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THE DAWN

The magazine of the Melbourne Welsh Church

Henry Robert Stainsby

Rev. Siôn displaying his unique fashion style.

Fred, Bryn and Lara Boomsma Gorffennaf 2018 July 2018 CHURCH SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES

SUNDAY SERVICES Fellowship JULY 1 group

11:00am English Rev. Jim Barr 11th & 25th Communion 320 La Trobe St. Junior Church 10:30am

JULY 8

11:00am English Rev. Siôn Gough Hughes Prayer list Junior Church

2:30pm Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Geelong Welsh Ladies Choir

Rev. Beti Wyn James and Rev. Sion Gough Hughes

JULY 15 165th Church Anniversary Please include the

11:00am English Rev. Beti Wyn James following in your prayers: Junior Church John Doré Excelsis Choir Arthur Greenacre

Alan Morris JULY 22

Sarah Eldridge 11:00am English Rev. Beti Wyn James Brian Edge

Junior Church and all the sick, sad, lonely, hungry, cold, 2:30pm Welsh Service to celebrate our 165th frail and scared in Anniversary Rev. Beti Wyn James our community and beyond. JULY 29 A.G.M. following this service

11:am English Rev. Siôn Gough Hughes Junior Church

july 1st Vianna Lam 14th Audrey Fields birthdays 5th Rachel Holding 18th Janet Jones-Roberts Lucy Morrison Michael Min fa Best wishes and Paul Warburton 20th Bronwen Warburton congratulations to : 9th Nathan Gardiner 21st Sue Williams 11th Kimberley Dunt 28th Colleen Berry

CHURCH SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES

Our 165th anniversary July anniversaries July 15 at 11:00am Congratulations to all those couples

celebrating an anniversary in July. Guest preacher:

rev. beti wyn james

Everyone at the Welsh Church is thrilled to

congratulate 2 couples on the safe arrival of new additions to their families. Followed by a catered lunch On May 28 Penny and Glenn Stainsby welcomed Henry Robert, a little brother for Join in our celebrations! Olivia. He weighed in at 8ib 4oz. Penny is the elder daughter of Bronwen and Chris Holding.

WRAP, PACK AND STACK Lara Jean arrived safely on June 17 to Marnie and Bryn Boomsma. Bryn is the younger son Our 2018 effort is well and truly in of Church Secretary Christine and Fred full swing. As usual, we are reliant Boomsma. Lara weighed in at 7lb 13oz. and is upon the generosity of our Church the first little cousin for Oliver. people to provide the necessary goodies. We currently require the Both the little ones and their parents are following items: doing very well, as are the grandparents who  Empty adult size shoeboxes haven’t stopped beaming proudly.  Greylead & coloured pencils Congratulations to all!!  Erasers and sharpeners  Girls shorts and skirts - sizes 5-9 and 10-14 August gymanfa ganu  Boys toys eg small cars, balls

etc The August Gymanfa Ganu, originally Our next working bee will be on planned for August 26th, has been July 17 in the Church Sunday rescheduled and will now be held at : School Hall from 10:00am onwards.

Morning tea is provided, BYO lunch. 11:00am on August 12th at the If you can spare a few hours, your Melbourne Welsh Church assistance would be very much appreciated. with Excelsis choir jim’S mESSAGE

Jane and I have just returned from a holiday, part of which was spent travelling along the Murray River. We caught up with the Revd Harry Monro (who preached at the 150th Anniversary of the Carmel Church) at Swan Hill where he is living aboard his own paddle boat - the diesel powered, 65 foot Tooraloora. We moved on to Echuca where we took a cruise on one of the old fleet of wood-fired paddle steamers dating to the middle of the nineteenth century.

One that particularly took my eye was the PS Etona. Clearly identifiable by the distinctive cross standing atop her wheelhouse, the Etona was built by the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide under Bishop Harmer in 1898. The boat replaced an earlier mission vessel of the same name but the paddle steamer was to cost almost ten times as much as the first steam launch. Her construction started at about November, 1898 and the hull was in the water before Christmas. She had a cabin for a minister and his family and a small chapel that seated 12 people.

At the time she was built river steamers were the major transport system for inland regions of NSW, Victoria and South Australia. Hundreds of steamers plied the river with the major river ports being Echuca (Victoria) on the Upper Murray and Mannum and Goolwa (South Australia). People living on isolated properties along the Murray and Darling Rivers and their tributaries depended on the steamers for the supplies, shipping their products to market and human contact.

The Etona was a creative missionary response to a sparsely settled pioneer environment. Using the technology of the day the church reached out to evangelise and pastor the scattered residents of the Murray Darling Basin. However, by 1912, churches had been constructed at a number of the towns visited by the Etona and she was retired from mission work and later ‘laid up' in about 1944. In 1961 she was steamed to Echuca and restored.

What fascinates me is that Etona is another part of the history of itinerant preaching in Australia. Together with the Bush Brotherhoods of around the same period in outback Queensland and NSW, the churches of our nation have responded to their context with creative and mobile forms of ministry. A modern equivalent is the Uniting Church’s Frontier Services which covers inland Australia with ministers and mission workers using planes and four wheel drive vehicles to support isolated workers and communities.

Itinerant preaching is a central element of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist tradition. From 1735 our tradition had ministers hauling sled-mounted pulpits behind horses the length and breadth of . It was not until 1845 that the Llanelli Association made the ‘first move toward the pastorate’ and by the end of the nineteenth century the settled ‘pastorate model’ had supplanted the itinerant model of ministry.

If in the early twentieth century churches were being planted and growing along the Murray, by the early 21st century that process is declining, as it is in many rural communities in Australia. Perhaps the time is here to rediscover what creative, vital forms itinerant preaching may take in our contemporary world? In that spirit of faith and exploration, the Mission and Outreach Committee of the Melbourne Welsh Church is planning to row Cariad 80 km along the Murray in November this year. IF you would like to be a part of this adventure please contact me.

Grace and peace, Jim

Sion’S mESSAGE

Dear Friends,

This month we celebrate our 165th Church and Sunday School Anniversary. For this special occasion we have invited a minister from Wales to come over and lead our celebrations. Her name is Beti Wyn James and here is a short biography she has provided:

 Born and raised at Clydach, Swansea Valley  Graduated from the United Theological College Aberystwyth  Ordained and inducted as Minister of Tabernacl, Barry in 1994.  Moved to Carmarthen in 2002 and inducted as Minister at Priordy Chapel, Carmarthen, Cana and Bancyfelin .  Holds a lot of other responsibilities (too many!) locally and nationally. Has just been elected Vice President of Undeb yr Annibynwyr. (Union of Independent Churches).  Does a lot of work on TV and Radio.  Married to Philip and has two daughters, Elin Wyn (19) studying Theology & Religion in Birmingham University and Sara Llwyd, (17) still in school.

We look forward to welcoming Beti Wyn and her family to Melbourne.

Yours,

Siôn

pEtEr’S mESSAGE

The tongue Proverbs 18:21 The Message: Words kill, words is where give life; they are either poison or fruit - you the mind choose. comes out into the open. I’ve been speaking at our Sister Church Carmel, in Sebastopol from the book of James. One of the matters it Lips move discusses is that of the use of the tongue and what we say, our so to speak. words. The tongue I wonder if you, like me, are sometimes too quick to say the first is where thing that comes into you mind?? the mind I recently had a friend whose grandson took his life, after receiving comes out text messages from his dad. His parents were going through a into the open. bitter and difficult separation, and the dad was telling his son he was worthless and should kill himself!! Mind Now this is an extreme example, BUT our words are powerful, what you say. poisonous or sweet like fruit, you choose…. What are your/my words - poison or fruit?? ~ S Turner

THE DAWN

Each month almost 300 copies of The Dawn are sent out. Whilst the majority are sent locally here in Victoria, a large number are sent interstate and internationally, including to Wales (naturally) England, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan.

On the cover of The Dawn this month is a picture of Teresa Kent and her friend Hilda, both from Townville in far north Queensland. Church organist, Wendy Couch, has regularly sent issues of the Dawn to Teresa ( who is now on our mailing list ) and below is an email she recently received: (Carmarthen) and is travelling to

Melbourne with her husband and 2 daughters to take part in various services in both Dear Wendy,

Thank you so much for sending up the Dawn, to us here in Townsville. My church here has a mature age group who go out to different cafe's every 2 weeks. For many of the people who come along, this is their only outing. One such person I had the pleasure to meet was a Welsh lady by the name of Hilda Frost. I gave Hilda a recent Dawn and also the calendar from last year which covered many years at the Welsh Church. I handed this calendar to Hilda in the hope she may have known someone in it. Unfortunately Hilda did not know anyone in it, but it brought back many memories. The following fortnight, I took along all of the 'Dawns' I could find. They were excitedly passed around the group and they now await the next instalment of the Dawn.

What a true blessing this has been. Thank you to Wendy Couch for never missing a month of the 'Dawn'.

Thank you to everyone at the Welsh Church who contributes to the 'Dawn'. Thank you also goes to Rev. Sion Gough Hughes for giving me an extra 4 calendars for this 2018 year. I will distribute them next week at our next Cafe Connect Morning.

Thank you to Rev. Jim Barr for introducing yourself and having a wonderful chat while I was recently down in Melbourne from Townsville.

God Bless Thank you Teresa Kent Faith “If one has faith, one has everything.” Ramakrishna “Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” Sonia Ricotti “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. “Faith is a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain.” Dave Willis Cambrian news On June 7, the Cambrian Society’s special guest was Rev. Sion Gough Hughes who had offered to do

‘something special’ for the meeting. Following the business section of the meeting, all present enjoyed delicious, hot leek and potato soup, sandwiches and cakes. Then Sion took over and mayhem emerged. Out came all the ingredients for play dough and edible finger paint. The members were transformed back to their childhood and a lot of giggles and silliness ensued. Some of the ‘creations’ are shown below. Sometimes its simply enjoyable to let yourself go and just have fun. The Society thanks Sion most sincerely for organising this unusual but delightful activity.

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Junior church activity On the 16th of June we played amazing games at the Melbourne Welsh Church. In the Junior Church social we played some really fun theatre and physical games. The people who were there were: Zak, Ana, Sandra, Luke, Andy, Carina, Morgan, Kristina and my sisters Raivyn, Mylah and myself (Lahni). The Chainey's invited us to attend this social as we are friends with them from primary school.

When we all first arrived, one person at a time picked out a small piece of paper from a tall bag. Inside the bag were different types of fun games that we were going to play. The first game that we played was a toilet paper game. We had to pull out some strips of toilet paper each, and as for each sheet we ripped off we had to share an interesting fact about ourselves with the rest of the group. Another game that I personally liked and enjoyed was called ‘vignette’. It’s when each group of 5 had to shape our bodies into a famous icon in a well known location (the Eiffel Tower and the Pyramids of Giza). My second favourite game was called ‘wink murderer’. In that game somebody had to be a detective and somebody had to be a murderer. The detective has to hide somewhere where they can’t see all the other people preparing the game, then the detective will come out, after the murderer has been chosen. When the murderer winks at you, you have to collapse onto the floor and pretend to die. The detective has 3 chances to guess who the murderer is and if they do, they win, but if they don’t, they lose.

After all the other games that we played, we went out and had dinner. We ate party pies, potato gems, fruit and vegetables, bread with a beautiful spinach dip on the side. After we ate we began to all take part in helping Zak, Ana and Sandra clean up the whole area and put away all the tables and chairs.

In the end, we all sadly had to say goodbye to each other as it was time to leave the building. Thank you so much to Zak, Ana and Sandra for giving us the chance to have great fun and make new friends. Hopefully we can all meet up to play fun games again.

~ Lahni NEWS FROM THE PEWS

I commence this month by harking back to THAT WEDDING. The soloist who sang at the commencement of proceedings was a Welsh lass Elan Manahan Thomas whose father is an academic at Swansea University. If you were watching 'Great British Rail Journeys ,' hosted by Michael Portello, on June 7, a segment portrayed the British Royal Mint at Pontyclun, De Cymru. Apparently the currency of many countries, as well as the U.K. are minted at this Welsh facility.

Liz. Williams from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. worshipped with us twice during June. Liz. Is working on fundraising at Melbourne University. Barbara Liu and Milly Ziang were in for the morning service on June 10 as were Jacquie Green from Pasadena, Adelaide, South Australia and her Melbourne based son Tim. The former has worshipped with us previously with husband Sid, whom this time was in China pursuing a Mandarin language course. Catherine Jones from Hobart, Tasmania, but formerly of Aberdare, South Wales was also in with partner Bailey Davies. Judith Wilson from Mt. Wanganui , New Zealand ,was in for the Welsh service that afternoon, having also been with us the previous Sunday.

Miles Li was with us accompanied by his friends Ana and Darren Gardiner at the morning service on June 17 when once again our sanctuary resounded to several sacred songs from the repertoire of the mixed voice Excelsis Choir under the baton of Tom Buchanan.

Two of our ladies are 'off' again. Geraldine Affley departed for Gloucester, England on June 18 to spend time with sister Judy, returning on July 25. Eight days later Myfi Rees flew out for nine weeks. The lady will be attending a wedding in St. David's Cathedral, De Cymru. Her time will include a visit to The Emerald Isle.

And now for an interlude - first for any gardening readers (which does not include the Rev. Sion Gough-Hughes as he advised those present on June 17. - he is Not one !!.) ‘The hand that clutches secateurs has Snippers Itch. ' Graham Ross on Radio Eastern 98.1

For any gastronomic readers. 'I love to cook with wine - sometimes I even put it in the food !!' Author unknown. And on that great channel 7/2 weekly series 'Murdoch', his assistant George had dealings with a pet spider, name of WEBster !!.

Janet, wife of the undersigned, and Welsh by adoption, once again paraded Y Ddraig Goch at the annual Queens Birthday Service held at St. Georges Anglican Church, Malvern, on June 10. Her colourful Welsh National costume is a 'dead certain' attention getter - even more so this time as we were proceeding to another function with no time for the lady to change. She was asked to explain her attire to the diners by the Chairperson whose husband happens to be Welsh !!. Tony Williams

A person I know very well was once humiliated by her husband with the remark that she would never have a brain tumour as she was missing the 'main ingredient'. Our Church annual Wrap, Pack and Stack commitment is currently under way, but there is a dire shortage of shoe boxes - an 'essential ingredient.' Adult shoe boxes- unhinged, are sorely needed as I pen this missive. So if you live in Geelong, Ballarat, Melbourne environs or elsewhere, check out your local shoe stores as you could be helping with their recycling. We've actually brought quite a number of boxes back from our favourite shoe store at Enfield, Adelaide, where proprietor Mohammed and son Ali are only too happy to recycle. Last year 250 boxes were despatched overseas to Asia - the number increases every year.

Finally, the picture of the partially buried unexplored bomb on the Church notice pamphlet, June 10 touched a nerve of the undersigned. When the Axis forces occupied France during WW2 their bombers were able to fly across Cornwall, up the Cardigan Bay Welsh Coast and swing eastwards to drop their lethal bombs on industrial Merseyside. So night after night at the height of that aerial offensive they would drone over us in the City of Bangor - where our air raid shelter at The Manse was the under stairs cupboard. Fortunately Bangor was only 'hit' once, but that's another interesting story. ~ Your Intrepid Reporter, Medi Jones-Roberts Ph. 9758 0014

ChriStinE’S CulinAry corner Hi there, Our Church intern, Zak Hanyn offered his popular punch recipe for inclusion this month. I’ve tried it and its great. Thanks Zak.

Ingredients:

2 litres of cranberry juice Rev. Sion’s caption for the 3 oranges cut into small bite size above photo of Sally Owen, segments taken on a recent visit to the 4 litres lemon-lime soft drink Geelong Welsh, is: 3 cups of crushed ice Sally with the world’s 4 punnets of raspberries or 1 bag of frozen largest g & t raspberries (it’s really lemonade) Hwyl fawr, Christine

A little girl was sitting on her Grandmother's knee, as she read her a bedtime story. From time to time the little girl took her eyes of the book and reached up to stroke her Grandmother's wrinkled cheeks. Then stroked her own cheek. Finally she said. "Grandma, did God make you?" Yes Grandma replied, "God made me." Then the little girl asked, "Did God make me? "Yes," her Grandmother replied, "God did make you." There was a pause before the little girl said, "Getting better isn't he?”

An atheist went on holiday to Loch Ness in Scotland. While out in a boat fishing, the Loch Ness Monster reared up and hissed at him. The atheist cried out, "O my Lord, HELP!!" A voice from Heaven came down and said, "I thought you did not believe in Me!" Replied the atheist, "A minute ago, I didn’t believe in the Loch Ness Monster either." Holiday hotspots - noosa

Our very own Beverly Hugo owns a delightful holiday unit in beautiful Noosa that she heads to regularly. Noosa Heads is a town and suburb of the Shire of Noosa on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland , Australia. It is located approximately 136 kilometres (85 mi) north of Brisbane, the state's capital. The beach at Noosa Heads has remained a popular tourist attraction since the 1890s. The Shire's tourism exponentially grew shortly after the Second World War. In the 1800s, Noosa's early wealth came from the timber and milling industries with tourism developing in the late 1920s. In this decade cafes and tourist accommodation was built along the beachfront. The town has been the site of many tussles between developers and those seeking to preserve the town. Since the seventies, people have continued to migrate from southern states. In 1988, Noosa was renamed Noosa Heads. Noosa Heads hosts a population of koalas, which are often seen in and around Noosa National Park. The koala population in Noosa is in decline. Native black and grey- headed flying foxes (tree pollinators and seed dispersal agents) can be heard in local trees if they are flowering or fruiting. Micro-bat species are also common and aid in insect control. Noosa Lions Park is an open, grassed area which used as a staging area for

several large community events including the Noosa Triathlon, Noosa Food and Wine Festival, Noosa Winter Festival and Noosa Classic Car Show. To overcome severe beach erosion at Noosa's main beach a sand pumping system has been built. It operates when necessary during off peak hours, supplying sand via a pipeline built underneath the boardwalk. Noosa Heads' main attraction is its beaches. Its main beach and its small bays around the headland are common surfing locations which are known on world surfing circuits. One of its major surfing contests involves the Noosa Festival of Surfing. This festival attracts large numbers of longboarders. A fatal shark attack of a 22-year-old surfer was recorded at Noosa in 1961. Church sign recently

The village Rector was passing a very well kept garden and stopped to admire the beautiful flowers.... "The Lord and you have done remarkable things to this garden," said the Rector to the owner. "Well, thank you Rector", replied the owner, "but you should have seen it when it was only the Lord in charge!"

A Vicar was talking to people after a service, when he said, "I spend a lot of time these days thinking about The Hereafter." I go into a room, or upstairs, and wonder what am I after here? " WALES THE The Brecon Beacons range, in its narrower sense comprises six main peaks: from west to east these are: , 873 metres (2,864 ft), , the highest peak, 886m , , 795m, Fan y Big, 719 m, Bwlch y Ddwyallt, 754 m and , 769m. These summits form a long ridge, and the sections joining the first four form a horse- shoe shape around the head of the Taf Fechan, which flows away to the southeast. To the northeast of the ridge, interspersed with long parallel spurs, are four cwms, four round-headed valleys or cirques; from west to east these are Cwm Sere, Cwm Cynwyn, Cwn Oergwm and Cwm Cwareli. The Brecon Beacons are said to be named after the ancient practice of lighting signal fires (beacons) on mountains to warn of attacks by invaders. The round of the Taf Fechan skyline forms a ridge walk commonly known as the Beacons Horseshoe.The area was inhabited during the Neolithic and the succeeding Bronze Age, the most obvious legacy of the latter being the numerous burial cairns which adorn the hills of the centre and west of the National Park. There are especially good examples of round barrows on Fan Brycheiniog, Pen y Fan and Corn Du. The former was excavated in 2002–4 and the ashes in the central cist dated to about 2000 BC using radiocarbon dating. A wreath of meadowsweet was likely placed in the burial. Over twenty hillforts were established in the area during the Iron Age. The largest, and indeed the largest in South Wales, were the pair of forts atop y Garn Goch near Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire – y Gaer Fawr and y Gaer Fach – literally "the big fort" and "the little fort". The forts are thought to have once been trading and political centres. When the Romans came to Wales in 43 AD, they stationed more than 600 soldiers in the area. Y Gaer, near the town of Brecon was their main base. During the Norman Conquest many castles were erected throughout the park. One of the most famous is Carreg Cennen Castle but there are many more. Brecon Castle is of Norman origin. There are many old tracks which were used over the centuries by drovers to take their cattle and geese to market in England. The drovers brought back gorse seed, which they sowed to provide food for their sheep. The area played a significant role during the Industrial Revolution as various raw materials including limestone, silica sand and ironstone were quarried for transport south- wards to the furnaces of the industrialising South Wales Valleys. The Brecon Beacons are used for training members of the UK armed forces and military reservists. The Army’s Infantry Battle School is located at Brecon, and the Special Air Service (SAS) use the area to test the fitness of applicants. In July 2013 three soldiers died from overheating or heatstroke on an SAS selection exercise. An army captain had been found dead on Corn Du earlier in the year after training in freezing weather for the SAS. It makes you think! It has been snowing at night so :

8:00am I made a snowman

8:10am A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman.

8:15am So, I made a snow woman.

8:21am My feminist neighbour complained about the snow woman’s voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.

8:23am The same sex couple from 2 doors down asked why the snow couple are not the same gender.

8:25am The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.

8:28am I am being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

8:31am The Muslim gent across the road demands the snow woman wears a burqa.

8:40am The police arrive saying someone has been offended.

8:42am The feminist neighbour complained that the broomstick of the snow woman needs to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

8:43am The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

8:45am A TV news crew from the ABC show up. I am asked if I know the difference between snow men and snow women. My response is deemed sexist.

9:00am I’m on the news as a suspected terrorist, rapist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

9:10am I am asked if I have any accomplices. My children are taken by social services.

9:29am Far left protesters offended by everything are marching down the street demanding for me to be beheaded.

Moral: There is no moral to this story. It’s just the world in which we live today!

As we grow older, we slowly realise that wearing a $500 or $50 watch, they both tell the same time.

Whether we carry $500 or a $5 wallet, the money inside is the same. Whether we drink a bottle of $500 champagne or $10 wine, the hangover is the same.

Whether the house we live in is 300 or 3000 sqft., loneliness is the same. Whether you drive a $1000 banger or a $100,000 Benz, they both serve the same purpose.

You will realise, your happiness does not come from the material things of this world. It comes from spending our short time here living and laughing with the ones you love.

Stay humble, we all end up in the same sized hole in the ground ChildrEn’S pAGE RIDDLES: Samson and delilah

 What nut grows on a wall?

A walnut

 What did the mayonnaise say to the refrigerator? Shut the door. I’m dressing.

 What kind of salt can’t be put on a dinner? A somersault

 What can you take off, but never put on?

A banana skin

 What coat can’t be taken off?

A coat of paint

 Who is the head knight of the round table? Sir Cumference BOUND JAWBONE PHILISTINES  What kind of ships are best? Friendships DELILAH JUDGE PILLARS

 What has a mouth larger than DONKEY JUDGES ROPES its head? A river HAIR LION SAMSON

 What comes out of a room HONEY NAZARITE without being seen? Noise UNJUMBLE THE SEA ANIMALS  Why are our legs robbers? Because they hold us up

 When is a glass like acrobat? When it is a tumbler

 Who is the greatest actor in the Bible? Samson, because he brought the house down

 What colour starts a car? Khaki

 In the alphabet, ‘S’ comes after ‘R’. But what comes after ‘T’? The washing up

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Mr. Fred Boomsma 9329 5139 HOLY COMMUNION The Welsh Church office hours are: First Sunday of each month and as advertised. 8:45am to 2:45pm

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday JUNIOR CHURCH Every Sunday during the morning Church caretaker / hall hire Service. Ms. Lyn Rowlands 9329 6961

Church Organist GYMANFA GANU March and August Ms. Wendy Couch 9813 2675

Interns FELLOWSHIP GROUP Mr. Zak Hanyn 0433 717 590 Second and fourth Wednesday Ms. Siobhan McKenzie 0477 990 089 of the month at 10:30am.