Trinity Sunday. St Nicolas Anglican Church Carine-Duncraig Cnr Beach Road & Poynter Drive, Duncraig, WA May 2013

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1 St Nicolas Anglican Church Carine-Duncraig Cnr Beach Road & Poynter Drive, Duncraig, WA 6023 Trinity Sunday 26 May When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. John 16.13

2 Welcome The Liturgy The Liturgy is on the screen at 9.30am and in booklets for 7.30am. It is taken from A Prayer Book for Australia. The Scriptures This Sunday: Trinity Sunday Proverbs 8.1-4,22-31, Romans 5.1-5, John Next Sunday: 2 nd Sunday of Pentecost 1 Kings ,30-39, Galatians , Luke Holy Communion This is the Lord s Table and all are welcome. Please receive the bread in the palm of your hands and drink from the common cup. There are some who prefer to intinct, that is dip their bread in the wine in the small cup. Hold the bread in your hand and wait for the intinction cup which follows the common cup. Crèche Room The room at the back of the church with two large windows is a fairly soundproof room for parents with babies or small children. Please use this room for babies and littlies who need to be vocal! You will hear and see the service from this space and there are toys for children there. Notices Annual Meeting of Parishioners The Parish Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday, 9 June following the 9.30am service. Nominations this year for: 4 church wardens and 2 councillors. Nomination forms are available at the back of the church. No nominations can be received after Sunday 2 June. Reports could all groups reports please be submitted to Marian by 31 May, either by or hardcopy. Youth Group Last Friday of every month Youth Group will recommence this month on Friday, 31May from pm. Karon Patterson will be running the group, and has some great activities planned. Put the date in your diary and tell your friends!! Worship Rosters for June, July and August have been ed or are in the mail centre awaiting collection. If you have not received yours, please let Marian know.

3 Men s Breakfast All men of the parish and wider community are invited to join us at 7.30am, Saturday 1 June to hear all about FoodBank, an organisation founded by Rotary but now administered independently! Barry Tibbits is our special guest and will share how Foodbank has been able to minimise wastage, making our abundance of food available to those in dire need! All friends and visitors are most welcome. We look forward to your company as we share breakfast together. Don Rock Camp Connect Emerge 2013 for 12 & 13 year olds From 6.00pm on Friday, 28 June to 2.00pm Sunday, 30 June 2013 Venue: Christian Youth Camps (CYC), 861 Mandurah Road, Baldivis Cost: $165 (includes all activities, meals and accommodation). Come along for an awesome weekend of Faith, Games, Activities, Loads of fun plus BUZ (BUILD UP ZONE) a Nurture Works program. We teach children to value themselves, each other and work together to turn negatives into positives. More details are on the notice board in the hall. Registration closes 7 th June Booking forms available from Balga SHS Outreach Program Could you please help with: volunteering as a driving supervisor (car provided; students already had at least 5 paid lessons) donating 2nd hand shin guards, soccer and football boots. donating any of the following: curry paste (medium/hot); tomato soup; cans of: peas, corn kernels, mushrooms, pineapple pieces, tuna; spaghetti; small spiral pasta; and macaroni for our healthy lunches volunteering for breakfast club on Mondays 8-9am (contact Phil ) Please contact Larraine Keatch ( ) if you'd like to volunteer. Sunday School older group two new teachers needed We need two more people to join the team who take the older children in Sunday School. This commitment would be once a month. We have Scripture Union materials and before each term the team gets together to plan. This is a hugely important thing for the parish to attend to. We recently had the Confirmation of eight young people. This is the fruit of Kate our youth leader s ministry in the past and of the experience the young people have had on Sundays. It is a half hour session but it is worth its weight in gold!

4 From the rector.. Dear Friends I m very sorry I wasn t able to be here last Sunday to announce that I ll be leaving this parish to go the parish of Mt Lawley soon. The wardens made this announcement for me at both services last week and also let people know I was in Melbourne for my mother-in-law s funeral. She died suddenly and unexpectedly. In terms of process, when a priest is appointed to a new parish the announcement is made on the same day in the parish they are leaving and in the one they are going to. The archbishop advises the date. That meant that it needed to be announced here last Sunday. I ve had 7 very happy years in this parish and I ve spent a long time considering what I would do next. I want to be able to spend more time with my family and I believe I m moving into the next stage of my life which is I guess a transition to retirement. I also felt that there is still work I can do in the church as a parish priest. The position at Mt Lawley is half-time so this will fulfil both of these desires. The Mt Lawley parish has been through some difficult times and is now very small. I m hoping to be able to reestablish it as a viable and lively parish. I will take with me a lot of valuable skills and lessons from this parish. I may not move the flower-stand on the first Sunday but then again I might!!!! My final Sunday in this parish will be Sunday 16 June. This parish will have no problems continuing on as a strong faith community during the interregnum. The Annual Meeting coming up will mean two Wardens and four councillors are elected or appointed. They will work with the locum priest who comes here to run the parish. The Parish Nominators are elected for three year terms so they are already in place. They are Rob Lundie, Paulene Tibbits and Dave Landmark and one of the wardens. A Nomination Committee consists of these four people plus a bishop, the archdeacon and two clerical nominators. Clerical nominators are elected by the synod. The bishop will ask two of these to join the committee. This Nomination Committee will begin the work of seeking a new rector of this parish when I leave. The archdeacon will come to the parish and conduct a Consultation meeting with parishioners to give everyone a chance to express their ideas about what the next rector should be like. After that the Nomination Committee s work is confidential. The parish nominators will not discuss their work with anyone. The process can take up to 6 months. It s very important not to rush. The right person should be found and the

5 nominators will have to go out to various parishes on Sundays to see people they are considering in action. They may need to look further afield than this diocese in which case the bishop will facilitate interviews. The interregnum can be a good time in the life of a parish. You will have time to put some space between me and the new person. You will have the opportunity to see just how much of parish life actually happens because of the ministry of people in this parish. Everything will keep rolling on so long as everyone sees themselves as members of the body of Christ in this place. You will look after one another. Groups will continue to play their roles in the life of people here. Deacon Rod Brandreth will also continue in his role in the life of this parish. Marian Green, the Parish Administrator will continue to co-ordinate and roster people for their roles and get all the necessary things done that keep the parish running. The office is the first contact point for all enquiries. The Wardens and the locum priest are the people with responsibility for any decisions that need to be made in the life of the parish. Endings are always times to face what will be lost but also to hope for what will come. I wanted to be here last Sunday because it was Pentecost Sunday and it would have been a great day for me to say, we live in the power and presence of the Spirit. God gives us a future, daring us to go into dreams and dangers on a path unknown. We will face tomorrow in the Spirit s power, we will let God change us for new life starts now. with my love, Christine

6 Making an example of asylum seeker children Andrew Hamilton May 15, 2013 Eureka Street The plight of children who seek protection in Australia has recently been in the news. A Four Corners program on Manus Island showed them confined under conditions that produce mental illness in their families, and seeing people act out their despair by trying to take their lives and sewing their lips. Last week, too, the Minister of Immigration announced that families with children would be given bridging visas that denied them the right to work and left them to find accommodation and feed themselves on an allowance, less than the dole, which could be withdrawn. For many families, too, even the allowance would be unavailable. Neither predicament is in the best interests of children. It may be helpful to look at the various conditions under which Australia makes children who seek protection live, and ask why it happens some are chosen for Manus Island and others for penury in the community. The factors that affect the treatment of children, as of other asylum seekers, have nothing to do with their merits or needs. The salient factors are whether they arrived by plane or boat, which point they have reached in the processing of their claims, and whether they arrived before or after 13 August Those arriving before 13 August 2012 faced three possible destinations. Some were confined in detention centres on Christmas Island or the Australian mainland. But more recently, many children and families, among other asylum seekers have been placed in community detention, administered for the most part by community organisations. They live freely in residential accommodation in the community and are eligible for free medical treatment and prescribed medicines. Although they are not allowed to work, they receive 70 per cent of the special benefit out of which they had to pay for all expenses except accommodation. Children are entitled to free education until they turn 18. A third group live in the community on bridging visas. Most have been able to work and receive 89 per cent of the single benefit, out of which they have to pay for accommodation, food and transport, until their case is reviewed at tribunal level. They are entitled to Medicare but must pay for prescribed medicines. If their cases are rejected by the tribunal, their benefit is cut off. If they cannot work and few employers will employ people with only elementary English on short term visas they are destitute. Many families who have arrived by plane to claim protection are in this condition. People who arrived by boat after 13 August 2012 must wait at least five years before their cases are processed. They were to have been sent to Manus Island or Nauru, but because the number of arrivals has far exceeded the capacity of these centres some, including children, remain in detention on Christmas Island and the mainland. Others, including families and unaccompanied children, are put in community detention under the same

7 conditions as those who arrived earlier, except that they receive only 60 per cent of the basic benefit. Other single adults live in the community on bridging visas, with no right to work. They receive 89 per cent of the single benefit to pay for accommodation and all living expenses. On turning 18, many young people are often placed immediately on bridging visas. From now on families with children, regardless of when they arrived, will routinely be placed in this predicament. For many it may mean living without income. Not simply on Manus Island, but in all these arrangements, children are at risk. The trauma suffered in their own nations, the dangers on the way to Australia, the responsibility unaccompanied children feel for the families who sent them out of danger, their anxiety and guilt at the danger still facing their families back home, the uncertainty and fears intensified by the delay in being able to get on with their lives, and the family stress expressed in domestic violence and other ways, all threaten their mental and physical health. And now they face the reality and threat of indigence. The rationale for this cruelty lies in the No Advantage policy, by which people who come by boat seeking protection from Australia must not be seen to get ahead of those who choose to remain in Indonesia. The corollary of this principle is that any disadvantages of coming to Australia by boat should be expanded and made clearly visible. Children too are conscripted to act in this play of human suffering. To that end it was essential that families with children be sent to Manus Island and Nauru. What was glimpsed on Manus Island was doubtless not intended for Australian audiences. But it was scripted to impress families weighing the merits of coming to Australia against staying in their home countries, Malaysia or Indonesia. The principle of No Advantage also dictates that asylum seekers should live in a world of arbitrariness, enjoying certainty neither about the hearing of their cases nor about the conditions they will live in next. The application of the principle means children will suffer, but this is seen as an acceptable price to pay. Many Australians believe it is not decent or just to inflict suffering on people, particularly on children, to achieve the goal of sending messages to other people. It is doubly repugnant when the policy is incoherent and inept. At latest score almost twice the number of people has this year come by boat to seek protection than came last year. Many of them are families with children, driven to travel together because of the long delay in processing and in family reunion. To save children from dying at sea we drive more children to risk dying at sea. And then we inflict more indignities on them when they arrive. It is not a policy to be proud of. subscribe free

8 Contact Parish Priest The Reverend Christine Simes BEd, BD(MCD), MTheol (Notre Dame, Fremantle) mob Parish Deacon The Reverend Rod Brandreth Ph: Wardens Hugh Dorey Jenny McNae Peter Langford-Smith Parish Office Administrator Marian Green Wednesday 12-3pm & Friday 12-2pm Em: Ph: Celebrating the Eucharist Sunday 7:30AM Quiet, early morning Eucharist with no hymns. 9:30AM Music, a crèche and Sunday School. Eucharist with children s address and hymns. Wednesday 9:15AM Young and old gather midweek. Join us for morning tea afterwards in the hall. Morning & Evening Prayer Weekdays 8.45am & 5.15pm People are rostered for these most days. Eucharist at retirement villages 2 nd Tuesday Trinity Village 10am 2 nd Wednesday Glengarry 11am All welcome to join us at these locations Are you new to the parish? Have your details changed? Complete and hand in to the office. NAME: ADDRESS: PHONE NO: I would like name badge: (P = Pin / M = Magnetic) In sickness or any kind on need: please contact the rector if you are unable to come to church and would like communion at home or in hospital, or if you would like casserole care or a pastoral visit or a meeting time.