We welcome you to today s service at Western Heights Uniting Church

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2 We welcome you to today s service at Western Heights Uniting Church Notice Sheet July 22 nd am Worship Please Pray for: those continually in our thoughts and prayers: Jan Davey Resources Ministry Team those with special needs: Pam Blackford Birthdays: Else Berry Today Bruce Chisholm 23 rd 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. Uniting Barwon Items that would be appreciated this week include toothpaste, toiletries, washing powder, QB sheets, blankets. Please place in trolley in the foyer. Thought for the week Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Oprah Winfrey Diary for This Week Sunday 22 nd 10.00am Worship Rev. Isabel Greenall 4.00pm Messy Church Thursday 26 th 8.00pm Singers & Musicians Practice Next Week s Services Sunday 29 th 10.00am Worship Rev. Isabel Greenall Congregational Meeting

3 Nominations for CC Elections 29 July 2018 The following members of the congregation have been nominated by their Church Group as its representative on Church Council for the period end-of-july 2018 to end-of- July 2020: Church Group Nominations 1. Leadership Advisory Team (LAT) - Rev. Isabel Greenall 2. Worship and Music - Lynda Scott 3. Pastoral Care - Joan Hill 4. Messy Church - Peter Morgan 5. Resources & Hospitality - Graeme Hardy 6. Small Groups - Rev Isabel Greenall 7. Safe Church - Velma Oliver 8. Finance - Geoff Coots 9. With Intention - to be advised 10. Minister of the Word - Rev Isabel Greenall At the CC elections on Sunday, 29 July, 2018, the congregation will be asked to: 1. Ratify the above nominations for Church Council. and 2. Elect 2 congregational representatives, from nominations received, for Church Council. The nomination of Jan Taylor has been received. Further nominations, on the prescribed form, are encouraged and would be warmly received. Grace & peace, Melinda Bell Congregational Meeting Chair 11 July 2018 An Attitude of Pastoral Care Please read carefully the document An Attitude of Pastoral Care which is to be presented at the Congregation meeting on 29 th July for approval. It has been approved at Church Council. Thank you. Church and Music Rosters Unavailability September, October, November 2018 The next Church and Music Rosters will be for the months of September, October, November,2018. If you are aware of any Sunday/s on which you will be UNAVAILABLE for duty on the Music Roster and/or the Church Roster during those months, please find that particular Sunday in the blue unavailability book, enter your full name, then tick the roster/s for which you will be UNAVAILABLE. All unavailabilities need to be placed into the book no later than Sunday morning, 5 August. Thank you. Velma Oliver. East Geelong UC Induction Rev. Amanda Nicholas will be inducted into this parish on Sunday 22 nd July 2018 at 2pm (cnr. Ormond and Boundary Rds). All welcome Uniting Barwon Volunteer Vacancies wide range of needs (See Noticeboard for details)

4 School Holiday Tennis Program On Thursday the 12 th of July the tennis club held its second day of the July School Holiday Tennis Program, with thirty teenagers attending on Tuesday and 24 on Thursday. We again finished with a barbeque on Thursday. It was a very busy morning and a big thank you to all those who helped on the day to make it a success in sharing with those newly arrived refugees within our community. Strategic Plan Workshop We are entering the next year of our Strategic Plan as a congregation and we'd like your input. There will be opportunities to review the past year of the Strategy and contribute to the coming year's actions. This is an open invitation to participate in a workshop following worship on the 12th of August (please note that this has changed from the 19th of August) in which we will aim to enter the next year of the current Strategy with a renewed sense of clarity and purpose. Church Groups will also be invited to reflect on their past and future actions in the Strategy. Help Joan Hill Joan Hill is planning to take a Walk in the Park to help raise funds for research into Parkinson s Disease on the 26 th August. If you like to help please see Joan. "Feedback on our reorganized worship space" As we have now had a month to experience our new worship and morning tea arrangements it is time to seek some feedback on our experiment. At the back of the worship space will be 2 sheets of paper headed "Strengths" and "Issues/ Suggestions" Please give your responses some thought and record them over the next couple of weeks. Queensliff Film Festival A selection of Australia s top 100 short films Queenscliff UC Hall 24 th June 21 st Sept 3.30pm (See Noticeboard) Stonecatchers Dr Russell Rook will be speaking about his work with government and church leaders to develop compassionate responses to the global refugee crisis. Sunday 22 nd July 7.00pm Salvation Army 239 Malop Street (See Noticeboard) Grovedale Book Sale Uniting Barwon Friday 27 th July 10.00am 2.00pm

5 Summary of Minutes of Church Council (CC) Meeting Weds., 18 July, Devotions by Jan Taylor: Sharing Faith from Hebrews11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. It is not difficult to share one s faith with one s congregation, but once you move out of that area, it becomes more difficult. Sunday School teachers reached out to Jan, as a child, with faith and love, when she was rushed to hospital with appendicitis, and the whole church prayed for her. That act of faith made her feel valued. Playgroups, Messy Church and Mainly Music give the leaders and others opportunities to share their faith with people who do not attend church. At our church, Karen Morgan shares her faith in the playgroups and at Messy Church. She does this in a loving and sensitive manner, when asked. - Sometimes prayer. 2. There will be 7 Church Group representatives on CC and 1 congregational representative, after ratification at the congregational meeting on Sunday, 29 July, CC accepted the Pastoral Care Report An Attitude of Pastoral Care. CC expressed a very special thank-you to the Pastoral Care Task Group (Roger Dingle, Rev Isabel Greenall, Joan Hill, Audrey Kateena, Karen Morgan and Janet Pavlakis) for their diligence and dedication in producing this report. 4. A team is developing the third year of the Strategic Plan. An open invitation has been extended to the congregation to participate in a workshop following worship at Western Heights on Sunday, 12 August, UCA 15th Assembly Decision - Marriage and Same-Gender Relationships: LAT will take the responsibility of keeping the congregation informed of the process. 6. Membership Transfer - Rev. Dr Adam McIntosh and his wife Nicole have transferred to Sandgate UC in Queensland. 7. Safe Church Report - CC has approved the funding of 2 persons within WHUC to obtain level 2 firstaid training. The Safe Church Group will apply for grants to acquire a defibrillator on church property. 8. Rodger Marsden thanked all CC members for their faithful service to the church as Church Council members. The meeting concluded with a celebratory supper to mark the end of the two year term for this CC. 9. Close: Meeting closed with the reading by Gwyn Edwards of Leaves from the Book of Life. 10. The next meeting of CC will be on Weds.,15 August, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. Velma Oliver, CC Secretary.

6 Bras are needed! Since 2005, Uplift, with assistance from Intimo and Rotary Australia World Community Service, has sent over a million bras wherever women have requested them. Uplift tries to ensure they get to the women who need them without compromising their dignity. We have sent bras to Fiji, PNG, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Bali, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Botswana, Uganda and Paksitan, the Northern Territory and the Kimberley regions in Australia. Why Bras? "In the Solomon Islands it is quite difficult to access a comfortable bra. Some of the second hand shops sell bras but mostly women have to buy their bras from the Chinese Trade Stores. These bras have some problems; they come in smaller sizes, are made of nylon and perish quickly in tropical conditions. You cannot buy maternity bras or mastectomy bras in country. For the women to be given free bras is an unbelievable experience for all of them. Women feel a tremendous obligation to meet the needs of their families, and so for any woman in the village to spend money buying a bra for herself can almost be seen as an unforgivable sin. The priority for women's spending is food and education needs of children." - Rose Wale, 2012, Report of Bra Distribution, Solomon Islands. The situation described above is common in many countries. Women appreciate the common dignity of a bra for business or social occasions. Bras control breast swing when women bend to garden or cook at ground level. In humid climates rashes, fungal infections and abscesses occur between the breast and the chest wall. Bras help by allowing air circulation. Nursing mums everywhere leak, and bras allow the dignity of a dry shirt, and the comfort of support. A thrush rash on a mother's skin may spread to her baby's mouth, and then back into the breast itself. A mastectomy bra offers privacy about the problem. If you have any spare bras at home, please donate them to Uplift in the box provided in the foyer over the next two Sundays. Donations will close on 5 th of August.

7 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 Who s doing what today 22 nd July 2018: Vestry Steward: Annette Chidzey Readers: Annette Chidzey, Allister Coots Stewards: Glenn Chidzey, Rodger Marsden, Colin Rookes Greeter: Jean Thompson Morning Tea: Michele Hardy, Kristen Stojanovic, Heather Rookes Musicians: Geoff Coots, Nathan Gibson, Ed Mawat Singers: Bill Fleming, Catherine Van Zetten, Hannah Uy, Bev Hunt PA/Data: Gil Green, Allister Coots Minister Rev Isabel Greenall minister@whuc.com.au Children & Families Co-ordinator Karen Morgan Karen.morgan1968@hotmail.com Who s doing what next week 29 th July 2018: Vestry Steward: Roger Dingle Readers: Geoff Coots, Jenice Coots Stewards: Bruce Chisholm, Joan Hill, Angela Jepson Greeter: Bev Hunt Morning Tea: Sue Hill, Michele Hardy, Velma Oliver, Janine Demko Musicians: Sue Ekkel, Gary Ekkel, Amelia Ekkel, Ruby Ekkel Singers: Julia Ekkel, Charlotte Ekkel, Melinda Bell, Lynda Scott PA/Data: Gil Green, Allister Coots

8 1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-27 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body Jews or Greeks, slaves or free and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot were to say, Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear were to say, Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honourable we clothe with greater honour, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect; whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honour to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honoured, all rejoice together with it. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.