Wow, what a great celebration we had last Sunday! It was wonderful to be able to pray with and for Arlo and his family at his baptism last week.
Following that, thanks to the generosity of Arlo’s family and donations of a number of parishioners, we were able to have a great celebration afterwards at Lowlands Bowling Club. Some people ate from the barbecue, some from Lowlands’ Bistro and it was so good to have a chance to sit and talk and get to know each other better. It was great to know that people felt comfortable inviting friends and partners to church and lunch last Sunday. We hope our visitors blessed by the service and the time together.
Well, we return to our normal schedule of services this Sunday. 9am Traditional Communion, 10.45am Informal Communion, 5pm Modern Informal Worship. I look forward to seeing you as we begin our year with worship of our good and generous God. Members of 10.45am and 5pm services: we need to restart our volunteer ministry rosters, so please email me straight back and volunteer for Welcome, Prayers or Refreshments for this Sunday or the Sunday after.
Blessings, Murray
This bulletin was emailed to members of the parish on Friday 6 January 2017 – if you would like to join the Weekly Bulletin email list, please call the church office on 02 4927 5399 and we will happily arrange this.
School Holiday Fun at St John’s
Join us on Saturday 21 January for The Cardboard Box Challenge! This exciting event will challenge and inspire school kids in their creativity and imagination. Materials provided BUT feel FREE to bring along your left-over Christmas packaging!
Suitable for Primary & Pre-school aged children, who must be supervised by their carers.
Followed at midday by Refreshments & Sausage Sizzle rsvp: fb.com/stjohnshall
You can support this project by bringing to church empty small cardboard packets and clean plastic lids and pots; the everyday household packaging stuff you would normally recycle. There will be a box at back of church to collect them in. Thank you!
Blessing of the Backpacks – 29 January 2017
One of the highlights of this January will be the ‘Blessing of the Backpacks’ service at 10.45am on Sunday 29 January 2017. We are inviting children to come along with their school backpacks, ready for a blessing to start the school year. We will need some helpers to make some fantastic school backpack tags for the kids who come – please be ready to volunteer to help with that! In the meantime, you can RSVP on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stjohnscookshill/
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This Sunday’s Bible readings:
Isaiah 42.1-9, Psalm 29, Acts 10.34-43, Matthew 3.13-17
Rosters:
Service | 8 Jan 2017 | 15 Jan 2017 |
9:00 am | ||
Welcome | Rita N & Penelope Y | Jenny K & Helen C |
Leading | Murray W | Ken Y |
Preaching | Murray W | Ken Y |
Reading 1 | Helen C | Rodgers F |
Reading 2 | Ken Y | Penny B |
Prayers | David B | Howard B |
Chalice | Max S & Helen W | Jennifer B & Jenny W |
Refreshments | Amanda G & Jenny K | Allison E & David E |
Counters | Nona B & Judy H | Penelope Y & June W |
Flowers | Jennifer B | Dianne W |
Brass cleaning | X | Dane T & Sue T |
10:45 am | ||
Welcome | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Leading | Murray W | Ken Y |
Preaching | Murray W | Murray W |
Prayers | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Refreshments | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
5:00 pm | ||
Welcome | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Leading | Murray W | Murray W |
Preaching | Murray W | Murray W |
Prayers | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Kids Church Leader | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Kids Church Helper | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Creche Leader | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Creche Helper | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Refreshments | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Music Leader | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Music 2 | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Music 3 | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Music 4 | *Volunteer needed* | *Volunteer needed* |
Upcoming at St John’s:
Baptism of the Lord (First Sunday after Epiphany, Ordinary 1), 8 January 2017 | |
9:00am | All-age Traditional Communion |
10:45am | Informal Communion |
12:30pm | Baptism of Lara Krstinovski |
5:00pm | All-age Informal Worship |
Thursday, 12 January 2017 | |
10:30am | Weekly Thursday Informal Communion resumes in February |
Saturday, 14 January 2017 | |
11:00am | Baptism of Charlotte Pullin |
2:00pm | Clegg/Ross wedding |
Second Sunday after Epiphany (Ordinary 2), 15 January 2017 | |
9:00am | All-age Traditional Communion |
10:45am | Informal Communion with Baptism of Tai Stoddart |
12:30pm | Baptism of Aurora Jurado and Daisy Taylor |
5:00pm | All-age Informal Communion |