13 July Bulletin
The Anglican Parish of Tamborine Mountain
13 July 2025
Fifth 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
Do to others as you would have them do to you. Love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Luke 6:31, 35
Collect
Eternal God,
you have taught us through Christ
that love is the fulfilment of the law:
help us to love you with all our heart,
with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength,
and our neighbour as ourself;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
Commitment Collect
Generous God,
whose hand is open to fill all things living with plenteousness:
make us ever thankful
for your goodness,
and grant that we,
remembering the account that we must one day give,
may be faithful stewards
of your bounty; through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Readings: Amos 7:7-17; Psalm 82; Colossians 1:1-14;
Luke 10:25-37
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
Pew Reflection
The letter Paul writes to the people of Colossae is that they will live a life worthy of God. He tells them this encompasses their whole lives, not just the ‘outward appearance’ we allow others to see. As we prepare for Commitment Sunday next week, we are asked to reflect on how we reflect God’s love in our lives. Am I ‘bearing fruit’ in everything I do, am I opening myself to be ‘filled with the knowledge of God’s will’. Our commitment to God is not just monetary, it is a commitment to serve God in all we do, not just what we put in the offertory plate. How am I serving in love and hope in this community, and does this love and hope extend to what I am offering the parish. For this parish to serve the community in love and hope, we need people and resources, and that means you and I are asked to lovingly offer what we can to assist this parish to remain a shining light for all to see.
Thought provoker:
How do we/I communicate ‘serving in love and hope’
to the wider community?
NOTICES:
BOOK MARKET - Saturday 2 August: This is a great opportunity to connect with the wider community. Our advertising on community sites has met with enthusiastic responses. How can you help?
1. Help stock our shelves with the recently published books you have enjoyed and are ready to hand on to others. (Leave in the box at Church.)
2. Provide a pot of soup for serving at our Book Cafe.
3. Volunteer to be rostered to serve refreshments or to staff the bookshop. (Please sign up on the list in the Church.)
Parish Council Meeting next Sunday, July 20 at St George’s, 11:15am. Please ensure all relevant reports are submitted to Jan by Wednesday. 😊
Commitment Sunday July 20
Reminder to bring along your commitment card next week!
Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages ·
Commitment: noun the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.
Synonyms for COMMITMENT: dedication, loyalty, allegiance, devotion, fidelity, faithfulness, steadfastness
2 Corinthians 9.6-9
The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. As it is written, ‘He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever.’
Hymns (Numbers refer to Together In Song)
Introit…………560 All my hope on God is founded
Gradual………657 God of freedom, God of justice
Offertory……..417 Loving Spirit
Missional…….431 Thanks to God whose Word was spoken
Intercessions: Compiled by Peta Tierney
A Thanksgiving for Australia, written by Rev’d Canon Aunty Lenore Parker, Anglican Diocese of Grafton, and Yaegl Elder, Maclean, NSW.
Holy God, we pray for those who need our prayers, especially ... and for those known to us whom we name aloud or in the silence of our hearts...
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.
We remember with love those whose year's mind occurs at this time.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.
A Thanksgiving for Australia
God of Holy Dreaming, Great Creator Spirit,
from the dawn of creation
you have given your children
the good things of Mother Earth.
You spoke and the gum tree grew.
In the vast desert and dense forest,
and in cities at the water’s edge,
Creation sings your praise.
Your presence endures
as the rock at the heart of our Land.
When Jesus hung on the tree
you heard the cries of all your people
and became one with your wounded ones:
the convicts, the hunted, the dispossessed.
The sunrise of your Son coloured the earth anew,
and bathed it in glorious hope.
In Jesus we have been reconciled to you,
to each other and to your whole creation.
Lead us on, Great Spirit,
as we gather from the four corners of the earth;
enable us to walk together in trust
from the hurt and shame of the past
into the full day which has dawned in Jesus Christ.
Amen
Year’s Mind Anniversaries this month: Gordon Marshall, Gloria Watterton, Mollie Ellis, Ted Karamisheff, Audrey Giltinan, Norma Anderson, Helen Emmett, Dennis Fulcher
Treasurer’s Report May 2025
Parish Financial Summary
Total income
April $8,511- Includes offerings $6,071
YTD $58,151- Includes offering $32,413
Budget YTD $56,255- Includes offering $32,500
Total expenditure
May $12,934
YTD $78,584
Budget YTD $78,474
May Retiring Collection – Mercy Ships Australia - $301.90
July Retiring Collection: AUSNEP Australia
Ausnep's vision is to provide a health link between two countries; providing free surgeries, pain management interventions, dental procedures, & public health to those who have no means to access health care, in both remote & urban regions of Nepal. Ausnep also provides ongoing education to health professionals.
Emergency Relief @ St George’s
Bank Details for EFT BSB 704-901 Acc. No 00015232
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sun 20 July Parish Council Meeting 11:15am @ St George’s
Sun 20 July Commitment Sunday
Tue 22 July Coffee with friends 10:30@ The Coffee Plantation
Sat 2 Aug Book Market and Soup
11-14 Aug Southern Region Clergy Conference
WEEKLY EVENTS
Footsteps Sun 10:00am@ St George’s
Wally Wombat Club Sun 10:00am @ St George’s
Roslyn Lodge 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 (Mt Tamborine)
SLAngers Tue 4:00pm Fortnightly 1st & 3rd
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:
Sixth Sunday After Pentecost, Sunday July 20, 2025 (Green)
Amos 8:1-2; Psalm 52; Colossians 1:15-29; Luke:10:38-42