This week, Mark Thornton and I went to hear Garry Coleman, the national chaplain for motorsport, speak about the upcoming Supercars event in Newcastle. While we were there, I met Howard Mole, who has been co-ordinating this year’s CityServe. We’ve had a really strong response to the CityServe project in Centennial Park this year, and another church will be helping out in Centennial Park this Saturday morning, so we may be finished there fairly early. Howard is putting on a BBQ at 8am, and we will start work after that, so if you have signed up, please come ready for a hearty breakfast!
Because of the large number of volunteers expected, we might be able to move to the churchyard work earlier than expected, maybe even by 9am! Fr Ken has been doing a magnificent job this week doing some investigation in the churchyards, tracing where the lines of the drains go and preparing for us to clean the pits and flush the drains out.
Please remember to bring a hat for some sun protection on Saturday. The weather looks like it will be cloudy but hot. We will have drinks available for volunteers to keep you hydrated through the morning.
This is an important part of the 1K Club project that has been so strongly supported this year, so thank you to everyone involved. The surveyors have been at work to prepare a detailed site survey for the St John’s site. This will aid the engineers who will be preparing plans for grading the soil around the buildings and how the drains need to be sloped to allow water to get away from our buildings.
Blessings, Murray
This bulletin was emailed to members of the parish on Thursday 26 October 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.
St John’s Hall – 160 Year Celebration
The Women’s Guild of St John’s Anglican Church invites you to hear the music of Hunter Harp Circle and a talk by Dr Ann Hardy, Living Histories Co-Ordinator, University of Newcastle.
Saturday 28 October 2017 2.00pm
in the 160 year old Parish Hall, Dawson Street, Cooks Hill
Devonshire Tea will be served
Cost $15.00 per person
RSVP 4952 6279
Luther Fest
All Saints Church invites you to a celebration to honour the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther publishing his 95 Theses.
Hear two short addresses: “Luther then” and “Luther now”, sing some hymns written by Martin Luther and share in the Q&A panel.
German Beer and sausage served!
Date: Monday October 30 2017
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Venue: All Saints Anglican Church, Regent St, New Lambton
Keeping children and vulnerable adults safe
A really important part of our ministry here at St John’s is keeping children and vulnterable adults safe as part of our community.
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: a href=http://newcastleanglican.org.au/mission-ministries/safe-ministry-training/> 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 < a href=http://www.saintjohns.com.au/>homepage.
Watchmen School of Intercession
The Australian Prayer Network is offering the Watchmen Schools of Intercession here in Newcastle. The School consists of 3 levels. Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced. Each level has self-contained modules, with each module building on the other. The Foundation Level is hosted and run locally. There is no registration fee to participate in the Watchmen School of Intercession although faith offerings are taken at each school to assist with costs.
3 Nov – 4 Nov 2017
New Vine Baptist Church, Maryland Newcastle NSW
Registrations: Carol Prosser email prossercs@gmail.com
Upcoming event – Sunday 5 November
On Sunday 5 November at our 9am and 10.45am services, we will be remembering our loved one who have died and gone before us into God’s heavenly kingdom. As part of both these services, we will lay flowers in their memory. Please bring some flowers to church on 5 November if you would like to take part in this way.
Rosters:
| Service | 29 Oct 2017 | 5 Nov 2017 |
| 9:00 am | ||
| Welcomer | Nona B & Judith H | Jenny K & Helen C |
| Service leader | Murray W | Murray W |
| Associate leader | Sebastian T | |
| Server | Matthew B & Mark T | Sebastian T |
| Preacher | Murray W | Murray W |
| Bible reading 1 | Joanne D | Sunday School |
| Bible reading 2 | Margret Y | Sunday School |
| Prayers | Margret Y | Sunday School |
| Chalice | Jennifer B & Jenny W | Paul Y & Cathy B |
| Refreshments | Ken Y & Margret Y | Lance W & Dianne W |
| Counters | Penelope Y & June W | Lance W & Jason T |
| Flower Arranger | Dianne W | June W |
| Brass Cleaner | Jenny W & Helen C | |
| 10:45 am | ||
| Welcomer | Jesse W & Katie W | Prue H |
| Service leader | Mark T | Mark T |
| Preacher | Murray W | Murray W |
| Music Leader | Mark T | Mark T & Claire K |
| Prayers | Irini T | *Volunteer needed* |
| Refreshments | *Volunteer needed* | Helen P |
| 5:00 pm | ||
| Welcomer | David H | Messy Church |
| Service leader | Murray W | Mark T |
| Preacher | Murray W | Mark T |
| Prayers | Jonathan H & Maggie M | Messy Church |
| Kids Church Leader | Rob W | Messy Church |
| Kids Church Helper | Gillian S | |
| Creche Leader | Messy Church | |
| Creche Helper | ||
| Refreshments | Kathryn H | Messy Church |
| Music Leader | Mark T | |
| Music 2 | ||
| Music 3 | ||
| Music 4 | ||
Upcoming at St John’s:
| Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, 29 October 2017 | |
| 9:00am | Traditional Communion with Sunday School |
| 10:45am | Informal Communion |
| 12:30pm | Baptism of William McShane and Benjamin McLeod |
| 5:00pm | Informal Communion with Sunday School |
| Monday, 30 October 2017 | |
| 7:30pm | New Lambton homegroup |
| 8:30pm | Men’s Bible Study Group |
| Wednesday, 1 November 2017 | |
| 10:00am | St John’s Playgroup |
| 7:00pm | Cooks Hill Bible study group |
| Thursday, 2 November 2017 | |
| 10:30am | Women’s Bible study group |
| 6:00pm | Hall Booking |
| 6:30pm | Men’s Discipleship Group |
| Friday, 3 November 2017 | |
| 4:30pm | K.O.G youth group for School Years 2-6 |
| 7:00pm | High School Youth Group |
| Saturday, 4 November 2017 | |
| 4:00pm | Killen/Walker wedding |
| All Saints Day, 5 November 2017 | |
| 9:00am | All-age Traditional Communion |
| 10:45am | Informal Communion |
| 5:00pm | All-age ‘Messy Church’ service |