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St John’s Anglican Church
Toorak with All Saints Kooyong
Welcome to The Anglican parish of St
John the Evangelist 86 Clendon Rd
Toorak VIC 3142 PH 98261765
Vicar
Archdeacon Dr Bradly S Billings
our mission statement
What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his son Jesus Christ. 1 John 1.3
6th October 2013 Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
8am Holy Communion A Prayer Book for Australia page 119
10am Sung Eucharist A Prayer Book for Australia page 119
NOTICES
Sunday evening Holy Communion Will be held on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 5pm: 13 October 10 November (see note below) 8 December
On 10 November a Festive Evensong to celebrate the Patronal Festival at All Saints Kooyong, with Bishop Paul White, will replace the Sunday evening Holy Communion at St John’s. St John’s Men’s group Will be meeting over dinner at Kooyong Tennis Club, Wednesday 23 October at 7pm. Please let Greg know if you are able to attend 0451 029 7354 The Melbourne Anglican The October edition of TMA is available for collection as of today. Indie Market Place In Buxton Hall, Saturday 12 October 10.00am - 3.00pm. Over 40 artisans, designers and crafters.
Advance Notice Annual Meeting - Vision and Dreaming Day Sunday 24th November 2013 Following discussion at the August meeting of Vestry, the date of the Annual Meeting for this year has been fixed to the above (Sunday 24th November, at approximately 11.30am following the 10am service that day). The Vestry have determined that the Annual Meeting be an opportunity for parishioners to have input into the future by declaring the meeting to be a "vision and dreaming day." We intend to do this over a light lunch in the Hall, during the course of which the usual business of the meeting will be conducted, and then to have a facilitated session on planning for the future, looking at what we do now, what we hope to do in the future, and examining aspects of the operation of the parish (inclusive of our ministries, mission, and buildings and properties) from the perspective of a vision for the future. More details as the day draws nearer!
NOTICES
Annual Meeting reports Those responsible for producing reports please submit them to the parish office by 10 November (preferably emailed). Synod and the Parish Governance Bill 2013 At this year's session of Synod in October, the Synod will consider a major piece of legislation that will affect and impact on the way every parish in the diocese operates. This will be the Parish Governance Bill 2013. This Bill will replace the current legislation under which parishes operate, the Parishes Act 1987, and also result in the repeal of the Representation of the Laity Act 1950 and the Appointments Act 1971. If the new Bill passes Synod, some important changes to the way we operate will come into effect. These include the following - the "Vestry" will be referred to as the "Parish Council", there will be maximum six year terms for members of Council including Churchwardens, the age limit to serve on Parish Council (presently 72) will be removed, parishes will be able to use a template with a suite of options to tailor the rules and regulations under which they operate (like a constitution) and the church year will end at the same time as the
Our Vicar, Brad, has become Chair of the committee which has drafted this new Parish Governance Bill and will be moving the motion to introduce it to the Synod. St John's Synod representatives are the Clergy, Milton Robinson, and Vivienne Randall. Karen Billings is the alternate (attending if one of Milton or Vivienne cannot). Anniversary of death Due to the large number of people to be remembered each week, we will start including only those who have died in the last ten years. However if you would like a family member to remain on the list please advise the parish office. Ladies of St John’s are invited to Sunday Lunch at Mesh Crown Promenade Hotel , 8th December. Delicious lunch buffet plus free-flowing sparkling wine. $55.00 per person. Please advise Karen or Jane if attending. We also need $10 deposit per person to secure the booking. Bring your friends (ladies only!)
This year’s Social and Fundraising Event will be the
BLACK & WHITE COCKTAIL PARTY Dress: Formal (black tie), Theme: “black and white” 7pm-10pm Saturday 16th November 2013 in the Buxton Hall in aid of the Yalari indigenous scholarship program at St Catherine’s school Tickets $50 per person This includes drinks from the bar (cocktails, wine, beer), canapés, and live musical entertainment.
Please advise the parish office if you are planning to attend as soon as possible - the list is open now! Please also make this known to friends, neighbours, and family – the more who attend, the more we raise for this important cause!
BLACK & WHITE COCKTAIL PARTY – RAFFLE A Raffle will be the major component of the fundraising activity associated with this event. Whilst the cocktail party itself will be primarily a social event, the raffle will be drawn during the course of the evening. Can you assist us in compiling the main prize, which we intend to be a hamper basket packed with goodies? Contributions will be most welcome and may comprise – wine, non-perishable foods, sweets, and useful household goods etc. If we all purchase just one thing extra whilst shopping we will have a very attractive hamper. The fundraising convenor will be Karen Billings - contributions can be dropped off to the vicarage, the parish office, or see Karen at church.
WORSHIP at St John’s Director of Music – Professor Mel Waters
This Sunday: 6 Oct Twentieth Sunday after
Pentecost (green)
8.00am - Holy Communion
A Prayer Book for Australia, p.119 Hymns: 626v1,4&5, 187, 189 Lamentations 1.1-6 (C Papageorge ) Psalm 137, 1-6 2 Timothy 1.1-14 (T Craddock) Luke 17.5-10
Celebrant: The Ven Dr Bradly Billings Preacher: The Ven Dr Bradly Billings Intercessor: Ted Mouritz
Next Sunday: 13 Oct Twenty First Sunday after
Pentecost (green)
8.00am - Holy Communion
A Prayer Book for Australia, p.119 Hymns: 627, 422v1,3&5, 168
Jeremiah 29.1, 4-7 (S. Kincaid) Psalm 66. 1-11 2 Timothy 2.8-15 (B Mouritz) Luke 17. 11-19
Celebrant: The Revd Hilary Roath Preacher: The Revd Hilary Roath Intercessor: Carmen Papageorge
10.00am - Sung Eucharist
Sung Eucharist and Baptism
A Prayer Book for Australia, p.51 Hymns: 626v1,4&5, 691, 187, 189
Lamentations 1.1-6 (M Lincoln) Psalm 137, 1-6 2 Timothy 1.1-14 (E Beecher) Luke 17.5-10 Anthem The strife is o’er (Ley) Motet Ave verum (Byrd) Celebrant: The Ven Dr Bradly Billings Preacher: The Ven Dr Bradly Billings Intercessor: clergy
10.00am - Sung Eucharist
A Prayer Book for Australia, p.119 Hymns: 627, 105, 422v1,3&5, 168 Jeremiah 29.1,4-7 (B Brown) Psalm 66. 1-11 2 Timothy 2.8-15 (A Mannering) Luke 17. 11-19 Anthem Laudate nomen Domini (Tye) Motet O nata lux (Tallis) Celebrant: The Revd Hilary Roath Preacher: The Revd Hilary Roath Intercessor: Claire Beecher
4pm Messy Church 5pm Evening Service
WORSHIP at All Saints Kooyong
This Sunday: 6 Oct Twentieth Sunday after
Pentecost (green)
8.30am - Holy Communion
A Prayer Book for Australia, p.119 Lamentations 1.1-6 (N Davies) Psalm 137 2 Timothy 1.1-14 (J Robertson) Luke 17.5-10 Celebrant: The Revd John Griffiths Preacher: The Revd John Griffiths
Next Sunday: 13 Oct Twenty First Sunday after
Pentecost (green)
8.30am - Holy Communion
A Prayer Book for Australia, p.119 Jeremiah 29.1,4-7 (A Prentice) Psalm 66. 1-11 2 Timothy 2.8-15 (J Chamberlain) Luke 17. 11-19 Celebrant: The Ven Dr Bradly Billings Preacher: The Ven Dr Bradly Billings
PRAYER NOTES World & Nation: We pray for Anglican Christians working for peace in so many troubled parts of the world.
The Diocese of Sunyani Ghana (Bp Dr Festus Yeboah-Asuamah); The Diocese of Bathurst (Bp Ian Palmer Clergy & People); Melbourne Girls Grammar School (Catherine Misson, Principal); Denise Nicholls, Chaplain); St Mary’s Camberwell South (David Huynh); Christ Church Geelong - 170th anniversary (Abp Philip Freier visit); Mullum Mullum Parish - anniversary service (Bp Barbara Darling visit); St Christopher’s Bentleigh East (Bp Paul White visit).
Those celebrating birthdays: Patricia Turnbull.
Those being baptised: Isaiah Lincoln.
Those who mourn: The family of: Bruce McBrian.
For schools in the community: Geelong Grammar School Toorak Campus (Glamorgan), Head of Campus Garry Pierson; St Catherine's School, Principal Sylvia Walton AO; CRE program and teachers at Toorak Primary School.
The Toorak Ecumenical Movement: Pray for our partner churches: St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, Toorak Uniting Church, The Swedish Church.
For those who lead us in the Anglican Church: The Most Revd Philip Freier, Archbishop of Melbourne The Right Revd Paul White, Bishop of the Southern Region.
For our CMS Link Missionaries: Andrew, Helen, Jacqueline and Alyssa.
For the sick and all in need: Sophie; Matthew; Hazel Lord; John Saunders; Susan; Jenny Williams; Alan; Paul Dalton; Reverend Keith Pritchard; Helen Chang; Pat Brass.
For those in nursing homes and those who are house bound: Nan Milner; Randall Watt; Lorna Mirfield; Dorothy Hughes.
Give thanks for those whose Anniversary of death is this week:. Enid Gardiner; Vivienne Walshe; Noni Cabouret; William Farrer; Ronald Shiels; Ben Stevenson; Wilf Coles; Grace Saunders; Hugh Dixon-Oxbrough; Jim Cairns; Gwendoline Wright.
Lighting a Candle
‘It is better to light a candle than to curse in darkness.’
Prayer is, at its most basic, a participation in the Holy Spirit’s work of re-uniting all things to the Father through His Child Jesus. Sometimes that participation takes the form of movement or action or even a sigh. Lighting a candle can be both a sign of our participation in prayer and even the prayer itself –especially when we’ve run out of words. It becomes a sign of the Light which is Jesus shining in us for someone or something. And as we light that candle and place it in the sand we are signifying a handing over to God before whom and with whom we wait, listening, feeling, watching. In the mystery of Christ’s love for us and His desire to have us with him, we have participated in re-uniting someone or something with the Father. Light has shone in the darkness. So light your candle, sigh your prayer, let go your joy or concern to God. And rest, be still, content to let His light lighten you and those you have brought before the Father.
Dear Friends, After sending my last newsletter to you, I left Lusaka, drove to Livingstone, (about 500kms) where I spent one night, then crossed the Zambezi by pontoon ferry into Botswana, and on, via Nata, to Maun, (about 720 kms).
I stayed with friends in Maun, and was fortunate to be taken to Savuti, an area within Chobe National Park, for five days. Savuti Channel has had water flowing again for the last four years, and the big game herds have returned, and with them, the predators. We saw huge herds of buffalo---there must have been over 500 in each, and very big groups of elephants, some with very young ones, and some zebra - the majority of zebra had already migrated. There were numerous giraffe, jackals, hyenas, various antelope, (kudu, impala, wildebeest, hartebeest, steenbok, etc.) warthogs, and of course, monkeys and baboons. We saw a number of lion groups and, very exciting, a herd of buffalo chasing lions that had just killed a buffalo calf. This went on for hours and we watched as the buffalo charged the lions, some of whom ran off, and then came back to chase the buffalo in their turn. I have one photo showing the “chopping” motion of the front legs of the buffalo – a frightening sight if you happen to be the one the buffalo is charging. The lionesses with four cubs stayed at a distance. We had word also of a cheetah kill, but the cheetah was very shy and we did not see her. We had four separate leopard sightings, but perhaps because of the lack of cover (the bushes and trees were all bare, before the new spring shoots), each leopard was shy and moved away as we approached. There are wild dogs in the area, but the only sighting we had was at night, when an impala had been chased over the river by a pack. (We were camped on the river bank.) Wild dogs are an extremely endangered species, so sightings are not common. There were many varieties of birds, including water birds and raptors, but the numbers were not as great as would have been earlier or later in the year. It was very hot, about 37 or 38 C maximum, and to cool off, I sometimes poured water over myself to wet my clothes and hair, and get some relief by evaporation.
In Zambia, I had picked up some dirty petrol (a common occurrence), and so in Maun, I had to have the Land Cruiser’s two petrol tanks removed, cleaned out, and replaced.
I may have mentioned that this year I would try to visit friends in the Cape, both western and eastern Cape, even though my time now was limited.
From Maun, I drove south to Kang, (about 650 kms), stayed overnight, and then drove to Tsabong, near the dry river Molopo, (about 400kms) where my engine died, and would not start again. There is not a lot in Tsabong, and it was VERY hot, about 43-45 C. I could not understand why this had happened. The engine just would not start. I looked at everything I could think of, to no avail. Then someone brought in an electrician, and he eventually said it was the coil. I carry a spare coil and it was fitted, but then it still would start, and he said the resistor was too “strong” and did not allow enough current to pass through, so he fitted the old resistor onto the new coil and the engine started. By this time, as the Land Cruiser was standing in the blazing sun, I was just about dead from heat (even though I was pouring water on myself to cool down). It was also 4 p.m. and I decided to stay at a farm nearby, called “Berrybush”. There are separate rooms for guests, but no electricity or running water, except for the showers, water for which is heated by a donkey boiler. A generator is used for a few hours each night for light and to run the deep freezers for a while.
Next day I drove to Bokspits along the dry river bed which forms the border between Botswana and South Africa, crossed the border, and then drove to Upington, (about 500 kms). Starting the engine again after filling with petrol, it made a dreadful sound and also there was black smoke pouring out of the exhaust. What now? There was a mechanic’s workshop across the road, so I drove over, and the problem was solved quickly -the lower butterfly in the carburettor was stuck, probably because of a speck of dirt, I was told. That most likely happened in Tsabong. The mechanic would not charge me for the work and I drove another 100kms to a little town called Kenhardt, where I stayed overnight.
Next morning as I started the engine, the starter motor made a terrible noise, and I asked where I might find a mechanic. There was one in the town, and he told me that the problem was the bushes and brushes in the starter motor. He did not have parts, but if I drove to Vredendal, (about 450 kms) it was a big town and there it could be serviced. Vredendal was only 25 kms out of my way on the road south to Cape Town, so I drove there, stayed overnight, and took the Land Cruiser to the auto-electrician next morning.
He cleaned all the parts, replaced the bushes and brushes, replaced the solenoid, which had been giving trouble for years, with a genuine Hitachi one, and I have had no trouble since. The reason I have given you all this detail, is that each time I had a problem that I could not solve myself, I was at a place where I could be helped. If my engine had died before I reached Tsabong, there would have been no help whatsoever. It is a very lonely road, and all the way from Kang much the same. The Lord was with me, and protected me. Each morning, as I drive, I ask the Lord to guide me, give me good judgement, and a safe journey. I may have had problems, but what a positive answer to prayer the Lord gave!
From Vredendal I drove to Cape Town (about 320 kms) and stayed with a couple I have not seen for years. I am so happy I was able to, as almost a year ago, Thos (the husband), asked me to pray for their son, Tommie, who had become quadriplegic (C4-5) six years previously. He was about to have a very new type of surgery, which might help in returning some sensation and movement. It involved cutting out the dead tissue from the spinal cord, and injecting sheep stem cells from which the sheep DNA had been removed and replaced with Tommie’s DNA. This process was repeated two weeks later. This surgery would have been better performed soon after the accident, but was not available. Now Tommie is having intensive physiotherapy morning and afternoon and now has some sensation and a little movement. Tommie and his parents are Christian believers and I am overjoyed at his progress so far. I feel that God has something planned for him, and I ask you to pray for him and his family, and also the neuro-surgeon, physiotherapist, and others involved .
After a few days with them, I drove to Knysna, (about 490 kms) along the beautiful Garden Route of Coastal South Africa, but I did not have time to stop and admire the magnificent ocean and mountain views. I stayed in Knysna with friends for a few days, and then drove on to Morgan’s Bay, (about 680 kms), to stay with friends I had made when I used to rent a house for a few months of each year when I was caring for my late husband. I had met some of them at the church on a Sunday, and joined them for their weekly bible study fellowship. Those in the group are from various denominations. The church, St. Peter’s, is Anglican, but one Sunday a month there is an Anglican service, on another it is Methodist, another is Dutch Reformed, and the fourth is Praise and Worship. Many attend each Sunday, regardless of which denomination is
conducting the service. I have been sending my newsletters and prayer points to them for some years now. The group has grown and there were some who had not met me and were eager to meet me and hear in person what the Lord is doing through me in Zambia and now also in Mozambique.
Now I am in Rustenburg, having driven the 1,200 kms from Morgan’s Bay, and stopping overnight near Bloemfontein. I am writing this as I wait for the radiator to be repaired. It has leaks in the top corners which can only be caused by the appalling roads I travelled on.
I am preparing to fly to Melbourne on Wednesday, arriving late on Thursday. I look forward to seeing you when I have rested sufficiently.
May the Lord bless you and keep you in His care, Liz Hawthorne. PRAYER POINTS - OCTOBER
1. Pray for Tommie Prins, his family and the medical personnel, that God may be glorified. 2. Pray that I will have a good and safe journey to the airport and travelling mercies thereafter. 3. Give thanks that in all my recent Land Cruiser problems the Lord was sovereign and protected me and the Land Cruiser. Please pray that I am able to rest well when I arrive in Melbourne.
October Sunday 6 October Baptism of Isaiah Lincoln during the 10am service. 4.00pm - Messy Church Thursday 10 October 11.00am - Holy Communion, Angel Chapel.
Saint John’s Anglican Church, Toorak 86 Clendon Road Toorak 3142 Telephone: 9826 1765 Fax: 9826 4395 Email: [email protected]
Vicar Archdeacon Dr Bradly S Billings PH (mobile) 0421 638 950 Email: [email protected]
Associate Priest Revd Hilary Roath E: [email protected]
Assistant Curate and Children's Minister The Revd Kirsty Ross [email protected]
Director of Music & Organist Professor Mel Waters E: [email protected]
Marriage Ministry Co-ordinator Ms Gay Djumas [email protected]
Administration Mrs Sally Robertson
Lay Minister Mr Jonathan Chamberlain
Prayer Chain Co-ordinator Mrs Annette Wilson 9822 8968 St John’s on-line Website: www.saintjohnstoorak.org
