20 July Bulletin
The Anglican Parish of Tamborine Mountain
20 July 2025
Sixth 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
In returning and rest you shall be saved;
in quietness and trust shall be your strength. Isaiah 30:16
Collect
Eternal God,
you draw near to us in Christ
and make yourself our guest:
amid the cares of our daily lives,
make us attentive to your voice
and alert to your presence,
that we may treasure your
word above all else.
We ask this through our Lord
Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and 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 8:1-12; Psalm 52; Colossians 1:15-29;
Luke:10:38-42
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
Our readings this week join the cosmic and the local, the macro and the micro, divine universality and the divine intimacy, and faith and justice. The letter to the Colossians affirms that Christ is the Life of All Things and Each Thing, creating in us and with us, and calling us to abundant life and creative transformation for ourselves and all creation. Today is Commitment Sunday, when we offer to God our commitment for the coming year. But our commitment needs to be more than just monetary, Let us all, together, consider ‘what is the hope for the future that this Parish offers. What hope does it offer you. What hope does it offer the community. How will the parish be able to fulfil this hope, what will it take? How is this hope reflected in my offer of commitment.
Thought provoker:
Am I ready/able to give an answer to why I ‘serve in love and hope’
How will my offering, or commitment help this parish to serve this community and the wider community in love and hope.
Thank you for your commitment made today, may it bless the community and the parish.
NOTICES:
Parish Council Meeting After church! 11:15am at St George’s 😊
MU Retiring collection The AMUA Brisbane Diocese facilitates a retiring collection close to Mary Sumner Day each year. On 10th August 2025 we will hold a retiring collection to raise funds for the Youth Homelessness Accommodation Project currently under construction in Logan by Anglicare SQ.
BOOK MARKET - Saturday 2 August 9am – 3pm:
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.)
DGS Donation
Thank you for the donation from the parish to DGS Africa. It will be allocated to start up training for DGS for small children, in the Kibera slum, Nairobi Kenya and the SW Tanganyika diocese in southern Tanzania.
Hymns (Numbers refer to Together In Song)
Introit…………560 All my hope on God is founded
Gradual………106 Now thank we all our God
Offertory……..628 In faith and hope and love
Missional……. Let streams of living justice flow
Intercessions: prepared by Keith Slater
Gracious God, as we seek to live in the way of Christ, empower us to be living examples of your love with all whom we meet.
Generous God: we offer ourselves afresh to you.
Giving God, we give you thanks for your Church throughout the world: for the appointment of a new Archbishop of Canterbury; for Jeremy, our Archbishop; for John our Bishop and Helen our priest, and for all who bear witness to the Good News of Jesus.
Generous God: we offer ourselves afresh to you.
Creator God, we give you thanks for your creation and for the provision of our needs. We pray for our careful and equitable sharing of this creation; for the living of just lives; for the recognition of the integrity of each other; and for our living together in peace and harmony.
Generous God: we offer ourselves afresh to you.
Loving God, we offer our thanks for the communities in which we live and share your love.
Generous God: we offer ourselves afresh to you.
Gracious God, today, mindful of your boundless love we make our financial offering to you and your ministry in this Parish and community:
(There will be an extended pause. We are invited to come forward and place our Commitment Card in the offering basket before the altar.)
Gracious God, in this commitment we make the offering of ourselves to you.
Generous God: we offer ourselves afresh to you.
Compassionate God, we hold before you today all those who are in need, those whom we know and whom we name aloud ….. or in the silence of our hearts.
Generous God: we offer ourselves afresh to you.
Eternal God, we give thanks for all who have gone before us and who have washed the feet of others offering themselves to you in your love.
Loving generous God: we offer ourselves afresh to you this day, through Jesus Christ our Lord, and empowered by the Holy Spirit. 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
Tue 22 July Coffee with friends 10:30@ The Coffee Plantation
Sat 2 Aug Book Market and Soup 9am-3pm
11-14 Aug Southern Region Clergy Conference
Tue 12 Aug 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 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:
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost, Sunday July 27, 2025 (Green)
Hosea 1:2-10; Psalm 85; Colossians 2:6-15; Luke 11:1-13