Notices_Sunday 13th September 2026 — Baptism and Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost

NOTICES:

Wel­come to all our vis­it­ors today.  The fam­ily and friends of the Bap­tism fam­ily are invited to join the fam­ily in the hall for refresh­ments and lunch. Parish­ion­ers and any oth­er vis­it­ors are invited to the rect­ory garden for morn­ing tea and a BBQ lunch.

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A very big thank you to Fr Philip Brad­ford for tak­ing on the role of Act­ing Rect­or for the past 2 weeks.

We wel­come back Fr Mark Hard­ing who will be again tak­ing on the role of Act­ing Rect­or from Wed­nes­day 16^th Septem­ber until Sunday 25^th Octo­ber 2026.

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Thank you to those who came yes­ter­day to help with the Garden Work­ing Bee!

We will try to meet reg­u­larly.

The Next Garden work­ing bee will be held on Sat­urday 17^th Octo­ber.

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The flowers in the church today have been donated by Ann Petersen in lov­ing memory of her moth­er, Mary Edmonds.

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New Big Roster for Septem­ber to Novem­ber 2026 out now – cop­ies avail­able in the church foy­er.

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Tues­day 15^th Septem­ber — Bible Study is can­celled due to Fr Philip attend­ing Syn­od.  Bible Study will resume on Tues­day 22^nd Septem­ber at 7.30pm when we will be fin­ish­ing the Book of The Rev­el­a­tion to John.

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Syn­od

This week Monday-Wed­nes­day 14–16 Septem­ber and Monday-Tues­day the fol­low­ing week, Syn­od (the par­lia­ment of the church) will be con­duc­ted in the Wes­ley Centre, Pitt Street.  The MOW mem­bers and friends will gath­er out­side Syn­od from 2.30 pm on Tues­day and Wed­nes­day of the first week only, to give out pamph­lets mainly in rela­tion to our Nation­al Con­fer­ence in Can­berra in Novem­ber.  Some of our mem­bers are Syn­od rep­res­ent­at­ives and will be attend­ing the ses­sions which com­mence at 3.15 p.m. MOW has obtained police per­mis­sion to do this, so all is in order. If you would like to come and stand with us, and/or give out pamph­lets you are most wel­come to do so and in fact we would really appre­ci­ate your pres­ence.

Ruth Cham­pi­on- Sydney Con­ven­or

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Sunday 18^th Octo­ber – St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al:

On Sunday 18th Octo­ber at our 9.30am ser­vice we will be cel­eb­rat­ing our St Luke’s Patron­al Fest­iv­al with a spe­cial guest preach­er and former rect­or, The Very Rev’d Steph­en Wil­li­ams, Dean Emer­it­us of Christ­ch­urch Cathed­ral New­castle and known to a few long-stand­ing parish­ion­ers.

Steph­en and his wife Sue will join us for lunch at the War­ren View Hotel after the ser­vice – All wel­come, but an estim­ate of num­bers for our book­ing would be help­ful. Please email the par­ish office or text Ruth on Mob: 0400 166 041

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Sat­urday 24^th Octo­ber 2026 at 5.30 for 6pm in the par­ish hall!

The War­dens’ Din­ner – The War­dens fly down to Rio

The War­dens warmly invite you to join them to fly down to Rio!

Reserve your place/group table — on the list at the green board at the Church Hall door or speak to the War­dens or Brett Dav­ies.

Pre-din­ner drinks and nibbles will be from 5.30 p.m. with enter­tain­ment by Car­ni­vale Batacuda Funk, fol­lowed by a catered main course (includ­ing veget­ari­an options) and won­der­ful desserts. The silent auc­tion bids will pro­gress dur­ing the night for some fine wines, spir­its and excit­ing finds.

Come dressed for the occa­sion by shop­ping for some­thing col­our­ful in the OpShop!

Cost $55 (Conc)-$75 but don’t hold back.

The church hall kit­chen upgrade is our major pro­ject for this year and we need your sup­port. For some weeks pri­or to the event there will be a guess­ing com­pet­i­tion run­ning with a major super prize and sub­sequent prizes.

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12^th to 14^th Nov – Move­ment for the Ordin­a­tion of Women Con­fer­ence: “Make no mis­take … God calls Women”

Aus­trali­an Centre for Chris­tian­ity and Cul­ture, Can­berra.

Regis­tra­tions now open — Con­ces­sion rates for MOW mem­bers.

Please renew your mem­ber­ship or join for 2026–27 before you register.

Find out more at: https://mowatch.com.au

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Sat­urday 5^th Dec – St Luke’s Christ­mas Mar­ket – SAVE THE DATE

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ST PAUL’S PANTRY needs food items includ­ing tinned and non-per­ish­able goods: A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for dona­tions.

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Christine Thur­ley & Troy; and Stu­art Veitch, Jo Bur­ton & Laurence.

Monday: Janet Walms­ley; Noël Waugh; and Janet Wid­mer & Cliff.

Tues­day: Ron (Bp), Katie, & Bri­ony Wil­li­ams; and Sally Woell­ner

Wed­nes­day: Mat­thew, Sam, Thomas & Bron­wyn Whit­ing.

Thursday: Kay Younie, Nata­sha, Timothy & Jona­thon; and Vic­tor Any­anji.

Fri­day: We pray for pas­tor­al care min­istry teams at all Hos­pit­als and all those who are min­istered to.

Sat­urday: Almighty God, we pray for those in areas of con­flict and nat­ur­al dis­asters.  We pray for heal­ing and good med­ic­al care for those who have been injured.  For those who have lost homes and pos­ses­sions, please meet their daily needs for food, clean water and shel­ter and com­fort those who mourn the loss of loved ones.  And bless all who are help­ing those impacted.  Amen.

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Pray­ers for the sick and for those in need of pray­er:

Andy Ser­afin; Alex Regos; Sarah, Paul, Emma, & Michael; John Park­er; Kim McLoughrey; Gra­ham Dagg; Char­lotte Dolby; Lilac John­ston; Janne Mar­tin; Ruth & Robyn Woell­ner; Bar­bara Ray­mond; Mar­ilyn Gibbs; and Ron Wil­li­ams.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Mary Edmonds; Eliza­beth Gold­smith; Beatrice Hunt; Ruby Dor­ring­ton; Viol­et Chand­ler; Mar­garet Coombs; and Wil­li­am Bell.

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:

15^th: John Oliv­er Feetham, Bish­op and bush broth­er (d.1947)

16^th: Nini­an of Gal­lo­way, Bish­op and Mis­sion­ary (d.c.432)

17^th: Hilde­gaard of Bin­gen, Abbess and spir­itu­al writer (d.1179)

18^th: John Rams­den Wol­la­ston, Priest and mis­sion­ary of West­ern Aus­tralia (d.1856)

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Christine Thur­ley; Don­ald Thomas; Fr John Bunyan; Fr John Bowen; Janet Walms­ley; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Simone Crowth­er; Kar­en Stein­er-Hill; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Mar­garet Chiew; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Marissa & Meg Maack, Jude, Isla, & Al Don­nell; Noel Jeffs; Michael Aiken; and Mel McK­im­mie.

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Sev­en­teenth Sunday After Pente­cost

First Read­ing: Exodus 16.2–15                            Psalm: 105.1–6, 37–45

Second Read­ing: Phil­ip­pi­ans 1.21–30           Gos­pel: Mat­thew 20.1–16