8:30am.

St Andrew’s at 5pm: Sunday Night Live or 4:30pm: Messy Church (3rd Sunday of each month) is a space for families with children and the young at heart to join in informal and fun worship, discussion and activities.

At our Sunday morning services you will need the middle pages of this booklet to join in the prayers and the Psalm that we read together.

If you need a gluten-free wafer at Communion, please tell the person who welcomed you at the front door before the service.

In the coming week Today 3.00pm Pastoral Care-St Andrew's 5.00pm Sunday Night Live-St Andrew's

Monday 12 September 3.00pm Home Group-Verna Rice

Tuesday 13 September 9.00am Cottage Crafters-The Cottage 7.00pm Parish Council-The Cottage

Wednesday 14 September 9.30am Communion-Peninsula Village 9.30am Communion-Blue Wave 1.30pm Senior Citizens-St Andrews

Thursday 15 September 8.30am Communion-St Luke’s 10.00am Little Pelicans-St Andrew's 10.30am Coffee & Chat-Ruby's

Friday 16 September

Saturday 17 September

Next Sunday 18 September 8.00am Communion-St Andrew's 10.00am Eucharist-St Luke's 4.30pm Messy Church-St Andrew’s

Anglican Parish of Woy Woy

We pray in silence before worship

Before worship speak to God.

During worship let God speak to you.

After Worship speak to each other.

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From the Parish

Reflection Greetings

After departing St Andrew’s 11 days ago with Fr Michael's blessing on our mission trip to Coober Pedy it gives me great pleasure to report that it was a most successful trip and all ten of us have returned safely with some memorable stories to tell.

Enriched by the challenge of the journey each member used their gifting’s to perform tasks and duties so graciously welcomed by Pastors Geoff and Tracey Piggott for the underground church to which they are called to minister aptly named “Catacomb Church.” Duties such as high school and primary school religious instruction, men’s barbecue, women’s bible-study and MasterCook evening and of course Sunday church whereby a couple of us assisted Pastor Geoff in the school bus/van travel around the township to pick up the Sunday School students, a real treat indeed.

Coober Pedy is unique in that the only attraction for others to have settled there is opal mining except for the original land owners. Approximately 50% of the population live underground and their residents consist of the indigenous, prospectors, miners, general workers like teachers, small business and those that are escaping their past, this makes for a diverse mix of people living harmoniously from all pathways of life.

Pastors Geoff and Tracey believe they are called for such a time as this and have just extended

their ministry in Coober Pedy by another 2 years, having already been there for 4 years. Regardless of the enduring hardships they are serving God in the true sense of the word building faith in others and allowing tourists to do tours through their church and home 7 days a week, I believe that would be a gruelling experience just having strangers through your home every day however they are always welcoming with a great smile. This small and dusty community lives respectfully surrounded by salt bush, opal mines and mulga scrub.

I give thanks to those that joined this mission trip under the fearless guidance of our gracious and loving leader Rosemary Gillham, I understand why Our Lord has entrusted Rosemary with big tasks such as this. The camaraderie and fellowship was outstanding and what a true gift to one another we all are as brothers and sisters in Christ. Each one of us has something that we can take from this mission and hopefully pass on to others. Things such as learning more about ourselves in serving and observing the ways of a small community and where we fit in our own parish of Woy Woy, such an uplifting experience can only benefit ourselves and the community we live in.

Each one of us has been influenced by Catacomb Church Coober Pedy and hope that you also would feel encouraged to pray for them and support BCA Ministry to which they belong. If by any chance you have an opportunity to do a mission trip I would like to encourage you in serving Our Lord Jesus by going on a mission such as this. Julie-Anne

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Coober Pedy BCA Representatives - Geoff and Tracey Piggott

From the Parish

Offertory Envelopes

New offertory envelopes are now available at door of church. Please indicate on the list that you have taken yours. There are spare envelopes if you would like to make your giving in this way. Please enter you name on the list against the envelope number taken.

Wednesday Evening Bible Study

The Wednesday Evening Bible Study at the home of Rosemary Bond will be in recess from Wednesday 31st August and will reconvene on Wednesday 5th October. For further information, contact Rosemary on 4344 6298.

Fashion Parade

Volunteers are needed for modelling, all shapes and sizes. Sizes 10, 14, 16, 20, 22? Please contact Fudges, 4341 1191 or Olga 4341 7181. Please support this major Parish fundraiser.
Tickets are available from office and Fudges. St Luke's - Denise, St Andrew's - Olga

The Team in Coober Pedy Church

The Catacomb Church, Coober Pedy

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We pray in silence before worship As you prepare for this morning’s service please pray for yourself and those around you. You might like to reflect on this thought for the week:

I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

Luke 15.10

The prayer of the day Undaunted you seek the lost, O God, exultant you bring home the found: touch our hearts with grateful wonder at the tenderness of your forbearing love; grant us delight in the mercy that has found us; and bring all to rejoice at the feast of forgiven sinners. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. Amen.

Today’s readings Jeremiah 4.11-12,22-28 Psalm 14 1 Timothy 1.1-2,12-19a Luke 15.1-10 8.00am Jean White Barbara Fox 10.00am Nicola O'Regan Les Smith

This morning’s hymns 154 Great is your faithfulness 223 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds 690 Beauty for brokenness 349 In the cross of Christ I glory 571 Forth in your name

For our prayers this week Please pray for: Women's Refuges in Taree and Kempsey

Wider Community: The First Peoples of the Diocese. The Queen of Australia, the Governor General and the Governor, Royal Commissions as they undertake their work.

Anglican Cycle of Prayer The Diocese of Guadalcanal. The Anglican Church of Kenya. Lutheran Church of Aust.

In the Diocese of Newcastle: Our Bishops Gregory and Peter, the priests and people of Morpeth, Mt Vincent and Weston and Raymond Terrace

In the Parish of Woy Woy: We pray for our ministry team, Fr Michael, Fr Peter, and Julie-Anne, and we pray for ourselves and the work we do in the mission of this parish.

For those seeking God’s help: Margaret Allen, Helen Baker, Gwen Ball, Gabriella Bulloch, Clare, Rex Crisp, Daphne, Desmond, Brett Donnelly, Frank Flint, Sharon Jones, Ivan Kinny, Dorothy Perks, Cecily Prentice, Jennifer, Elaine Rand, Lucy Roy, Lorraine Smith, Joan Williamson, Finn Wilson,Leith Woodward,Mary,Marie&family. Lorraine & Jeff Long following the death of her brother. The family and friends of Angela Richardson - funeral to be held Monday, 11am St Luke's Would those who wish to include names in the above list, please ensure that permission has been obtained from that person or their carer.

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Readings for this week

Jeremiah 4.11-12, 22-28

  At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights in the desert towards my poor people, not to winnow or cleanse— a wind too strong for that. Now it is I who speak in judgement against them. ‘For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but do not know how to do good.’

I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light. I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. I looked, and lo, there was no one at all, and all the birds of the air had fled. I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.

For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. Because of this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above grow black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back.

Psalm 14

(To be said by alternate half verse)

1 Fools have said in their hearts ‘There is no God’: they have all become vile and abominable in their doings, there is not one that does good. 2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of Adam: to see if there were any who would act wisely and seek after God. 3 But they have all turned out of the way, they have all alike become corrupt: there is none that does good, no not one. 4 Are all the evildoers devoid of understanding: who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not pray to the Lord? 5 They shall be struck with terror: for God is with the company of the righteous. 6 Though they frustrate the poor in their hopes: surely the Lord is their refuge. 7 O that deliverance for Israel might come forth from Zion: when the Lord turns again the fortunes of his people, then shall Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.

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1 Timothy 1.1-2, 12-19a

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Saviour and of Christ Jesus our hope, To Timothy, my loyal child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost. But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making me an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

I am giving you these instructions, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, having faith and a good conscience.

The Gospel: Luke 15.1-10

Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’

So he told them this parable: ‘Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, saying to them, “Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.” Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

‘Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, “Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.” Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.’ New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.For next week

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For next week Readings 18th Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 8.18-9.1 Psalm 79.1-9 1 Timothy 2.1-10 Luke 16.1-13 Hymns 134 Praise, my soul, the king of Heaven 145 The king of love 347 We sing the praise 650 Brother, sister, let me serve you 231 At the name of Jesus

Notices

Coastal Mission Day

The annual CMS mission day Saturday, October 15th - 9.30am - 2.30pm at the EV Church, 331 Terrigal Drive. Erina. Bible speaker – Simon Gillham,

‘IS YOUR GOD TOO small?’ Meet missionaries from many countries. Good Food and coffee for sale. $10 - Register online at www.cms.org.au/cmd

BCA Boxes

BCA boxes are due for collection in September. Please bring yours to church or to the office ASAP.

If you require a receipt please tick the appropriate spot under the box.

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The Collect is from A Prayer Book for Australia © 1995 Anglican Church of Australia Trust Corporation, published under the imprint Broughton Books.

Generosity

Thank you This week we say thank you to Jean White for laundering and care of linen at both St Andrew's and St Luke's. Thank you for the work that you do.

Samaritans Please remember to bring non-perishable food items and place them in the baskets provided near the door of the church for the work of the Samaritans organisation in our diocese.

Direct giving Thank you for your generous financial giving to the mission of our parish. We encourage parishioners to give directly to the ‘Anglican Parish of Woy Woy’ account: BSB 032-527 ACCOUNT 228059.

Reminder If you would like a notice in the bulletin please give information to office staff by Thursday for inclusion in the bulletin the following Sunday.

Parish Churches St Luke's: 151 Blackwall Rd, Woy Woy(opposite Park Rd) St Andrew's 360 Ocean Beach Rd,Umina(near Albion St)

Ministry Team Parish Priest: Fr Michael Davies Mobile phone: 0417 650 805 Email: mdavies0968@gmail.com Day off Monday. Associate Priest: Fr Peter Mumford Phone: (02) 4322 9121 Email: ptierm@gmail.com Normally available Sundays and Wednesdays Children & Family Worker: Ms Julie-Anne West Phone: 0412 796 315 Email: j.west57@optusnet.com.au. Not available Monday or Tuesday

The Cottage: parish office, op-shop and community space 151 Blackwall Road, Woy Woy 2256 PO Box 709, Woy Woy 2256 Phone: (02) 4344 1347 Website: www.woywoyanglican.org E-mail: woywoyanglican@gmail.com 9.00 am to 4.00 pm Tuesday to Friday


Refreshments are served after each of the services. We would love you to join us! At St Andrew’s, refreshments are served in the foyer, and at St Lukes in the church hall.

At the end of the service, please introduce yourself so that we can welcome you properly. Ask for our Welcome Pack, which offers more information about who we are and what we do.

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