WELCOME TO OUR 160 ANNIVERSARY PATRONAL FESTIVAL
It is a delight to have you worshipping with us today as we celebrate with Archbishop Philip 160 years of God’s faithfulness to our Parish of St James’. We have much to be thankful for. It is the anniversary of this beautiful historic building that we celebrate today as Anglican services have been happening in Dandenong for 174 years. The pioneers of this Parish held the first Anglican Service at Dunbar’s Hotel on the 21st of July 1850 and this was followed by services in tents and later in a school house before the foundation stone of this church was laid by the Governor of Victoria on the 5th of July 1864. Now we are about to add a new significant building to this site and our Archbishop will be blessing this project and symbolically turning the first sod of soil after the service. Just as the pioneers laboured and strived to gather the resources for the first building, so too do we have a challenge before us to meet the rising costs of the New Parish Centre, but we believe it will be a blessing to this and to many future generations, and under God’s generous hand, we plan to see it come to fruition soon. We invite you to join us in this bold new project with your prayers and with your gifts.
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Today we celebrate the confirmation of 5 young people. Our prayer is that they would
grow in faith and love for the Lord and serve in his kingdom joyfully, today we celebrate
the confirmations of Martin and Anna Peters, Mejwok Mel, Kiden Lomuja, and Liam
Chambers.
BUILDING PROGRESS
This week we received the quotes from prospective builders and we will be reviewing them this week and taking them to the Diocesan building committee next week. Furthermore, the demolition plans have finally been approved and we hope to proceed with the demolition of the existing Parish Centre in the coming weeks.
LUNCH TODAY
There is a catered 2 course lunch today in the Parish Hall starting at 12:30. This is a
ticketed lunch that is sold out so we do apologise to visitors and latecomers, but we hope you will join us for the blessing of the building project where there will be light
refreshments prior to the lunch.
TALKS ON DANIEL
Bishop Paul Barker will be leading a series of three talks called “Faith under Trial”. He
will be speaking at Glen Waverley Anglican Church but the talks will be livestreamed.
They will take place on July 17, 24 &31 at 7.30pm. Our Wednesday group will be waiting the livestream then talking about it afterward in the Super Room.
NO 8AM SERVICE THIS SUNDAY!
We wish to encourage folk from all our congregations to come together in one big
celebration of our 160 th Anniversary with the Archbishop. Can everyone please make an extra special effort to be on time this Sunday for a 10 am start.
BUILDING FUND
As we begin works on the new building, we put out the call for all of us to prayerfully
consider how we can help with this project which will be of great benefit to our church and to future generations. We are still needing to raise a considerable amount. The building fund account is listed at the end of the Pew sheet.
READINGS FOR NEXT SUNDAY 4th August: Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
2 Samuel 11.26-12.13a; Psalm 51.1-12; Ephesians 4.1-16; John 6.24-35
LAWN MOWING ROSTER: 27th July – Samoan Youth
THIS WEEK WE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR: St Jude's Carlton; The Diocese
of Sydney; Provincial Council; The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem & The Middle
East; St Stephen and St Mary Mount Waverley – Pastoral service; Reception and
Confirmation Service – St James’ Glen Iris; St George Queenscliff the Martyr with
St James’ Point Lonsdale – pastoral service; St Luke’s Vermont – Pastoral service;
Archbishop Philip and all our Bishops in their ministry this week.
THIS WEEK WE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR:
Anthony, Nisha, Mike, Cecil, Ruth, Eva, Charles, Nigel, Jen, Ted, Sylvia, Lila,
Arthur, Fay, Natasha, Betty, Rosalind, Patty, Melenny, Shereen, Lorraine,
Rebecca, Ken, Jim, Margaret & Kanthi
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