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Funeral Service: The funeral of Sheila French, Bob Whelan’s mother, will be held on Tuesday, 17 September 2013 at 11.00 am at St John the Baptist, Lambton. Refreshments will follow in the hall. All are welcome to attend the funeral.

Safety in Ministry Training Day: The date advertised on the Internet as 28 October is incorrect. The correct date is 28 September, all other full training days are correct. Anyone who needs to have a Working with Children check and number will need to either complete a Safety in Ministry Training Day (full day). Alternatively, if you have previously completed the course, you will only need to complete a ‘refresher course’, which will be available soon.

Muddies Reunion: Saturday, 23 November 2013. Please see noticeboard for details.

Notices: Please see the noticeboard for a flyer ‘Kids @ the Cathedral’ and an email from Reverend Robyn Pullin on various matters.

Hospital Visitor’s Training: Rev John Dring is calling for volunteers to train as Hospital Visitors. Please see noticeboard for details.

Mission to Seafarers Trivia Night: Thursday night 26 September 2013. See noticeboard for details.

LOOKING AHEAD

11-13 October Spring Art Show Blessings Rev Canon Maree

Holy Communion: Home communion will be given today. Please pray for our extended faith community.

Also this Week: Mon 16/9 Rev Daphne’s day off Wed 18/9 9.00 am

10.00 am- 12.00 Noon 5.15 pm

Morning prayer with Daphne Turnbull. All welcome. St John’s Lollypops Playgroup AMS Meeting

Thur 19/9 SRE in schools.

St John’s Lollypops: Our playgroup is held each Wednesday from 10.00 am-12.00 Noon in the church hall. Families and children are welcome.

Mission Giving for September 2013 – Bush Church Aid. BCA share the gospel and care for people around Australia, field staff serve in remote areas and sparsely populated towns, some with as few as 100 people. Churches in these areas can struggle to maintain fellowship because of their isolation. God is the power that moves mountains. Please pray for the work of BCA.

Jeremiah 8: 18-91 1 Timothy 2: 1-10 Readings for

next week Psalm 79: 1-9 John 6: 41-51

PRAYER LIST Tracey Jenny Llyle Margaret M Eileen P Diana Bob C Del J Maurie A Jan Peggy Paul Coral Tom H Doris Jaymar Max Jack F Terry Elise Hazel Merv Sel Levi Daniel Margaret A Gladys P Alan Audrey

POEM FOR CREATION By Edith Sinclair Downing. ‘God, remind us you still trust in us to restore our blighted earth. Help us heal its suffering places Please for saving natures worth. Prod us to accept our calling: Answer now the silent cry of the forest and the rivers waiting for us to reply. You are present in all nature. Your own self is there expressed. Help us cease from our exploiting earth we’re called upon to bless. Ponder what we would be losing, Wild woods and fresh flowing streams. Spring would come without new flowering, Laying waste our hopes and dreams. Thank you for the gift of nature Holding life in its embrace. Strengthen us to work as partners with you in our time and place. Call us now to be restorers of our earth and of ourselves. Trusting in you Spirit’s guidance work to save our planets Health’.

FOCUS Storms are a fact of life. They are a force of nature that affects all of creation, the people, the animals, the trees, the rivers and the towns. When home and towns are ravaged by storms it often causes us to question our faith and understanding of God. For many people, storms of grief, illness or addiction

cause the same sense of powerlessness. We may have some experience of renewal after a storm in our lives, but for many the future will still be bleak. We will need to take time to consider what was lost in our ‘storm’ to track our fears, concerns and hopes. As we explore this powerful force in our lives we can also reflect that God is present in the midst of stormy times in our lives. I pray that we will come to a deeper understanding of God’s wisdom and power, which is beyond what we can express in words.

SPRING ART SHOW We are holding our Art Show on the weekend of 11-13 October 2013 There are wonderful handouts, in the foyer of both centres, for everyone to distribute. This is a Parish fundraiser and also an outreach. Please help, come along and enjoy. Bring your friends to this event. I will be asking people for some help over that weekend. You don’t have to buy to be part of this. Lots of prayers and support and just coming along to be the Parish in Lambton is what I am asking. We have a wonderful parish and want to show off our facilities and people to the community. If you need any more information please see Gina Parslow, who is the Co-ordinator with a committee that is organising this event.

PARISH OF LAMBTON St John the Baptist Lambton

St Margaret Jesmond

15 September 2013

Priest: Rev Canon Maree Armstrong

Phone: 4957 1073 Email: revmaree@bigpond.com

Pastoral Care Deacon: Rev Daphne Turnbull Phone: 4955 8284

Rector’s Warden: Gina Parslow Phone: 0448 308 637

Address: 18 Morehead Street, LAMBTON NSW 2299 Website: www.lambtonanglicanparish.com.au

Today’s Scripture Readings – Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

STORM SUNDAY Creation imagines and reflects the divine characteristics of God. The ocean examines God’s depths, the fauna and flora sing God’s abundance. Today we celebrate the storm. Words do not capture the power of God in the way thunder, lighting and strong winds can. In the storm, we confront how divine wisdom is beyond what we can describe and explain. We ask ourselves how we might move with the patterns of the weather and the Spirit, and follow the wisdom that creates sustains and redeems creation. Throughout scriptures, we see God’s people ask question about Wisdom’s source, role and present location. God answers through the unleashing of creation’s power and its harnessing, through the community’s response to suffering in their midst, and with the powerful witness of Jesus the Christ. We see glimpses of divine wisdom, enough to hope in its enduring presence and path towards our redemption, but it is God’s domain to know wisdom in its eternal fullness. Prayer O Wisdom, your power is unlimited and unceasing. Call us, wake us, bring our imaginations to and for life. Push us. Move us. Remove the barriers of our apathy and fill us with the courage to act with you guidance, and to trust in the wise and powerful Spirit that made and loved creation. Amen

Jeremiah 4: 11-12, 22-28 1 Timothy 1: 1-2, 12-19 Psalm 14 Luke 8: 22-25