Third of September 2017Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Sunday8:00 AM St Mark’s Leopold St Paul’s Whittington10:00 AM St Mark’s Leopold St Barnabas’ Newcomb

Monday - Saturday 9:15 AM St Barnabas’ Morning Prayer

Wednesday10:00 AM St Barnabas’ 1st & 3rd Wednesdays St Mark’s 2nd & 4th Wednesdays St Paul’s 5th Wednesday.

MISSION STATEMENTOur mission is to enable individuals to recognise and carry out their ministries as Christians. Through this, we strive to become a model company of faithful people who both honour their varied traditions and actively share in building the family of Christ.

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BGAP: A community that loves God and everyone else.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Romans 12:16 ESV

Shining Christ’s Light on the Peninsula

Ministry TeamVicar: Reverend Elizabeth Breakey 5250 1401 vicar@bgap.church 0404 165 096 Father Jim Minchin 0427 056 654 frjbminchin@gmail.comMrs Jan Long 0414 823 132 Residential care ministryMrs Wilma Farrell 5244 5537 Pastoral ministryDr Wayne Stewart 0414 503 300 wayne@bgap.church

Readings

Today Next Sunday

Exodus 3.1-15 Exodus 12.1-14Psalm 105.1-6, 23-26 Psalm 149Romans 12.9-21 Romans 13.1-10Matthew 16.21-28 Matthew 18.10-20

Birthdays etcJack Butterworth 30th; Margaret Pinder 31st; Alex Archdall 31st

Parish PrayerLord you are in the midst of us and we are called by your name. Guide us in our worship and life together: transform us into whatever you would have us be. Help us to be deeply connected with the world around us and strengthen us to proclaim the good news in word and deed in this community, for the glory and for the growth of your kingdom. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Prayer ListPlease pray for the healing of body, mind, and spirit of the following people who are on our hearts: Pam, Meryl, Barb, Barbara S., Cassie & family.

MiscellaneousJill Giddings can no longer be contacted on her home phone. You can reach her on (0423) 218 822. She can return your call if you would incur a cost for calls to mobiles.

The Vicar’s VibeHappy Father’s Day! For those Dads who love and care for their families, and for those children who will fondly remember their dad today, we give thanks.

My household, having no father, have turned their collective backs on Father’s Day. I wonder how many others also feel sorrow on this day, which has been taken over to a certain degree as a celebration of DIY tools and BBQ gadgets?

What about the families whose Dads were killed in wars or through ill health? The left behind families when their fathers walked out on them? The families who cower in fear of Dad and his drunken bashings? The families overlooked due to mental illness, divorce or over work? That’s what can make families wince at a celebration of fatherhood, but what about those who missed out on being a father at all? Those men who, for so many reasons, never started a family, and grieve for what might have been?

We pray for God’s healing love to be given to those families and to those men.

A prayer for Father’s DayCome Father God:come as an enabling, strengthening force,come as tough loveto let us go.

Come Mother God:come as an enfolding nurturing presence,come as steadfast loveto hold us.

Come Parent God:come as friend and comforterhealing our wounds,walking our way.

Come as a wounded healerto makes us whole. John Harvey.

May God continue to bless you and all those for whom you pray. Elizabeth

SUNDAY 1ST OCTOBER, 2-4PM ST MARK’S CHURCH, VICARAGE RD, LEOPOLD

~ Pet Blessings

~ Food Available

~ Produce & Craft Stalls

~ Pet Memorial

~ Family & Pet Fun

~ Dog Walking

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