15.8.15
Serving us today and next Sunday....
Worship Leader
TODAY
NEXT SUNDAY
Ruth Thomas
John Bleyerveen
Music
Phil Rooke
Reader
Perce Marland
Welcome Elder
Louise Mattay
Vestry Elder
Iris Swan
Door Stewards
Prayers of the People
Delma Marland
Announcements
Kathy Garland
Flowers
Lorraine White
June Marks &Kay Callow
Morning Tea
Serving us this month
Offering
Lawn
Stephen White
Allan
Counters
Daniel Krueger Mowing
Callow
Diana White
Perce Marland
Iris Swan
Michael Slinn
Frank Lumley & Stephen White
Ruth Thomas
Kathy Garland
Betty Allen
?
Communion
Elders
Frank, Peggy
Iris
Activities of Leura Uniting Church
Sunday
Morning Worship - 9.15am
Kids Connection - 9.15am - during school
term. Contact: Liz McIntyre 4784 3095
Taizé Service - 5.30pm - fourth Sunday of
each month
M onday
Thursday
Quiet Reflection - 1pm in Church. Contact: Rev
Louise Mattay 47822931.
Leura Singers - 7.30-9pm. Contact: Jim Tulip
4758 8104
Primary Learning Support Centre 3.15pm TBAKat UC
Playtime - 10am-12noon during school term.
Contact: Rev John Bleyerveen 0416 307 133
Tuesday
Open Table- 11am-1pm in Katoomba Hall.
Contact: Alison Croft 4757 4394
KUCA Club (K-6) - 3:30-5:15pm - during
school term. Contact: Lorraine White 4784 2160
W ednesday
Primary Learning Support Centre - 3.15pm at
Katoomba UC. Contact: Kay Callow 4757 1423
Recordings of the Leura Services are
available to anyone who may wish to hear
them. Please contact one of the Elders.
Friday
Open Table Evening Meal - 4.00-6.30pm- last
Friday of each month in Katoomba Hall. Contact:
Jenny Bradford 4757 1494
Ritz Nursing Home Service - 10.15am first
Friday of month
Priority One - (Yrs7-12) (twice-a-month) Contact:
Diana White 0404 040 748
Saturday
Leisure Learning - Sew & Chat - 10am-2pm in
church hall (2nd Saturday of month). Bev Plaizier
4757 2580/Pat Slinn 4759 2668
Editor Louise Mattay
4782 2931 [email protected]
Bulletin Deadline Wednesday 8pm
Cnr Grose & Megalong Sts, Leura
Palm Sunday 29 March, ‘15 Marching Orders
In their thought provoking book, “The Last Week” Dominic Crossan and Marcus
Borg contrast the Palm Sunday peaceful march of Jesus and his followers, coming
into the city, Jerusalem, from one direction, with another procession, that of
Pontius Pilate heading a Roman legion coming in from the other. Guess work,
but pretty likely as the local garrison would have needed strengthening at this
time of religious festival.
Jesus’ last week was one in which the God kingdom of peace came head-to-head
with the Empire kingdom of force and might, represented by Pilate, his legion
and the Jerusalem religious elite.
The trick question on taxes has Jesus ask for a coin, a denarius on which there
would have been the inscription: : “Tiberius Caesar, son of God.” The answer:
“give to the Emperor what belongs to him and to God, the things that belong to
God,” is a carefully worded challenge to the Empire kingdom of power.
In modern times, peaceful marches from Gandhi’s salt march in 1930, to the Civil
Rights Marches led by Martin Luther King in the 1960’s, to the Australian Palm
Sunday Marches in the 1980’s are ways in which the God Kingdom of justice and
peace has given the empire Kingdom of power and domination its marching
orders.
Bill Thomas
A warm welcome to worship today, especially to any
visitors among us. We want to be a Church which
encourages worship for all ages. At the conclusion of
Morning Worship please join us for fellowship and a chat
over morning tea in the hall.
Minister
Rev John Bleyerveen
0416 307 133
What's happening....
March
Mon 30 Church Council 7.30pm
Congregation
Chairperson
Kathy Garland
4757 2634
Congregation
Secretary
Stephen White
4784 2160
Congregation
Treasurer
Kerry Jordan
4784 3051
Website
April
Thur
Fri
Sun
Sun
Sun
2 Maundy Thursday service 7.30pm
3 Good Friday service 8am
5 Easter Sunrise Service 6am
5 Breakfast 7am
5 Easter Day Service 9.15am
Sat 11 Living is Giving Stall
Tues 21 Elders Meeting 10am at Slinn’s
Sun 26 Congregation Meeting after church
Dates for your diary:
Mel Macarthur’s next Communion Service on Mt. Solitary – Sat 18 April
departing from Leura Uniting Church at 8.30am
Rev. John O Martin’s Closure of Ministry Service –Thurs 30 April
Springwood Uniting Church at 10.30am – see noticeboard for details
Bikes for Asylum Seekers!
Teenagers and younger asylum seekers are desperately seeking bikes, to
give them greater mobility. Please contact George Winston on
[email protected] or 4782 7866 if you can help with any type of bike.
Also wanted: Winter clothing, nappies and baby toiletries
May
Sun 24 Reminder! Read Ecclesiastes beforehand!
leura.unitingchurch.org.au
Palm Sunday & Easter Day Bible Readings 29 March ‘15
This week…PalmSunday
Next Week …Easter Day
Is 50:4 – 9a
Phil 2:5 – 11
Ps 118:1-2,19-29 Mk 11:1-11
Acts 10: 34 – 43
Ps 118:1-2, 14-24
1 Cor 15: 1 – 11
Mark 16:1 - 8
Congratulations and best wishes to Stephanie Garland
who celebrates her 21 st birthday today!
For our thoughts and prayers…
There will be an election for Elders and ChurchApril
Councillors at the Congregational
Sun 5 Easter
Service
meeting on Sunday 26 April. Nominations
close Sunrise
before the
service6am
on Sunday 11 April.
Tues21
See Stephen White for nomination
forms.Elders Meeting 10am at Slinn’s
Ellie’s Ordination
One could not fail to be impressed and inspired by Ellie’s Ordination Service at
Burwood Uniting Church last Sunday. A cheerful throng of enthusiastic supporters,
both old and young, filled the dignified, old sandstone building, which must have
gladdened the hearts of all those who had gone before, the “faithful departed” now
around the heavenly throne! Supported by a lively band, Adrian White’s “Rads” led
the singing, with just the right balance of reverence and rhythm to please the young
and not be a “turnoff” for the not-so-young traditionalists (like myself!)
Ellie, playing her part with confidence and conviction, was warmly supported by
those officiating (mainly ordained women) who carried the ancient liturgy with all the
dignity and respect our 2000 years old Christian tradition merits. Our new
Moderator, the Rev Myung Hwa Park, who preached the sermon, highlighted the
multi-cultural composition of the assembled gathering. I, for one, felt privileged to be
amongst those, who, in this deeply secular age, took such genuine delight in the
setting apart of a beautiful, young woman to serve the Risen Lord. Ed.
FOR THE HARD OF HEARING, OUR CHURCH IS FITTED WITH A HEARING AID LOOP
Sun 26 Congregational Meeting after church
The Who’s Who church directory is being updated. If you are missing from the directory
or your phone numbers, address or email have changed please see Stephen White.
A warm welcome to Leura Singers contributing to our worship this morning. They will present
John Rutter’s The Lord is my Shepherd
Other nearby Uniting Churches...
Katoomba - Sunday Worship 9am - Contact: Joan Fell 4758 8295
Blackheath - Sunday Worship 10.30am - Contact: Bob Hendy 4787 7007
Hazelbrook - Sunday Worship 9.30am
Website http://leura.unitingchurch.org.au/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LeuraUnitingChurch