Notices_Sunday 14th December — Third Sunday Of Advent

NOTICES:

Wel­come to any vis­it­ors with us today.  Please join us for morn­ing tea after the ser­vice.

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New Big Roster is now avail­able for 21st Dec 2025 to 15^th Mar 2026.  Cop­ies in church foy­er and on Com­munity Resource Table.

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NEXT SUNDAY – 21st Decem­ber

- Car­ol Singing and gift giv­ing at Stan­more Nurs­ing Home: After the 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

- 6pm — Join us for Car­ols and the Christ­mas Play Without Rehears­al.  Per­fect for all ages, fam­il­ies and friends, there will be plenty of dress-ups on hand, and the oppor­tun­ity to par­ti­cip­ate in a unique telling of the Christ­mas story in word and song.  Refresh­ments after­wards.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm: At Fr Philip Bradford’s place 5 Lin­coln St, Stan­more.  We will be Con­tinu­ing our Advent Study.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.

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THANK YOU…

The War­dens would like to sin­cerely thank all those who worked so hard for the suc­cess of the Christ­mas Mar­ket yes­ter­day.  A spe­cial thanks to those who set up and pre­pared on the Fri­day after­noon.  Thank you to those who came early to help, those who stayed all day to help, and those who came at the end of the day to clear up and put away. Spe­cial thanks to those who pre-pared food and drinks; cooked on the BBQ, made cof­fee and drinks on the day; baked goods or made jams and pre­serves in advance; those who made things and cul­tiv­ated plants; and those who provided music­al enter­tain­ment on the day.

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Stan­more Nurs­ing Home Gifts: Your dona­tion no mat­ter how small helps the par­ish to pay for a selec­tion of equal value gifts — usu­ally chocol­ates, or some­thing suit­able for those patients who are dia­bet­ic.  If you would like to donate, please place your dona­tion (in a marked envel­ope) in the offer­tory plate, or donate online ref­er­ence “Stan­more Nurs­ing Home”.  Many thanks for your gen­er­os­ity

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Dona­tions for flowers for Christ­mas would be appre­ci­ated; either via the St Luke’s Account (details on the back of the ser­vice book­let) or giv­en in Cash to Moya Holle. If any­one has Christ­mas bush (nice and red) grow­ing nearby or in their garden, a bunch or two would be won­der­ful to add to the flower dis­play for Christ­mas.

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ST PAULS PANTRY needs food, health and clean­ing items:

A bas­ket is in the church foy­er for dona­tions.

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Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Sunday: Wil­low Cov­entry & Quinn Chen; Brett Dav­ies & Amrit MacIntyre; Edi & Oscar Dav­is; and Susan Deas.

Monday: Kathy Drum­mond; Dav­id Dun­lop; and Steph­en Gates & Andrew.

Tues­day: Michael, Eliza­beth, Tom, Ella & Nick Flem­ing; and Mar­ilyn Gibbs.

Wed­nes­day: Kev­in Green; Peter Gil­bert & Fred Narnola; and Joyce Grant.

Thursday: Stu­art Grigg & ‘Tri­cia; and Richard Hagan & Som.

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.  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: Christine Thur­ley; Don­ald Thomas; Andy Ser­afin; John Bowen (Priest); Alex Regos; Rick Per­ram; Sarah, Paul, Emma, & Michael; John Park­er; Kim McLoughrey; Gra­ham Dagg; Char­lotte Dolby; Claire Bur­gess; Steven Solomonides, Ara­bella Ross; Charlie; Heath­er Chaffo; and Diana Way­land.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Oswald Coombs; Florence Thomas; Iso­belle Gid­ley, Mark Trav­is; Sarah Ket­tlewell; Florence Shel­lard; Sid­ney Smith; Sid­ney Anson; Guiseppe Bruzzese; and Susanne Crowth­er.

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: Janet Walms­ley; Lyn Car­ring­ton; Ern­est MacIntyre; Simone Crowth­er; Kar­en Stein­er-Hill; Christine Kon­draten­ko; Mar­garet Chiew; Ray Som­mer; John Hardy; Marissa & Meg Maack, Jude, Isla, & Al Don­nell; Noel Jeffs; Michael Aiken; Robert & Lyn­dall Dubler; and Mel McK­im­mie.

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 Read­ings for Next Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Advent

First Read­ing: Isai­ah 7.10–16                 Psalm: 80.1–7,17–19

Second Read­ing: Romans 1.1–7              Gos­pel: Mat­thew 1.18–25

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Christ­mas 2025 Ser­vices

Wed­nes­day 24^th Decem­ber — 11pm Christ­mas Eve Ser­vice.

Thursday 25^th Decem­ber — 9.30am Christ­mas Day Ser­vice.

(Note: There will be no 10.30am Wed­nes­day Ser­vice on 24^th Dec 2025 or 31^st Dec 2025.)

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The Christ­mas Bowl Appeal 2025 — annu­al appeal of the Acts of Peace, the inter­na­tion­al aid agency of the Nation­al Coun­cil of Churches.

We encour­age parish­ion­ers to scan the code link and donate online (our par­ish is registered as ‘Enmore-Stan­more Anglic­an Par­ish’), or call 1800 025 101.

Please note: There are a lim­ited num­ber of dona­tion envel­opes for the Christ­mas Bowl Appeal avail­able in the church foy­er for those who do not use smart mobile phones with cam­er­as.

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ABM Advent and Christ­mas Appeal 2025

We encour­age parish­ion­ers to scan the code link to donate online or go dir­ectly to www.abmission.org/advent2025