UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA HIGH STREET UNITING CHURCH Sunday, April 26 ~ Easter 4 MINISTER: Rev Dr Robert Johnson YOUTH 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: 16-18 High Street, Frankston Tuesday-Friday 9am 1pm Phone: 9783 3400 Email: frankstonuc@gmail.com Web: www.frankstonuniting.org.au/ www.facebook.com/frankstonuc/
FOR OUR PRAYERS April 26 th, 2015 We pray for all those affected by war for those who have lost loved ones, for those bearing physical, mental or emotional scars and pray that the Prince of Peace will bring peace to his world. We remember the family of Bessie Hooper, who passed away this week. We pray for all who are struggling with illness, especially Trudi Bosscher, Georgie Clark, Betty Fenton, Audrey and Trevor LaBrooy, Lex Lawrence, Alistair Macrae, Bronwen Mathews, Glad Stott, Jo Keilor, Sarah Galloway and Debra Gibbs. Brekkie donations urgently needed With the suspension of the community breakfast, Jay has also lost her supplies of eggs and juice for the Monash Uni breakfasts. If you are able to contribute (only until end of May), please add your name to the list on the notice board, and/or bring some to church on any Sunday and hand them to Jay. Thanks in advance. Larder appeal TO continue to support our local community in need with food donations we will be running our annual appeal for Operation Larder Inc for three weeks, beginning April 26. Look out for envelopes in the pews and do try and help this vital cause if you can. For further details please speak to Nylma Carruthers or Bob Hindle. Soweto you waiting for? Book your tickets now THE Annual Chaplaincy Fundraising Dinner for Frankston High School returns on Wednesday, May 6 at 6.30pm with an exciting run down of speakers marking 25 years of the school s Soweto Program. Changing Lives One Girl at a Time has been operating since 1992, and sees a girl from Letsibogo Girls High School in Soweto, South Africa spend a year studying at Frankston High. Mrs Trudy Poole has been a long-term host for the Soweto girls and visited the city with Cathy Hogg, FHS assistant principal, in 2010 to meet former students and hear how their year in Australia had made such a difference to their lives. Both ladies will speak at the dinner along with the current Soweto student. The Chaplaincy Dinner is still $55 and will be held once more at Peninsula Golf Club, jct of Karingal and Skye Roads, Frankston. Tickets from the church foyer between Sunday services, Norma Binks or the church office.
Can you supply single bed sheets for East Timor students? In mid May we will be visiting our six sponsored University students from the country living in a student house in Dili in East Timor, writes Marion and John Coulson. They have been provided with single bunk beds and foam mattresses in a very basic house. In East Timor, sheets are an optional extra (even in up country guest houses!) But we would like to take our students second hand sheets. We think it is a healthy option! We would love to hear of any one with unneeded single bed sheets. We would also like to say a very big thank you to the kind donors of six used laptops which we have been offered. They will make the students unbelievably happy! Pressing ahead Cultural forum The next LEGs meeting will take the format of a cultural forum, the first in a series, with various congregation members as cultural representatives on the panel. Come and listen as we share traditions surrounding the joy of births, baptisms and weddings, and the need for support structures and coping mechanisms prior to and after funerals. Monday May 4th @ 7.30pm in the blue room. If you would like to know more, the members of LEGS would love to welcome you to this meeting. Talk to Marg Scarlett (on 0419 805 362) for more info. CONGRATULATIONS to Audrey Smith who turns 80 on Tuesday, 28th April. DID you see the Great Beanie Challenge made it to the Leader newspaper this week? Here s a copy of some of our ladies sporting various versions of donated beanies. There is still time to get knitting or crocheting in time for the May Fete entry deadline so turn to page 6 for full details. THANKS to everyone who has donated jars for the upcoming Fete jam and pickle stall. However, we now have plenty so do not require any more empty jars until the November Fair comes around.
9.00 am Traditional Service WE SING THE INTROIT Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord as WE BRING IN THE BIBLE & LIGHT THE CANDLE WELCOME & SHARING THE PEACE CALL TO WORSHIP Psalm 23 WE SING The King of love my shepherd is TiS 145 SHARING OUR BLESSINGS PRAYER OF PRAISE & CONFESSION ANTHEM No words of Ours READING 1 John 3: 16-24 GOSPEL John 10: 11-18 WE SING The Lord is my shepherd TiS 659 SERMON Laying Down Your Life for Others WE MAKE OUR OFFERING AS WE SING Brother, sister, let me serve you TiS 650 ANNOUNCEMENTS REMEMBERING THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIFE FOR OTHERS & PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE and LORD S PRAYER WE SING God Is Love, Let Heaven Adore Him TiS 153 WE ARE SENT OUT IN GOD S NAME SUNG BLESSING Shalom to you now TiS 778
10.40am Contemporary Service PRE-SERVICE SINGING WELCOME CALL TO WORSHIP PRAYER of Adoration WE SING Amazing Grace STORY Sheep and Shepherds (John 10: 11-18) CHILDREN S ADDRESS WE SING A new commandment PRAYER OF CONFESSION READING I John 3: 16-24 MESSAGE WE SING Laying Down Your Life for Others The Power of Your Love REMEMBERING THOSE WHO LAY DOWN THEIR LIFE PRAYER FOR OTHERS & LORD S PRAYER WE SING Brother, sister, let me serve you BENEDICTION
Punnet plea for the May Fete May 9 Just a reminder from the fete committee: The Horsburghs need empty seedling punnets URGENTLY. Please drop in to the office or talk to Graeme Horsburgh. The jams and pickles ladies requested donations of lemons. The committee requests CLEAN household goods and books but we can only accept donations in the week preceding the fete. All goods donated must be in a saleable condition. Unfortunately we can t accept electrical goods, large furniture items (especially no entertainment units) or second hand clothing. NO toys will be sold at the May fete this year. The Great Frankston Beanie Challenge For people who are making beanies, entry packs with an entry form and zip-lock plastic bag are available for collection in the foyer. Please place your completed Entry Form, beanie/s and entry fee in the bag and return it to the foyer on Sundays or to the Church office during the week. Entries close Sunday 3 rd May at 12 noon. Beanies will be on exhibition at the May Fete and afterwards donated beanies will be given to those needing extra winter warmth through Community Support Frankston. More details - Joanne Ball on 0414 826 904.
Please join us for morning tea in the hall after both morning services Mondays 8.30am 4.00pm Regular Weekly Meetings LARDER SHOWBIZ rehearsal Wednesdays 9.45am 10.30am 4.00pm VOICES OF FRANKSTON choir BIBLE STUDY CHOIR practice Tuesdays 10.30am PWK (Parents with Kids) Thursdays 10.00am Secret Men s Business Sunday 26 9.00am 10.40am 5.00pm Tuesday 28 7.45pm COG meeting Sunday 03 MAY 9.00am 10.40am Traditional Worship & prayers for healing both services led Contemporary Worship by Robert Johnson Open Café Communion & Community Sunday. Focus: Kids Hope Traditional Worship & Communion both services led Contemporary worship & Communion by Jay Robinson Monday 04 7.30pm LEGS - cultural forum (blue room) Friday-Sunday 08-10 Youth Camp at Merricks Lodge Saturday 09 8.30am MAY FETE 26 April 9.00am Traditional Worship ELDERS: Mac Cleland, Bev Fowler, Chris Johnson STEWARDS: Betty Bowley, Eileen McCarty, Barbara Trewartha, Cheryl Wilson MORNING TEA: Barbara Trewartha, Stanley & Viola Zhungu, Robert Latimer 10.40am Contemporary service STEWARD: Jackie WELCOMER: Sue MORNING TEA: Andi & Santhira 03 May 9.00am Traditional Worship ELDERS: John Coulson, Elaine Kenyon, Rona Russell STEWARDS: Barbara Trewartha, Cheryl Wilson, Ted Hewitt, Jeanette Hewitt MORNING TEA: Eileen Aisbett, Pat Johnson, Barbara McKenzie, Carol Calderbank 10.40am Contemporary service STEWARD: Beryl WELCOMER: Marg Sc. MORNING TEA: Andi & Santhira
LAYING DOWN YOUR LIFE FOR OTHERS We are flooded with reminders that it is 100 years since the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, and often the words of Jesus in John 10 and of his disciple in 1 John 3 about laying down your life for others are quoted. It is right to remember with sadness those who lost their life in that campaign and in that whole war. As is often the case, the situation was an incredible mixture of good and evil, of amazing bravery and gross stupidity. There was much about that war that was wrong, appallingly wrong. There was much about the Gallipoli campaign that was wrong. The Anzacs seemed to have been landed in the wrong place, and generals expecting soldiers to fight in trench warfare in that terrain was about as senseless as it was later in the mud of the Western Front. Tens of thousands of lives were wasted on both sides for no result. But out of the horror of that campaign and that war came some amazing things. There was incredible bravery and mateship. There resulted in Australia a sense of pride at being able to stand up on the world stage. The campaign ended with respect between Turkish soldiers and Anzacs; a friendship that still exists between nations. When we remember who first spoke these words about laying down your life for others, and think of the blessings that arose from his laying down his life on a Roman cross, we should not be surprised. God is not defeated by evil, not even by war, and can bring good out of evil, life out of death. Of course Jesus does not mean we should all seek to die for others. Laying down your life for others might mean many ways of seeking good for another, without considering the cost. It is what Jesus meant when he told his followers to love even as he loved us. Robert Johnson 26 April, 2015 the day after Anzac Day.