Meditation day coming up in November. Anyone interested, please see noticeboard. Gluten free wafers are now available and we have to find an effective way to indicate your preference. This Sunday if you can hold just your left hand up – we’ll see if that works. 26th October 2014 20th Sunday after Pentecost “Simply Sacred” - The Whangarei Choral Society is presenting “Simply Sacred” on Saturday 22nd November at 2 p.m. Venue - St John’s Church (Golden) Kamo Road. This programme covers different forms of sacred music all sung in beautiful harmonies with a range of soloists including Joan Kennaway. Afternoon tea (tea/coffee and a piece of home baking for $2) will be available if you would like. We welcome you to our worship service today. Please stay after the service and enjoy fellowship and refreshments with us. Sentence: People to keep in your prayers: Roger Allely, David Jeffreys, Paula Jakeman, Anne Smith, Marise, Katy Wells, Bruce and Sheelagh Moodie, Victoria. Prayer requests to Nancy Bollen 4338579—confidentiality assured Pew sheet items to office by Thursday 9a.m. please—e-mail preferred. Christ Church Vicar: the Revd Denise Kelsall Regular Holy Communion Services 437 6765 [email protected] Vicar’s Warden: Sheila Swarbrick 438 8374 People’s Warden: Rosemary Roberts 437 6906 Church Secretary: Corry Beentjes [email protected] Christ Church Office : 437 6087 2B Kamo Road, Regent, Whangarei Email: [email protected] Website: www.whangareianglican.org.nz Facebook: www.facebook.com/ whangareianglican [email protected] Southern Rural Districts Contact: Janet &Jerry Litt 432 3765 E-mail [email protected] At Christ Church: Wednesday, 7.30 a.m. Wednesday, 12.15 p.m. (followed by lunch) Friday, 10.30 a.m. (B.C.P) (preceded at 10.15 by Litany of Intercessions) Sunday, 7.30 a.m. Sunday, 9.30 a.m. Taizé, 6.00 p.m. 1st Sunday Evensong 5pm 3rd Sunday Messy Church 4 p.m. 1st Sunday At Holy Cross, Portland first and fourth Sundays, 9.30 a.m. At All Saints, Maungakaramea second Sunday, 9.30 a.m. At Mangapai first and third Sundays, Inter-denominational service But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts. Thessalonians 2:4 Collect: Gracious God, within and beyond all creation In Jesus you have shown us how to love one another. May our love for you overflow into generous service and our words comfort and restore, that we may be a healing witness to our neighbours through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Today’s Readings Deuteronomy 34:1-12 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 Matthew 22:34-46 Next Week’s Readings Revelations 7: 9-17 1 John 3: 1-3 Matthew 5: 1-12 ASSISI WORLD DAY OF PRAYER St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. 7 p.m. Today - 26th October Cnr. Kamo Road and Park Ave. From The Vicar Last weekend was a full on time for church. With the blustery refreshing 4 hour ferry trip up the Kaipara waterways for about 11 children and the same of adults, to the glorious voices of the Graduate Choir Sunday afternoon and then Evensong, plus the usual services a busy and rewarding time was had. It was great to have Marshall's family from Maungakaramea with us on our ferry trip and for all the church youth to meet. A real big thank you to everyone last weekend who made things run so smoothy, organised bookings, drove cars, made tea for our guests in church and generally hung about doing those things that get overlooked. It was such a good effort! Our good fortune in being in this part of the world and our mandate as Christians is why Mission is important. Hannah Wright has just spent 10 days in Fiji and has come back with photos and tales of life in a landless community in Nandau (close to Suva). People live on very little and fishing is a mainstay for food and earning a few more dollars on the roadside. This community have one boat and another would help enormously. We aim to have a fab Potluck with a Nautical theme on November 8th. It will be a fundraiser for a boat for this community who have so very little. Come along, have fun, eat luscious food - and Hannah will show you pictures and speak about what she found there and tell us of this communities needs. We can consider adopting this village as our mission focus for this year. Next year is the year of Mark in our liturgical calendar and it begins in Advent. We have read Matthew and Luke right through on previous years. Carrying on this tradition we will spend the first three Sunday's of November reading Mark through and getting to grips with this distinctive voice the first gospel to be written and from which the others draw. We will continue with the time of 11.30 - 1pm. This seems to be a good time for many people but if there are some who would like a weekday evening please see me. It has been a busy Diocese time. With Synod in recent memory plus a Diocesan ministry retreat and the week gone a ministry conference plus boards and meetings. Coming up at Holy Trinity Cathedral on 23rd 1pm is a 3 Tikanga service celebrating Womens Ministry in NZ, 1814-2014. This is being organised by the AAW, Mothers Union and the Hostel of the Holy Name. It celebrates the weaving togther of the three strands of the Tikanga in our church. We are ric h together and it is good to celebrate this. A beautiful poem by Gerard Manly Hopkins. Spring Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning. Shalom—Denise. November 8th POTLUCK DINNER. This will have a Pacific Nautical theme and be a fundraiser for our mission to the Landless people of Nandau in Fiji. SELWYN FELLOWSHIP Tomorrow Monday 27th October, 9.30am There will be NO Selwyn Fellowship today being Labour Day. Sessions will resume next Monday November 3rd. (Contact person Pauline Farr 4371444). REMEMBRANCE SERVICE 8:30 am Saturday 1st November followed by breakfast. Led by the Companions of St Francis. All Welcome CHRIST CHURCH WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP Our Auckland visit on 7 October was a happy adventure for 10 of us! The Cathedral visit, lunch at Marie Taylors, and being part of the large fellowship at St. Aiden's, Remuera, made our visit interesting and worthwhile For November – please note – we’ll meet on 2nd Thursday, 13th, not 6th (Arthur and I are visiting our daughter in Queenstown – lucky us! ) So mark the date – 13 November. Noon – 1.30pm, in the Church; speaker to be confirmed. Come, share, learn, enjoy. All welcome! G. Needham 4377183 NEWS FROM VESTRY MEETING A long but lively and enjoyable meeting, dealing principally with routine financial and housekeeping matters. Some projects are taking shape - look out for a spruce-up in the quiet room toilet, new sandwichboard signs at the Twice Round Shop, seats on the lawn (courtesy Whangarei District Council), and, but not until January, a new roof on the hall: on the social side, a pot-luck dinner on 8th November and, following the success of the Kaipara Harbour trip, a picnic in Mair Park and/or a visit to the Matakohe Museum. And how about dropping a few coins into that neglected box in the narthex to help with the purchase of votive candles - we get through an awful lot. For the first 3 Sundays in November we will be reading the Gospel of Mark and exploring all therein as next year is the year of Mark. Upstairs in the Organ Loft from 11.30am – 1pm after church. OUR WEBSITE Do you follow our website and facebook pages? (See back page for details) And ACOM? Compliments flood in. We are fortunate to have such a competent and creative webmaster. For those of us who are not computer savvy, it is truly worthwhile making the effort. Our site is now linked with the much respected liturgy site of the The Rev’d Bosco Peters, Chaplain at Christ’s College Canterbury NZ (try googling him). As from the beginning of Advent our Webmaster will become “vicar” of The Daily Office East site. This will mean a NZ flavour will set the tone for all the countries in the Eastern Hemisphere time zone. LIVING THE QUESTIONS This thought-provoking study resumes this week and continues every 2nd and 4th Wednesday evenings 7:00pm in the NSQ Room. Regular Events The Thursday Study Group meets each week at 2 p.m. at Gwyn Crawford’s home, 16 Kiwi Ave, Maunu. Contact person during Richard’s illness - Gwyn Crawford 4386043 The Order of St Luke meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month at 11:00 a.m. All welcome. Contact person Norma Ardern 430 8606. “mainly music” is held every Thursday in school term time in the hall—10.00am start. Contact: Ruth Wright 4383808