CONTACTS Email:info@thamesanglicanchurch.co.nz

Website: www.thamesanglicanchurch.co.nz

Pastoral Ministry Contacts Graham Colley (Vicar) PO Box 227, Thames Ph 07 868 6267

Brenda Deed Hon Assistant Priest Ph 07 867 8012 Wardens Kate Jones Ph 07 8686 003 & Finlay Clements Ph 07 868 7516

Parish Office Thur & Friday mornings 9-12midday Ph 07 868 6266

Thames Anglican parish seeks an inclusive ministry of serving Christ in prayer, action and worship.

If you are a visitor to the Parish, please let the sidesperson know your name.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A CUP OF TEA IN THE CHURCH AFTER THE 9:30am SERVICE.

A safe place for the LGBT Communities Music reproduced with permission under license 604812 LicenSing - Copyright Cleared Music for Churches.

Evacuation Procedures - In the event of a fire, listen to the presiding team & Welcomers; leave by near-

est, safest exit & assemble on lawn in front of Hospital & wait for “all clear”. NOTE THE EXIT NEAREST YOUR SEAT. TOILETS are in the Hall, next door.

INSPIRE ROSTER

Mon 25th: Gary Blake, Joe Fawcett

Tue 26th: Phyl Devcich, Moi James

Wed 27th: George Haffenden, Joe Gregory

Thur 28th: Denise Norris, David Juby Fri 29th: Joe Fawcett, Judy Jones

Sat 30th: Colley

From last Wednesday’s Vestry Meeting.

Shelving in the new Floral Area. Vestry is installing storage shelving in the north-east Vestry of the church.

Security Doors on both east-end doors are being

assessed.

Church Garage Sale: August Saturday 6th – 8am – 11am – will be run like a car boot sale in the hall and on grounds – percentage of takings donated to church funds.

Lotteries Funding Application has been turned down by Lotteries Community Funding again for the LINK project. An appeal poster will be added in the next month to the project banner on the Hall. We will

re-apply to Logan Campbell Residual Trust.

Mid Winter Social All agreed enjoyed by all who

attended and a good ‘fun raiser’.

Parish Fellowship is turning out to be a real success story and is connecting with a different group of our parish through worship and fellowship.

Tasty Tuesday at Baptist Community Ministries has increased in its outreach and may make our teams combine to staff only a couple of the rostered slots we now maintain.

The mid-year budget comparisons are showing a $12,000 deficit.

The meeting looked at depth at the Diocesan process associated with the appointment of a new vicar – from a parish meeting to create a ‘profile’ of the parish and dreams and expectations ahead; that meeting will appoint local nominators to interview (with a Diocesan panel) prospective candidates (if the Diocesan Secretary can show we can sustain stipended ministry) and then recommend a name to the Bishop.

THIS WEEK: 24 - 31 July 2016

Tue: Vicar’s Rest Day Wed: 9:30-12 noon Selwyn Group, Hall MT/Hostess - Robin/Pam 7pm Saint Georges Heritage Trust meets Committee Room. Thurs: Office Attended 9am to 12noon 10am Holy Communion (1662) Saint Georges Chapel (Arthur) Bible Study 2pm at 314 Richmond St. Fri: Office Attended 9am to 12noon.

Sun: 9:30am at Saint Georges, NZ Eucharist Theme - Soul Investment 9:30pm at Te Puru 7pm Combined Churches Service at the Baptist Church.

Presider & Preacher: Saint Georges: David Cooper Te Puru: Graham Colley

Readings: Hosea 11 v 1-11 Jenny Colley Luke 12 v 13-21 Finlay Clements Colossians 3 v 1-11 Beth Philip

Intercessor: Denise Norris Liturgist: Fiona Harden Server: Jessica Juby

Music Ministry: S. Georges: Lynne Mounsey Te Puru: Barbara Harry Welcome Team: Raewyn Grey, Kate Jones, Ray Deed. Morning Tea: Denise Norris Sanctuary Guild: Fiona Harden, Sue Gwynne

Opening Prayer

Sunday 24 July 2016

Service: 9:30am at Saint Georges - NZ Eucharist Theme: Shaped by Prayer Sentence: God is in his holy habitation. God gives the desolate a home to dwell

in; he gives power and strength to his people. Psalm 68.5-6, 35

Call to worship

Welcome To The

Thames Anglican Church Tikanga Pakeha partner church in the three strand Anglican Church

in Aotearoa/ New Zealand/Pacifica

Come, people of God. Here is the door to life. Bring all you are. God is waiting. We stand at the door and knock (knock on pews).

Come, people of God. Here is the door to justice. Leave behind all you do not need. God is waiting. We stand at the door and knock (knock on pews).

Come, people of God. Here is the door to truth. Behind it is a new way of living. God is waiting. We stand as the door and knock (knock on pews).

Come, people of God. The door is opened for all. Come in and worship. God is waiting.

We gather in your realm of love, O God… May we find ways and words to proclaim your name, O God… May we be sustained and nurtured by your word, O God… May we be surrounded in prayer, O God… May your reign grow in us and in the world. Amen.

PS 315 Seek ye first v.1. Karen Lafferty arr. Adrian Vernon Fish

1. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you; allelu, alleluia.

Refrain: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, allelu, alleluia.

2. You shall not live by bread alone, but by ev’ry word that proceeds from the mouth of God; allelu, alleluia.

3. Ask and it shall be given unto you, seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; allelu, alleluia.

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Prayer of Confession

Assurance of Pardon

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Lord of gifts, share with us a hunger for the bread of your kingdom; give to us a yearning impatience with injustice; free us from the clinging to debts gone bad; teach us to pray with honesty in words filled with earth and lit by desire; through Jesus Christ, our Jubilee. Amen.

Today’s Readings & Ministers

First Testament: Hosea 1 v 2-10 Hosea’s wife and children Reader: Linda Pryor Gospel: Luke 11 v 1-13 Jesus’s teaching on prayer Reader: George Haffenden

Presider & Preacher: Graham Colley

Intercessions: Margaret MacKay then to page 484 in NZ Prayer Book

Liturgist: Catherine Mackereth Server: Raewyn Grey

After Communion: Colossians 2 v 6-15 (16-19) Fulness in life Reader: Natalie Geary

Music Ministry: Stuart du Preez Welcome Team: Steve Darwell, Rex Geary, Lois Robinson Morning Tea: Denise Norris Sanctuary Guild: Denise Norris, Ray Deed

Collect

V: In all things, Father:

R: let your will be done.

Hear us, O God, as we pray to live hospitably with each other And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. (King James translation)

Hear us, O God, as we pray to live generously together in communion. Forgive us for doing wrong, as we forgive others. (Contemporary English Version © 1991, 1992, 1995 by American Bible Society. Used by permission.)

Hear us, O God, as we pray to live lives of welcome and care for our neighbour. In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us. (William (Bill)( Livingstone Wallace, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Used by permissions.

Hear us, O God, as we pray to live full lives that bring full life to others. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. (English Book of Common Prayer)

Hear us, O God, as we pray to live as neighbours, companions, and friends together. Loose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strand we hold of others’ guilt. Amen. (Peshita Syriac-Aramaic translation)

In the same way you forgive others – generously and gracefully – so I forgive you. You are renewed. Amen.

God is in his holy habitation. God gives the desolate a home to dwell in; he gives power and strength to his people. Psalm 68.5-6, 35

AA 68 If I take the wings of

Nigel Eastgate morning

1. If I take the wings of the morning to fly with them over the sea, no matter how far or how fast I’ve flown, I’ll not be alone, my God is forever with me.

2. I may reach the gateway of heaven, descend to the portals of hell, though spirits of evil or death appear, I’ll show them no fear, for God will be with me as well.

3. If I should conceal me in darkness and dress in the clothing of night, yet there in the deepest of gloom confined, I’ll never be blind, for God is the giver of light.

4. Now I need no wings of the morning, from paths of despair I’ll be free, and though I encounter the darkest shade, I’ll not be afraid, for God will be ever with me.

People: Helen White’s daughter Catherine married her partner Aaron last Friday.

Sending Forth

Today’s Readings & Ministers

First Testament: Hosea 1 v 2-10 Hosea’s wife and children Reader: Linda Pryor Gospel: Luke 11 v 1-13 Jesus’s teaching on prayer Reader: George Haffenden

Presider & Preacher: Graham Colley

Intercessions: Margaret MacKay then to page 484 in NZ Prayer Book

Liturgist: Catherine Mackereth Server: Raewyn Grey

After Communion: Colossians 2 v 6-15 (16-19) Fulness in life Reader: Natalie Geary

Music Ministry: Stuart du Preez Welcome Team: Steve Darwell, Rex Geary, Lois Robinson Morning Tea: Denise Norris Sanctuary Guild: Denise Norris, Ray Deed

The blessing of God is around us. The blessing of God is among us.

The blessing of God binds us together. The blessing of God strengthens us as one.

The blessing of God travels with us. The blessing of God sticks by us.

We go in the persistent, generous, living love of God to bless the world in every deed. Amen.

AA 68 If I take the wings of

Nigel Eastgate morning

1. If I take the wings of the morning to fly with them over the sea, no matter how far or how fast I’ve flown, I’ll not be alone, my God is forever with me.

2. I may reach the gateway of heaven, descend to the portals of hell, though spirits of evil or death appear, I’ll show them no fear, for God will be with me as well.

3. If I should conceal me in darkness and dress in the clothing of night, yet there in the deepest of gloom confined, I’ll never be blind, for God is the giver of light.

4. Now I need no wings of the morning, from paths of despair I’ll be free, and though I encounter the darkest shade, I’ll not be afraid, for God will be ever with me.

NJ 97 Prayer of St Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, give faith; where despair, give hope; where there is darkness, shed light; where there is sadness, joy.

O my Lord my master, let me not look for help so much as to help; to be understood as to understand; to be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, in pardoning that we are pardoned; and in dying we are born to eternal life.

Music: Audrey Smith, arranged by Barry Clewett

AM 343 Be thou my vision

1. Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart, be all else but naught to me, save that thou art; be thou my best thought in the day and the night, both waking and sleeping, thy presence my light.

2. Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word, be thou ever with me, and I with thee, Lord; be thou my great Father, and I thy true son; be thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one.

3. Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight; be thou my whole armour, be thou my true might; be thou my soul’s shelter, be thou my strong tower: O raise thou me heavenward, great Power of my power.

4. Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise: be thou mine inheritance now and always; be thou and thou only the first in my heart; O Sovereign of heaven, my treasure thou art.

5. High King of heaven, thou heaven’s bright Sun, O grant me its joys after vict’ry is won; great Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be thou my vision, O Ruler of all.

tr. Mary Byrne; versisifed, Eleanor Hull

Combined Church Service

To be held at

the Thames Baptist 303 Mary Street next Sunday 31 July

at 7pm

Theme: forgiveness, reconciliation and unity. The offering will be for the work of Bible in

Schools.

People: Helen White’s daughter Catherine married her partner Aaron last Friday.

Saturday

August 6th

8am

Those of you who have items to sell

at the ‘not-really-a-garage-sale’ on

August 6 please talk to Jenny or

Graham within the next week. If you

have already spoken to them, please

do so again to sort through any

confusions or questions. Date August

6 from 8am; place Saint Georges

Grounds and Hall.

Thank you – Jenny 027 2209069.