Welcome! We pray that God will minister to you from the 23rd through Worship, the Word and the Sacrament in Psalm, no text of today’s services. A warm welcome to our special Apart scripture is as well guests today, Gayelene and Bishop John known by its number as is John 3.16. Harrower [see page 3 for further details]. The temptation is to separate the Bishop John will preach in both services today. text from its context and A special welcome to Allison Ryan, her family consequently distort its meaning. and friends, as Allison is received into the John 3.16 is best understood in the Anglican Church during the 10AM service. Being context of a community struggling with belief when the “What is God doing?” Sunday, Sunday Club and last of the eyewitnesses to Jesus’ earthly life have died. For Youth Group are in recess. the generation of believers that the Gospel of John If you are a communicant member of another addresses, seeing and believing are no longer apparent. The Christian church, you are invited to share in the believer must now see with eyes different than those of Holy Communion in today’s 8AM service. If you the first generation eyewitnesses. It is in the context of would like prayer for any reason, please come this challenge of believing that the story of Nicodemus is to the front immediately as indicated on the told and in which the concluding remarks (John 3.17) overhead screen. concerning what God opens to believers are made (“For Please use the CONNECT Card if you have God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, questions about today’s worship service and the Christian faith. Please stay for refreshments and but to save the world through him”). fellowship after the services! ☺ For a community that has not literally seen Jesus in their midst, the message of this text is that the privilege of this week! literally seeing Jesus is not all that it is deemed to be. There are those who have seen and still do not see. To see TODAY - 8AM Holy Communion (trad.); the Kingdom of God, one does not have to be standing on 10AM “What is God doing?” service with the banks of the Jordan in the first century. Instead one children’s church & reception into the needs to be born anew to see this Kingdom. Anglican Church It is a sight beyond the categories of regular sight. It is 19 August - Table Tennis night [7PM-Hall] the result of a birth beyond the categories of regular birth. 20 August - Playgroup [10AM - Hall] And it leads to life beyond the categories of regular life. It 21 August - CARE Group & Prayer [10AM, Church] leads, as John 3.16 makes clear, to eternal life - a life distinct from that which is known daily. Our daily life is 22 August - CARE Group & Prayer [7.30PM, Vicarage] marked by a countdown to its end. Each day we get closer 23 August - Church office open [10AM - to our last day. But eternal life is life lived not in a 12 noon]; Ladies cuppa @ Waverley descending spiral to demise but toward a horizon of Gardens [10AM]; Alpha Night [7.30PM, hopefulness. Vicarage] With the gift of eternal life, we are given eyes to see, a 24 August - Dandenong Archdeaconry new night vision that makes it possible for us to look Prayer Meeting [from 10AM @ St beyond the categories that constrain us to the salvation David’s Moorabbin] - All welcome that is promised to us - a horizon of hope. 25 August - 8AM - Holy Communion [adapted from: T T Crabtree, 1999, The Zondervan Pastor’s Annual, pp. (trad.); 10AM Family service with 49-50; image from: https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/john-3-16.html] children’s church, Sunday Club, Youth Please take this CANDLE with you today and pass it to your Group and Holy Communion. friends. Thank you! 1 TODAY’s Bible readings: Numbers 21.4-9; Psalm 82; Ephesians 1.15-19; John 3.1-17 Sentence: He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” (John 3.2 NIV) PRAYER for the day: Lord, we seek to make our home in you, for in you is our hope, in you is our peace. May we abide in you as you are in us. Grant in turning to you we may find new vision, new strength and new love; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Reading the Bible together Looking ahead! 19 Aug 1 Kings 9; 2 Chro. 8; Ps 136; 1 Cor 7 20 Aug 1 Kings 10, 11; 2 Chro. 9; 1 Cor 8 01 September - Father’s Day 21 Aug Proverbs 1-3; 1 Cor 9 September is “Stewardship focus month” 22 Aug Proverbs 4-6; 1 Cor 10 10 September - Eucharist at Estia Aged Care, 23 Aug Proverbs 7-9; 1 Cor 11 Dandenong [11AM] 24 Aug Proverbs 10-12; 1 Cor 12 15 September - “What is God doing?” Sunday 25 Aug Isaiah 58.9-14; Psalm 103.1-8; 22 September - Spring Parish Luncheon Hebrews 12.18-29; Luke 13.10-17 (CANCELLED) 29 September - St Michael & All Angels LED lights in Church 06 October - Daylight saving time STARTS 13 October - Commemorating St Luke’s Day Total Amount needed $5,200 [100%] 1. Annual Sri Lankan Hopper Amount raised—11 August 19 $2,315 [44%] Night - $2,552 was raised. Well Amount remaining $2,885 [56%] done everyone! ☺ Mission Box Notes: 2. August is Project commencement: 2 June 2019 month - so please bring in your Minimum required: 50 people contributing a boxes. Mission Boxes are used minimum of $2 per week for 52 weeks. to support mission and support our link missionaries. If you Beautiful hand- wish to have a Mission Box, please see decorated new and Beryl or Jo. recycled cards for 3. The Wednesday and Thursday CARE sale - TODAY ONLY! Groups have finished studying the five marks of mission. We have now begun [before & after the 8AM & 10AM Worship services] studying 2 Corinthians. Please feel free to Special Guests: come along, join in & learn together! Bishop John & Gayelene Harrower 4. The WORSHIP ROSTER from 13 October Preacher: Bishop John Harrower to 29 December (inclusive) is being “Beautifully hand-decorated, new and recycled prepared. If you are NOT AVAILABLE $1.60 cards for sale for CMS (Church during this time, please inform Roger Van- Missionary Society) for almost every Hoff ([email protected]) with a copy occasion. (Christmas cards for 80 cents). The cards to Santa. are beautifully hand embellished and many come been raised for CMS from sales of cards and with hand written calligraphy-style messages. Buddies, as well as some kind, encouraging All money received goes to CMS! donations! Also small hand-knitted, chocolate-filled cupcakes Buyers will certainly save themselves money for $2.60 are offered. These are perfect for a as obviously cards of this standard and friendship gift when meeting someone for coffee workmanship for $1.60 have been seen by so or for when visiting someone who is ill or feeling many hundreds of people as the real bargains down. The accompanying messages make them they are. Buy cards, use them especially for perfect opportunities to easily say something witnessing and to add grace and contacts in about the church family or your faith. Great also Jesus' Name in our fractured community for hostess gifts – one for herself and several to today – and you will also help God’s Work pass on to her own friends- or as “stocking fillers.” through CMS!” Again money raised goes to CMS. Please be aware we only accept cash, Now in our fourth year of sales, over $28,000 has not cards, as every cent counts!" 2 For URGENT PASTORAL CARE — call Santa PRAYER CHAINS: Birthdays: Cynthia 20 August - Janine Farrell [9704 9705]; 21 August - Samantha Oliver Brian [9791 4496]; 24 August - Brian Bird, Chamila Vaughan & Noelle [9546 0353] Zacky http://bciowa.org/january-prayer-focus-in-all-things-pray/ Safe arrival: • 12 August 2019 - Lilyan Anglican Church of Southern Africa (Abp Thabo Catherine (grand-daughter to Makgoba); Dioceseof North West Australia (Bp Gary Nelson, Anne & Barry Oliver) Clergy & People); Diocesan Liturgical Committee; Parish of St John's, Flinders w. St Marks Balnarring (Jennifer Furphy); How you can support & episcopal visits, All Saints Kooyong, Christ Church South participate in our mission! Yarra, St Thomas Burwood, St John’s Toorak, Ormond • PRAY for PARISH RENEWAL! Anglican Church, All Saints Barwon Heads, St Luke’s • SET ASIDE time to share and Cockatoo, St Michael & St Luke North Dandenong; the use your talents here! Archbishop, Bishops, clergy and people of the Diocese of • SHARE your financial treasure. Melbourne in their ministries. The easiest & preferred way is by • direct transfer via the ADF (at no Thank you for praying with us. Please praise God for using cost to you or the church) or Chris, Grace and Micah to bless the wider church. Please weekly offertory envelopes. pray as they await the arrival of their second child and as they • Garry or the Wardens will visit different churches in Australia. provide you with information • Mighty God , we thank concerning both systems. All you that you richly bless all who call on the Lord with the information provided is promise “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be confidential.