Newsletter 27-May-2018

'Take Notice'
Isaiah 6:1-8
Psalm 29; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17  

Isaiah’s Commission

6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” 8Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” 

 

NEXT WEEK: Sunday 3rd June 2018
Next Weeks Theme: 'Listening, Speaking, Acting'
Focus Scripture: 1 Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20)
Other Readings: Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18; 2 Corinthians 4:5-12; Mark 2:23-3:6

Prayer Points for: Brenda Ryan, Avril Rule and Mary Hall for good health; Ray (Sheila’s son-in-law) for ease with his cancer pain, a miracle for healing and for his wife, Alison as she supports him in this; someone to pick up the ministry of looking after our IT system; someone to be the Financial Coordinator for the St Johns Finance Team.

Funeral on Saturday 26 May
 
Brother Wang’s funeral will be held at St Johns this Saturday at 10:30 am. The dear elderly and very stooped gentleman who was usually escorted into church by his daughter-in-law Lee has been called home. 

Real Life with John Cowan 7.30pm Sunday nights on Newstalk ZB. John Cowan’s guest this Sunday night 20 May is Michele A’Court. Winner of “Comedian of the Decade” at the 2010 NZ Comedy Awards, Michele A’Court is a standup comedian and writer. Michele writes a weekly column on social issues for Your Weekend and stuff.co.nz. Michele’s solo comedy show Stuff I Forgot To Tell My Daughter became a bestselling book in 2015, and her second book How We Met was released in March this year.

Warm bedding and clothing needed

With winter fast approaching donations of warm clothing and warm bedding such as duvets, blankets, eiderdowns, sheets are needed for a charity in Glen Innes. Please leave at St Johns for Felicity Vincer to collect and deliver.

Thank You

Please help us to support the Auckland City Mission’s Two Can Appeal in June, to collect non-perishable food items to support thousands of Auckland families over the winter.

We will have a collection box for donated cans of food at church on Sunday 15th and Sunday 22 June

 

Can you do this? We are looking for someone to be a Church welcome-er on the second Sunday of each month. If you or you think someone else might help out in this ministry please talk to Lorraine – or Loas Toung or Joan Rutherford. Thank you. 

The Anglican Church has arranged for two shipping containers to take building supplies and equipment to Tonga to help the Anglican churches to be better prepared to help rebuild after an event like Cyclone Gita. One container will be positioned at St Pauls Church in Nuku’alofa and the other at All Saints Church in Fasi. Both will be used to store prepositioned supplies and one of them will also be fitted out and used as a small joinery and carpentry workshop to help develop building skills of local communities.
If you have tools (such as hammers, screw drivers, crowbars) that you no longer need, please can you contact Father Lui Tuilotolava on 027 286 4064 and he will arrange for them to be picked up and added to the shipment of supplies.