26th March Bulletin

24 Mar

Written By Sonya Gubbins

The Anglican Parish of Tamborine Mountain

26th March 2023

Fifth Sunday in Lent

St. George’s, Tamborine Mountain St. Luke’s, Canungra

2 Dapsang Drive, 15-21 Kidston Street,

Tamborine Mountain Canungra

Sunday: 10.00am Eucharist Sunday: 8.00am Eucharist

4.00 pm 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

‘I am the resurrection and the life,’ says the Lord; ‘whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.’

John 11.25–26

Collect

Life-giving God,

your Son came into the world

to free us all from sin and death:

breathe upon us with the power of your Spirit,

that we may be raised to new life in Christ,

and serve you in holiness and righteousness all our days;

through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Liturgy: via PowerPoint + APBA Colour – Violet

Readings: Ezekiel 37.1-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8.6-11; John 11.1-45

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Wanggeriburra people of the Yugambeh Nation, 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.

A note from Helen

How do you respond when what you expect others to do, or what you expect to occur in a given situation, does not pan out as you thought. Are you upset. Do you perhaps become angry. Maybe you ‘vent’ at the person or the world in general. Maybe you just accept it quietly, and keep it bottled up inside. What do you do when God does not do what you expect. Are your responses pretty much the same or are they somehow different.

Martha and Mary had an expectation that, having told Jesus that their brother was at the point of death, he would immediately ‘down tools’ and rush to be with them and save him from death. But Jesus had other plans. Good plans. And those good plans had a very specific outcome in mind. Sometimes, when what we ‘expect’ God to do, or what we ‘want’ God to do, does not go to ‘our’ plan, we need to be ready to accept, ‘Ok God, in your time, according to your will’.

NOTICES…

Attention Blue Card Holders

If you have to change your driver’s licence/TMR CRN due to data breaches this may impact your information with Blue Card Services. Please contact the office for more information if this affects you.

Volunteers Needed for Rosters

St George’s need extra volunteers for the following rosters:

sidespersons, readers, collection counters and especially morning tea. If you are able to do any of the above please contact Sally Hill 0402806128.

SRRC Cuppa in the Community Wednesday 29th March 10.00 -11.00am

St Luke’s Guild have been invited to cater for the council community event, in D J Smith Park (next to the church), on Wednesday for one hour. Please come and join us in the park This is a fundraiser for the Guild. All helpers and donations of baked goodies gratefully accepted. See Sonya if you can help.

Expressions of Easter

You are invited to add your ‘expression of Easter’ to the fence at

St George’s. It would be good to have all of them there by Palm Sunday. They can take any art form you desire.

Palm Cross Making Tuesday 28th March 10.30am Georgian Room

If you have palms branches which could be used for Palm Sunday or for making palm crosses, could they please be left at the church asap.

Candidates for Confirmation

Please pray for Cy and Sophia who are preparing for Confirmation.

Hymns

Introit TIS 653 This is a day of new beginnings

Gradual (St G’s) TIS 407 Breathe on me, Breath of God

Offertory TIS 431 Thanks to God whose Word was spoken.

Missional TIS 396 Come, Holy Spirit, our souls inspire

This week’ Intercessions: Prepared by Jan A

At this Lenten time as we prepare to celebrate the fulfillment of your promised sacrifice of your Son for our sin, strengthen our faith that we may put our trust wholly in you.