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Cross and Keys Newsle/er
Saint Peter’s Church, Anglican Parish
of East Maitland
Michaelmas edition, October 2015
Welcome
We’re glad that you
have joined us! Leaders shared our vision with some
of our new members at the recent Welcome Reception
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Saint Peter’s Church, William StLeet
The Anglican Parish of
East Maitland
SerMing the Communities of Ashtonfield, East Maitland, Four Mile
Creek, Louth Park,
Metford, PitQacree and Tenambit
Mailing: P. O. Box 662 East Maitland NSW 2323 Telephone: (02)
4934 5303
E-mail: office@east`aitlandanglican.org
Parish Website: www.east`aitlandanglican.org Wedding Website:
www.hunterMalleyaeddings.info
The Parish Office is normally open on Monday to Friday from 9 am
to 12 noon and is the first point of contact for all parish
enquiries and bookings. If the office is unattended please leave a
message.
The best way to make an enquiry about Baptisms or Weddings is
through our websites.
Piano Recital
Saturday 24th October at 7.30 pm
We are delighted that our organ scholar, Shawn Hai, has agreed
to perform a piano recital for us.
Shawn is currently a Year 9 student at Hunter Valley Grammar
School, having earned a music scholarship there.
He has been playing piano for our Saturday Vigil Mass for
several months, and is currently preparing for his ATCL and A.
Mus.A exams on piano and playing 6th Grade cello. His other
interests are playing chess and he is a whizz on the Rubik’s
cube.
The recital will be held in church on Saturday 24th October for
an hour commencing at
7.30 pm. Light refreshments will be provided
following the 6 pm Vigil Mass and before the commencement of the
recital.
Please join us to enjoy Shawn’s extraordinary talent and to
support him.
Movie Afternoon: The Dressmaker
Sunday 8th November at 4 pm
Please join us for our next movie afternoon at Reading Cinema
Maitland for the viewing of The Dressmaker on Sunday 8th
November.
The cost is $25 per person which includes admission, pizza, wine
and fruit juice.
Please arrive at 4 pm, the movie commences at 4.30 pm.
As payment of seating now has to be made to the cinema prior to
the day of viewing we request payment by 25th October.
To secure your seat please place your name and phone number on
the list at the back of church or contact Judi Moore on 4930
0888.
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October 1st 6 pm: Two Bishop’s Dialogue 2nd 10.30 am: First
Friday Eucharist 2nd 6 pm: Stations of the Cross 2nd Petrus Pub
Night 3rd 8 am - 2 pm: GAPs Garage Sale Bruce Street Community
Centre
3rd & 4th Feast of St Michael & All Angels
Preacher:
Deacon Johnston Choir at Sung Mass
4th 12 noon: Friendship Lunch 6th Pre-Synod Meeting at
St
Paul’s Beresfield 9th 6.30 pm: Youth Group at
St Paul’s
Beresfield
10th & 11th Twentieth Weekend
after Pentecost
Preacher:
Deacon Brack
11th 4 pm: God Time Eucharist 15th 1 pm: Budget Meeting 16th
Petrus Bowling Night
17th & 18th Twenty-First Weekend
after Pentecost
Preacher: Archdeacon Battrick
19th 10 am: Mothers’ Union 21st 7 pm: Resourcing Team
23rd & 24th Diocesan Synod at Cathedral and Bishop Tyrrell
Anglican College
24th 2 pm: Baby Shower for Luisa
24th 7.30 pm: Piano Recital in Church by Organ Scholar Shawn
Hai
24th & 25th Twenty-Second Weekend
after Pentecost
Preacher: Scott Mudd
25th 4 pm: God Time Eucharist 27th 3 pm: Pastoral Care Meeting
28th 6.30 pm: Men’s Fellowship 30th 6.30 pm: Youth Group Eucharist
at St Peter’s
Parish Diarc October and November at a Glance
November 31st & 1st Feast of All Saints
Preacher: Father
Rothnie Choir at Sung Mass
1st 6 pm: All Souls’ Day Service of Remembrance &
Thanksgiving
2nd 6 pm: Requiem Eucharist for
All Souls
3rd 6 pm: Service of Hope for
Teen Depression
6th 10.30 am: First Friday Eucharist 6th 5.30 pm: Fun Time
Evening for Children and Young People 6th 6 pm: Stations of the
Cross 7th Petrus: Mud, Sweat and Tears
7th & 8th First Weekend of the
Kingdom Season
Preacher:
Archdeacon Battrick
8th 4 pm: God Time Eucharist 8th 4 pm: The Dressmaker Movie
Afternoon, Reading Cinema 11th 3 pm: Maintenance Work Group 12th 1
pm: Finance Working Group
14th & 15th Second Weekend of the
Kingdom Season
Preacher: Archdeacon Battrick
13th - 15th Youth Group Camp 15th 12 noon: Bring and Share Lunch
in Rectory Garden 16th 10 am: Mothers’ Union 18th 7 pm: Parish
Council 20th Petrus Pub Night
21st & 22nd Feast of Christ the King
Preacher: Deacon
Johnston Choir at 9.30 am
22nd 4 pm: God Time Eucharist 24th 3 pm: Pastoral Care Meeting
25th 6.30 pm: Men’s Fellowship 28th God Time Family Fun Day at
Walka Water Works
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Faith Ma/ers
Holy Baptism Elizabeth Brown meets with all of our baptism
families. Here she invites us to reflect on God’s gift to us of
Holy Baptism
Baptism is a very special way that we can experience God’s
presence in our lives.
It is the sign to us that every sin is forgiven and that we are
precious to our heavenly Father.
When water is sprinkled on the head of a baby or an adult, it is
a way of showing that they are washed clean of anything and
everything that would hold them back from God, giving them a
re-birth; and that through baptism they have been re-born as a
member of the Body of Christ.
Remembering our own baptism, undertaking it for ourselves, or
preparing for a child of ours to take part not only benefits the
person undergoing the experience, it also serves as a reminder to
us that we can have new life in Jesus, that everyone can start
again, and that we do not need to do anything to be worthy of God’s
love and grace.
Sometimes when we look at baptism as an item on a list of
traditions to uphold, we can miss the fact that baptism is all
about a relationship forming and growing between a person and
God.
What God desires most is not for us to be fulfilling tasks or
duties, but for him to be connected to his children – which is all
of us! This relationship has been prepared for, long before now,
but we celebrate its beginning at baptism.
Although it begins liturgically with the Rite of Baptism, it is
something that we nurture through our lives – just like any
friendship needs time and attention and love. We can develop this
relationship by getting to know God better, through worshipping
him, talking to him in prayer, reading about him in the Bible, and
connecting with others that follow him in a Church community.
When we love people, we show and express that love for each
other by physical signs and gestures – and the same principle is
true in Baptism. When we come to God, and things that are beyond
words, it is helpful to use signs and symbols to express what is
infinite.
We use three symbols in baptism – water, the sign of life, to
show that God washes away our sins and makes us clean – oil, as a
sign of dignity, setting the person apart for a role and a purpose
– and light, each person is given a candle, lit from our Easter
candle, to show that Christ’s light would light their path, and
lead their way.
Baptism is something that Jesus gave us as a way of being joined
to him and committed to him; it is a beautiful gift!
Patsy May Ross, with her parents,
baptised in August 2015
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Advance Notice of Changes to Christ`as SerMice Times Fr David
outlines the Staff Team’s plans for Christmas
This year we are planning to revise the schedule of our
Christmas services to respond to changes in worshipping patterns
that we have been noticing over recent years.
Our Christmas services over the last two years we have had the
highest number of Communicants since 2003. We hope that we are
continuing to move in the right direction.
However, it is clear from reviewing our attendance statistics
that the trend has been a move away from people participating in
worship on Christmas Day and instead attending in larger numbers on
Christmas Eve. This change is evidenced in both our visitors and
regular members of the congregation.
Last year we increased the number of services on Christmas Eve
by adding a second Family Christmas Eucharist, we intend to offer
both services again this year.
This year we are also planning to offer an identical service to
Midnight Mass at an earlier (additional) time for those who are no
longer able to participate at the late hour.
Recognising the changes in attendance patterns we will offer one
Eucharist on Christmas Day, and because Christmas Day is on a
Friday this year we will be offering one service on the Sunday that
follows two days later.
We will then return to our normal pattern of 6 pm on Saturday,
and 7.30 am and 9.30 am on Sunday.
As with any changes we will give this a go, and then review it
as we plan for Christmas in future years.
Christmas Schedule 2015 Christmas Eve (24th)
4 pm Family Christmas Eucharist with Junior Choir
6 pm Family Christmas Eucharist with Junior Choir
8.30 pm Early Midnight Mass
with Choir
11.30 pm Midnight Mass
with Choir
Christmas Day (25th)
8.30 am Christmas Day Eucharist
with Hymns One service
only
Weekend after Christmas (26th & 27th)
6 pm Saturday Vigil Eucharist
8.30 am Sunday Eucharist with Hymns
One service only
Weekend service times return to the normal schedule at the start
of January
Christmas Communicants 1979 - 2014
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Supporfing the Anglican Board of Mission Overseas Mission Lunch
We were delighted to welcome Robert McLean as the speaker at our
Overseas Mission Lunch in September.
Robert was able to worship with us across the weekend of the
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross before speaking at the
lunch.
Robert has worked for the Church’s national mission agency, the
Anglican Board of Mission, for the past seven years. In his role as
Partnerships Coordinator he acts to be a bridge between parishes
within the Anglican Church of Australia and ABM’s Overseas
Partners.
He enjoys meeting Anglicans from all around Australia and
beyond. Most recently he was privileged to see
first-hand the
exciting work of the Church in Cairo and in Israel-Palestine.
Robert’s lifelong interest in the Church began when he became a
choirboy at Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch in New Zealand.
He sang there again once he left secondary school and later at St
Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin. While at university he studied history
and theology. He is a Parish Councillor at St Paul’s Church,
Burwood in the Diocese of Sydney.
During his presentation, Robert was able to help us to
understand some of the complexities and opportunities of partnering
in mission with Christian communities in other countries.
The lunch raised $2,181.10 for our mission partners. In addition
funds collected from the mission giving pigs raised a further
$802.45. If you have not emptied your pig and would like to do so
please place it on the offertory plate when you are next in church
and take an empty pig from the back of Church.
Thank you to Lyn Bellamy, our Parish Mission Giving Secretary,
and her team for all their hard work.
If you are prevented from participating in worship,please
contact Deacon Will Johnston to arrange to receive the Sacrament of
Holy Communion in your home. Please also contact Deacon Will if
you
or someone you know would appreciate a pastoral visit (contact
information on the back page).
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Parishioners in Profile Rob & Kirsten Copas Kevin Short
spoke with Rob and Kirsten who, with their children Charlie and
Callie, have joined us this year
Rob Copas grew up in an idyllic setting on the waterfront at
Marks Point with a brother and two sisters.
Although baptised in the Anglican Church, Rob was raised as a
Roman Catholic, first attending Marks Point Primary School and
later Saint Mary’s at Gateshead for years 7 to 10, then Francis
Xavier at Hamilton for his senior years.
Following High School he attended the Newcastle Conservatorium
where he studied piano and Church music, graduating in 2003.
After graduation, Rob initially worked on contract teaching
keyboard in Melbourne schools whilst studying externally through
the University of New England, gaining a graduate diploma in
Education in 2006.
His first teaching appointment was at St Joseph’s East Gosford
in 2007, transferring to St Peter’s at Maitland the following year.
Between 2009 and 2013, Rob taught across Catholic Diocesan primary
schools teaching music. In 2014 he taught at Mary McKillop Catholic
College at Warnervale.
2015 saw Rob’s first permanent teaching appointment to Bishop
Tyrrell Anglican College at Fletcher, his specialist subjects being
music and religion.
Kirsten was a Maitland girl, first attending Woodberry Primary
School and later Francis Greenway High. She grew up with Anglican
parents but wasn’t baptised until 2006 at St Mary’s Maitland.
After completing a traineeship, she worked at Coles for 4 years,
leaving to study psychology full time. Kirsten completed an
internship with the Department of Health at Lithgow, returning to
live in Maitland in 2008, initially working with the department on
the Central Coast and then in 2010, contracting through ‘Head
Space’ and working with adolescents at Woodberry School.
Rob and Kirsten met in 2011 through a dating website. Initially
Kirsten rejected the ‘match’ but Rob, in the cyber sense at least
persisted and they met for coffee! I guess this makes them the
essence (I almost hate myself for that pun) of a modern couple! By
the first Sunday in Advent they were engaged… it must have been
good coffee?
They were married in 2012 at Sacred Heart, Hamilton and have
been blessed with two beautiful children, Charlie arriving in
April, 2013 and Callie almost exactly two years later.
Whilst relatively new to East Maitland they have found Saint
Peter’s to be a welcoming and friendly congregation. Rob and
Kirsten worship with their family at the 9.30 am Sung Mass and Rob
leads the music at the God Time Family Eucharist. We are very
pleased to have them amongst us.
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An opportunity to gather as an Ecumenical and Interfaith
community, with both Bishop Greg (Anglican) and Bishop Bill
(Catholic). Both Bishops invite you to share questions and concerns
with them to explore ways to further develop our relationships as a
Christian community.
You are warmly invited to attend the 2015
Two Bishop’s Dialogue.
To RSVP or for further details please contact Brooke Robinson at
the Diocesan Chancery Offices on 4979 1111 or email
[email protected].
WHEN Thursday 1 October 6.00pm - 9.00pm Light refreshments will
be served
WHERE Therry Centre Newcastle Rd, East Maitland
THEME Health and Wholeness
RSVP by Friday 25 September
Invitation
News in Brief GAPS Garage Sale
Saturday 3rd October
Our Grandparents as Parents Support Group are hosting a Garage
sale at the Bruce Street Community Hall on 3rd October from
8 am -
2 pm. There will be fresh produce, home baked goods, plants, bric a
brac and more! Come down and support this valuable community
outreach.
Baby Shower for Luisa Battrick
Saturday 24th October
We are organising a baby shower for Luisa Battrick at 2 pm on
24th October. Please mark the date in your diary and sign up at the
back of church to RSVP.
Please join us at both events if you are able!
Shaping the Futhre Parish Mission Action Plan The Parish Council
has adopted a Mission Action Plan to guide its leadership for the
next three years.
The plan seeks to further our work towards our vision of
‘Bringing humanity to life through hospitable welcome, generous
care, transcendent worship, spiritual learning and growing together
for all ages’.
The ministry priorities in the plan will focus our energies and
resources on:
• Further developing our worshipping life;
• Connecting with the local community through music;
• Connecting with families through God Time Family Mass;
• Connecting with the local community through our Christmas,
Easter and All Souls;
• Further developing our pastoral care within the Parish and at
Greenhills Lodge and Home;
• Welcoming and incorporating new members;
• Increasing advertising and promotion about our life;
• Community engagement with the housing commission areas in the
parish and Emergency Relief;
• Holding a parish mission in 2016;
• Strengthening our adult discipleship programmes;
• Further developing the Petrus Community;
• Expanding our family ministries.
We will seek to resource this vision through a series of
financial strategies and the continuing renewal and development of
our buildings and site.
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Maitland Archdeaconrc News iom our Anglican Neighbours Following
Fr James and Liz Cooper’s return to ministry in the Diocese of
Chichester in England, the Parish of Cessnock has been cared for by
Father John Southerden who has been acting as the locum. The
process for discerning a new Parish Priest for Cessnock has now
been completed and the new Rector is due to be announced in the
coming days.
Archdeacon Sonia Roulston is moving from the Parish of Morpeth
to be the full-time
Diocesan Archdeacon based in Newcastle. She
will leave the Parish in mid-October and a process has begun to
identify the next Parish Priest to serve in her place.
Please pray for the Parishes of Cessnock and Morpeth during this
time of transition.
Parish Family Wedding CongLathlations
to Aaron and Elizabeth
Brown
Aaron and Elizabeth were married in Church on Saturday 26th
September surrounded by family and friends.
We celebrate with them and assure them of our love and prayers
as they begin their married life together.
MinistLc Update News iom Deacon Will It has been a wonderful
past few months for me at Saint Peter’s in two of the main areas of
my responsibility.
Firstly in being given the responsibility for
co-ordinating a
great deal of the pastoral visiting that goes on in the Parish I
have been able to be more closely involved in helping people not
only by comforting them when they are sick or in some other kind of
difficulty, but in their spiritual lives as well, helping them to
explore the possibilities of prayer and devotion and who God might
be calling them to be.
This has involved a lot of visiting to people’s homes and
meeting them in other places and I thank those who I have had the
pleasure of visiting for being so accommodating and graciously open
with me by including me in their spiritual lives.
The second great blessing from God that I have been given here
is being one of the facilitators of the Petrus Community of young
people that meets for a weekly Bible study in my living room as
well as at other times for various social and discipleship
events.
We have spent a lot of really enjoyable time together talking
through spirituality and anything else that comes up.
It is a real pleasure to be ministering in such a dynamic
Parish. I hope you’re enjoying having me here as much as I like
being here!
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Details of regular activities are available in the Welcome
Booklet at the back of church and in the weekly liturgy booklets.
Contact details for leaders of activities are available in the
Welcome Booklet or from the Parish Office.
Visit our Website: www.east`aitlandanglican.org Latest News and
Parish Diary + Watch Recent Sermons + Find out More about the Life
of our Parish
Music News Maitland Citc Choir Saint Peter’s Church was built
for the praises of God to reverberate around its walls. We were
delighted to welcome the Maitland City Choir and others to the
church on Sunday 13th September for a beautiful concert and
afternoon tea.
Thank you to all who made the afternoon a great success.
Men’s Fellowship Update Our Men’s fellowship has always been a
great forum for the men of the Parish to get together once a month
outside of our normal patterns of worship and have a chat, share a
meal, get to know each other better and then listen to a
speaker.
Our speakers are really diverse, we have heard a lot about a
great many different things and there is never a time when the
speakers have not been found to be engaging and thought provoking.
This is evidenced in the great deal of discussion afterwards when
there is often time for questions – which sometimes go longer than
the speaker’s presentation!
Recently we had our own Geoffrey Seccombe talk to us about
business, heritage and God among other things, and Tony Fry our
local Funeral Director talk about his life and work. They were two
great nights.
The dates for Men’s Fellowship in October and November are in
the Parish Diary, please plan to join us.
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Holy Baptism We welcome all those who have recently baptised
into the Body of Christ:
Theodore Hodder, Emily Wells, Patsy Ross, Oliver Glover, Allira
Lake, Kaleb Mowatt, Oliver Brown, Bailey Melmeth, Amelia Matthews,
Macayla Harris, Jasper Eliot and Jasper Steele.
Please pray for
them and for their families.
Holy MatLimony Please pray for those who have recently been
married or who are preparing for marriage in our church:
Elle Hickey and Matthew Brooks
Elizabeth Robinson and Aaron
Brown
Eryn Attard and Matthew Burke
Madeleine Lewin and Clayton
Cowley
Annabelle Fry and Daniel Farrugia
Rest in Peace Please pray for the souls of all who have died
recently, and amongst them for those whose funerals were held in
Church:
David Saxby, Marjorie Wyatt, Joyce Cook, Russell Wells, George
Begg and David Wilson
Pray too for those who mourn.
Welcome to Worship at
Saint Peter’s Church
SUNDAY 7 am Morning Prayer 7.30 am Holy Eucharist with Hymns
followed by refreshments 9.30 am Sung Mass with activities for
children, followed by refreshments 4 pm God Time: Family Eucharist
on the second and fourth Sunday afternoons of each month in the
Parish Hall except for the fourth Sunday in December and the second
Sunday in January
MONDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY 8 am Morning Prayer 8.30 am Mass
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
WEDNESDAY 7.30 am Morning Prayer 8 am Mass 5.30 pm Evening
Prayer FRIDAY 10 am Morning Prayer 10.30 am Healing Mass followed
by refreshments on the first Friday of each month except in January
5.30 pm Evening Prayer 6 pm Stations of the Cross
on the first
Friday of every month
SATURDAY 8 am Morning Prayer 5.30 pm Evening Prayer
6 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday followed by refreshments on the fourth
Saturday of each month
The Church building is open daily
from 8 am until 6 pm
for prayer & reflection
For Our Prayers Please pray for all who are sick and in need,
and amongst them for the following who we remember daily by name at
Morning and Evening Prayer:
Scott Birmingham, Mavis Capon, Greg
Clarke,
Edna Cooper, Betty Farley, Tracy Gehrke, Tom & Nancy
Greatorex, Victoria Hopkins, Paul & Roslyn Logue, Leo
O’Sullivan, Una Owens, Alma Richards, Scarlett Richardson, Anne
Salisbury, Wilma Saunders, Bruce Sellers and Erin Wilson.
Please let Fr David if we can pray for you or someone who you
know is need
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Parish MinistLc Staff Team …we are here to help you
David John Battrick BSG Parish Priest & Archdeacon for
[email protected]
Mobile: 0467 181
835
Father Peter Rothnie Associate
[email protected]
Mobile: 0438 413
007
Deacon Will Johnston
Assistant
[email protected]
Mobile: 0413 659
347
Elizabeth Brown Parish Families’
[email protected]
Mobile: 0422 101
448
Luisa Battrick Parish Community Development
[email protected]
Mobile: 0429 855
293
Deacon Wendy Brack TSSF Chaplain to Greenhills Lodge &
Nursing Home and Community Outreach Ministries
[email protected]
Mobile: 0409 045 202
Scott Mudd Personal Assistant to the Parish Priest &
Parish
Ministry Apprentice [email protected]
Mobile:
0411 191 864
Parish Leaders Yvonne Hinde Parish Councillor, Parish Treasurer
&
Co-ordinator of Hall Bookings
[email protected] Mobile: 0417 727 098
Peter Kirsop Parish Council Secretary, Legal Advisor,
&
Co-ordinator of Stewardship
[email protected] Telephone: (02) 4933 6407
Anne Page Church Warden, Work Health & Safety Officer &
Co-ordinator of Church Flowers [email protected]
Telephone: (02) 4934 3849
Canon Wilf Redden Associate Priest
[email protected] Telephone: (02) 4934 8130
Kay Sharp AM Church Warden & Director of Strategic
Development [email protected] Telephone: (02) 4933
4303
Evanne Sherringham Director of Music
[email protected] (02) 4934 8055
Kevin Short Church Warden & Site Manager
[email protected] Telephone: (02) 4932 4292
Parish Pastoral Workers Yvonne Bell
Parish Pastoral Worker &
Co-ordinator of Bereavement & Grief Support
[email protected]
Telephone: (02) 4930 7546
Judy Cordwell
Parish Pastoral Worker, Co-ordinator of
Pastoral
Partners & Co-ordinator of
Saint Peter’s Emergency Relief
[email protected] Telephone: (02) 4933
3273
Richard Fellows
Parish Pastoral Worker & Co-ordinator of
Hospital, Nursing Home & Home
Visiting
[email protected] Telephone: (02)
4932 0445
Dr John Page
Parish Pastoral Worker & Parish Theologian
[email protected]
Telephone: (02) 4934 3849
