Notices_Sunday 19th April 2026_Third Sunday of Easter

NOTICES:

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

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TODAY - Par­ish Coun­cil Meets in the Par­ish Office after the 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

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A gen­er­al invit­a­tion is exten­ded to every­one who would like to come to the pub for lunch at the War­ren View (2 Stan­more Road, Enmore) after the ser­vice and morn­ing tea of a Sunday.  We look for­ward to see­ing you there.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm:

Held at Fr Philip Bradford’s place.  We will be con­tinu­ing with the Gos­pel of Mat­thew.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.

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Sunday 3^rd May – Dio­ces­an Day of Pray­er ‘Before the Throne”

Link to Video invit­a­tion from Arch­bish­op Kan­ishka Raf­fel

https://vimeo.com/1182471809?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci.

Pray­er gath­er­ings will be held region­ally, and you are invited to attend the rel­ev­ant pray­er meet­ing in our region:

St Andrew’s Cathed­ral Sydney (2:00–3:30pm)

We have also been asked to include in our ser­vice on 3 May a focussed time of pray­er for the spread of the gos­pel in our Dio­cese.

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Fri­day 22^nd May 5.45pm for 6pm — Ser­vice of Pray­er for Chris­ti­an Unity and Fun­drais­ing Din­ner

Hos­ted by the NSW Ecu­men­ic­al Coun­cil and co-hos­ted by Bish­op Vin­cent Long and the Roman Cath­ol­ic Dio­cese of Par­ra­matta

Held at St Patrick’s Cathed­ral, Par­ra­matta, 1 Mar­ist Place, Par­ra­matta NSW 2150

Tick­ets are $75.00.  It would be good to have a table of us from St Lukes. Please let Mandy Tib­bey know if you would like to attend or book online https://www.trybooking.com/DLGUZ  (see the notice boards)

We will try to organ­ise lifts for people if required.

It is usu­ally a lovely night, meet­ing oth­ers from oth­er denom­in­a­tions includ­ing Anglic­an, Unit­ing, R Cath­ol­ic, Luther­an, Sal­va­tion Army and a num­ber of Ortho­dox churches, includ­ing Greek, Armeni­an, Coptic and oth­ers and learn­ing some­thing about the host church.

If you would like to come but the cost is a prob­lem, let Mandy know.

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Sat­urday 4^th July – Christ­mas in July High Tea – Keep the Date.

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Volun­teer Needed at the ABM Office

The Anglic­an Board of Mis­sion (ABM) col­lects and sells used stamps to raise funds for mis­sion. A volun­teer is needed to help with the pro­cessing of used stamps and stamp col­lec­tions at the ABM office in Sydney’s CBD – a short walk from Town Hall and Gadig­al sta­tions.

The work­load var­ies depend­ing on the volume of stamps we receive, but the com­mit­ment would nor­mally be 2–3 hours, on a Tues­day or Wed­nes­day. If you would like to learn more, please call Den­ise Geddes at ABM’s Recep­tion Desk Monday – Fri­day from 9.00am to 1.00pm on 9264 1021.

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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:

Monday: Michael, Eliza­beth, Tom, Ella & Nick Flem­ing; and Joyce Grant.

Tues­day: Richard Hagen & Som; Selina Hardy & John; and Moya Holle.

Wed­nes­day: Susan Hill, Janet Broady & Alex; Geoff Lind­say & Mandy Tib­bey.

Thursday: Joseph, Esth­er, Joyti & Joshlyn Kumar; and Noel Jeffs.

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.

Sunday: Steph­en Gates & Andrew; Mar­ilyn Gibbs; Kev­in Green; Peter Gil­bert & Fred Narnola; and Stu­art Grigg & ‘Tri­cia.

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

Fr John Bunyan; Christine Thur­ley; Don­ald Thomas; Andy Ser­afin; Alex Regos; Sarah, Paul, Emma, & Michael; John Park­er; Kim McLoughrey; Gra­ham Dagg; Char­lotte Dolby; Steven Solomonides, Ara­bella Ross; Erica Math­ieson and Suz­anne Camp­ton.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted:

Gra­ham Hall; Mar­garet Coote; Fre­drick Ander­son; Bill Mof­fat; Har­old Chees­man; Ahanh Gav­in; Leonard Boone; Sarah Ayers; and Her­bert Heck.

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion:

21^st April: Anselm, Arch­bish­op of Can­ter­bury, teach­er (d. 1109).

23^rd April: George, mar­tyr (d. c. 303).

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Long Term Pas­tor­al Pray­er list: John Bowen (Priest); 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 Next Sunday: Fourth Sunday of East­er

First Read­ing: Acts 2.42–47             Psalm: 23

Second Read­ing: 1 Peter 2.1–10       Gos­pel: John 10.1–10