Notices — Sunday 19th July 2020

NOTICES:

Today: Par­ish Coun­cil meets after morn­ing tea.

 

SOCIAL DISTANCING: At St Luke’s we can only meet as a con­greg­a­tion on con­di­tion that we adhere to social dis­tan­cing require­ments.  That means wherever pos­sible keep­ing at a dis­tance of 1.5m from those not in your house­hold.  As a rule of thumb, you are at a dis­tance of 1.5m from anoth­er per­son if you can­not touch each oth­er with an out­stretched hand.  To help us main­tain social dis­tan­cing, we ask that you observe the following:

 

1/ Please sit only where you find a green dot.   An ush­er may on occa­sion guide you to your pew as the green dots become scarce.

 

2/ At the peace, greet those in your imme­di­ate vicin­ity with fol­ded hands or a nod, and refrain from mov­ing about the church

 

3/ At com­mu­nion, wait for the call from an ush­er before leav­ing your pew and main­tain a single line in the aisle, two paces behind the per­son in front of you.

 

4/ At the con­clu­sion of the ser­vice, keep mov­ing through the foy­er to avoid a build up of people wait­ing to exit. 

 

5/ At morn­ing tea be mind­ful of the need to main­tain social dis­tan­cing.  The war­dens are con­tem­plat­ing addi­tion­al meas­ures to assist with social dis­tan­cing at morn­ing tea, which will be com­mu­nic­ated in due course.

 

If you feel unwell with cold or flu-like symp­toms, please do not come to church, and we encour­age you to make use of the hand san­it­iser that is sup­plied around the church.

 

Remem­ber Mis­sion Giv­ing: The par­ish has benefited greatly from mem­bers switch­ing to elec­tron­ic giv­ing.   Thank you all again for this.  How­ever, with this change, our mis­sion giv­ing may have been neg­lected.  If this is so, you can leave your mis­sion giv­ing at the church in an envel­ope clearly marked to ABM or oth­er mis­sion agency.  The Web­site giv­ing but­ton also allows us to nom­in­ate a dona­tion to ABM as well.  In the cur­rent cir­cum­stances, our mis­sion agen­cies, like the churches, are in great­er need.  Please remem­ber to sup­port ABM and our oth­er missions.

 

Next Week - Sunday School/Children’s Min­istry will resume with social dis­tan­cing and hygiene meas­ures in place.  Please come along and join us on Sunday 26^th July.

 

Wed­nes­day Heal­ing Ser­vice — has resumed and is observing Cov­id-19 restric­tions re seat­ing and receiv­ing com­mu­nion.  A bib­lic­al dis­cus­sion takes place fol­low­ing morn­ing tea in the hall – all are invited.

 

Con­firm­a­tion – Booked in for Sunday 23^rd August: Bp Michael Stead will be here for con­firm­a­tion.  Please keep our four Con­firmees Alex, Lucy, Nich­olas & Nam in your prayers.

 

Any notices for the ser­vice book­let will need to be sub­mit­ted to the Par­ish Office email by Wed­nes­day even­ing at the latest.

 

Food for our little friends — Thanks for the food scraps which are now not going to land­fill and so redu­cing the pro­duc­tion of harm­ful green­house gasses, espe­cially meth­ane.  If you would like some worm cast­ings for your garden you can leave a buck­et or bag at the rect­ory with your details.  Our little fer­til­izer factor­ies have been doing a won­der­ful job and the fruit of their labours is now available.

 

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:  Sunday: Edi Dav­is & Oscar; Kathy Drum­mond; Dav­id Dun­lop; and Michael Flem­ing, Eliza­beth Arm­strong, Tom, Ella & Nich­olas;  Monday: Steph­en Gates & Andrew Eld­er; and Mar­ilyn Gibbs;  Tues­day: Kev­in Green; Peter Gil­bert & Alfredo Narnolo;  Wed­nes­day: Stu­art Grigg & ‘Tri­cia Blombery; Richard Hagen & Som;  Thursday: John, Martha & Chris­toph­er Haly; Selina & John Hardy;  Fri­day: Ray­mond Hesle­hurst; and Susan Hill, Janet Broady & Alex;  and Sat­urday: We pray for all health work­ers deal­ing with our cur­rent Cov­id-19 pan­dem­ic, par­tic­u­larly med­ic­al pro­fes­sion­als deal­ing with those affected by Cov­id-19.  We pray for every­one strug­gling psy­cho­lo­gic­ally or fin­an­cially at this time, that they may know they are not alone and are able to ask for and receive the help and sup­port that they need. 

 

Pray­ers for the sick: Kristen Har­ley; Steph­en Thur­ley; Kev­in Tib­bey; Glen; Kiki Chun; Br Noel Jeffs (SSF); Edna Cham­bers; Br Michael Sam­inath­am (SSF); Sam George; Mary Middleton; Louise Middleton; Bar­bara Reyne; Vic­tor­ia Keighery; Fr John Bunyan; John Hardy; Louise Trott; Christina Rees (CBE); John Bowen; Ver­ity Wright; She Kar Nair; Ron Nath; Ron­an Nath; Veron­ica Nath; Ram Chander; Rev’d Val Tib­bey; Maur­een Clunas; Wolf Winter; Linda Mac­qual­ter; Rose­mary Brad­ford; Esth­er Middleton; Robert Cham­pi­on; Suz­anne Camp­ton; and Peter Cinelli.

 

Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Marusia Nester; Philip West­ley; Sylvia Jop­son; Vaughan Roberts; Neville Hack; and Ivy Rowlands.

 

Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 22^nd July: Mary Mag­dalene; and 25^th July: James, Apostle and Martyr.

 

Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Andrew Reddy; Jen­nifer B.; Shir­ley, Bar­bara & Jade Allen; Beth Arm­strong; Ann Jeffs; Rhi­an­non Henry-Edwards; Marissa; Jude, Isla, Meg & Al Don­nell; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Ruth Cham­pi­on; Gary & Kar­en Stein­er-Hill; Ken­neth Bar­ongo; Pau­line Newell; Bar­bara Beec­roft; Loch­lan Lones­bor­ough; Ann Con­nolly; the Per­kins Fam­ily; Fr Peter Carls­son; Day­alan Sam­inath­an; Grace & Han­nah Ashton; Vic­tor Any­ar­isi; Baby Anaisha, & her par­ents Anu & Digvi­jay; Robert & Lyn­dall; Kit & Ben; Hiro Itadani; and Mea­ghan Patterson.

 

Read­ings for Next Sunday — Eighth Sunday after Pente­cost: First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 29.15–28; Psalm: 105.1–11; Second Read­ing: Romans 8.26–39; and Gos­pel: Mat­thew 13.44–58

 

Read­ings for the com­ing week: Even­ing Prayer