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We welcome you to today’s service at Western Heights Uniting Church
Notice Sheet February 19th, 2017 –10.00am Worship
Please Pray for: …
those continually in our thoughts and prayers:
Betty McWilliam Miriam Nation
Hospitality Committee
those with special needs:
Marie Hider Enid Baker
Mary Suhan John & Dorothy Matthews
Sympathy: To family and friends of Rita Silkstone on her recent death.
Birthdays: Jenni Harper 20th Ken Tingate 24th
The congregation at Western Heights offers prayerful support of its members and others in a number of
ways and because of privacy protocols, names are not included for prayer unless we have received your
permission.
Contact Audrey Kateena, ph. 0435 064 088 or [email protected] for further information.
UnitingCare Geelong: Items that would be appreciated this week include tinned spaghetti, tinned
vegetables, toilet paper. Please place in trolley in the foyer.
Thought for the week Knowledge advances by steps, not by leaps.
–Lord Macaulay
Diary for This Week Sunday 19th 10.00am Worship –Rev. Jan Taylor All Together & Communion Tuesday 21st 6.30pm Tuesday Friendship Thursday 23rd 8.00pm Musicians and Singers Practice Saturday 25th 6.30pm Friendship Club
Next Week’s Services Sunday 26th 10.00am Worship –Rev. Isabel Greenall 4.00pm Messy Church
People Helping Elsewhere Michele Hardy – Birregurra/Warrion
Friendship Club BBQ Members are reminded that our Club resumes on Saturday 25th February when a BBQ will be held at 6.30 pm in the Horizons Room. Please bring either Salads or Sweets of your choice. Sausages will be provided. Looking forward to seeing you all then.
Working Bee The Resources Ministry Team invites all members of our congregation to a working bee at the church on Saturday 5th March 8.30am – 12.00pm (or any time you can give). There are jobs for all - to help to continue to keep our grounds/buildings “ship-shape”. (Morning tea included). Thank you Graeme Hardy
Update on the Big Event Announcing: The WHUC Community Welcome Dinner/Big Event Our community is partnering with the Welcome Dinner Project and Diversitat to run a Big Event in Refugee Week in June. Stay tuned for more details!
Autumn Musical Afternoon of music by John Bumford on piano, Choir and Community Singing. Sunday 5th March, 2017 2.30pm at WHUC Douglass Street. Donation of $10 to support the renovations of the Manse at Winchelsea Uniting Church. Followed by a Devonshire Tea. Tickets from Barry Edwards 5241 7073
Dear Artists and Creatives and Sacrededgers Art for Wellbeing 2017 will be exhibited for the third successive year, at SacredEdge Festival 5 - 7 May, and then through till 1 June, 2017 at Queenscliff Uniting Church. Please feel very welcome to submit an Expression of interest for this exhibition by March 31. You can obtain a form in the office of for more information see noticeboard.
Who’s doing what:
Vestry Steward: Barry Edwards
Readers: Heather Rookes, Velma Oliver
Musicians: Les Oliver, Geoff Coots,
Michelle Eastwood
Singers: Joan Walker, Bill Fleming,
Catherine Van Zetten, Rolly Armstrong,
Melva Armstrong, Eve Wood
PA/Data: Gil Green, Allister Coots
Messy Church Helpers Needed Messy Church is in need of helpers for the 26th February 4-6pm to take craft activities. Please put your name on the sheet on the noticeboard in the front foyer or contact Karen Morgan 0404 435 261, [email protected] for more information or if you’d like to volunteer to help. Thank you!
Christ Church Hymnfest Sunday 19th March 2.00pm See details Horizons noticeboard
Coaching Skills Training Day Hoppers Crossing UC 22nd February 10am to 4pm For more information see Horizons notice board
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory
are yours
now and forever. Amen
Minister Rev Isabel Greenall
[email protected] 0419 602 006
Children & Families Co-ordinator
Karen Morgan [email protected]
0404 435 261
Pastoral Care Co-ordinator Audrey Kateena
[email protected] 0435 064 088
Note from Church Council "Please note that the Year 2 Actions from the Western Heights Uniting Church strategy have been finalised and will be distributed in the next monthly newsletter and posted in the Horizons room over the coming week."
PSALM 130: 3-6 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? 4 But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 6 my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.
LUKE 7: 36-50 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment. 39Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, ‘If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him—that she is a sinner.’ 40Jesus spoke up and said to him, ‘Simon, I have something to
say to you.’ ‘Teacher,’ he replied, ‘speak.’ 41‘A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42When they could not pay, he cancelled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?’ 43Simon answered, ‘I suppose the one for whom he cancelled the greater debt.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘You have judged rightly.’ 44Then turning towards the woman, he said to Simon, ‘Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. 45You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. 46You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. 47Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.’ 48Then he said to her, ‘Your sins are forgiven.’ 49But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, ‘Who is this who even forgives sins?’ 50And he said to the woman, ‘Your faith has saved you; go in peace.’
Loving God, Growing Together, Partnering Community, Sharing Faith.
The Church Council invites all members of the Western Heights Uniting Church Community to 6 weeks of intentional prayer and reflection as we seek God’s guidance for our onward journey.
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Ephesians 4: 1-6, (The Apostle Paul writing to the Church at Ephesus).
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
Prayer:
God of grace and extravagant love, by the power of your Holy Spirit come and fill us. Come like a rushing wind to remove the debris that hinders our openness to your working in and through us. Come like tongues of fire that our love for you will burn within us and our enthusiasm to love and serve others will be revitalised. Speak to us amidst the noise and clamour but may we also be surprised by your still, small voice! Remind us of your calling upon our lives; fill us with the Spirit’s power so that the unexpected in our journey fills us with curiosity, eagerness, and excitement. May we, as the Body of Christ be united in love and filled with grace as we listen carefully to one another. Remind us in many ways that we are the People of God always “on the way”. Amen. A word from The Basis of Union of The Uniting Church in Australia.
..the Church is a pilgrim people, always on the way towards a promised goal; here the Church does not have a continuing city but seeks one to come. On the way Christ feeds the Church with Word and Sacraments, and it has the gift of the Spirit in order that it may not lose the way.
