Readings:

• Acts 8:26-40
• Psalm 22:26-32 page 243
• 1 John 4:7-21
• John 15:1-8

10am Hymns: Together in Song 393, 648, 720, 653, 531


Food for food parcels may be placed in the basket! With thanks!

Dear Friends,

May I offer you a very warm welcome to St Philip's this morning as we celebrate the Fifth Sunday of Easter, and as we also celebrate a Baptism at the 10.00 Eucharist.

So I am very pleased to offer a particular welcome to Dustin Jobe Bradley-Smyth, who is to be baptised, and his parents Cherie Bradley and Trent Smyth, and to their family and friends who are joining us for this special occasion. 

The Easter season seems to be slipping by rather quickly.  It is only three weeks to Pentecost.  In Australia, the week leading up to Pentecost is observed as the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and in many local areas around the country there will be special ecumenical gatherings to bring Christians together.  In this area, at 8.00am on Saturday 30th May, we are invited to the Churches of Christ, Limestone Ave, Ainslie to have breakfast together, pray together and hear Bishop Pat Power, Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, speak on ecumenism.  Bishop Power is also Canberran of the Year for 2009.  We have to give the numbers attending by Monday 25th May.

On another matter entirely, many of you are aware that Erica and I are heading off with a small group of people to the Holy Land in the second half of September. The trip is being organised through the Middle East Council of Churches and so, in addition to visiting well-known sacred sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Galilee, it will allow us to meet local people and to visit a number of the projects supported by the Christmas Bowl.  The trip will begin and end in Amman, and so there is also the chance to visit Petra.  We would still like to have a few more people in our group. If you are interested please see me and I can give you a brochure that we have put together.

Next Sunday we will be observing Anglicare Sunday, and I am pleased to let you know that Ruth McGorman-Mann we speak to us about the work of Anglicare.

Ray

TODAY'S SERVICES:
Flowers: Val Reeves
8am:
    Sidespersons: volunteer
    Reader: Rhonda Evans
10am:
    Lay Minister: Chris Cheah
    Organist/pianist: Colin Forbes
    Sidespersons: Leighton Mann & helper
    Readers: 1st Anne Bannerman, 2nd Doug Bannerman
    Chalice Servers: Ruth McGorman-Mann & helper

    Morning Tea: Sengati Family

PLEASE PRAY FOR:

The World: Relief for the people of Africa from the burden of international debt.
Ecumenical Prayer Cycle: Kenya and Tanzania (Washington and Katherine).
The Anglican Church in: North Queensland — The Rt Revd William J Ray, The Rt Revd Saibo Mabo, The Rt Revd James Randolph Leftwich.
Diocese of Ysabel, Solomon Islands: Bishop Richard Naramana (May and Luke)
St Philip's O'Connor: Ray Williamson; Australian National University: Chaplaincy Team: Kevin Connor; University of Canberra: Chaplain, Bill Pearcy; Radford College: staff and students;
Pray for: Ministry to post-secondary students. And for: Licensed Lay Ministers throughout the Diocese.
Those in need: Shirley Barrett, Stewart Barrett, Clive Lowes, Mira Barratt, David Marsden, Mervyn McInnes, Helen Gorrell, Paul & Elissa, Melissa & Samuel, Owen Kershaw
The Departed: Alexander Lloyd Mann 19/6/98-5/5/09, Violet Pocknall d.8/5/84
Those who mourn: Ann, Stephen & Michael Mann and extended families (Lloyd & Mann families).
The Saints: Matthias
"May the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace and rise in glory."

On the web: Anglican Cycle of Prayer
and the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer

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Weekly Offering/Income needed to operate our Parish $2090 (excludes rental income.)
Offerings received 3 May: $828 + EFT $508 = $1336 Shortfall $754
Pandora's income 1 & 2 May $257.55 — Reserved for future development of the Parish

Mission Project $19.90 (St Philip's Lunch)

Notices

Pentecost Sunday 31 May
Pentecost many Language Reading. This year during the Pentecost service at 10am on Sunday, we will be reading Acts 2.1-21, with sections of the reading in as many differing languages as possible. If you would like to take part, please write your name and your language on the sheet on the noticeboard today or next Sunday, 17 April. I'll then allocate the verses. -- Brian McKinlay 61616352 (a.h.)


Beethoven Piano Sonatas Sunday 7th June at 2pm
Colin Forbes will give a recital of five of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas at St. Philip's. Admission: Adults $25, Concessions: $20. Refreshments will be available at Interval. For more details: http://www.camra.asn.au/


2009 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Multi-faith service Sunday 17th May All Saints Anglican Church, Cowper St, Ainslie 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm


Working Bee — Rectory Garden Saturday 23 May, 9am — 12 noon
Please put this date in your diary. Advice will be provided closer to the date on the types of tools needed for the tasks before us. Trailers will be needed to take prunings away.

Parish Food Pantry
Thank you for continuing to supply non-perishable food for those people in our community who so badly need it. Please note that we have a good supply of pasta at present but in need of pasta sauce, long life milk, tins of hearty soup, breakfast cereals and ready-to-eat meals. All contributions are sincerely welcomed. Please place them in the basket on Sundays.
Thanks, Helen Palethorpe.


Farewell Gift for Sandy
The opportunity to contribute to a farewell gift for Sandy is still open for the next couple of weeks. Contributions can be placed in the plate clearly marked as for Sandy's farewell gift. It is intended that after she has settled into Bathurst, we will ask Sandy what she needs for her new house.

THIS WEEK

• Wednesday     10am Holy Communion
• Friday              10am - 1pm Pandora's OPEN Kerry-Anne Cousins & Meg Colwell
• Saturday         10am - 1pm Pandora's OPEN Fiona Dyer & Patrica Abbott
  

NEXT SUNDAY

Readings:

• Acts 10:44-48
• Psalm 98
• 1John 5:1-12
• John 15:9-17

Rosters:
Cleaning: Leighton & Ruth
Flowers: Kerry-Anne Cousins
8am:
    Sidespersons: volunteer
    Reader: Eloise Wright
10am:
    Sidespeople: Grace Barnes & Peter Andersson
    Readers: 1st Helen Palethorpe, 2nd Leith Hillman
    Communion Servers: Grace Barnes, James Kim & Doug Bannerman
    Morning Tea: James Kim & Roger Sharp