The Auburn Newsletter Hawthorn Uniting Parish

Sunday 2nd

Sep 2018 Service Today 10am Worship Service Rev Ross Carter

Next Sunday 10am Worship Service Rev Ross Carter

Welcome to all who worship at Auburn today. Please remain for tea or coffee in the church after the service. The order of service proceeds without announcements. Responses by the congregation are in bold type.

Sunday Service

10 am weekly

Holy Communion:

monthly:

10 am: 3rd Sunday

Music in Liturgy:

monthly:

10 am: 4th Sunday

Morning Coffee

10.15am monthly

1st Thursday in the

Eileen Pawsey

Room

Church Council:

7.45 pm monthly

1st Wed in the

Pawsey Room Church Lunch:

12 noon in the Hall

monthly 3rd Sunday NB: Dates and times may occasionally change documented in the pew sheet notices

Church messages: 9818 2119

Organist: Margaret Pettitt. 9077 0467 Director of Music: Bruce Macrae 9443 7063

Email address: mail@auburnuc.org.au website: www.auburnuc.org.au

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Organ Prelude Introit: We wait for thy loving kindness,

O Lord, in the midst of thy temple. (Martin How)

Greeting

Welcome in the name of Christ. God’s grace, mercy and peace be with you and also with you.

Prayer of Invocation Hymn 132: Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty Introduction to Scripture Readings

Notices (continued) Thursday 6th September Auburn Coffee Morning at 10.15am: “The Voice from Aloft” Speaker: Dr June Nixon AM. June Nixon is one of Australia’s best-known organists, choir trainers and composers. From 1973 to 2013, June was the Organist and the Director of Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne and her arrangement of “The Holly and the Ivy” was sung at King’s College Cambridge in 2010 and 2017. Sunday 16th September at Auburn: The Glen Eira City Choir will present Haydn’s Nelson Mass. conductor, Jane Elton Brown, OAM. Saturday 22nd September at 3.30pm: Working bee to prepare the kitchen for a complete refit. Please note the change of time. If you are free to assist, your help would be much appreciated.

Tuesday 25th September, 7 – 9.15 pm: For the Love of God . This is a film recommended by Barney Zwartz at the last coffee morning. Join us at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Federation Square. The film weighs up the good, the bad, the ugly and the unexpected to document the impact Christianity has had on the world we live in. The film is followed by a Q&A panel discussion with John Dickson and Simon Smart (hosted by regular Bigger Questions host Robert Martin). Tickets: $20 each, $15 each for groups of 4 or more. Booking at: https://citybibleforum.org/city/melbourne/event/love-god-melbourne-acmi Sunday 28th October: A celebration to mark the opening of the refurbished kitchen. This will be held after the church service, followed by lunch. Please bring some food to share. We are inviting friends of Pheng, as well as former residents of Methodist International House, to join us on this happy occasion.

Reader Today: Daphne Arthur Flowers Today: Daphne Arthur

Next Week: Anne Friend Next week: Avril Mc Hugh

Readings next week: Proverbs 22: 1-2, 8-9, 22-23 Psalm 125 James 2: 1-10,14-17 Mark 7: 24-37

Readings Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Psalm 15 (TiS 5) Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia. God gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would become a kind of first fruits of creation. Alleluia.

(James 1:18) Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Anthem: Turn thy face from my sins

(Words: Psalm 51 vv 9-11; Music: Thomas Attwood (1765-1838)

Sermon Hymn 436: Lord, keep us steadfast in your word; Prayer of Adoration and Confession Declaration of Forgiveness Hymn 567: God of all power, and truth, and grace, Offering of Thanksgiving and Discipleship

Prayers of Intercession The Apostles Creed (Uniting in Worship p.122) Hymn 572: O thou who camest from above Blessing Dismissal Go in peace to love and serve the Lord In the name of Christ. Amen. Organ Postlude

(You are invited to remain seated until the end of the postlude)

Notices

DROUGHT relief – an amount of $854.00 was collected in the open plate last week. Since then a further $200 has been donated making a total of $1054.00. Church council is keeping the appeal open until next Sunday 9 September. Donations can be made to the Treasurer, John Suriano. Restored lead light window (SW side) has been reinstated. New glass is to be fitted to the hopper window to repace the temporary infill. Washing of the remaining windows has been put on hold pending the painting and maintenance work of the timber frames and other exterior painting. Small glass jars needed for jam making – please put the jars under the resource table for Daphne and Heather.