28th April Bulletin
The Anglican Parish of Tamborine Mountain
28th April 2024
Fifth Sunday of Easter
St. George’s, Tamborine Mountain
2 Dapsang Drive, Tamborine Mountain
Saturday 4.00pm Eucharist & Sunday: 10.00am Eucharist
St. Luke’s, Canungra
15-21 Kidston Street, Canungra
Sunday: 8.00am Eucharist
We are a Christian faith community living in the way of Christ accepting and welcoming all in loving service, growing Christ’s future on Earth.
Sentence for the Day
In this is love, not that we loved God but that God loved us. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4.10–11
Collect of the Day
O God,
form the minds of your faithful people,
that we may love what you command
and desire what you promise,
so that, amid the many changes of this world,
our hearts may there be fixed where true joys are to be found;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Liturgy: via PowerPoint + APBA Colour – White
Readings: Acts 8.26-40; Psalm 22.26-32; 1 John 4.7-21; John 15.1-8
We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Wanggeriburra people of the Yugambeh language region, the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the land on which we gather, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people worshipping with us today.
Hymns
Introit
St George’s…... 693 Come as you are
St Luke’s ……...653 This is a day of new beginnings
Gradual
St George’s…... 491 Father welcomes
Offertory……... 152 Joyful, joyful, we adore you
Missional…….. 531 Sent forth by God’s blessing
Intercessions – prepared by Peta Tierney
We rejoice and give thanks to you our heavenly Father for the gift of our saviour and risen Lord, Jesus Christ. We stumble in living lives according to your will, but we are precious in your sight and trust in you. Guide us in our actions and choices.
Heavenly Father, hear our prayer.
We rejoice and give thanks to you our heavenly Father for your gift of the world. We pray for peace and tolerance in place of war and brutality; we pray especially for peace in Gaza and Ukraine. We pray for clean water and arable land, and the just share of the earth’s resources for all peoples to live with human dignity. We pray for those living in fear, grinding poverty or slavery.
Heavenly Father, hear our prayer.
Your church in this place and around the world celebrates your son Jesus Christ rising to new life. We give thanks to you our heavenly Father for your gift of your church, for church leaders, for your servants Jeremy, John and Helen, and for all in this place who use their time and talents to honour and serve you.
Heavenly Father, hear our prayer.
We rejoice and give thanks to you our heavenly Father for your gift of our safe communities and neighbourhoods in Australia, for good healthcare, for the abundance we all share. We pray for those who are marginalised from this abundance, those who are in pain, chronically ill, or dying. We pray especially for…. and for any others known to us whom we name aloud or in the silence of our hearts….
Heavenly Father, hear our prayer.
We rejoice and give thanks to you our heavenly Father for your gift of everlasting life. We remember all the saints who lived and died in your name especially your servants George and Mark, and our loved ones who have gone before us to be with you for eternity. We remember those whose year’s mind occurs at this time.
Heavenly father, hear the prayers we bring before you and guide us as we follow you.
Year’s Mind Anniversaries this month: Lesley Williams, Barbara Miller, Max Kitson, Les Duncan
A note from Helen
There is a well-known motto which tells us ‘God is still speaking’. Our Scriptures have always spoken and continue to speak to us in many different ways. Every time we hear a passage from Scripture, it is possible to ‘hear’ a different message. When Phillip encountered the Ethiopian on the road, he was reading a passage from the prophet Isaiah, but he did not really understand what he was reading. Phillip is invited to join him as he travelled and as Phillip expanded the passage for the Ethiopian, he did so by being led by the questions asked of him. He did not give him a ‘set script’, but instead allowed the questions to guide the teaching he provided. And when the Ethiopian asked to be baptised, he did not allow racial or sexual barriers to prevent him from responding to this request. Historically, eunuchs were looked down upon and yet, Phillip shows us that, in God’s eschatological dream even eunuchs will find a home in God’s realm of Shalom. Today, we are still living that dream, we can be the first fruits of its realisation. This encounter gives us a vision of relational evangelism where we receive as well as give and let those we encounter shape our sharing of the good news. We all have a story to tell, but that story needs to be shaped by the questions, values and experiences of those with whom we interact. Revelation is always relative to the receiver. Good news is always spoken personally and concretely, rather than abstractly and uniformly.
NOTICES
Mother’s Day Stall
Our annual Mother’s’ Day stall at St George’s is on Saturday May 11th, with cakes, savouries, jams and plants. This is not too far away…
Please consider what you can contribute to this important fundraiser.
Pantry Donations
The pantry at St Luke’s is in need of donations. Please keep them in mind when you do your next shop or spring clean!
Watercolour Workshop at St George’s for Emergency Relief
The Watercolour Workshop, at St George’s on Tuesday, was a huge success. The participants appeared to have a happy, creative time, unleashing the inner artist with concentrated effort. Thanks to all of those involved in organising this creative fundraiser!
Anzac Biscuit Bakers
Thank-you to our wonderful Anzac Biscuit bakers, who provided the biscuits that were handed out from St Luke’s in Canungra following the Anzac Day memorial service.
Treasurer’s Report March 2024
Parish Financial Summary Mar Year-to-date Budget YTD
Total income $15,511 $36,021 $30,591
- Includes offerings $6,089 $21,556 $18,510
Total expenditure $17,514 $40,453 $49,374
April Retiring Collection:
Religious Instruction Books for Canungra State School
Please help fund the books used by the volunteers teaching RI in Canungra State School.
Emergency Relief @ St George’s
Bank Details for EFT BSB 704-901 Acc. No 00015232
UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday May 11 Mother’s Day Stall @ St George’s
Tuesday May 14 Coffee in Canungra 11am @ Café Metz
WEEKLY EVENTS:
Footsteps Sun 10.00am@ St George’s
Wally Wombat Club Sun 10.00am @ St George’s
Roslyn Lodge 1st/3rd Mon 10.30am
Little Lukies Mon 3:00pm @ St Luke’s
Meditation Tue 9.30am @ St George’s
Bible Study Wed 11.00am@ St Luke’s
Friday Bible Study Fri 10:00am Fortnightly
SLAngers Fri 6:00pm Fortnightly
(St Luke’s Youth Group)
PARISH DIRECTORY
Priest-in-Charge Rev’d Helen Paget 0492 488 330
Helen.Paget@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
Churchwarden Peta Tierney 0413 258 332 peta.tierney@hotmail.com
Priests with Permission to Officiate:
The Rev’d John Corner, The Ven Allan Paulsen
Parish Office
Phone: 5545 2919 Monday to Friday 9.30-2.30
Email: tamborinemountain@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
Website: https://tamborinemtandcanungraanglican.com
Parish Bank Details: BSB 704-901 Account No. 00000450
Readings for Next Week Sixth Sunday of Easter (White)
Acts 10.44-48; Psalm 98; 1 John 5.1-12; John 15.9-17