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Next Week
Sunday May 9th
Vicar, Val Riches 078880878 or 027 444 8286 Lance 027 555 3286
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Loaves and Fishes can be opened on the Loaves and Fishes page
From our Community Foodbank
Kia ora everyone
Here’s the latest news about how we are helping people at the Morrinsville Food Bank. We really appreciate all your support – the food and the prayer, and this is just a snippet of the good that you are a part of…
This month we found ourselves supporting a family of 5 (Mum and 4 kids). Mum works but it is tough with hungry, growing kids and this month the Mum had to get new glasses and get her hearing checked as she is experiencing hearing loss. The only money she had to spend on those things was her grocery money. She had an appointment with Work and Income to get some financial support from them but she couldn’t get in to see them for another week. We see a lot of people who are caught between an immediate need and getting help from the government, who just need that bridge of food support to make it to the next appointment. This Mum was like so many others and had put herself last on the list of needs (a good Mum who puts her children first) and we were glad to help her and her children out with the food they needed for a week.
Thanks again to you lovely people for helping us help others. We can’t do it without you
God bless
Bronwyn O’Sullivan
Manager
Ezekiel Trust Budgeting Service and Food Bank
This Sunday our country celebrates Mothers Day – no doubt we all hold memories of our Mothers. It can also be hard for some who have experienced loss – of not being able to be a mother or having lost a child. Here is a thought for those for whom this Day holds also a lot of sadness:
The first Sunday of May is International Bereaved Mother’s Day.
For anyone with family, friends, colleagues or patients who carries a child in their hearts rather than their arms, please reach out to them. Don’t think ‘Oh no, I don’t want to upset them or remind them so I will say nothing’. No mother ever forgets (especially during the week prior to the highly advertised ‘conventional’ Mother’s Day). Please reach out, honour their courage, celebrate them as mother’s, say their child’s names. You are not making them sad, the sadness is already there, it is an opportunity to make them feel connected, honoured and that their child’s life matters. # A little life is not a little loss.
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Next Week
Sunday May 9th
Vicar, Val Riches 078880878 or 027 444 8286 Lance 027 555 3286
The newsletter can be opened as a PDF from the Weekly Service Sheets page and can be requested to arrive in your email box by filling in the form in the Subscribe to Newsletter page.
Loaves and Fishes can be opened on the Loaves and Fishes page
From our Community Foodbank
Kia ora everyone
Here’s the latest news about how we are helping people at the Morrinsville Food Bank. We really appreciate all your support – the food and the prayer, and this is just a snippet of the good that you are a part of…
This month we found ourselves supporting a family of 5 (Mum and 4 kids). Mum works but it is tough with hungry, growing kids and this month the Mum had to get new glasses and get her hearing checked as she is experiencing hearing loss. The only money she had to spend on those things was her grocery money. She had an appointment with Work and Income to get some financial support from them but she couldn’t get in to see them for another week. We see a lot of people who are caught between an immediate need and getting help from the government, who just need that bridge of food support to make it to the next appointment. This Mum was like so many others and had put herself last on the list of needs (a good Mum who puts her children first) and we were glad to help her and her children out with the food they needed for a week.
Thanks again to you lovely people for helping us help others. We can’t do it without you
God bless
Bronwyn O’Sullivan
Manager
Ezekiel Trust Budgeting Service and Food Bank
This Sunday our country celebrates Mothers Day – no doubt we all hold memories of our Mothers. It can also be hard for some who have experienced loss – of not being able to be a mother or having lost a child. Here is a thought for those for whom this Day holds also a lot of sadness:
The first Sunday of May is International Bereaved Mother’s Day.
For anyone with family, friends, colleagues or patients who carries a child in their hearts rather than their arms, please reach out to them. Don’t think ‘Oh no, I don’t want to upset them or remind them so I will say nothing’. No mother ever forgets (especially during the week prior to the highly advertised ‘conventional’ Mother’s Day). Please reach out, honour their courage, celebrate them as mother’s, say their child’s names. You are not making them sad, the sadness is already there, it is an opportunity to make them feel connected, honoured and that their child’s life matters. # A little life is not a little loss.
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May 9th, 2021
The Joy of Love
Readings: Acts 10:44-48 Psalm 98 John 15:9-17
Sentence: You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. John 15:16
Collect: God who does marvelous things, we praise you. We lift our voices in a joyful noise, joining our song to that of creation. We give thanks for your righteousness, your steadfast love, your faithfulness, your justice. Amen.
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The Joy of Love
Readings: Acts 10:44-48 Psalm 98 John 15:9-17
Sentence: You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. John 15:16
Collect: God who does marvelous things, we praise you. We lift our voices in a joyful noise, joining our song to that of creation. We give thanks for your righteousness, your steadfast love, your faithfulness, your justice. Amen.
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Preparation for Sunday from “Love to the World”
Acts 10:44-48
Q: What do you and your congregation do to break down barriers that may make it difficult for people to feel included?
Prayer– Lord, may I always celebrate the breadth of your redeeming love.
Psalm 98
Q: How did your congregation worship during the Covid 19 pandemic? What was missing from its worship during this time and what, if any, were the positives?.
Prayer – Lord, bless those who will lead my congregation in worship this Sunday.
John 15:9-17
Q: “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you” (John 15:9). What does this mean? And what does it mean to “abide in” this?
Prayer: Loving Jesus, teach me to love members of my congregation as you loved the church.
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Acts 10:44-48
Q: What do you and your congregation do to break down barriers that may make it difficult for people to feel included?
Prayer– Lord, may I always celebrate the breadth of your redeeming love.
Psalm 98
Q: How did your congregation worship during the Covid 19 pandemic? What was missing from its worship during this time and what, if any, were the positives?.
Prayer – Lord, bless those who will lead my congregation in worship this Sunday.
John 15:9-17
Q: “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you” (John 15:9). What does this mean? And what does it mean to “abide in” this?
Prayer: Loving Jesus, teach me to love members of my congregation as you loved the church.
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Focus
The love of God engenders joy. As we are loved so we in turn must love one another creating joy, inclusion, divine and human friendship, security, deliverance, equity and justice.
There is victory in our faith, in our belief in God and the love poured out for all that demands a response and a commitment and obedience to the commandment that we love God and one another.
Can you sing songs of praise and celebration with the psalmist of an exuberant, extravagant love?
Do we make the commandment to love a burden rather than a joy?
Prayer: Creator God, may we give way to praise and joy for deliverance, salvation and for a love beyond understanding. Amen
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The love of God engenders joy. As we are loved so we in turn must love one another creating joy, inclusion, divine and human friendship, security, deliverance, equity and justice.
There is victory in our faith, in our belief in God and the love poured out for all that demands a response and a commitment and obedience to the commandment that we love God and one another.
Can you sing songs of praise and celebration with the psalmist of an exuberant, extravagant love?
Do we make the commandment to love a burden rather than a joy?
Prayer: Creator God, may we give way to praise and joy for deliverance, salvation and for a love beyond understanding. Amen
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REGULAR EVENTS -
- Rhythm and Dance
- Community prayer
- Fri Cuppa & Op Shop.
SPECIFIC PRAYERS FOR THIS WEEK
- Pray for people caught up in unjust political systems in the world, especially those in prisons unjustly.
- Pray for people caught up in unjust political systems in the world, especially those in prisons unjustly.
- Pray for sports teams representing our country in the world with travel restrictions
- Pray for Peter and Mary as they prepare to leave NZ at the end of the month.
- Pray for those who are sick, especially Lynda and Caleb and others we may know.
- Pray for those who are mourning the loss of a loved one.
- For our God of love and forgiveness who choses us as God’s children.
- For the beauty of our lovely country; the trees changing colour, the paddocks of cows and sheep, our beautiful rivers, lakes and coastlines.
- For our Clergy, Ministry Team, and Vestry.
- For the families preparing for baptism next Sunday
- For people who care for each other in our communities
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise. Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude. —Richard Rohr
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Please give careful thought to your support through donations:
If you are able to make your donations through internet banking it would be very much appreciated. You could use your name or your envelop number for reference and our recorder will include it with your total giving. Our bank account details are
St Matthew’s 02 0368 0027228 00
If you are able to make your donations through internet banking it would be very much appreciated. You could use your name or your envelop number for reference and our recorder will include it with your total giving. Our bank account details are
St Matthew’s 02 0368 0027228 00