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Celebrating 1 Year in the New Format Make sure you take a look at our Website • View Events in the Diocese • Find a church • Download the latest edition of The Advocate. website www.wangaratta-anglican.org.au “the Diocese is only a click away...” Issue: 012 Small enough to care and big enough to make a difference NOVEMBER 2012 STORIES OF FAITH Advertise your Business in the Next Edition of TARGET YOUR ADVERTING $$$ The Advocate... TARGET YOUR ADVERTING $$$ From the Advocate team... Advertise in the next edition of Advertise in the next edition of We wish March Special Feature – The Advocate. The Advocate. Function Centre’s Call Now! Call Now! everyone a very This is the perfect place to Ask about our great Ask about our great Merry Christmas package deals package deals promote your restaurant, club and a or function centre happy and safe Phone – 03 57213484 Ph. (03) 5721 3484 Fax. (03) 5722 1427 [email protected] Ph. (03) 5721 3484 Fax. (03) 5722 1427 Email - [email protected] Email - [email protected] New Year BOOK YOUR AD TODAY Issue: 001 Small enough to care and big enough to make a difference NOVEMBER 2011 Issue: 002 Small enough to care and big enough to make a difference DECEMBER 2011 Issue: 003 Small enough to care and big enough to make a difference FEBRUARY 2012 Issue: 004 Small enough to care and big enough to make a difference MARCH 2012 CHANGE FOR THE FUTURE Bishop John reflects on the path ahead The worldwide expan- There are three ways A CHILD IS BORN HEADING HERE One bOdy... many parts1 Corinthians 12:20 BY BISHOP JOHN PARKES sion of Anglicanism in to react to this situa- the late 19th and 20th tion. The first is to give We celebrate around our Diocese IN the middle of the centuries provided a up, and accept that the 19th century Jean- particularly english forces arrayed against CONNECTING “Christmas is about happiness and celebrating Baptiste Alphonse cultural expression of us are just too great. Karr wrote, Plus ça the faith to flourish. The second is to retreat the birth of Jesus” change, plus c’est la The particular chal- into the laager, to lock William, age 8, Wangaratta. même chose? “The lenge for Anglicans has the world out and hold more things change, CHURCH AND COMMUNITY been to find appropri- on to a conservative the more they remain ate enculturation of the view of both faith and the same”. It may well Anglican tradition in culture. The third way For a child has Nothern Albury have been true then. an increasingly diverse is to embrace change – Cobram It certainly is not true been born for Yarrawonga and pluralistic world. to see in it opportunity. Nathalia Albury now. The only thing Rutherglen For those of us who This seems to me to be us, a son given Numurkah we can be sure of to- are older, the tradition at the heart of the bib- Wodonga day is that things will of Anglican eucharistic lical revelation of God Chiltern to us; authority Tallangatta Corryong continue to change worship as a four hymn in christ – the jour- and change ever sandwich of word and ney of understanding rests upon his Wangaratta West Yackandandah more rapidly. Shepparton Beechworth sacrament provides from the household or shoulders; and WANGARATTA order and stability in a tribal God, through the The rate of change world which seems to discernment of ethical poses particular prob- he is named have gone a little mad. monotheism to the full Benalla lems for contemporary Myrtleford But there grows an in- realisation of God in Wonderful christianity, especially creasing gap between christ. And any study in its Anglican expres- those of us for whom of the history of the Counselor, sion. on the one hand Bright Mount Beauty this is an indispensa- church demonstrates Nagambie Euroa we proclaim Jesus Mighty God, ble part of an ordered an organisation adapt- christ, the same yes- life and the many who ing to change as it Everlasting terday and today and find our forms of wor- finds expression in the forever (Heb:13.8) ship anachronistic and culture and context of Father, Prince of But we make that proc- incomprehensible. time and place. Seymour lamation into a rapidly Peace. Mansfield changing context. The Added to this discon- Nobody pretends that (Isaiah 9:6) Broadford truth is timeless, but it nect has been the ad- this is easy. on the Yea Alexandra Kilmore needs to be interpreted vance of secularism, one hand at the heart “...Christmas “...Christmas afresh in every gen- and the suspicion of of embracing change eration and in the wide what post-modernism is the fear that we will “Christmas is an ever-renewing to me is, means diversity of cultures has described as meta- trade off that which is which make up our narratives. Meta-narra- of ultimate importance proclamation of hope, and especially telling the working hard Marysville modern global village. tives are untold stories and timeless relevance. when all seems dark...” And it is the very need story; loving, The Anglican Diocese of Wangaratta that unify and totalise on the other is the fear Bishop John Parkes to maintain to contextualise the the world, and justify a that failing to embrace sharing and TOGETHER WE Gospel message which culture’s power struc- the focus on causes us so much tures, and religion is a Bishop John conducting a confirmation service on Saturday 20th August for 28 Year 9 students at Farmers Market at Beechworth CELEBRATE heartburn. Continued page 2 the Chapel of St John the Baptist Geelong Grammar school – Timbertop Campus near Mansfield. caring....” classic example. Jesus...” As the Church looks for the future and the ex- region on the first sat- into the future. Last year outward, we reach into pressions of our faith. As urday of every month, the markets were also Fr Peter Tinney Fr Trevor Smith BY FR PETER MAClEOD-MIllER duties and expressed ly completed her stud- obtaining the qualifica- the community and we we strive to achieve this with stalls open from involved in the spring carolyn has worked a wish to become a ies in December 2008. tion of Medication en- find exciting new oppor- across our diocese many 9am – 12pm and located Graze and are now mem- at Kellock lodge for 6 Personal care Attend- She continued working dorsed enrolled Nurse tunities to connect the of our parishes look for at Christ Church on the bers of the Melbourne In the bleak mid win- KELLOCK LODGE years. She commenced ant within the next two as a cleaner and in food in December 2010. church and our faith with new ideas and expres- Hill, Ford street Beech- Food and Wine Festival ter? Well...it wasn’t quite The Diocese of Wangaratta is now blessed with a full house of clergy to offer priestly leadership and spiritual support across the Diocese. her employment in carolyn did not have the lives of those who are sions to develop that con- worth. These great mar- held yearly. winter, but the rain was February 2005 as a any funding for this not regular church goers. cept. kets offer a large range It is exciting to look pelting down before the As all of our parishes are laid out on a map in front of us we see the vast area that our Diocese covers with their separate towns and NATIONAL TRAINEE AWARD part time cleaner. She Carolyn is a quiet achiever, certificate, which she “Christmas is supposed to be As the world changes, The parish of Beech- of stalls that provide an at the new opportunities, midnight mass at st Mat- thews and Bishop John Buttrose on Monday had won the AccV worked 25 hours per undertook in Seymour, the church is faced with worth has opened its array of wonderful fresh ideas and partnerships regions. Yet we also see an obvious bond that extends beyond our churches and into the communities. We come together as one church to who was very reluctant Parkes shared his golden BY MAuRIE PAwSEY about joy and peace and most of declining numbers, ag- doors or more precisely food and produce from that the parishes all over 12th September, at a State Trainee category week, allowing her the cope with a small stranger about this nomination,... ing congregations, less its grounds to the commu- around the region. As we our Diocese are creating. celebrate God’s love, to seek opportunities to work together as God’s people. formal Function in Syd- Award for excellence flexibility she, as a sole Continued page 2 who joined people from all remembering that ‘love came energy for mission and a nity for regular farmers are all more conscious As we all look outward to KellocK lodge has ney, that carolyn had 2011 [Aged & com- carer, needed to look far and wide who came to growing inability to offer markets that are proving of good health and nutri- hold out our hand to the This strength of our Diocese and our collegiality will enable us to more effectively extend the kingdom of God through our Parishes and into been celebrating with won the HeSTA/ Aged munity care Victoria]. after and be involved years. services and added the down at Christmas’...” worship the Christ child our staff member, care Services Associa- This placed her for with her young fam- carolyn commenced role of Personal care relevance to a younger to be a very popular day tion as well as the need to community it offers us at the manger.
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