Post on 29-Mar-2018
2 Wolseley Grove Brighton Beach
Victoria 3186 Tel. 9519 1400 Email contact@stleonards.org.au
www.stleonards.org.au
Family Children & Youth Ministry Coordinator: Kaylea Fearn
Church Council Secretary: Moira Doyle
Chair: Wendy Adams
doctors, counsellors and many others
responded to the invitation.
From the cold of the outside weather
there was a warm and enthusiastic
climate in the new centre. In opening
the “Centre for Living and Growing” Tim spoke of the need for group
formation and care in our increasingly
individualistic society. He spoke warmly of this initiative, especially in
that services would be available to all
without cost.
A new dream for a new season
The dream . . . supported by
St Leonard’s
Uniting Church
offering a new service
to Bayside
This is Vivienne Mountain‟s dream. She writes:
Having just concluded six years as Chaplain at Firbank Girls Grammar
School, I was looking for a useful and
creative extension to my life. For
more than 30 years I have enjoyed a
busy career in education, teaching
primary secondary and tertiary levels. Over recent years I have also
completed a Masters course in the
Art Therapy method of counseling. I
have found it to be a very interactive and fun method that engages both
children and adults in discovering
their own hidden strengths. My desire was to combine the wisdom
from both fields of education and
psychology. This desire was met as I renewed my
association with the “Seasons for
G r o w t h ” p r o g r a m
( w w w . g o o d g r i e f . o r g . a u ) .
“Seasons for Growth” is a well
established educational program that
aims to build resilience. It is particularly focused to help people
cope with the change, grief and loss
in life. I had used it in schools, and now found support in my local
church to make this service available
free of cost to the Bayside community.
Members from St Leonard‟s Church have formed a support team of 12
peop le w i t h t h ree t ra i ned
“Companions” to lead the courses. As the demand for the program
grows, more of our team will
undertake the training. So far about 50 people, children and adults, have
completed the course. The
responses have been very positive. We believe this is a useful program.
FROM THE STORM TO THE WARM Rev Tim Costello was blown in
from the stormy evening on 25 August to St Leonard‟s Uniting
Church. He arrived in the wind
and rain to launch a new initiative of care for the Bayside area – “A
Centre for Living and Growing”.
This Centre is part of the refurbishment of the old Church
building in Wolseley Gve Brighton
Beach and is designed as a comfortable space where groups
can meet to discover ways to cope
with change, loss and grief. The
Centre offers secular programs for children and adults based in the
“Seasons for Growth” organization.
Tim spoke of his long involvement
in social justice that formed a link between career and a sense of
vocation. For him a commitment
to social justice were born both in
his Christian world view and the struggle of sharing a bedroom with
his brother for 17 years. Tim is
now the CEO of World Vision A us t r a l i a , a w o r l d w i d e
humanitarian aid organization.
St Leonard‟s welcomed many
leaders of the Bayside area to the launch. Our Mayor Cr James Long,
members of Bayside children‟s
networks, local school Principals,
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Billy Elliot Youth Group: At Youth Group re-
cently, we did a bible study called "What the Bi-
ble has to say about Billy Elliot". We watched the
movie and had some great discussion on themes
such as Loyalty, Identity and Creativity. We gave
away some cool Billy Elliot The Musical prize packs!
Escape Tennis: Our Thursday afternoon social
tennis group for Grade 4-6 has been going
smashingly! It's wonderful having the children at
the church enjoying friendship and fun.
Solid Rock: Here's the new promotional photo
of Solid Rock, one of our great worship bands.
It's lovely to have an up-to-date photo of the
band that will feature on our new website.
The Armour of God: In Children's Time, Jack
volunteered to be dressed up in The Armour of
God. We all marvelled at how protected he
looked in his belt of truth, chest plate of
righteousness, shoes of peace, shield of faith,
helmet of salvation and sword of the spirit!
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Pet blessing day and family BBQ ― for all creatures great
and small. Pets are an important part of our lives. We love them unconditionally just as God loves us.
This year we are celebrating the St Francis of Assisi day by
thanking God for our pets and blessing them with a special prayer. Bring along your pets for a shorter than usual
service. Put puppy on a lead, your moggie in a cat box, your
guinea pig in a basket and your sea monkeys in a bucket
and bring them to church.
After we will lunch together in the tennis court gardens; bring along a picnic lunch or BBQ and your
tennis rackets to have a go. ( Pets can have a run in the
fenced area adjunct to the tennis courts where we have the
animals at Christmas time.) This will be a day of joy, laughter and celebration of God‟s
love for us and our pets .
The Ripples care group are coordinating Pet blessing day (Amanda Fraser, Karin Strong, Dorriane Clune, and Carolyn
Glover) and the picnic is arranged by the Child and Family
committee ( Millicent and the team ).
For further information or arrangements for unusual pets please contact Amanda Fraser 95920990
Jane and Scruffy Fraser
(Scruffy will be coming to Pet
Blessing day after he has had a bath)
Musical
Morning A special morning tea
and concert was held
after the Liturgical
service on Sunday 23rd
August.
The Social committee provided the morning tea
with sandwiches and fruit
cake and Ingrid Austin
arranged for some of her pupils and Bob Adams to
entertain us with singing
and excellent
performances on the
piano and clarinet .
The audience was delighted with the high
quality and the selection
of the music. We thank
Ingrid and the Social committee for this event.
New Wave 11 October 10.30 - 11.30am
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This has been given to the church in perpetuity by Geoff & Pat Olsen,
in memory of Eric and Ruth Olsen.
Older members of the congregation
will remember the Olsen family who lived in Cairns Crescent and
had a long association with St
Leonard‟s.
“Flight into Egypt” was painted by
Ruth Olsen‟s brother Geoff Jones. Geoffrey Jones (1909-1993)
studied at the George Bell School
and exhibited in the 1960‟s in Sydney, Paris and Melbourne.
The Australian Galleries Melbourne
held a retrospective of his works in
1989. We are grateful to the Olsen family for enabling us to enjoy this
painting by Geoff Jones.
trees and shrubs were planted at
3,000 sites over that weekend! It
was good to feel part of it, par-ticularly on such a beautiful morn-
ing with the waves lapping at the
shore nearby, and a great experi-
ence for the children too. The event was well organised by
Planet Ark and, locally, by Bayside
Council. So keep an eye out for it next year on the first weekend in
August!
Carolyn Glover
Flight into Egypt
Where? “Seasons for Growth “ groups meet
in the new space called “A Centre
for Living and Growing”. This is a
refurbished part of the original St Leonard‟s Church at 2 Wolseley Gve
Brighton Beach (Just around the
corner from the main Church at 50 New St).
Who can come?
Groups for primary aged children meeting on Monday and Thursday
after school. Each children‟s course
runs for 8 weeks during school time. Adult courses are offered Mondays
and Thursdays, morning and eve-
ning. The adult course is held over
a period of four weeks.
Cost ?
The service is free but we suggest a
donation would help us to cover some costs.
If you would like further information
or make a booking for the next
course please email me or ring the Church Office 95191400.
(Dr) Vivienne Mountain
viv.mtn@bigpond.net.au
New Wave
Plants Trees! To me, coming from central Eng-
land, it is a huge treat to live near
the sea in Bayside. Even after five years, I still get tremendous joy
from it.
One such day was Sunday 2nd Au-gust when a group of us from the
New Wave congregation joined the
local National Tree Day effort down on the foreshore at Half Moon Bay.
It was a lovely, sunny morning and
we had a very rewarding couple of hours planting “trees” with other
church families and local volunteers
including scout and environmental
groups. Together we planted a total of 2000
indigenous plants, ranging from
ground covers and grasses, to shrubs and trees. It will be very sat-
isfying to watch the plants grow and
hopefully flourish as we visit the beach over the years. Across Aus-
tralia as a whole, one million native
I had a ton of fun at Plant a Tree Day. I felt
so excited as I love gardening. I had a great
time. I even met some friends from Netball and School. I planted lots of trees and
everyone got dirty knees. My sister Kez also
had fun. Kez, Sienna and I ate too many
sausages. We met a beautiful dog. It was all types of chocolate colours. It was a great
day and I had a great time. Lois Melvin
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Many people have admired the
original painting “Flight into
Egypt” displayed in the new Rainbow Room.
Church Office Now that our refurbishments
have been completed, there is
a new entrance for the Church Office - through the arched
glass doors in the courtyard.
There is a bell for people to ring and a sensor light has
been installed above the en-
trance for those coming at night. Glenys Melvin, our Office
Administrator, is in the Church
Office on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 9am
-12 noon. For security reasons
this door is kept closed so
please ring the bell for atten-tion.
People using this refurbished
area are reminded of the im-
portance of turning off the heaters and locking the doors
before leaving.
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Brighton
Secondary College
Chaplaincy
On Sunday 19 July at the
Combined Service when the Revelation Band played, a
Retiring Offering was taken
to support chaplaincy at Brighton Secondary College.
A total of $340.50 was
collected and will be forwarded to the Chaplaincy
fund for the work of the
chaplain Peter Mangold. School chaplaincy has been
recognised as one of the
most significant youth-focused ministries for young
people in Australian schools.
Unfortunately it is often not
until a crisis that a chaplain‟s
role is acknowledged. Yet
their role is assisted greatly if they have been in a school
already and have established
relationships with students, staff and families. Chaplains
are active in promoting
s t u d e n t w e l l b e i n g , particularly through the
provision of pastoral care,
and work to facilitate the connection of students into
the school network and wider
community.
In the Bayside area, where
there is a high rate of
teenage suicide, it is even more critical to address the
need for young people to
develop skills and values that encourage resilience and a
sense of purpose. If you
missed the opportunity to contribute and would like to
make a donation, please
place your donation in an envelope in the Offering
plate, clearly labelled Chaplaincy fund.
A new Chaplain for St
Leonard’s College
On Monday 7 September Rev John Donnell, Kaylea Fearn and Wendy Adams
represented St Leonard‟s Church at the Commissioning as a Pastor of Mr Gordon Lingard, Chaplain of St Leonard‟s College.
The relationship between the church and the school dates back to 1908 when Rev Hume Robertson granted Miss Lavinia Wallace permission to rent the
vestry of the church to hold classes in.
In 1910 Miss Wallace rented the “platform room” of the hall for the school but
it wasn‟t until 1916 that the school was officially named after the church by
Miss Rebecca Cullen, the then Principal of the school. The school boarders
worshiped at the church until 1975 when boarding ceased at St Leonard‟s College.
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If Sunday mornings are a tug
o’war then find a church that pulls the right strings for your family.
A new brochure entitled You’ve moved; are your kids
feeling warm and fuzzy about it yet? has been
produced encouraging people new to the area to visit St Leonard‟s Church. Designed the brochure by Susan
Parker, it includes testimonials from 3 of our
International families telling of their impressions of St
Leonard‟s as a church.
Key places where new people go for information have
been targeted to receive the brochures. If you know of a family new to the area please collect a brochure from
Wendy Adams to give to them.
Over the last 12 months the
Communications team has met
regularly.
In addition to promoting
events and looking at ways to
encourage people to come to
church, a new logo has been designed by Susan Parker
based on the symbol of the
dove used by the Uniting
Church.
A short, catchy phrase was
wanted for a tag line that would encapsulate our feelings
about the church as a positive
place where things happen.
Add more to life was chosen based on Jesus‟ words in John
10:10 – “I have come in order
that you might have life – life in all its fullness”. Watch out
for these updated images.
Covenant Churches On 19 September the Covenant
Churches organised a
Spirituality Day faciliated by the
Campion Centre of Ignatian
Spirituality Outreach Team.
Four members from St
Leonard‟s attended together
with representatives from the
Catholic parishes of St James
and St Joan of Arc, St Andrews
Anglican, St Peters Anglican,
Trinity Uniting and Brighton
Church of Christ. The morning
began with a time of listening
and prayer followed by an
introduction to the journaling of
prayer. In the afternoon
participants were introduced to
a method of prayer which
makes use of guided imagery
and active imagination within
the framework of a Gospel
passage of Jesus‟ life. At the
end of the day all agreed that
the day had highlighted the
strength of ecumenism in
Brighton.
Website
H a v e y o u c h e c k e d
w w w . s t l e on a r d s . o r g . a u
recently?
Our website is being given a
facelift by Tamara Whalley, a
web designer.
The last site has served us
well for nearly ten years but
we need to keep abreast of
current trends and present a
forward looking and dynamic image. Many of our newer
families have heard about our
church from our website and
increasingly the web is the first port of call for any
information.
Thank you to all those who have updated material
recently for our web pages.
We would like the website to
be representative of all the
happenings at the church and would welcome further
contributions.
OUTREACH Monday 28 September 1.30pm
in the Meeting Room.
Jill Hoskin (daughter of Dot and
Lance Dimsey) will tell us of her
experiences as a celebrant. Hostesses Barbara Bruce and
Bronwyn Hay.
Monday 26 October 1.30 in the Meeting Room. More details
later.
ALL MOST WELCOME
Items for the next issue of the ‘Message’ should be handed to Daphne Alcorn by Sunday November 15th, or Phone 9592 2306.
Copy clearly marked ‘For Message’ can also be sent by email to contact@stleonards.org.au
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PEOPLE FOR FAIR TRADE NEWS UPDATE
St Leonard‟s continues to support small growers in poorer
countries by buying and serving fairtrade tea and coffee at all
church functions.
We buy our supplies through a small but significant organisation called People For Fair Trade (PFFT) – a
Christian based, fully volunteer-run group. In their latest newsletter, PFFT reported on their continued support to East Timor coffee farmers and their communities:
„The $12,000 PFFT contributed last year to the East Timor Coffee Academy has helped them to establish a
nursery for coffee seedlings that will allow renewal of trees in coffee growing areas. Our contact in Ermera tells us
“. . . over 40,000 plants were propagated and distributed and next year, with the expansion of the
shade houses, over 120,000.” Tradewinds and PFFT continue to work towards helping a local group to roast and package their coffee, so
more of the economic benefit stays in East Timor – it‟s moving ahead slowly, but we‟re getting there!‟
This is just one part of the world that People For Fair Trade helps to support. New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Colombia are other parts of the world where projects supported by our purchases are underway.
When you buy fairtrade products, remember that you are contributing to trade justice for poorer producers. There are a number of places you can purchase these products. Most mainstream supermarkets now stock
some certified fairtrade products and goods can also be purchased through Oxfam shops and other overseas
aid and fairtrade organisations.
But don‟t forget that you also have the opportunity to buy fairtrade products (from PFFT) here at St Leonard‟s
after each service on the 2nd Sunday of every month! We have a range of products – tea leaves, tea bags, earl grey, instant coffee, coffee grounds and decaf coffee from different parts of the world. So don‟t forget to
bring your purses and stock up on delicious tea and coffee products on the 2nd Sunday of each month. You
will be satisfied by the products themselves and also the knowledge that you are contributing to trade justice and developmental projects.
GUESS WHO’S
COMING TO LUNCH SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER The Social Committee is planning to organize the ever popular “Guess Who‟s coming to Lunch” on Sunday 22 November.
Please mark this date in your diaries now. Enjoy a simple lunch with a small group in private homes - a chance to get to know
other members of the St Leonard‟s.
Elizabeth Stamp would love to hear from anyone who would
like to host one of these groups.
Please add your names to the list available in the church from
mid October or phone Elizabeth Stamp 95922174.
Many thanks to M & D for donation for Message postage.
LITURGICAL SERVICE ROSTERS
St. Leonard’s Uniting Church 2 Wolseley Grove Brighton Beach Victoria 3186
Tel.: 9519 1400 Email:
contact@stleonards.org.au www.stleonards.org.au
COMMUNION ROSTER October 11th (Intinction) Margot & Bruce Abbott prepare and serve. Jim Pfeiffer serve and wash up. November 8th (In pews) Margot & Bruce Abbott prepare and serve.Danielle & Michael Wood serve and wash up. Elizabeth Stamp serve choir. DOOR ROSTER Oct Bob Adams Nov George Alcorn Wendy Adams Joyce Kaye Val Houston Ron Kaye Bev Harvey Don Kennedy Hazel Wilson Michael Wood FLOWER ROSTER Oct 4 Mel Hunt Nov 1 Meral Barton
11 Mary Snowball 8 Meral Barton 18 Jean Garrow 15 Daphne Alcorn 25 Jean Garrow 22 Stella McDonald 29 Danielle Wood MORNING TEA Oct 4 Gwen and Bob Barham, Hazel Wilson 11 Jan and Norm Brasch, Gillian Taylor 18 Helen and David Bryce, Beryl Nixon 25 Julie and George Hadwen, Sal Joyce Nov 1 Barbara Bruce and Jean Garrow 8 Margot and Bruce Abbot, Mary Snowball 15 Dorothy and David Stannard, Bronwyn Hay 22 Elizabeth and David Stamp, Marian Hobbs 29 Wendy and Bob Adams, Barbara Bruce
WANTED:
Librarian for the “Centre for
Living And Growing” Library.
Small time commitment of an hour or so a week.
Great way of joining our “Living
and Growing” team in a quiet way.
If you think you may enjoy this ministry,
speak to Viv Mountain on 9592 9031.
STOP PRESS At the time of this Message going to print
the JNC (Joint Nominating Committee) is
waiting on the outcome of the meeting of
the Pastoral Relations Committee of the Port Phillip East Presbytery on 29 Septem-
ber. At this stage it is our intention to hold
a special Congregational meeting on
Sunday 18 October at 10.15am with the
single Agenda item being to receive a Recommendation from the JNC.
Following the building works at the Manse,
we now need to tidy the garden. A Working
Bee will be held on Saturday 17 October
and will include spreading mulch, weeding
and pruning. All help will be very much ap-
preciated. Richard Forbes is coordinating
the Working Bee; please let him know in
what way you can assist.