Adventure in Faith and Saints Alive

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1 CHURCH news & information ROSTER DUTIES SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY SUNDAY 11 FEBRUARY WELCOMER TBA TBA DOOR STEWARDS Marie Yuncken, Maxine Davies Jean Young, Maxine Davies ELDER Rhondda Tilbrook Sue Talbert BIBLE READER Margaret Oliver TBA FLOWERS Irene Keng Margaret Oliver CHILDREN S TALK Communion Service Zak Cronjé MORNING TEA Jan White, Mavis Coughlan Margaret Oliver MUSIC Glenn Coughlan/Choir Glenn Coughlan/Choir SOUND SYSTEM Bob Sumner TBA AT ALL SAINTS FLOREAT SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2018 COLLABORATING AS COMMUNITIES OF FAITH The keynote speaker will be the Rev. Lindsay Cullen National Consultant for the Assembly Lindsay is an experienced minister with skills in mission planning and community engagement. The cost of $90 includes four workshops, morning & afternoon tea, lunch, and a Happy Hour. See brochure on Foyer Table For more information contact Alice Boomer on or alice.boomer@wa.uca.org.au NOTE! A group booking is being arranged at a cost of $75 per person. If you would like to be part of the group attending from All Saints, please Rhondda Tilbrook tilbrooks@bigpond.com and don t forget to take the latest copy of Revive with you as you go! As well as featuring the Deep Listening Festival, this edition has a two page spread on Summer Spirit keynote speaker, Rev Lindsay Cullen, who explains that in the Western World, the church has gone from having a strong voice in the community to now having a voice more in the margins. On this theme, Summer Spirit will be exploring A different church for a different world CAFÉ CLUB Communion Service Richard Smith KUCA Els Mengler, Debbie Thornton Rhondda Tilbrook, Felicity Taylor Visit the All Saints website for the latest news and events - Sunday 4 th February 2018 Adventure in Faith and Saints Alive the story behind All Saints Floreat Uniting Church All Saints Floreat Uniting Church is about to enter another phase in its history, with the induction of Rev Dr Ian Tozer as Minister on Wednesday 21 March So it would seem that now would be a good time for us to reflect on what has gone before. The story of the two churches, Presbyterian and Methodist, and their congregations. For it is this that was the genesis of the All Saints Floreat Uniting Church that we know today. Two histories/reflections have been compiled, the first, Saints Alive, covering the period and the second, Adventure in Faith, covering the period You may purchase both books for the very reasonable price of $ ($2.50 each!) Proceeds from sales will go to one of All Saints many outreach programs It truly was an Adventure in Faith. BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOYER OR CONTACT VAL CHEW ON

2 THE CRÈCHE (rear of the Sanctuary) is available for parents of small children to make use of at any time during church services. HEARING IMPAIRED can use the audio loop on rows 2, 3 and 4 in the middle pews, both left and right, facing the Communion Table; a T-switch is required on your hearing aid. NOTE! - Each Sunday the Family Service is recorded on CD. Please contact Bob Sumner if you would like a copy of the service. This Week: 4 February Epiphany am Family Service - Theme PICK A GOD Next Week: 11 February Transfiguration 9.30am Family Service - Theme GOD S YES TO US Isaiah 40:21-31 P Corinthians 1:12-22 Matthew 21:28-32 P.223 P.31 CHURCH news & information THANK-YOU FROM TRANBY COLLEGE A letter was received from Dr Clayton Massey, the Principal of Tranby College, thanking the All Saints congregation for their support during Clayton wrote: Some of the events that have taken place over this busy school year, often after hours and on weekends, have included: The annual surfing for the Disabled event The Salvation Army Community Centre, Rockingham Gardening and visiting the residents at the Tranby Aged Care Facility Cooking food and delivering for the SOUL Soup Patrol ihelp program an intergenerational tutoring program offering support to patrons at the library Delivering and wrapping gifts at UnitingCare West A true reflection of the school s motto Uniting in Faith & Service Sunday 4 February Choir Practice 8.45am Communion Service 9.30am - Music - Glenn Coughlan/Choir Retiring Offering - UnitingAid Monday 5 February Minister s Day Off Tuesday 6 February Prayer Chain 7.00am - Marilyn Maunder, Open House Playgroup 9.30am - Sylvia Ryan, Tuesday 6 February Pastoral Care Course 4.00pm Wednesday 7 February Open House Playgroup 9.30am - Margaret Oliver, Pastoral Care Course 4.00pm Elders Meeting 7.30pm WEEK AT A GLANCE Thursday 8 February Know Your Bible 9.45am Introduction and Coffee Morning - Sylvia Ryan, Friday 9 February PICYS Food Pick-Up City Beach Lynne Jackson Seniors Open House 9.30am - Ian Oliver, Sunday 11 February Working Bee 8.000am - Sunday 11 February Family Service 9.30am - Music - Glenn Coughlan/Choir If you would like any information regarding Baptism, Confirmation or Church Membership, please see (Ph ) Support our friends at Wembley UC Besides pancakes and drinks for sale there will also be a stall selling cakes, slices, jams, books, bric-a-brac, and much more! FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Town of Cambridge has been chosen to be a host community for the Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay, with the Baton making its way to City Beach and Floreat Beach on Sunday, 25 February The Baton will run along Challenger Parade heading towards City Beach and we encourage you to come out to cheer for our local Baton bearers or come down to the Celebration that will be held at City Beach Amphitheatre. Baton Route: Along Challenger Parade heading north at 1.00pm arriving City Beach Amphitheatre at 1.30pm. Continues to Floreat Beach along Challenger, and then leaves via West Coast Highway heading north at 2pm. For any queries please contact Claire Turnbull Community Safety Officer Town of Cambridge

3 DATES FOR NOTING IN YOUR CALENDAR FAREWELL MORNING TEA FOR ZAK AND JENNY CRONJÉ ON SUNDAY 25 TH FEBRUARY As concludes his placement at All Saints on 28 February, a Farewell Morning tea will be held for him and Jenny on Sunday the 25th. We ask that you please bring a plate of food to share PLACEMENT OF REV DR IAN TOZER AT ALL SAINTS Rev Dr Ian Tozer s Placement at All Saints begins on 1st March As part of the Terms of Placement,a minister is allowed time to settle in to the new congregation. So Ian will begin his ministry at All Saints when he conducts his first service on Sunday 11th March. There will be a Welcome Morning Tea after the service and we again ask that you please bring a plate of food to share NOTE! Ian s Induction will be held on Wednesday 21 March at 7.30 pm at All Saints CHANGES OF ADDRESS Molly Paterson - temporary change Aegis Balmoral 29 Gardner Street COMO WA 6152 Phone: Please come and welcome Ian into ministry with us. CHANGES TO FAMILY DIRECTORY Christine Ryan 11A Reserve Street WEMBLEY WA 6014 Phone: Betty Emmett Ursula Ward, Mercy Aged Care 18 Barrett Street WEMBLEY WA 6014 Phone: Note from Molly Paterson s son to her friends at All Saints Molly has taken up temporary respite residence at Aegis The complex runs between Comer and Gardner Streets and free street parking is available in both Gardner and Comer Streets there s also parking underneath the building. (Access off Gardner Street) Passcode for door and lift entry is Reception is open , but visits can be outside these hours using code access Visitors can have meal with Molly, just call reception in advance on (prior 10AM). Costs about $6 pp. There are plenty of lounge rooms available if you want to share a chat with Molly and complimentary tea and coffee facilities are also available. Mum is having trouble keeping a clear head and has bouts of short term memory loss, she also suffers periods of depression. In her current state of health living alone is not an option. Despite all this, she remains the beautiful person she has always been and she would love to see and hear from you. We have tentatively booked Mum for a 3 week stay, which will be extended if her health fails to improve. A Date for the Diary! Kids Camp Out - KCO 2018 Friday 9 - Sunday 11 March, Advent Park, Maida Vale For information contact Janine McDonald on ; or - Janine.McDonald@wa.uca.org.au, or have a chat with James Millar! Visit the All Saints website for the latest News & Events SUNDAY 18 TH FEBRUARY 11.00AM TO 12 NOON The truth shall set you free Rev Lindsay Cullen, National Consultant, Assembly Resourcing Unit, the keynote speaker at Summer Spirit next Saturday, will also be the speaker at a Coffee Forum on the following Sunday. Please stay on after the service and join us for an interesting talk followed by discussion time. VOLUNTEERING FOR ROSTER DUTIES AT ALL SAINTS All Saints is an active congregation due, for the most part, to the work of many volunteers. We only have two paid members of staff, everything else that happens in the life of our Church is reliant on volunteers. Unfortunately a number of people who have assisted with duties related to Sunday worship are no longer able to help so there are many gaps to be filled on the rosters for February to April we have no Door Stewards for a number of Sundays and no Welcomer during February and March. Also, sadly, if we have no volunteers for Morning Tea Duty on a particular Sunday there will be no morning tea served on that day. Thank you to everyone who has filled in one or more spaces on the roster. Please do take time to look at the Duty Roster posted on the Hall door, consider how you could help at least once during the next three months and add your name to the list. Rhondda Tilbrook

4 - GETTING TO KNOW OUR FRIENDSHIP GROUPS AND THEIR LEADERS Do you know how many fascinating people there are at All Saints? Until we joined a friendship group we had little idea what a remarkable group of people we have in the congregation. Our members have great stories to tell. Friendship groups provide an opportunity for us to get to know each other. Over several years we have met 40 or 50 people we now consider as friends. Many of them we would not have come to know simply through morning tea after church. In 1996 when the Forum church and All Saints joined together in the present building the history of the Forum Methodist Church Adventure in Faith was published. The following is an extract - "In the late 1970 s Rev Geoff Blyth introduced the idea of Friendship Groups. These groups were formed to encourage fellowship and a friendly spirit amongst the members by meeting regularly in a social environment. Because it was purely social it encouraged members partners who did not attend church to take the opportunity to meet and get to know others in the church. Each group, consisting of a convener and members, met about every six weeks and members took it in turn to plan the next activity. These activities were as diverse as the interests of each group member. This arrangement continued without break until the present time." Again members have been shuffled, new members added and groups reformed. Groups will still meet every 6 or so weeks. There is no set agenda. Each group chooses the activities. Shared lunch or afternoon tea in a home or in a park is a particularly enjoyed activity with time to chat and get to know each other. Sometimes a group will go out for breakfast, or lunch, or to a concert, or the Art Gallery. Each group has a leader, probably more accurately a coordinator, who keeps an eye on things and helps out when needed. Otherwise the group is in charge of its own destiny. The group leaders are: Jean and Graeme Read, Geoff and Lillian Hadley, John and Verelle Ward, Deborah Marshall and Helen Lilly. The Wards found in the welcome and sense of belonging through the friendship groups something they believe other congregations should copy. The Hadleys wish they had joined earlier as these friendships have so enriched their lives. If you are relatively new to the congregation - we d love you to join us. I f you have been here a long time and would like to join or rejoin and meet some newer members we would love to see you. If you d like to join us please speak to any one of the above leaders or contact Lillian Hadley on You will be most welcome. Your Retiring Offering today will go to UnitingAid Uniting Aid, which has been operated by the Uniting Church since 1981, provides practical assistance, financial and other support to people in need living in Balga, Mirrabooka, Nollamara, Westminster or elsewhere in the City of Stirling. A number of members of our church have been actively working and supporting UnitingAid for many years now and they see and know only too well the value of the support of the All Saints congregation. ANOTHER DATE FOR THE DIARY! FASHION PARADE There will be a Fashion Show on 17 th March at St. Stephens School, the proceeds will go towards support for Papuan projects. It will be a fun afternoon and Postie Fashions will donate ten per cent of all purchases. There will be an Afternoon Tea and Door Prizes. Posties clothing ranges from size 6 to 24 and the organisers are looking for models, especially in the upper size ranges No experience necessary. Please let Lee-Anne Burnett know if you can help. Tickets are donation of $5 or more. It will be a fun dress up occasion so don t forget to note it in your diary! A weekend of story telling, art, music and spirituality at Margaret River Uniting Church The Deep Listening Festival will be held from Friday 6 to Saturday 7 April at Margaret River Uniting Church. The festival will be a weekend of storytelling, art, music and spirituality, while taking the time to listen and engage with people from the edges of society. See the latest issue of Revive for more information and for booking details Have you been wondering where the Honour Box has gone! Shhhh. just have a quiet look on top of the Jam Cupboard - top left hand corner and all will be revealed

5 CHURCH news & information All Saints Floreat Community Garden Group ASFCGG Next Meeting Sunday 11 th February The garden group will be meeting after church on Sunday 11 February to start planting again. We have a box of donated seed potatoes for autumn cultivation, some chilli plants, as well as seedlings for Cape Gooseberry. The garden has continued to grow thanks to regular bore watering and those kind congregational members who have hand watered! Thank you all and the worm farm is very productive! So, more planting to be done and we invite you to please come to view our efforts and - while doing so - help yourself to the herbs that are growing so well! A training session for new mentors will be held on Saturday 24th February in the Undercroft from approximately 9.00am 2.00pm. Please see Amanda Brown or Rhondda Tilbrook if you would like to join the Kids Hope team. As our members will tell you, it s a most rewarding experience. WORLD DAY OF PRAYER - FRIDAY 2 ND MARCH 2018 St Christopher s Anglican Church Templetonia Crescent City Beach The country of focus for this year s World Day of Prayer is Suriname, which is on the north-eastern coast of South America. It s the smallest country in South America and only has a population of around 500,000. Elaine Embleton, Lay Pastoral Minister at St Christopher s, has invited All Saints to participate in this service, prepared by the women of Suriname. She requires two readers for the service, so If you can help out please contact Elaine on , or see Amanda Brown who has the relevant booklet. LADIES BOOK CLUB FIRST MEETING FOR PM MONDAY 12TH FEBRUARY AT 38 CLANMEL ROAD, FLOREAT We will start 2018 with a meeting at Margaret Wolfe s home and... a surprise visitor will join us as we discuss The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton! Messy Church Trinity North Uniting Church is starting a Messy Church congregation at their Greenwood Worship Centre on Sunday 11 February, 4.00 to 6.00pm and then on the second Sunday of each month. Messy Church brings together families of all ages to create, listen to stories, play, eat, sing, pray and have fun celebrating God. This free event includes a two-course, sit down meal. For more information call Please take time to read the wealth of informative & interesting material on the Board & on the Table

6 CALENDAR FEBRUARY 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday am Choir Rehearsal 7.00am Prayer Chain 9.30am Open House Playgroup 9.30am Comunion Service Minister's Day off 9.30am Open House Playgroup 7.30pm Elders' Meeting Retiring Offering: UnitingAid Music: Glenn Coughlan/All Saints' Choir 4.00pm Pastoral Care Course 4.00pm Pastoral Care Course am Family Service Minister's Day off 7.00am Prayer Chain 7.45pm Ladies' 9.30am Open House Playgroup 9.30am Open House Playgroup 9.45am Know Your Bible 9.30am Seniors' Open House Summer Spirit 2018 Music: Glenn Coughlan/All Saints' Choir Book Club 4.00pm Pastoral Care Course Note! No Thursday Fellowship 12.30pm - Lunch NB: Margaret Wolfe's home 4.00pm Pastoral Care Course am Communion Service 7.00am Prayer Chain 9.30am Open House Playgroup Dedication of KUCA Teachers, Helpers 9.30am Open House Playgroup 4.00pm Pastoral Care Course and Café Club Leaders Commissioning of Kids' Hope Mentors 4.00pm Pastoral Care Course 7.30pm Church Council Meeting Music: Youth Music Group/Choir 11.00am Coffee Forum am Communion Service Music: Glenn Coughlan/All Saints' Choir 10.30am: Farewell Morning Tea for Zak & Jenny 7.00am Prayer Chain 9.30am Open House Playgroup 9.45am Know Your Bible 9.30am Seniors' Open House pm Care Group am Know Your Bible PICYS Food Pick-Up City Beach 8.00am Working Bee 9.30am Seniors' Open House am - Registration First meeting on Thursday 15 March 5.15pm - Happy Hour am Know Your Bible PICYS Food Pick-Up Floreat 9.30am Seniors' Open House Church Council Treasurer Prayer Chain Tuesday Playgroup Food Pick Up: City Beach Seniors' Open House Know Your Bible Rhondda Tilbrook Deborah Marshall Marilyn Maunder Sylvia Ryan Lyn Jackson Ian Oliver Sylvia Ryan Ladies' Book Club Thursday Fellowship Wednesday Playgroup Food Pick Up: Floreat Café Club Rhondda Tilbrook Amanda Brown Margaret Oliver Rhondda Tilbrook James Millar Vern Lloyd