Notices_Sunday 4th October — Feast of St Francis of Assisi and Blessing of the Animals

NOTICES:

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

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Happy birth­day to: Nich­olas Chiew; Lucy Raj; Moya Holle; Stu­art Grigg; Mandy Tib­bey; Peter Gil­bert; Alfredo Narnola; Ann Petersen; and Lea MacNeil.

 

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The flowers in the church today are donated by Ruth Cham­pi­on in lov­ing memory of her moth­er, Emily Cham­pi­on.

 

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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.  Please bring a bible.  All wel­come.  We will be con­tinu­ing with Paul’s first let­ter to the Cor­inthi­ans

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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 at stlukes.enmore@outlook.com

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The War­dens’ Din­ner - RSVP and pay­ment by Thursday, 8 Octo­ber 2026

Tick­ets are now avail­able for the War­dens Din­ner to be held from 5.30pm on Sat, 24 Oct 2026!  $75pp or $55 Con­ces­sion

Dir­ect Trans­fer —  Please trans­fer the funds for the num­ber of tick­ets you want to the St Luke’s account — Account Name: St Luke’s Anglic­an Church Work­ing Account/ BSB: 062–165/ Account Num­ber: 10023547

Trans­fer details — When trans­fer­ring the funds, please include the fol­low­ing details: — Din­ner [ Your last name] x [No. of tick­ets required].  Simply use all of the avail­able space in the Descrip­tion and/or Ref­er­ence fields to include this inform­a­tion.  Lim­ited cash sales are also avail­able.

 Tick­ets — Please see Brett or the War­dens after the ser­vice on Sundays to express interest, to let us know you have pur­chased your tick­ets and to receive your tick­ets, or with any ques­tions you have.

All that then needs to be done is to think about what to wear!

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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.

Weekly Inter­ces­sions for our Com­munity:

Monday: Joseph, Esth­er, Joyti & Joshlyn Kumar; John M.; and Jo Middleton.

Tues­day: Fran Neilson; Kath­er­ine Old­field; Andrew Pat­ter­son & Rose.

Wed­nes­day: Mea­ghan Pat­ter­son; and Ann Petersen & Rachel.

Thursday: Rick Prat­ley & Simon; and Jo, Ramendra, Thomas, & Lucy Raj.

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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For our com­munity today:

Moya Holle; Noel Jeffs; Mandy Tib­bey & Geoff; Lea MacNeil & Don­ald Thomas; Evelyn Maack; and Jen­nifer McGov­ern.

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

Andy Ser­afin; Alex Regos; Sarah, Paul, Emma, & Michael; Kim McLoughrey; Gra­ham Dagg; Char­lotte Dolby; Lilac John­ston; Janne Mar­tin; Ruth & Robyn Woell­ner; Christina; and Mal­colm Haire.

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Anniversar­ies of the Depar­ted: Emily Cham­pi­on; Thomas Kerr; Ruth Cropley; and Aus­tin McLach­lan.

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Saints Com­mem­or­a­tion: 4^th: St Fran­cis of Assisi – 800^th Anniversary (since his death); and 6^th: Wil­li­am Tyndale, bib­lic­al schol­ar.

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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; Mel McK­im­mie; Bar­bara Ray­mond.

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Read­ings for Next Sunday: Twen­ti­eth Sunday After Pente­cost

First Read­ing: Exodus 32.1–14                Psalm: 106.1–6, 20–24

Second Read­ing: Phil­ip­pi­ans 4.1–9          Gos­pel: Mat­thew 22.1–14

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The Revd John Bunyan has a very lim­ited num­ber (30) of his latest book, Around The Broad Land: Pray­ers and Read­ings for the Circ­ling Year.  It has 268 pages, with 500 Scrip­ture pas­sages (2/3^rds AV and 1/3^rd RSV-based & includ­ing 40 BCP psalms with annota­tions), 200 col­lects and oth­er tra­di­tion­al pray­ers, simple forms of Mat­ins & Even­song.  John has paid for the print­ing.

These books are numbered and signed, and are avail­able for dona­tions of at least $100 to send via ABM to the Epis­copal Dio­cese of Jer­u­s­alem.

The money is for Al-Alhi Hos­pit­al, foun­ded by CMS in 1882, and the only Chris­ti­an hos­pit­al in Gaza, with no income from nor con­nec­tion with the Hamas author­it­ies.  Details of this small but very import­ant hos­pit­al are on the dio­ces­an web-site.  Even our small gifts will give encour­age­ment to those who care for young and old, sick, wounded, trau­mat­ised, or dying, in very dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances, and show that our Church in the “Holy Land” is not for­got­ten.

For more inform­a­tion please con­tact the par­ish office at stlukes.enmore@outlook.com

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A note from the War­dens in the event someone becomes ser­i­ously unwell at Church

This note is to assist every­one in the unfor­tu­nate event that one of us becomes unwell at Church to the extent that it could be ser­i­ous, and in the worst case, requires an ambu­lance to be called.

First of all, it’s in all our best interests that we all take steps, whatever that might be for each of us as indi­vidu­als, to be as well as pos­sible when we come to Church.

Firstly, in the event one of us becomes so unwell as to faint or become unre­spons­ive, we ask that you do not crowd around the per­son or their part­ner or fam­ily. Keep calm and carry on as they say.

Secondly, a Warden and/or Par­ish Coun­cil­lor present will attend to the per­son and con­sult with any of you who have health­care train­ing or exper­i­ence.

Thirdly, we will require your part­ner or fam­ily mem­ber to tele­phone 000 and to speak to the NSW Ambu­lance Ser­vice and to fol­low their instruc­tions.

Fourthly, we will tele­phone the NSW Ambu­lance Ser­vice if your part­ner or fam­ily mem­ber does not wish to do so. The reas­on for this is that we can­not prop­erly assess or care for any med­ic­al situ­ation, espe­cially a poten­tial crit­ic­al incid­ent or emer­gency.

Fifthly, whilst await­ing the advice and/or attend­ance of the NSW Ambu­lance Ser­vice, we will tend to your imme­di­ate com­fort.

Please note: if you are in receipt of an aged care pen­sion, please carry your card with you as this will be required to be shown to pre­vent an ambu­lance charge.

Thank you all in advance for your under­stand­ing and cooper­a­tion in deal­ing with these situ­ations.

Please do not hes­it­ate to speak with one of the War­dens if you have any ques­tions or com­ments.