Launceston MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE

LAUNCESTON UNITING CHURCHES NOVEMBER 2019 – VOLUME 6 NO 10

A Vision for our community

The message central to this community is of

transformed living where everyone is loved,

accepted, and nourished.

Building a People of God in Launceston

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Blessed...to be a blessing— Annetia Goldsmith

Lectionary Readings

Messy Church/Movie Magic

Entertainment book

Uniting Women

Social Justice Spot

Social Justice Spot

Picnic play invitation from Northern Suburbs Community Centre

Crossroads South

What’s on near you this month

What’s on near you this month

Prayer Meeting invite/ Kids Campout

Kids Page

Contacts

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Sunday 1st Reading Psalm 2nd Reading Gospel

3rd Nov Hab 1:1-4, 2:1-4 Ps 119:137-144 2 Thes 1:1-4, 11-

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Lk 19:1-10

10th Nov Hag 1:15b - 2:9 Ps 145:1-5,17-21

or Ps 98

2 Thes 2:1-5, 13-

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Lk 20:27-38

17th Nov Is 65:17-25 Is 12 2 Thes 3:6-13 Lk 21:5-19

24th Nov Jer 23:1-6 Lk 1:68-79 Col 1:11-20 Lk 23:33-43

1st Dec Is 2:1-5 Ps 122 Rom 13:11-14 Mt 24:36-44

Lectionary Readings for November

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UnitingWomen 2020 will be held at Club Tropical Resort in Lee Point, Darwin. The

entire program will be held at the resort, and participants are encouraged to stay on

site if possible (yes, even locals!) to maximise the community experience.

The four day program is being shaped around the process that women in Arnhem

Land use to turn spiky pandanus leaves into beautiful mats and baskets. Using the

metaphor of the pandanus process, we will engage with our own journey towards

unity with Christ and with each other.

We will grow into a community of girls and women from a range of ages and

cultures, and our connections will deepen as we take part in workshops, join in

worship, pray, lament, celebrate, listen to each others’ stories, and experience God

together.

Registrations are now open for this amazing experience. Go to

https://unitingwomen.org.au/about-2020-conference/

For more information.

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t Social Justice Nov. 2019

The Scripture lessons for Oct. 13 led Rev. Caro to equip the Launceston

North worshippers with a three-pronged code for living a full and faithful

life. Based on Jeremiah’s advice to Hebrew exiles in Babylon approx. 600

BC and a good example of the measure for how text becomes scripture,

these readings carried a message to the people of the time, then to

subsequent generations and now to us in 2019 AD. The three elements of

that code are: ‘be thankful, live a thankful life’, ‘be mindful/alert to what/

who is about ’, ‘live life fully, where-ever you are.’ In the text the readers

were advised to desist from looking back, as is the nature of exiles, and

live to the full, doing all they could to enrich the society in which they find

themselves, as is the nature of immigrants.

Here, to my mind was a social justice message. In a recent interview the

Melbourne writer, Heather Morris, who brought us the amazing story of

love between Lale Sokolov and his beloved Gita, in ‘The Tattooist of

Auschwitz’ related how the elderly, widowed and frail Lale, with whom

she had established a fond and trusted relationship, resolved that to

honour the lives of all those who did not survive the horrors of Auschwitz

he must live every day to the absolute full and be thankful for all, even the

small and simple things. How, in his latter days, to venture out to meet

someone who he did not know, to convey a smile and message of hope,

was to know that he had fully lived another day.

A full and thankful life is to be alert to all that is about, to build hope and

love where-ever we are, immigrants, looking ahead, not exiles, looking

back. To do the absolute best we can with what we have. Starting with our

own persons, our back yards, and our wider community and on to as far

as we are led.

The Jesus story is replete with references to food. It is almost impossible

to separate his ministry of feeding the spiritual needs of people from that

of the physical needs. When he observed that his hearers were hungry he

fed them; there are two common interpretations of ‘the feeding of the

5000’, for some people this was a miracle, kind of magic, he broke the loaf

and it did not diminish, for others it was the influence of Jesus that when

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he gave thanks for, and distributed, the lad’s lunch others too opened their bags and

shared what they had. When Jesus commissioned Peter he said, ‘Feed my lambs’.

When, after Easter, he met the dispirited disciples he was baking fish on the shore.

When He gave us a new and dramatic ‘means of grace’ it was in the form of a symbolic

meal. Through the history of humanity and the Church, the ministry of hospitality is

paramount.

During September Australia hosted ‘The Global Table Conference’ in Melbourne. This

three-day food innovation & agribusiness summit brought together global industry

leaders to discuss the future of food. Key-note speaker, John Kerry, former US Secretary

of State – “One third of all food still goes to waste – nearly half of the 8,000 child deaths

globally each day were caused by lack of food – one in every nine people wake up in the

morning with hunger pains & they go to bed with an empty stomach – we have to

become better stewards of the land – we have to increase food production by 60% by

2050 – but that is only part of the answer – we have to address human influence on

climate change – we have to share equitably –”

Great advances are being made, but they are slowing down. Still too much goes to

waste, & in the west, too much to waist. The lad who shared his meal remains an

example to all. In my industry, agriculture, sustainability is dependant of profitability,

but I am repeatedly heartened by the passion to care for the land and feed the hungry.

Hope is alive.

The code for living is for all – live a thankful – thoughtful life – and live it fully. Further

on we read from Jeremiah that each is responsible – for care of one’s own person – use

of the few years we each have to live – for care of this amazing planet – for the other

person, in our family, next door, across our State, around the globe.

Thank you, Jeremiah.

Ian RF

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Launceston North

Pilgrim’s Monthly Schedule of Activities for the month

Sundays 10:00am: Family Worship including JAM (Jesus and Me)

and Pathfinders.

First Sunday of month: Holy Communion

Third Sunday of month: Fellowship Lunch at Noon at

LAM's: Restaurant and Grill, Riverside

Second Monday: Pilgrim Church Council meets at

6:30pm

Wednesdays: 1:00pm–1:45pm – Mid week

Communion in the Ida Birchall Room

Fridays 6:00pm: Music Group meet in the

Worship Centre

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Every Sunday Morning Service—Launceston South

Briggs House, Scotch Oakburn

85 Penquite Road

9:30am

Every Sunday Morning Service—Hadspen

Main Street, Hadspen

11:00am

Fourth Sunday Evening Service HC—Evandale 5:00pm

Mon—Fri Evandale Morning Prayers 8:00—8:30am

Every Monday

BIBLE STUDY

80 Poplar Parade, Youngtown

1:30pm—3:00pm

Diane Griffiths Ph.: 6344 1643

Every Monday

TENNIS

Courts, Mary Street, East Launceston

9:00am—11:00am

Margaret Spencer Ph.: 6344 3297

Every Wednesday Drop In at the Hadspen Hub

Old Church Building

10am-11:30am

Monday 11h PARISH COUNCIL - LNUC

6:30pm

Hilary Parry Ph.: 6344 6210

Every Tuesday BIBLE STUDY

Norwood

10:00am

Juanita Miller Ph.: 6331 5185

Tuesday 5th Crossroads South—St Michaels Hall

1-3 Chant Street, East Launceston

6:00pm—8:00pm

Janet Day Ph.: 6344 2679

Every Wednesday KYB Bible Study

Hadspen Church Centre

3:00pm

Edna McCormack Ph.: 6393 6273

Wednesday 27rd East/LV UCAF Check details

Sue Harman Ph:6344 2573

Every Thursday Hadspen Kids Club 3:30pm—4:30pm

Every Friday Crafty Corner

Punchbowl Christian Centre

Punchbowl Road, Punchbowl

9:30am—11:30am

Mary Rothwell Ph. 6344 4813 or

Hilary Parry Ph.: 6344 6210

Launceston South Healing Service/Meeting

Meets next at Maggies at 2:00pm on the 24th Nov

For further details, please contact Juanita Miller on 6331 5185.

See other pages in this publication regarding other regular activities

South Esk Parish

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The next meeting will be on the

at 12:30pm.

contact Edna McCormack on: 6393 6273

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Our Vision and Mission Principles

The vision of our church

is the story we are called

to live within our changing world.

It articulates our passion, our collec-

tive inspiration and our joy as people

shaping our lives by the story of God

among us. We seek to be accessible

to all who are interested in Christ and

all who identify with our values.

Our Mission Principles seek to capture

God’s ongoing story of love, grace,

and mercy known to us through Jesus

Christ. They mark how we will

respond as life-giving communities of

faithful people.

Contacts

Pilgrim

Minister: Rev. Rod Peppiatt

Mobile: 0419 883 137

Email: rod.pilgrim.uca@gmail.com

Web: http://pilgrimlaunceston.org.au/

Office: (03) 6331 8466

Chairperson: Wendy Cocker

Launceston South

Minister: Rev. Chris Duxbury

Mobile: 0435 365 289

Email: cvduxbury@hotmail.com

Chairperson: Hilary Parry

Launceston North

Minister: Rev. Carolyn Field

Mobile Contact: 0418 363 707

Email Contact: carofield@gmail.com

Web: launcestonnorth.unitingchurch.org.au

Office: (03) 6326 5928

Chairperson: Chris Dancer

Mobile: 0408 951 177

Launceston News Monthly newsletter of the Launceston Uniting

Churches. A place where we can celebrate our

community, share stories, news, and events of

our local parishes and beyond. The invitation is

there for anyone with something to share to

send in your “article”, or advertisement for

inclusion. Let’s get celebrating!

Editor: Mel Morris

(Mission & Resource Facilitator—LNUC)

LNUC.office@gmail.com

Mob: 0421 963 960

Justice and International Mission

Information contact: Ian Farquhar