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Maleny Neighbourhood Centre - PANTRY REQUESTS - October: Tomato Soup / November: Canned Spaghetti / December: Rolled Oats

St Luke’s Kenilworth will celebrate - “Back to St Luke’s Day”

Patronal Day and 65th Anniversary

9am Sunday, 18 October

Everyone is welcome.

Make me an instrument of your peace The world doesn't give peace, for it doesn't have any peace to give. It fights for peace, it negotiates for peace, it manoeuvres for peace, but there is no ultimate peace in the world. But Jesus gives peace to those who put their trust in him. Billy Graham

Message from Rev’d Jeanette Last Wednesday - 30 September, I retired from my position as Priest-in Charge of this parish. I leave with wonderful memories of my three and a half years here. I have valued the care and support that I have received and the wonderful ways that people have helped me along the way. I have enjoyed our journey together meeting the challenges, making new friends and planning for the future. Last Sunday, a large number of you attended my final service at St George’s and the farewell BBQ afterwards. Many thanks for the wonderful send-off and the very generous gifts of a holiday in the Bunya Mountains and a Maleny gift card. My special thanks to my very supportive wardens over my time here - Carole, Jim, June, Margie and Shirley, our Parish Council and Parish Nominators. I have also been very well supported by our administrative assistant and treasurer, Debbie and I thank her for her wonderful assistance to me and the Parish over the years. I have been ably assisted by our retired priests - Ann, Chris, Derek, Jim and Kaye and I thank you! I am confident that all will go well in this next transition period with Rev’d Ann taking on the role of Priest in Charge (part time) assisted by Jim and Kaye. It is with some sadness that I say farewell but I know that I will see many of you around the district in the days and years ahead. May God’s special blessings go with you as the Parish moves forward in these challenging times. My thoughts and prayers are with you all. Blessings, Rev’d Jeanette

Prayer at the time of choosing an incumbent (APBA p 212)

Bountiful God, give to this parish a faithful pastor who will faithfully speak your word and minister your sacraments; an encourager who will equip your people for ministry and enable us to fulfil our calling. Give to those who will choose, wisdom, discernment and patience, and to us give warm and generous hearts, for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.

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Our vision is to

“Love one another as Jesus loves us”

Our mission is to

Obey Jesus’ commandment,

“Love one another as I have loved you.” John 15:12

Today’s Services

St Mary’s Montville 7:30 am Rev’d Ann Shepperson

St George’s Maleny 9:00 am Rev’d Ann Shepperson

St Luke’s Kenilworth 9:00 am Rev’d Jim McPherson

The Feast of St Francis of Assisi Sunday 4 October 2020

Generous God, whose hand is open to fill all things living with plenteousness: make us ever thankful for your goodness, and grant that we, remembering the account that we must one day give, may be faithful stewards of your bounty; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

WELCOME to our worship today.

Morning Prayer is being presented on our Maleny Anglican Parish Facebook page each day at 9.00am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 8.30am on Wednesday each week with a number of different presenters.

8.30am Weds Morning Prayer with live attendance at St Mary’s, Montville 9am Thursday Morning Prayer with live attendance at St Luke’s, Kenilworth

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MalenyAnglicanParish/

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Readings for 18 October St Luke’s Patronal Festival

Jeremiah 8.22-9.3, Psalm 145.10-18 2 Timothy 4.9-17a, Luke 10.1-9

Readings for 11 October Pentecost 19

Exodus 32.1-14, Psalm 106.1-6, 20-24, Philippians 4.1-9, Matthew 22.1-14

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS CHAPTER 1: BEGINNING AT THE 24TH VERSE: (Pew Bible page 1)

And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.

HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD THANKS BE TO GOD

Psalm 148.7-14 (A Prayer Book for Australia page 379 ) We say alternate verses

O praise the Lord from the earth: praise him, you sea-monsters and all deeps; Fire and hail, mist and snow: and storm-wind fulfilling his command; Mountains and all hills: fruit trees and all cedars; Beasts of the wild, and all cattle: creeping things and winged birds; Kings of the earth, and all peoples: princes, and all rulers of the world; Young men and maidens: old folk and children together. Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above earth and heaven: and he has lifted high the horn of his people.

READINGS FOR THE DAY

Sentence of the Day: 'The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it.' Psalm 24:1

Prayer of the Day: Most gracious, loving Lord, grant your people grace to gladly renounce the vanities of this world; that, following the way of Francis, we may for love of you delight in your whole creation with perfect joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen

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EFT - Bank: Commonwealth Bank Nambour BSB: 064 424

A/c No: 1012 2981 A/c Name: Anglican Parish of Maleny

2 Walkers Drive (PO Box 265) Maleny Qld. 4552 Office Hours: 9:00 am - 1:00pm Tuesdays and Wednesdays Ph. 5499 9130 Parish Secretary - Debbie Shepherd

E: angmaleny@westnet.com.au W: malenyanglicanparish.com.au www.facebook.com/MalenyAnglicanParish

Parish Priests of Anglican Parish of Maleny

Rev’d Ann Shepperson 0408 983 193

Rev’d Jim McPherson 0408 225 157

Parish Office

Acknowledgement of Country As we gather in this Church, we acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Kabi Kabi

and Jinibara people, and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

Church Wardens - Carole Phillips 5445 7839, Margaret Walker 5494 2028 Jim Atkinson 5494 3064 District Warden - Shirley Moreland OAM 5446 0171

Parish Minute Secretary Parish Hon Treasurer Assistant Treasurer

Margaret Walker 5494 2028 Debbie Shepherd Susan Myring

Retired Priests: The Rev’d Derek Barrett, Rev’d Jeanette Jamieson-Foard and The Rev’d Kaye Pitman OAM

Online study of the weekly Psalm with Rev’d Jim McPherson

Thursdays 7:45pm

Zoom ID: 605 553 0924 Zoom Password: 300520 Ph: 3185 3730

Containers for Change Update - Total for 2020 so far is $970.30

SAMARITAN’S PURSE CHRISTMAS CHILD APPEAL:

Volunteers needed to - Pack the boxes

St George’s Hall 9am on Tuesday October 13th

We are collecting items such as - Something to Love, to Wear,

something Special, for School, for Personal Hygiene and to Play With

Thanks, Ruth

PARISH ROLL - To keep our Parish Roll up to date, would all Parishioners please advise of any change of address, landline or mobile phone numbers plus email address. If you have been on the roll for many years, please check in to make sure we have your correct details. For - St Luke's - Shirley Moreland St Mary's - Carole Phillips St George's - Denise Paxton or Pam Warren

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We ask your prayers:

• For peace and justice in the world: we pray particularly for those parts of the world that are in the news this week

• For The Anglican Church of Tanzania: †Maimbo Mndolwa - Archbishop of Tanzania & Bishop of Tanga

• For the Diocese of Bathurst: †Mark Calder; Clergy and People • For the Parish of Bundaberg: Keith Dean-Jones, Danni Clarke, Norman Wagstaff • For Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital: Carol O’Ryan, Judy Shepherd & Volunteers • For Canterbury College, Waterford: Principal - Daniel Walker; Chaplain - Nia Viviani;

Chair of College Council - Jeff Thomas; members of College Council; staff & students • For Church Wardens, Parish Councillors and Nominators, & Synod Representatives • For people who are sick, in body, mind or spirit, for those whom we have listed in our

bulletin, and for those known to us personally. • Remembering the faithful departed & all those whose years mind occurs at this time.

Within our Parish - Maleny: Roger Byrne, Mabel Crosby, Margaret Drake, Roy Gesch, Matthew Dawson, Amelie, Peter Horrell and Des Ham Montville: Keith Allwright and Heather Wade

The Anglican Parish of Maleny in the Diocese of Brisbane is committed to protecting your privacy. The people on the list of the sick have personally requested prayers.

Sunday Devotion - Olivia Gabauer and Taya Kesby, from St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School, wrote this Devotion with the support of college chaplain The Rev’d Gillian Moses.

Confidence in the face of uncertainty

Supplementary Readings: Psalm 118.19-29; Matthew 20.17-28; Exodus 22.21-22.9; Psalm 80.7-15; Romans 16.1-16

“Christ Jesus has made me his own.” (Philippians 3.12)

Throughout the COVID-19 period, especially in the face of uncertainty regarding the health of our loved ones, we have learnt to have faith. We have confidence that God’s love and protection over us are unwavering. Because Christ has made us his own, we know that God’s love carries us through the hardship and despair of the unknown future, especially as Year 12 students wondering what the world holds for us after we graduate. God’s love and desire to know us better also inspire us to love those around us and connect with one another as Jesus would have, however distant we may be. Paul discussed his confidence in a loving relationship with Jesus Christ, which he put at the centre of his life. He joyfully acknowledged the loss of all other things for the immensity of their relationship. Before Paul became a Christian he believed that his ‘religious’ achievements were the measures of his success, all in the effort to please God. However, as Paul came to realise, the greatness of God was much more powerful and sacred. You can win in life and have success and wealth, but God’s only desire is that we live our lives on earth to the fullest, with compassion for our neighbours and loving those who feel unloved, as well as living righteously in God’s name. Our God does not measure us by the success that we obtain, but rather wants us to have confidence and trust in Jesus, which cannot be quantified. Excerpt from Anglican Focus

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A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER 6: BEGINNING AT THE 14TH VERSE: (Pew Bible page 949) May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but a new creation is everything! As for those who will follow this rule - peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From now on, let no one make trouble for me; for I carry the marks of Jesus branded on my body. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD THANKS BE TO GOD

THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 11: BEGINNING AT THE 25TH VERSE: (Pew Bible page 792)

At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” FOR THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD PRAISE TO YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST

R E F L E C T I O N S Bishop Jeremy Greaves (Excerpt from Anglican Focus)

Words of life for those on the Way

In my study hangs another reminder of The Southern Cross vessel – the Australian Naval pennant from 1941 when the mission ship was requisitioned during World War II. While The Southern Cross was used mainly for troop and cargo transport, the naval pennant hanging in my study serves as a constant reminder of how we are able to use even the best of things for purposes for which they were never intended.

“My time is well taken up in the mission ship,” Mrs Baddeley said. “Because there are plenty of interesting things happening all the time. We land twice a day as a rule, and I go ashore and visit the villages and talk to the natives [sic] as well as I can while my husband takes a service.” My granny was referring to life on board The Southern Cross – the mission ship belonging to the Anglican Church of Melanesia – where she spent much of the first years of her married life with her husband Bishop Walter Baddeley and their infant son (my uncle Martin). Granny had some terrific stories of life on board – of storms and running aground in the night, of flying fish and visits to tiny islands. The Southern Cross was central to the

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mission of the Church in the Solomon Islands enabling the Bishop to reach even the most far-flung reaches of the Diocese. The Southern Cross, my granny knew, was in fact the seventh Southern Cross ship (there have been two more since) after number six was wrecked on her maiden voyage from England just before Bishop Baddeley arrived in the Solomons. The Centenary Book of the Melanesian Mission talks about the importance of the ship: “On all sides the developing evangelistic, educational and medical work were woven together into the texture of sound Christian life by the ceaseless work of the “Southern Cross” and her smaller sisters.” On the wall in my mother’s house hangs a wonderful painting of the seventh Southern Cross – a precious reminder of the great work in those times. In my study hangs another reminder of The Southern Cross vessel – the Australian Naval pennant from 1941 when the mission ship was requisitioned during World War II. While The Southern Cross was used mainly for troop and cargo transport, the naval pennant hanging in my study serves as a constant reminder of how we are able to use even the best of things for purposes for which they were never intended. The Southern Cross, so important in “the developing evangelistic, educational and medical work” in the Solomon Islands, was for a short time an instrument of war. I was reminded of this lamentable capacity mid-year when I saw images online of Donald Trump holding up a Bible for a photo-op outside an Anglican church in Washington after sanctioning the use of tear gas and rubber bullets to clear peaceful Black Lives Matter protestors near the White House. In response, The Episcopal Bishop of Washington The Right Rev’d Mariann Budde said: “The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.” This kind of jarring disconnect also happens when particular pieces of scripture are taken out of context and weaponised for use ‘against’ particular people or groups of people. The scriptures, which are the great treasure of our tradition, reveal to us again and again the faithfulness of God to a faithless people – they are words of life that can enhance our capacity to live fully and freely as humans. Yet, rather than a message of love and hope, so often the Bible becomes a weapon used to exclude, alienate or punish. Echoing throughout the scriptures is a vision of God’s kingdom where the last and the least are first, the mighty are cast down, the hungry are fed and the captives are set free. As ones who are ‘on the Way’ with Jesus we are called to do our part in making this kingdom come, on earth as in heaven, through Jesus’ way of love.

Our time, too, could be ‘well taken up’ with this Way rather than giving ourselves over to violence and spite.

St Luke’s Christmas Hampers 2020 - We’re putting out the call for non- perishable items such as soaps, toiletries etc for men & women, hand towels, tissues, pens, small toiletry bags or anything that might be enjoyed by our friends at Erowal, Range Care or Anglicare.

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Coming Events

Sunday, 4 October, 7.30am – Holy Communion at St Mary’s Montville 9.00am - St George’s Maleny & St Luke’s Kenilworth - and also via Facebook

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday - 5 - 10 October, 9.00am with Wednesday 8.30am – Morning Prayer on Parish Facebook site Wednesday, 7 Oct, 8.30am – Morning Prayer with live attendance at St Mary’s, Montville Wednesday, 7 October- 9.00am - Meditation at St Mary’s Wednesday, 7 October- 11.00am - Meditation at St George’s also via Facebook Thursday, 8 October - 9.00am - Morning Prayer with live attendance at St Luke’s, Kenilworth Thursday, 8 October - 9.30am - Meditation at St John Bosco, Kenilworth (opp. St Luke’s) Thursday, 8 October - 7.45pm Online Bible Study with Rev’d Jim McPherson (Details page 7) Tuesday, 13 October - 9.00am - SAMARITAN’S PURSE CHRISTMAS CHILD APPEAL: - Pack the boxes - Sunday, 18 October, 9.00am - Back to St Luke’s Day, Patronal Festival & 65th Anniversary

NB: Please sign the attendance sheet on arrival.

C O M M I S S I O N I N G S

The Reverend Stephen Briggs will be commissioned as Priest-in-Charge of the Parish of Grovely on Wednesday 7 October 2020, 7 pm at All Saints’, Arana Hills.

Brother Donald Campbell SSF has been appointed as Archdeacon of Moreton, commencing 12 October 2020. He will be collated as Archdeacon on Sunday 18 October 2020 at St Philip’s Anglican Church, Annerley.

The Reverend Peter Jeffery will be commissioned as Priest-in-Charge of the Parish of Bardon on Thursday 12 November 2020, 7 pm at St Mary’s, Bardon.

Congratulations to Rev’ds Stephen and Peter and Brother Donald.

ABM - 2020 Martyrs Appeal - Honouring the Martyrs

To educate is to empower

1. Papua New Guinea - Newton Theological College 2. Papua New Guinea - Adult Literacy Program (Tax deductible and this project also receives funding from Australian Aid)

Help us to reduce costs by donating online to donate at:

abmission.org/Martyrs2020

Donation by cheque/money order made out and mailed to - Anglican Board of Mission - Australia

Locked Bag Q4005 Queen Victoria Building NSW 1230

Your generous donation to ABM’s Martyrs Appeal this year will strengthen the work of Newton Theological College and the Church’s Adult Literacy program, contributing to realising the vision of the New Guinea Martyrs for modern Papua New Guinea. Together we can reach our goal of $75,000 in 2020.