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THE UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA ROSTERS 11 June MUSICAL BANQUET With Digby Hannah, Song-writer Portarlington 5.00 pm Sunday 18 June Managers: Harold & Heather Wesley Church Gould BYO food to share Morning Tea: Keith & 100 Yarra Street Geelong Ring 5229 8866 for more information Heather Pigdon Pastoral Care: Robert Sharp Bellarine Schools Ministry’s Prayers: Rev. Malcolm monthly prayer letter – May 2017 Campbell Day of Pentecost Sunday, 4 June 2017 Reader: Jan Hall As Jesus’ disciples huddled together in fear, the Holy Spirit entered their Prayer Points: PowerPoint: Pammi Pryor dwelling in rushing wind and tongues of fire. In that moment, the Church 1. Pray for our mentors, that they Lawn Roster: 5-9 June was born. Without Pentecost, the Gospel would not have moved beyond can be rejuvenated in their Barry Ruler, that group huddled in the upper room. The Spirit that was promised to the purpose following our training Graeme Dryden, prophet Joel is active in our world today, granting visions and dreams to session last month which saw Len Stratton our old and young alike. The power of God to create and renew life is the them learn about grief, loss and power of the Holy Spirit. We see this power in the psalmist’s hymn of anxiety in young people. Drysdale praise. We behold this power in Paul’s discussion of adoption in Christ 2. Pray for our board, that we can Worship @ 9 through the Spirit. We see the promise of this power in Jesus as he find some other like- minded Kitchen: Jenni's Team comforts his disciples before his death. people to join with us on the Counting: Sue Polley Abingdon Worship Annual board so we can share the 10. 45 am workload. Duty Elder & Prayers: LECTIONARY 4 June Acts 2: 1-21 or Numbers 11: 24-30 3. Pray for both our campuses, that John MacGillivray Day of Pentecost Psalm 104: 24-34, 35b we can find some enthusiastic Readings: Harvey Davis 1 Corinthians 12: 3b-13 or Acts 2: 1-21 male volunteers to partner with Welcome: Margaret the young men of our schools John 20: 19-23 or John 7: 37-39 MacGillivray 4. Pray for funds, so we can continue Morning Tea: Bob & Irene 11 June Genesis 1:1 - 2:4a Psalm 8 to fund the great work our Trinity Sunday 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13 Matthew 28: 16-20 coordinators do and that we can Stevenson invest other funds into resources Flowers: Val Place 5. Pray for better connections and Food Bank: Margo Jones communication between the Counting: Harvey & Jen Davis Minister: Rev. Temukisa Amituana'i-Vaeluaga school and our volunteers, so that Email: [email protected] they may all be on the same page St Leonards Mobile: 0400 664 991 and that they can work together Anglican led to make best use of each other’s Flowers & Brass: Wyn CHURCH OFFICE: Drysdale Church Centre time and resources Moriarty Phone: 5253 1336 6. Pray for the continual growth of Email: [email protected] our young people and that they Web http://drysdale.unitingchurch.org.au can be open to sharing with our News Sheet: Norm Cheale volunteers so that we can best UNITINGCARE OPSHOP: Village Walk Drysdale support them in their needs Phone: 5251 3640 For more information: Jessie Muir, [email protected] THIS WEEK IN OUR Sunday 11 June CELTIC FACE or email Jill at DRYSDALE CONGREGATIONS: FESTIVAL [email protected]. Privacy Sunday 4 June Portarlington Safe Church Training We remind all members of the Portarlington 9.00 am Rev. Temukisa & Safe Church training will be congregation that the contact 9.00 am Rev. Ian Porter, HC Rev. Dr Peter Blackwood details of members included in Drysdale conducted by Rev Temukisa on Drysdale the Directory are for personal 9.00 am Worship @ 9 Wayne's Friday 9 June commencing at 9.00 am Worship @ 9 Rev. use only and are not to be given Temukisa, Team 10.00 am at Drysdale. It will run to any other person. We respect HC, Denise's Team 10.45 am Rev. David Walker until 1.00 pm. people's privacy and intend the assisting Loose change & food There will also be a session at 10.45 am Rev Temukisa, HC bank at both services Portarlington on Thursday 15 Directory to be used for pastoral St Leonards 5.00 pm Messy Church June commencing at 7pm at contact by members only. Thank 5.00 pm Rev. Temukisa, HC, St Leonards Portarlington. you for your cooperation. Loose change & food 5.00 pm Anglican led The training is for people Pews For Sale bank interested in knowing how we There are 5 small pews available Monday 5 June make the church a safe place for for sale. Each have only the left 9.30 am Drysdale, KYB @ Lynda's ALL CONGREGATIONS all. Everyone in a leader role is hand end. Price is $130 each. particularly asked to attend. Cushion included. Purchase can Wednesday 7 June News from Synod Electrical Appliances be arranged with Ian McLaverty 9.30 am Drysdale, mainly About Face If you have any broken or or Wayne Myers. music About FACE stands for Faith and unwanted small electrical Messy Church 1.00 pm Drysdale, Community Cultural Exchange. It is run in appliances they are being Today is Messy Church. The Prayer partnership with the Uniting sought by an after school care 7.30 pm Portarlington, Pastoral theme is Women of the Bible. Aboriginal and Islander Christian group who have fun pulling Care Congress (UAICC) and celebrates Come along, bring a friend, do them apart. some crafts, discuss some Thursday 8 June the covenant relationship Contact Koren 0408618784. between the UCA and the UAICC. questions, join in the 9.00 am Portarlington, Choir celebration service, and share practice The next program runs from 24 in the meal. 9.30 am Drysdale, Choir practice June to 10.30 am Drysdale, Coffee & 8 July 2017 and is open to Special Birthday Dinner Chat, Cafe Zoo anyone over 18 years of age to To celebrate the special 7.30 pm Drysdale, Craft attend. It will include a birthdays for Belinda McLaverty Friday 9 June period living in UAICC and Margaret Jeffery there will 9.15 am Drysdale, Friday School communities. be dinner this evening at 10.15 am Portarlington For more information and to 6.00 pm at the Clifton Springs Social Justice & Letter receive program updates, visit Golf Club. Please add your name Writing the website and sign up to About to the list in the foyer if you would like to attend. Annual Dinner dispersed across the Negev A sincere thank you to everyone desert, Bedouin communities who supported our dinner on live under daily threat of their Saturday night. With ticket sales homes being demolished by and donations we were able to Israel to make way for more raise $1,000 for church funds, a Jewish settlements. This great effort! My personal thanks presentation will tell the story of to the wonderful team who the Bedouin people struggling worked in the kitchen and for their homes and their lives in serving and to John and his team the Negev.” Libby visited the for the entertainment. Bedouin in late 2016. All members of the Linked PORTARLINGTON Congregations and their friends are warmly invited to attend. Fellowship Breakfast. Acceptances please to Barry Saturday, 17 June 2017 Ruler on 5259 3304 by Thursday Please note the June meeting evening 15th June 2017. will be the third Saturday this month, so as not to clash with Seekers the Celtic Festival. Seekers will meet at Lorraine The guest speaker will be and David’s place at 7.15 on Associate Professor Libby Porter Monday 5 June for our usual (daughter of Ian & Joy) . Libby is cuppa and chat followed by the a Vice Chancellor's Principal continuation of our study. Research Fellow (RMIT) where All welcome. she leads research on the politics of urban land, property rights and dispossession. She will bring insights into the untold injustice in Israel-Palestine and the Bedouin struggle for their land. Libby writes: “While the story of Palestinian injustice in Israel is rightly well known, much less well understood is the extraordinary story of the Bedouins. Displaced from their land during the Naqba and