St John’s Weekly Bulletin – Sunday 26 November 2017

We’ve successfully run a 1K Club this year, to raise funds to repair this building. How about an (unofficial!) 1P Club, where we commit to spending 1 hour a week in Prayer? This would be just ten minutes a day with a short reading, and some guided reflections to lead you into a time of prayer, by yourself, or even better, with a prayer buddy.

To help you with this, we’ve prepared a booklet of readings and guidance for prayer and we will be starting this on Sunday 3 December for members of our 9am and 10.45am services. But on 3 December, our 5pm service is committed to our monthly Messy Church. So we will have a pre-launch for 5pm this coming Sunday.

On the subject of Messy Church, we’d love you to feel free to invite your family and friends to join us for our December session. We’re titling it Messy Christmas, and tickets are available now. It’s for all ages and families with kids are especially welcome. More details at www.saintjohns.com.au/christmas

Blessings, Murray

This bulletin was emailed to members of the parish on Thursday 23 November 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.

Contact Rob Woolfrey on 0425 278 063 or rob@saintjohns.com.au for more details.

The two basic parts ways we do that are: Working With Children Checks, and Safer Churches Training.

1. The Working With Children Check (WWCC) is a history check through a person’s national government and employment records and flagging people who might cause concern if they were allowed to work with children. In NSW, a WWCC is a requirement for people who work or volunteer with children.

2. Safer Churches Training is another basic part of our effort to keep safe. It involved a one-day course to start with, with half-day refresher courses. The list of upcoming courses is found through the Diocese of Newcastle website at: http://newcastleanglican.org.au/mission-ministries/safe-ministry-training/ . We require volunteers to complete this training, but we strongly recommend that all parents and people with a passion to keep St John’s safe undertake this training. It’s an excellent resource for all parents who are concerned about the safety of their children, whatever institutions and groups they are associated with.

We have a new page on our website at http://www.saintjohns.com.au/children to provide easy links for you to be involved with a Working With Children Check or Safer Churches Training. This page can be found under the “Kids, Youth and Families” tab on our website homepage.

If you had a key that gave you entry to the hall, it will still open the toilet door but not the front door. Please contact Murray on 02 49275399 to get either a PIN code or a key-tag that will open the door.

If you don’t have a key but need access to the hall, the location of the key is still the same, but you need to swipe the tag rather than open the door with the key. If you have any questions, please let us know!