REACHING OUT

September 8, 2019

Weekly News for Wodonga West and Rural Uniting Churches

Pentecost 13 Welcome to WORSHIP

9:00am Emmanuel Anglican and Uniting Church 11:00am Kergunyah Uniting Church.

Jeremiah 18:1-11, Psalm 139:1-6,13-18, Philemon 1-21, Luke 14:25-33

Now large crowds were travelling with him; and he turned and said to them,

‘Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children,

brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever

does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. For which of you,

intending to build a tower, does not

first sit down and estimate the cost,

to see whether he has enough to

complete it? Otherwise, when he

has laid a foundation and is not

able to finish, all who see it will

begin to ridicule him, saying, “This

fellow began to build and was not

able to finish.” Or what king, going

out to wage war against another

king, will not sit down first and

consider whether he is able with ten

thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? If he

cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for

the terms of peace. So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do

not give up all your possessions.

Luke14:25-33

Coming Events

Tue 10 Sep 9:30am Prayer Group meets at 113 Chapple Street Wodonga 10:00am Playgroup for children 0-5 years, parents and carers Wed 11 Sep 9:00am Emmanuel Grounds and Maintenance Group Tue 17 Sep 9:30am Prayer Group meets at 113 Chapple Street Wodonga 10:00am Playgroup for children 0-5 years, parents and carers Wed 18 Sep 9:00am Emmanuel Grounds and Maintenance Group 9:30am Community Shop committee meets at Emmanuel Sun 29 Sep 10:15am Congregation Meeting after worship Retiring Offering: Hospital Chaplaincy

Community Garden at Emmanuel

In recent weeks a team of dedicated people have been working hard to resurrect the vegetable garden beds in our church grounds. Unfortunately due to issues with the Birallee Park Neighbourhood House the garden boxes had become neglected and overgrown with weeds. Attempts were made at the start of the year to clean up the garden

beds with support from the Department of Justice outdoor work crews. However only two visits eventuated and nothing occurred after this. The gardens have now come under the stewardship of the church and community users are welcome to be involved in re-establishing and planting new seedlings. To get things going Carol Harris, Don and Hazel Barrett, Carol Clutterbuck and David Horsfall have been hard at work over the last two weeks to commence weeding and getting the vegetable boxes back to order. There is much yet to be done. An invitation is extended to everyone who might have time to spare and who love gardening to come along on Wednesday and give a hand. Hopefully we can reach a stage very soon to start Spring and Summer planting.

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Ministers of the Word & Other Contacts

UCA: Rev. Berlin Guerrero 02 6024 6842 or 0499 303 911 berlin_guerrero@yahoo.com [weekly RDO: Monday]

Anglican: Fr Jacques Jefferies 02 6024 2129 or 0434 063 069 stjohnsw@bigpond.net.au [weekly RDO: Friday]

Emmanuel Pastoral Care: speak with an Elder or Warden or Rev. Berlin

Emmanuel Prayer Chain: give requests to Betty Saggers on 0427 761 044

Address: PO Box 435, Wodonga 3689 Office Phone: Emmanuel Meeting Place: (02) 6059 5460 Office Open: Not staffed at present Reaching Out: Items to Harold Cover 02 6024 7929 hcover@bigpond.com by Wednesday. Website: http://www.emmanuel.unitingchurch.org.au/index/htm

bible Readings for NEXT Sunday

Pentecost 14 Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28, Psalm 14, 1 Timothy 1:12-17, Luke 15:1-10

Worship Services for NEXT WEEK 9:00am Emmanuel Anglican and Uniting Church

5:00pm Kergunyah Uniting Church

ON DUTY

Sunday Sept 8 (Uniting) Sunday Sept 15 (Anglican) Readings Harold Cover Roger Cobcroft Elders/Wardens Carol Harris Rod Clutterbuck Rod Clutterbuck Carol Harris Organist TBA TBA Prayers Rod Clutterbuck Betty Saggers Early Word Carol Harris Carol Clutterbuck

Prayer of the Week

World Council of Churches

Ghana, Nigeria We pray for:

those affected by violence and terrorism, and that such violent attacks might cease

leaders of churches, that they might speak out courageously against political, social and economic injustices

Just and peaceful relations between members of different ethnic groups and between Muslims and Christians

Those who suffer from malnutrition and diseases such as malaria, whooping cough and HIV and AIDS

Better stewardship of the environment and natural resources.

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The Kyneton daffodil festival unsurprisingly features ‘hosts of golden daffodils’ in plantations bordering the main entries to the town as well as throughout its local parks and in home gardens. Wordsworth would be delighted. This lovely display, with all the promise of spring and new birth it promotes, gives a charmingly simple introduction to other contemplations of the wonders of God’s Creation. Wordsworth sums up the pleasure of his encounter of a similar mass daffodil planting by a lake in a manner that we

might relate to whenever we recall such abundance:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

what wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Reflection: Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it. Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy. Psalm 96: 11-12

DANCING WITH THE DAFFODILS By Ian Menzies

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