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Our Fete profits are increasing (already over $8,100) as funds from sales continue rolling in. Many thanks for the generous gifts of items to sell. Also thanks to Maleny Lions for donating the use of their BBQ trailer and PA system and for assistance in setting up and pulling down gazebos and also to Ralph for announcements throughout the day and Chaffy for his role as Auctioneer. Many thanks also to Maleny Dairies for donating the use of the shipping container and milk and cream for our Devonshire teas and Maleny Cheese for the donation of individual yoghurts for sale. Many thanks to St Mark’s Buderim for the donation of clothes and a large assortment of books for sale. The generosity of the Salvos for donating a display cabinet for our Auction is much appreciated. It was wonderful to have performances from local choirs and musicians organised by Kim Kirkman, as well as soloist Emily Davies and the Maleny High School Concert Band. The Blackall Range Horseless Carriage Club brought a great display of vintage cars and ran a competition for a ride in one of their cars and also Hilda Makowski of Weddings of Maleny showcased their vintage wedding car. Thanks to Robyn Tindal who organised a beautiful display of items from the Smocking Guild and the Blackall Range Visual Arts Group whose display created much interest. Date for the follow up Garage Sale to be confirmed.

Serve It is a human trait to want to be recognized for what we have accomplished. When you are tempted to desire honour for yourself, take it as a challenge! Seek to serve, and not to be served. Br. David Allen SSJE

TAIZE Service at St Luke’s Kenilworth Saturday 29 September at 5:00pm

Theme: MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (Michaelmas)

A calming quiet time of Reflection, Readings, Live Music & Prayer with the ambience of candlelight

Refreshments will be served after the Service All Are Welcome

Paris, Faith, Sarah, Bishop Jeremy,

Lucy, Matisse & Oscar at the

Confirmation Service held at

St George’s on Sunday 16 September.

These young people were supported by

friends, families and proud grandparents -

Pam & Brian Warren, Dell Somerville

and Vivienne & Ken Jones. At the end of

the service each candidate was presented

with a bible as a gift from the Parish.

Congratulations & blessings to these

young people & their families.

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Our vision is to

“Love one another as Jesus loves us”

Our mission is to

Obey Jesus’ commandment,

“Love one another as I have loved you.” John 15:12

Pentecost 18 23 September 2018

Loving Father, whose Son Jesus Christ has taught us that what we do for the least of our brothers and sisters we do also for him: give us the will to be the servant of others as he was the servant of all, who gave up his life and died for us, and yet lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

WELCOME to our worship today. Please invite someone to join you and stay for fellowship and refreshment after the Service.

TODAY’S SERVICES Services: Celebrants:

St Mary’s Montville 7:30am Rev’d Ann Shepperson

St George’s Maleny 9:00am Rev’d Tony Halstead

St Luke’s Kenilworth 9:00am Rev’d Jeanette Jamieson

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Readings for 7 October

Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost Job 1.1; 2.1-10 Psalm 26 Hebrews 1.1-4; 2.5-12 Mark 10.2-16

Readings for 30 September Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost

Esther 7.1-6, 9-10; 9.20-22 Psalm 124 James 5.12-20 Mark 9.38-50

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF PROVERBS (Pew Bible page 535) CHAPTER 31: BEGINNING AT THE 10TH VERSE:

A capable wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant, she brings her food from far away. She rises while it is still night and provides food for her household and tasks for her servant-girls. She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. She girds herself with strength, and makes her arms strong. She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night. She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle. She opens her hand to the poor, and reaches out her hands to the needy. She is not afraid for her household when it snows, for all her household are clothed in crimson. She makes herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple. Her husband is known in the city gates, taking his seat among the elders of the land. She makes linen garments and sells them; she supplies the merchants with sashes. Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her happy; her husband too, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her a share in the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the city gates

HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD THANKS BE TO GOD

PSALM 1 (A Prayer Book for Australia page 224) We say alternate verses

Blessed are they who have not walked in the counsel of the ungodly: nor followed the way of sinners, nor taken their seat amongst the scornful.

READINGS FOR THE DAY

Sentence of the Day: Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all. Mark 9.35

Prayer of the Day: God and Father of all, you have taught us through your Son that the last shall be first, and have made a little child the measure of your kingdom: give us the wisdom from above, so that we may understand that in your sight the one who serves is the greatest of all. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Church Wardens Carole Phillips Ph: 5445 7839 email: carolephillips@bigpond.com Shirley Moreland Ph: 5446 0171 email: shirleymoreland@bigpond.com Jim Atkinson Ph: 5494 3064 email: jimako4@bigpond.com

District Warden Montville Paula Randall 5478 6181

Parish Minute Secretary Parish Hon Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Margaret Walker 5494 2028 Debbie Shepherd Susan Myring

Retired Priests: The Rev’d Derek Barrett, The Rev’d Kaye Pitman OAM, The Very Rev’d Chris Whittall OAM Honorary Assistant Priest: The Rev’d Ann Shepperson (Pastoral Care Coordinator Sunshine Coast University Hospital)

Prayer Chain Coordinators: Kenilworth: TBA Montville: Margaret Young 5445 7550 Maleny: Patricia Jackson 5494 2583

Pastoral Care Coordinators:

Kenilworth: Shirley Moreland 5446 0171 Montville: Carole Phillips 5445 7839

2 Walkers Drive (PO Box 265) Maleny Qld. 4552

Office Hours: 9:00 am - 1:00pm Wednesdays and Thursdays Ph. 5499 9130 Debbie Shepherd - Parish Secretary

Email: angmaleny@westnet.com.au Website: malenyanglicanparish.com.au

www.facebook.com/MalenyAnglicanParish

Parish Priest of Anglican Parish of Maleny and Area Dean of the Sunshine Coast Deanery:

Rev’d Jeanette Jamieson - 0429 073 262

Parish

Office

Acknowledgement of Country As we gather in this Church, we acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Kabi Kabi

and Jinibara people, and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

Upcoming Events - Tuesday 25 Sept 11:00am Erowal Aged Care - Maleny Saturday 29 September 5:00pm Taize Service - St Luke’s Kenilworth Friday - Sunday 5-7 October Synod Sunday 7 October 7:30am Baptism - St Mary’s Sunday 7 October 3:45pm Messy Church - St George’s Sunday 14 October 9am Festival of St Francis of Assisi - Pet’s service - Combined Service for St Mary’s & St George’s at St George’s Maleny Tuesday 16 October 9am Packing Shoe Boxes - St George’s Wednesday 18 October 9:30am Friends & Neighbours Service - St George’s Wednesday 18 October 7pm Cursillo Meeting - St George’s Saturday 27 October Ladies Breakfast - St George’s

Weekly Events

Craft Group - Tuesdays 1:00pm Shepherds Shed - St George’s

Meditation Groups - Wednesdays 9:00am Montville and 11:00am Maleny

Thursdays 9:00am Kenilworth

Prayer & Praise Night - Tuesdays 6:45 pm to 8:45 pm at the home of Neil and Judy Payne from Phone 5429 6544

http://www.facebook.com/MalenyAnglicanParish

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We ask your prayers:

• For peace and justice in the world: we pray particularly for those parts of the world that are in the news this week • For The Anglican Church of Tanzania - Mpwapwa - (Tanzania): : †Jacob Erasto Chimeledya • For The Diocese of Sydney: †Glenn Davies; Assistant Bishops: †Ivan Lee, †Peter Hayward, †Christopher Edwards, †Peter Lin, †Michael Stead; Clergy and People • For The Parish of North Pine: Chris Johnson, Lynda Johnson, Ken Suddick, Ralph Bowles, Graham Ross, Bruce Worthington • For Anglicare SQ Caboolture Community Services • For St Francis Theological College: Principal- †Jonathon Holland; Academic Dean - Peter

Kline; staff; seasonal lecturers and students

• For Churchwardens, Parish Councillors, Parish Nominators & Synod Representatives • For people who are sick, in body, mind or spirit, for those whom we have listed in our

bulletin, and for those known to us personally. • Remembering the faithful departed & all those whose years mind occurs at this time.

Within our Parish Maleny: Roger Byrne, Mabel Crosby, Margaret Drake, Matthew Dawson,

and Amelie

Montville: Christine Long and Anne McAlister

The Anglican Parish of Maleny in the Diocese of Brisbane is committed to protecting your privacy. The people on the list of the sick have personally requested prayers.

‘Going For Growth’ - A prayer for the Anglican Church Southern Queensland

Living God, creator, redeemer, strengthener: enliven, guide and strengthen your Church in all you send us to do. By your Holy Spirit enable us to grow - in faith, in service, in generous giving; and add to your Church new disciples that your saving, reconciling, recreating work may go forward, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

SHOE BOX PROJECT update for September "Something to love" such as dolls, Teddies, soft toy animals etc.

On Tuesday morning, 16th October at 9:00am we will meet in St Georges hall to pack the boxes for the shoe box project.

All those able to help will be most welcome!

Next Ladies Breakfast at St George’s on Saturday 27th October

St Mary’s Kangaroo Point need you! - Knitted Remembrance Day Centenary poppies needed in their thousands for St Mary's Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point. 11 November 2018 will be about honouring the sacrifice, gallantry, devotion to duty & perseverance of the personnel of the Royal Australian Navy who contributed to the ending of hostilities in the Great War. For details - call Kaye Ross on 0408 706 202 or email kross@irt.org.au.

The Reverend Shaji Joseph will be commissioned as Priest-in-Charge of the Parish of Gympie on Thursday 15 November, 7 pm

at St Peter’s Anglican Church Gympie.

St Mark’s Anglican Church Hall ‘Sunday Conversations’

Speaker- Glennis Johnston Sunday 30 September 2018 at 3:00pm - $10 at door. Contact E: alisonjgreen62@gmail.com

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But their delight is in the law of the Lord: and on that law will they ponder day and night. They are like trees planted beside streams of water: that yield their fruit in due season. Their leaves also shall not wither: and look, whatever they do, it shall prosper. As for the ungodly, it is not so with them: they are like the chaff which the wind scatters. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand up at the judgement: nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord cares for the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF JAMES (Pew Bible page 981) CHAPTER 3: BEGINNING AT THE 1ST VERSE: Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Or look at ships: though they are so large it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, but no one can tame the tongue – a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD THANKS BE TO GOD

THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO MARK CHAPTER 9: BEGINNING AT THE 30TH VERSE: (Pew Bible page 821)

They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest.

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Rev’d Derek Barrett’s Commentary on the Readings:

He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”

FOR THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD PRAISE TO YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST

Psalm 1 Yes it is called Psalm 1 because this is the first psalm to appear in the collection of psalms and not because it is the first psalm to be written. There are and always have been poets in every age and clime so that with the dawning of the age of the Covenant and its consequent monotheism song-writers began to supply material for worship. "The Word of the Lord" has been enshrined in written texts which can and should be studied and interpreted, but much more importantly applied to the lives of individuals and congregations for inspiration and action. The Living God has revealed Himself to these ancient writers in such a manner that the reader and hearer get the distinct impression that He is addressing them personally with a message that will benefit everyone who accepts them in these terms. The main thrust of today's song (the words were set to music) is that we have a choice. We can be godly or ungodly. God-fearers and worshippers are happy people as described in Matthew 5. The writer of Psalm 1 is in no doubt that everyone else (the “wicked") is doomed! James 3 The first apostles made converts but did not leave these new Christians to their own devices. There was a sub-group in every place where the apostles had been to take over the responsibility for nurturing and teaching in the same manner as the rabbis in Judaism, so there were great dangers that these new teachers would not accept that you do not have to be a Jew before you can be a Christian. Our writer is most likely to have been a younger brother of Jesus and therefore completely aware of what Our Lord had Himself taught. He is rightly concerned that the New Testament teachers should strictly adhere to His teaching and not their own personal interpretations thereof. The epistle of St. James is a kind of encyclical compendium of wise truths that will make it possible for those who read and/or hear them to pursue a life which is wholesome, sound, mature and satisfying. Mark 9.30-37 Mark is perfectly certain that Jesus did not leave the disciples in perplexity after warning them of the dangers they faced from both the Roman authorities and the Sanhedrin in becoming His disciples, for on ' three separate occasions He refers to His own looming Passion. Jesus has laid the foundations in the comparative safety of the countryside around the Lake. The preliminaries are over and Mark presses on with his account of the journey to Jerusalem, the ministry in and around the

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Deadline for Weekly Pew Sheet - Items need to be at the office by Tuesday afternoon.

FOOD PANTRY - NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE:

September’s request : Baked Beans To prepare for next month - October’s request : Tomato Soup

FOCUS IS MOVING ONLINE: As of October, FOCUS will become an online publication, with the Oct/Nov edition of the magazine being the last. The FOCUS team is currently working on the exciting new website, with content being developed for readers of all ages. A PDF compilation of the prior two weeks’ content will be uploaded to the new website fortnightly, so parishes can print and distribute it to those who require it. Once the website is launched in October, parishioners will be able to subscribe to a fortnightly FOCUS e-news. If you have any questions, please contact your parish priest, administrator or church warden.

COME AND SEE OUR ANGLICAN TREASURES IN THIS YEAR’S OPEN HOUSE Brisbane Open House: 13-14 October

All Saints’ Anglican Church, 32 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill. General access. Sat/Sun. St John’s Cathedral & St Martin’s House, 373- 405 Ann St, Brisbane City. General access. Regular tours of the Bell Tower, Military memorials and St Martin’s House (Sat/Sun), and Organ Loft (Saturday only). Concert on Sunday 2pm. Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie), Oaklands Pde, East Brisbane. General access. Saturday only. St Mary’s Anglican Church, 455 Main St, Kangaroo Point: General access. Sunday only. Christ Church Milton, 9 Chippendall Street, Milton (off Castlemaine St): General access and guided tours Sat/Sun. Old Bishopsbourne and the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, 233 Milton Rd, Milton (enter from Baroona Rd): General access and guided tours Sat/Sun.

Bush Church Aid boxes are due for collection this month - If all those with boxes could return them to Ruth Blackburn ASAP it would be much appreciated. BCA request that we collect them in March and September each year, so the next collection will be March 2019.

** Sunday Morning Tea at St George’s on 30 September Next Sunday these is no one rostered on for morning tea so we are looking for volunteers to fill in for that day. If you are able to assist please contact office email - angmaleny@westnet.com.au or 5499 9130. Thank you for your support.

Holy City and its climax. The tensions mount and intensify. This new movement has been in operation for twelve months or so and those who initiate changes must face opposition, resentment and counter-action. Jesus had sided with the little people and had been scornful of the authorities who will react. And now the disciples raise the question of their own status and have to be reminded that personal ambition will not succeed in the new dispensation in which true greatness is a matter of humble service. There can be only One Lord!