June 2015 - St Andrew`s Uniting Church

June 2015
St. Andrew’s Uniting
Church News
Mission Statement:
To bring the Gospel of Christ to
The People of the Hawkesbury.
Pastoral Leaders’ Team (PLT)
Rev Je-Kon Oh 4578 3820 (Office, Bus. Hrs.)
After Hours: 0410 596 991 or 4578 3421.
Email: [email protected]
Lester Vincent ( 4575 1507), Justin Dacey
(4574 1312)
Audrey Morgan
(4571 2087)
(4578 4421)
Margaret Bailey (4776 1487)
Beryl Hedges
Sandi Herbert (4573 1517)
Margaret Wesmore (0419 211 594)
Sunday Service Times
8:30am Church
Traditional worship
followed by morning
tea & fellowship.
There’s much to
pray for. Come
and join us!
9-10am each Friday
Ministry Assistants Room
Contact: Margaret Bailey, Sandi Herbert
10:00am Church
In conjunction with our
Kids’ Sunday program.
A family celebration
including programs
from three years old to
Secondary Year 9.
Morning tea and
fellowship follows.
6:00pm Sundays@Six;
In the Auditorium.
Modern worship with
singers, drama and
band, plus supper to
follow.
Blokes Breakfast
Saturday 13th June
7.30am
Our Special Guest Speaker
Geoff Hatch
President of Hawkesbury
TOFM
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Our first TOFMs for semester 2 was well attended. We tried a slightly different
format in order to hear a presentation by a local Speech Therapist – Emily Balam.
The mums and carers and children all had lunch together, then the mums went
to listen to Emilie's presentation, She covered the important areas of child
speech milestones. It was a great presentation and Emily answered many questions from the group. One of the other nice things was having lunch all together
so the mums and carers got to know each other even better.
Again thanks to our selfless carers who support this group
Kerryn Johnson
TOFMs
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Every Friday at 7pm
Every Friday during the school term our
church youth group meets in the church
auditorium. Our night consists of a small
bible study, crazy games and a meal
together. Youth is now open to year 5/6
students.
Dinner is provided for a $5
donation.
Please bring along your friends!
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Worship Planner for June 2015
Date
8:30am
Je-Kon Oh
10am
Je-Kon Oh
6pm
Je-Kon Oh
7 June
(Infant Baptism)
Je-Kon Oh
Je-Kon Oh
(HC)
Je-Kon Oh
Café
Church
Je-Kon Oh
Je-Kon Oh
Tony Blake
Tony Blake
Je-Kon Oh
14 June
21 June
28 June
Remarks
KFC ends.
* Note: This worship plan can be changed at any time.
Kids for Christ Texts
7 June (Paddlers): Growing God’s family (Acts 9:19-31)
7 June (Tweens): Trouble for James and Peter (Acts 12:19,
24)
14 June (Paddlers): Prison Praise (Acts 16:25-34)
14 June (Tweens): All part of the body of Christ (1 Corinthians
12:12-31)
21 June (Paddlers): Shipwrecked! (Acts 27-28)
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June Church Activities __ For Services, See Page 1
Mon 1 9.30 Playtime
Fri
19 7pm Youth Group
Tues 2 7.30pm PLT Meeting
Sat
20 Newsletter Items
Sun
21 8.30am Worship
Thurs 4 9.30 Fellowship Meeting
Fri
5 10.15am IDA Service
7pm Youth Group
Sun
10am
7 8.30 Worship
10am
Mon
22 9.30am Playtime
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11am St Andrews Singers
Wed 10 9.45 T.O.F.M.S
Tues 23 7.30pm Finance Mission
Team
Thurs 11 Adult Fellowship Misson
Lunch
Wed 24
Youth Group
9.45am T.O.F.M.S
Fri
12 7pm
Sat
13 7.30am Blokes Breakfast
Fri
26
7pm
Sun
14 8.30am
Sun
28
8.30
10am
10am
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Thurs 25 12pm Seniors Luncheon
Worship
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Youth Group
Worship
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Mon 15 9.30am Playtime
11am St. Andrews Singers
Thurs 18 10am Seniors Get Together
A ‘THANK YOU’ TO ST. ANDREWS CONGREGATION
and for all those who have given support, and prayers
for my very satisfactory progress.
I look forward to being with you again, sooner than once
I had expected. Thanks be to God!
John Sturgess “
We all wish you a complete recovery, John and look forward to having you back
with us very soon.
Take care, John and take it easy…..VERY easy!” Ed.
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Fellowship Fashion Parade
Thursday 14 May, 2015
Thursday the 14th May, 2015 – the day the “Girls & Boys” got dressed up!
8.30a.m. the sun was shining but it was very cold – 2 degrees in Richmond that morning – the “Stafford Fashion” van arrived in St. Andrews
car park and the unloading of racks & racks of clothing began. Our
faithful, long-serving President was there to unlock the building and
the kitchen volunteers started to arrive to prepare morning tea.
9a.m. the models, Irene, Beryl, Lorraine, Hazel, Denise, started to arrive
Thus, begun much “to-ing & froing” between the auditorium and the
change room and this continued until all the models had five changes of
clothing and then they had all that changing again when the parade
was on. It makes me tired just to think about it. While this was going
on the people in the kitchen, Judith, Anthea & Evie, had been busy also
buttering, jamming & creaming scones & pikelets. Can I at this time
thank Joy Shepherd & Evie Inskip who are not members of the fellowship but made scones for us.
9.30a.m. and people started to arrive, the tea & coffee was made and
soon there was a queue at the servery window requesting there hot
drink.
10.30a.m. the parade began. For the first time we had two ushers - one
either side of the stage, to assist the models up & down the stairs, didn’t
they look dapper in their outfit – thank you so much Ron & David.
These two men are members of our Fellowship and they with the other
members would warmly welcome other people to join with us.
After the parade the auditorium and the change room was extremely
busy again with people “trying – on” the different outfits, they bought
well and we thank them for that. There were approximately 55 people
who attended and thereby supported our effort to raise money to support, not only St. Andrews but also other church & community organisations. The amount of approximately $670.00 was raised.
We give thanks to our loving heavenly Father for the sun that shone,
the people who came and for the strength and energy He gave to the
workers and we pray that we were faithful to Him in the opportunity
He gave us to witness for Him.
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Photos from
the Day.
Photos By Cliff
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Move Night Review by Ben Miller
On May 2 the church had a movie night. The movie was "Penguins of Madagascar" The movie was shown in the auditorium. We had popcorn, cheese
balls and lolly snakes. There were more than 20 kids and more than 15 adults
and 2 dogs watching the show. We sat on bean bags and chairs. It was a really good movie and my favourite bit was when they tried to get the egg at the
start. My favourite penguin was "Private"
I am looking forward to the next movie night
Ben Miller
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What’s going on at Youth Group
Coal seam Gas
exploration ?
Or perhaps construction
OF a removable NBA Court
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If you have never been challenged to
your toenails, just try this compelling
story of Frida Gashumba, who was 14
at the time of the terrible genocide in
Rwanda in 1994. In a matter of weeks,
800,000 people classified as being Tutsis were slaughtered by their neighbours – people they grew up
with – who belonged to the Hutu class. (This lifetime classification had been imposed years before by Rwanda’s South Belgian
colonial power for the most trivial of reasons and it became a
cruel source of prejudice and persecution).
Frida lost most of her family – her grandparents, both of her parents, her two sisters and three brothers, plus numerous other
relatives in this carnage. She should have died herself, but
somehow, by the grace of God lived to tell the story. Her story
begins with experiences leading up to the slaughter, when a period of increasing discrimination and school bullying gradually
turned into a hideous call – a “Kill Them All” imperative. To an
outsider, this could be acknowledged as just another human
tragedy which took place among other people, in another part of
the world. When you read it for yourself, please tell me what
you think of it. I am sure it will challenge, inspire and confirm
your own faith in Christ.
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But Frida’s story is told in the “first person”, from her own
horrible experiences. She describes how, when her own
time came to be killed, she was given the choice of how to
die – by a bullet or by a blow to the head. As she could not
afford to pay for a bullet (!), she chose the alternative.
That is enough graphic detail!
than that.
The story is of much more
The compelling part of Frida’s story is that our Lord spared
her to not only bear witness, but how she gradually came to
have such a strong faith in the Lord Jesus and followed His
powerful example of love and forgiveness. She actively
sought her Hutu killer (who had been gaoled) and told him,
face-to-face that she forgave him his terrible crimes against
most of her family. It took quite some time for her to become strong enough to face this man.
I have wanted for months to write this review of Frida’s story, but could not find the words to adequately describe
Frida’s powerful faith example. In our comfortable existence here in Australia, she puts so many of us to shame.
This little book, Frida can be borrowed from St Andrew’s Library (now that I have returned it!)
Lester Vincent)
“Frida – Chosen to Die, Destined to Live”
Publisher:
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Sovereign World
WHAT’S HAPPENING DURING THE WEEK
SUNDAYS (KFC)
Paddlers – Age 3 to Year 1 9:45 -11:00am
Tweenes – Years 2 to 6
9:45 -11.00am
(Sandra House 4578 2064)
(Margaret Wesmore 0419211594)
MONDAYS
Playtime – 9:30 - 11:30am – Parents and preschoolers
(Sarah Jones 4577 5353)
Andy’s Hands-on-Help 9:00 - 1 pm , Maintenance & Fellowship. (Bob Thuaux 4578 2309)
TUESDAYS
Church Council –
7:30pm 1st Tuesday odd number month. Greg Inskip
(4573 1002)
Pastoral Leaders Team – 7:30pm 1st Tuesday even number month. (Je-Kon Oh)
WEDNESDAYS
Time Out For Mums.– 9:45 -11:15am Fortnightly in school terms
for Mums and preschoolers. (Sandra Brown 4576 6689)
THURSDAYS
1st Thursday: Adult Fellowship 9:30am (Irene Milne 4578 1482)
2nd & 3rd Thursday: Seniors All Together 10:00am – 12 noon (Crafts)
4th Thursday: Seniors’ Lunch 12 noon – 1:45pm
Senior’s Bible Study – 12 noon -1:30pm (except 4th Thursday)
For information on Thursday seniors’ activities contact Sandi Herbert (4573 1517)
FRIDAYS IDA Service First Friday, 10::15am. Youth Group (Years 6 - 10) every
week in school term. (Greg. Inskip 4573 1002).
SMALL/HOME GROUPS are a valuable and integral part of St Andrew’s ministry.
We encourage all members to join a group. For further information please speak to our
Minister Rev. Je-Kon Oh - Phone 4578 3421 (Home)
CHURCH OFFICE
MAIL: Post Office Box 450, Richmond 2753
PHONE: (02) 4578 3820
FAX:
(02) 4578 0155
HOURS: 10.00am – 2:00pm most days
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
www.richmonduniting.org.au
Centre Manager: Derek Scott: 4578 6015
Please send the editor your news
and views and other articles for the
newsletter.
email [email protected]
Ph. 4573 1002
St. Andrew’s Uniting Church
25 West Market Street, Richmond, NSW
A congregation of the Uniting Church in Australia.
St. Andrew’s is a member of the Assembly of Confessing Congregations.
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