Notices_Sunday 28th June — Fifth Sunday After Pentecost

NOTICES:

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

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Thank you to Brad Chap­man from ABM for com­ing to speak to us today.

We will be hold­ing a Saus­age Sizzle fun­draiser for ABM after the 9.30am ser­vice today.  A dona­tion of between $5-$10 – cash or Eft­pos for ABM would be appre­ci­ated, if you can afford it.  We thank Rick Prat­ley — our BBQ chef and oth­er volun­teers for their help today.

We will not be going to the War­ren View pub on this occa­sion.

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A very big thank you to Fr Glenn Maytum who has been our Act­ing Rect­or for the past 12 weeks.  We thank him for his ded­ic­a­tion, his friend­ship and guid­ance.  The War­dens are espe­cially grate­ful and appre­ci­at­ive of his help with oper­a­tion­al mat­ters.  We send our best wishes to the con­greg­a­tion at Broken Hill where he will be locuming in August and we hope we’ll see Fr Glenn back again at a later date.

Fr Mark Wormell will be join­ing us from Wed­nes­day 1^st July and serving as Act­ing Rect­or until Septem­ber 2026.

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 Offer­tory Envel­opes are now avail­able in the church foy­er for 5^th July onwards.

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Tues­day Night Bible Study at 7.30pm:  Held at Fr Philip Bradford’s place.  We are con­tinu­ing with the O.T. Book of Daniel.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.

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Sunday 28th June is the last day to buy your Tick­ets for $40 pp or $30 con­ces­sion.  Single tick­ets or a table of 4, 6 or 8 may be booked, how­ever, it would be appre­ci­ated if pay­ment was received at the time of the book­ing, we will accept cash or EFTPOS.

Start­ing at 2.30pm — There will be music, mulled wine served on arrival, hot fin­ger food, scones, jam & cream and a vari­ety of sweet del­ic­acies.

Teapots and Cof­fee will be served to the tables; some glu­ten free food will be avail­able and there will be raffles and door prizes.

We hope you will come and enjoy this fest­ive after­noon!

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Sunday 12^th July – Fun­drais­ing Com­mit­tee will meet after 9.30am ser­vice and morn­ing tea.

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Wed­nes­day 15^th July at 12pm — Men’s Day Out

Held at the De Lanna Thai Res­taur­ant, 220 Addis­on Rad Mar­rick­ville

Please see Kev­in G for more details.

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

On Sunday 18 Octo­ber 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 after the ser­vice — this will either be a shared lunch or a pub lunch — yet to be con­firmed.

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The Fun­drais­ing Com­mit­tee is con­sid­er­ing hold­ing a War­dens’ Din­ner on Sat­urday 24^th Octo­ber 2026

Join us for an even­ing inspired by the warmth, col­our and fest­ive spir­it, with music, fel­low­ship and a silent auc­tion in sup­port of St Luke’s.

Before con­firm­ing plans, we would like to gauge interest.  If you think you would attend, please add your name and the num­ber of people likely to accom­pany you to the list on the notice­board in the foy­er, adja­cent to the hall entry door.  Thank you.

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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 open 1 July 2026 — Con­ces­sion rates for MOW mem­bers.  Find out more at: https://2026mowdateclaimer.my.canva.site

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

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ST PAULS 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:

Monday: Jospeh, Esth­er, Joyti & Joshlyn Kumar; Lea MacNeil & Don­ald Thomas.

Tues­day: Evelyn Maack; Jen­nifer McGov­ern; John M., and Jo Middleton.

Wed­nes­day: Pamela Naple; Fran Neilsen; and Kath­er­ine Old­field.

Thursday: Andrew Pat­ter­son & Rose; and Ann Petersen & Rachel.

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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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 Next Sunday: Sixth Sunday After Pente­cost

First Read­ing: Gen­es­is 24.34–38, 42–49, & 58–67 Psalm: 45.10–17

Second Read­ing: Romans 7.14–25          Gos­pel: Mat­thew 11.15–19 & 25–30

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