HIGH STREET UNITING CHURCH

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1 UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA HIGH STREET UNITING CHURCH Sunday March 6 Lent 4 GUEST PREACHER: Rev Arthur Poole MINISTER: Rev Jay Robinson CHILDREN & FAMILY MINISTRY WORKER: Barb Conner SERVICES: 9:00am Traditional Worship 10:40am Contemporary Worship Communion: 1st Sunday of month CHURCH OFFICE: High Street, Frankston Tuesday-Friday 9am 1pm Phone: frankstonuc@gmail.com Web:

2 FOR OUR PRAYERS We pray for all those struggling with ill health, and particularly for Betty Fenton, Audrey and Trevor Labrooy, Graham Whitehouse, Glad Stott, Ross McKenzie, David Russell, Hugh Trewartha, Eric and Sylvia McNally, Lindy and Steve Lane and Eileen McCarty that they may know God s healing and strength. We pray for the leaders of the Uniting Church at the Assembly, at the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania and for the leaders of the Presbytery of Port Phillip East. We pray for the Presbytery prayer point: the church councils and congregations of Dandenong Trinity and Dandenong Fijian, both currently without a minister. AGM The AGM is Scheduled for the 13th of March between to two services. Copies of the reports are available in the foyer, please feel free to take one and have a read prior to the AGM. Nominations have been received the are as follows: Church Council: Bruce Robinson, Ross Huggard, Keith Holmes, Robert Downing & Alan Jenkins Elders: Rona Russell, Naomi Briggs, Jill Cayzer NEXT WEEK S GUEST PREACHER Rev Jay Robinson will be leading both services next week. Contemporary Service Next Week will have a CLIMATE CHANGE focus, we look forward to seeing you all there.

3 LARDER CHATTER Larder are still calling for the following items: KRAFT CHEDDAR CHEESE CRACKERS, DRY BISCUITS ETC. We appreciate all the donations that we receive. Thank you. MISSING During the recent Working Bee and Clean up at the church we noticed that certain items were missing from the locked cupboards in the back kitchen. You may have inadvertently taken one of these home and forgotten to return them. If so could you please return them to the Church Items include: 2 Grey patterned table cloths 2 oblong serving platters white Corelle 5 white desert bowls Corelle 6 white dinner plates Corelle 3 Stainless Steel Jugs These items are part of the large set of cloths and crockery that are kept for use of Church members for functions such as funerals. Thank you COMPUTER WANTED FOR VILLAGE This year we have been asked by the Principal of the school in our village if we could find him a computer, and the Principal at the Secondary College where the second water supply is built needs a computer for to contact the sister school we have found for him in Australia. These are urgent needs and second hand computers would be adequate. So please if anyone has access to a discarded but usable laptop, we would be very grateful to hear of it. John and Marion Coulson Phone Please collect your APRIL issue of Crosslight from the church foyer. HST will be available on Sunday NEXT week. COMMUNION will be served in our seats this morning.

4 Traditional Service 9:00am, Sunday 6th March We sing the introit Seek Ye First Welcome Call to worship We sing Praise with joy the world s Creator TiS179 Prayers Reading 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Gospel Luke 15:1-3,11b-32 We sing Come as you are TiS 693 Sermon We make our offering and sing Eat this bread TiS 714 Announcements Prayers of the People Communion, including Anthem Bless this bread We Sing Amazing Grace TiS129 Blessing Sung Blessing May the feet of God TiS779

5 Contemporary Service 10:40pm, Sunday 6th March Pre-service singing Welcome & Announcements Call to worship We sing God is in the house Prayers of praise, confession and for others Song Gospel Reading: Song Deep Stillness Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 (DVD) You rescued me Reflection Confirmation Song The Path Communion Closing prayer Song Shelter

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7 Please join us for morning tea in the hall after the service. Regular Weekly Meetings Mondays 8.30am 4:00pm LARDER Showbiz Singers Wednesdays 10:00am 3:30pm Voices of Frankston Church Choir Tuesdays 10.30am PWK (Parents with Kids) Thursdays 10:00am Secret Men s Business MARCH 6 9:00AM 10:40AM Traditional Worship Contemporary Worship incl. Confirmation Communion & Community Sunday Focus: Voices of Frankston Both Services Led by Rev Arthur Poole Monday 7 7:30PM LEGS, Beanie Night Blue Room Tuesday 8 8:30AM Walkie Talkies Softball ground Robinson s Road Thursday 10 MARCH 13 8:30AM 2:00PM 9:00AM 10:40AM 5:00PM Walkie Talkies Lemon Tree in Ashleigh Avenue Amitie Traditional Worship AGM Church Foyer Contemporary Worship Climate Change Service Open Café Both services led by Rev Jay Robinson March 6 Traditional Worship Elders: John Coulson, Bev Fowler, Dorothy Bucher Stewards: Betty Bowley, Robert Bowley Offering: Barbara Trewartha, Cheryl Wilson Morning Tea: Graeme & Jenny Horsborough, Enid Churcher, Robert Latimer Contemporary Worship Steward: Mandy Welcomer: Lindy Morning Tea: Andi & Howard March 13 Traditional Worship Elders: John Coulson, Bev Fowler, Dorothy Bucher Stewards: Barbara Trewartha, Cheryl Wilson Offering: Jeanette Hewitt, Ted Hewitt Morning Tea: Elaine Kenyon, Marlene Thresher, Max & Bev Fowler Contemporary Worship: Steward: Mandy Welcomer: Lindy Morning Tea: Andi & Howard

8 HAVE YOU TOLD A PRODIGAL THAT GOD STILL LOVES THEM? How often do you hear the term prodigal son in our society? Most Christians know that it comes from the Bible but how many know that we are lucky to have it at all. Only Luke gives this gem to us! We are truly blessed to have 4 gospel writers. Yes, they all have the same aim to tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth whom we call Christ. But they are all different. Many of the stories or messages that they tell are common to all four. But this isn t universal and if so how dull a book would it be? Each gospel is written at a particular time for a particular community of God s people and because each circumstance is different then even similar stories are different so as to portray a different message to those different circumstances. As well as that each writer adds stories that only he knows about. As a case in point we are blessed to have Luke chapter 15 with its three parables. The Lost Sheep is also found in Matthew but the Lost Coin and the Lost Son or Prodigal Son are Luke s gift to us. In the first two parables the God figure the shepherd and the woman are actively looking for that which was lost (15:4 & 15:9). In the third and longer parable the God figure the father waits. I like to say that there is a worn patch of grass by the front gate. Why is it worn you say? It is worn because that s where the father has been standing day after day straining his eyes to try to see that first sign of his returning son far down the road. What does he do? In common with the other three God figures he celebrates. But, scandalously for an old man, he runs to meet his son (15:20)! Then they celebrate. When I talk with folk who have stepped away from regular participation in the life of the Church I often reach for this story to assure them that God has never forgotten who they are. God is still waiting for them. We all have a ministry to assure anyone we meet that this is so. Rev Ian R. Cayzer 6 th March, 2016