28 September Bulletin

The Anglican Parish of Tamborine Mountain
28 September 2025
Season of Creation - Peace with Creation
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost

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

Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. James 5:16


Collect

O God,

from whom light rises in darkness

for those who seek you:

grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us do,

that in your light we may see light,

and in your narrow path

may not stumble;

through Jesus Christ our Lord,

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

one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

Season of Creation Collect

Lord you call us to be peacemakers; to be people abiding in peaceful habitation.

May our fruitful fields be seen as forests, and your spirit pour upon us so that the righteous may be at peace and the wilderness become a fruitful field.

May your Spirit be poured upon us so we can work together for peace with Creation.

Amen

Readings: Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15; Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16; 1Timothy 6:6-19; Luke 16:19-31

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            (Numbers refer to Together In Song)

Introit…………168      For the fruits of all creation 

Gradual………674      Inspired by love and anger

Offertory……. 640      Kneels at the feet of his friends 

Missional…….161      Tell out my soul 

 Intercessions: prepared by Jan Armstrong

Heavenly Father, who created our wonderful world, fill us with love for your creation. Help us to be sensitive to the Earth’s needs, to care for the preservation of the whole of the natural world. As stewards entrusted with responsibility for such a finite resource may we encourage others with the example of practical living where all creation is valued and sustained.

Our Father in heaven, help us to care for our world.

Heavenly Father, as we look to follow your teachings of love and tolerance, focus our hearts and minds not on material possessions but on the riches of life eternal in your presence. We pray for the Worldwide Anglican Communion and our guides, Archbishop Jeremy, Regional Bishop John and Reverend Helen. Bless our congregation as we daily seek to live our lives to your glory.

Our Father in heaven, help us to care for one another.

Heavenly Father, who looks not on our outward appearance but sees the motive of our hearts make us generous with our time and talents that we may indeed be rich in good deeds to all and always willing to share your love with others. Help us to forgive others as you have forgiven us.

Our Father in heaven, help us to keep our hearts fixed on you.

Heavenly Father, thank you that you love all of your creation. We know that you love each person and weep with those who suffer. Comfort all who are suffering through sickness, conflict of war and strife or as the result of natural disasters. Help us to comfort and share your love and sacrifice with all.

Our Father in heaven, help us to be a blessing for you.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for your servants who have gone before us to dwell in your house forever. We especially remember those whose years mind occurs at this time. We bring before you those close to us who we name aloud or in the silence of our hearts.

Our Father in heaven, help us to keep our faith strong.

Almighty God, you have promised to hear our prayers. Grant that what we have asked in faith we may by your grace receive, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Year’s Mind Anniversaries this month: Joy Powell, William Harris Wheildon, Laurel Youngman, Riley Aiden Conn
Pew Reflection:

We may well be feeling ‘powerless’ about our nation's corporate and political responses to poverty and environmental destruction, but Jeremiah tells us there is always hope.  We can change our responses – both corporately and personally - and things will flourish again.  And Timothy challenges us to a life of contentment, based on our dependence and the interdependence of life.  We came into the world with nothing, we will leave with nothing.  We depend on others, as well as ourselves, to have a good and faithful life.  Spiritual contentment is found when we place our relationship to God and others before ownership and the acquiring of ‘stuff’.  Our spiritual journeys are fulfilled in compassionate action and full-hearted awareness of the poor.  Peace is grounded in an enlargement of the spirit that puts the needs of others on a par with our own.

Ask Around: What are all the things that make a human?

NOTICES:

2026 Australian Lectionary and Anglican Church Calendars:

Order now! If you are interested in ordering a 2026 Lectionary or Calendar, please put your name down on the sheet at the entrance to the Church: $20 each.

 ART EXHIBIT AND CAFÉ: Thank-You Notes

For the bringers and arrangers of flowers  - a bouquet of thanks!

For the bakers - a confection of appreciation!

For the servers and helpers - a ministration of gratitude!

To the advertisers - a round of applause!

Working Bee at St Luke’s: Turning Canungra Pink

Monday September 29 at 9am, St Luke’s Church are having a working bee for turning the church pink, getting ready for Canungra turning Pink in October. Please come and help if you can. 😊

 Pet Blessing Services: Sunday October 5

Bring your pets for a blessing on Sunday October 5! 8am at Canungra and 3pm on Tamborine Mountain.

 Rev’d Helen on Leave

Reverend Helen will be on leave from Oct 11-24 doing 'The Long Ride' in aid of prostate cancer research https://fundraise.pcfa.org.au/s/970/2844/e

If you need to contact someone, please contact Peta or John/Jan.

Treasurer’s Report August 2025
Parish Financial Summary
Total income
August $7,010
- Includes offerings $4,985
YTD $81,600
- Includes offering $52,094
Budget YTD $80,978
- Includes offering $52,000
Total expenditure
August $13,380
YTD $123,008
Budget YTD $125,108

August Retiring Collection – St Luke’s Children’s Ministry $165

September Retiring Collection:

Religious Instruction Books for Tamborine Mtn State School. RI books are used each week in lessons given by volunteers from churches in the area.

The books are of a high standard and students take them home once completed.

Emergency Relief @ St George’s 

Bank Details for EFT BSB 704-901 Acc. No 00015232 

UPCOMING EVENTS

26, 27,28 Sep   Springtime on the Mountain Art Exhibit and Café

Mon 29 Sep      St Luke’s Working Bee 9am – Turning Pink

Sun 5 Oct        Pet Blessing 8am Canungra, 3pm Tamborine Mtn

11-24 Oct         Rev’d Helen on Leave

WEEKLY EVENTS

Footsteps                    Sun      10:00am@ St George’s  - in recess

Wally Wombat Club     Sun      10:00am @ St George’s - in recess

Roslyn Lodge              Mon      10:30am  - in recess

Little Lukies                 Mon      3:00pm @ St Luke’s  - in recess

Meditation                   Tue      9:30am @ St George’s

Bible Study                  Wed     11:00am@ St Luke’s

Friday Bible Study       Fri        10:00am Fortnightly (Mt Tamborine)

SLAngers                     Mon      4:00pm – 5:30pm - in recess  

PARISH DIRECTORY

Priest-in-Charge: Rev’d Helen Paget

M: 0492 488 330 E: helen.paget@anglicanchurchsq.org.au

Churchwarden: Peta Tierney M: 0413 258 332 E: peta.tierney@hotmail.com

Priests with Permission to Officiate: The Rev’d John Corner

Email:  tamborinemountain@anglicanchurchsq.org.au

Website: https://tamborinemountain.anglicanchurchsq.org.au/ OR https://canungra.anglicanchurchsq.org.au/

Parish Bank Details:  BSB 704-901 Account No. 00000450

Readings for Next Week: Feast of St Francis

Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost, Sunday October 5, 2025 (Green)

Job 38:1, 12-21; Psalm 139:6-11; Luke 10:13-16

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