The visit of our Archdeacon for Regeneration & Mission on the 16th of this month. Rev Canon Mark Chamberlain will be our preacher at a Combined Service that day, and I urge us all to be present and be encouraged by his words. Bring a plate to share over lunch and ask him the tough questions!
Repair Café – happening @ St Aug’s! In the Hannan Centre, Monday 10 October, 5 to 7pm
Let’s REPAIR rather than throw away.
FREE event! Tickets not required!
Share far and wide!
We will help fix your stuff and to teach you how to do it yourself; Bring torn or holey clothes, tuck zippers, furniture, headphones and cables, sunglasses, ceramics and pottery, toys, shoes, jewellery, bunt knives (to sharpen) broken plastic objects etc.
We will also be able to help you with some technology advice, such as how to install Whatsapp to talk to your elations overseas, or why is your phone doing something weird today, or how do I put it on ‘do not disturb’ … etc
Volunteers willing to help are very welcome! Please contact Lerks Stedman: 022 021 5270
Our Annual Day of Giving on the 30th of this month. Once again, we ask for focused financial giving towards the work we do here at St Aug’s.
We face huge outgoings with repairs to our roof and buildings together with running costs of administration and operation and I invite you to prayerfully hold our Day of Giving in your hearts as we work together each week.
If you have a photo to do with St Augs that you think might be suitable for the church website please forward it to Kristin.hoskin@gmail.com
If your photo has identifiable people in it you also need to supply their permission for it to be used. If you weren’t the photographer please get their permission too.
Any website content thoughts/discussion are welcome but please do that either face to face or by phone or video conference with Kristin rather than email.
Kristin is intending to have the new website set up in time for the start of Advent subject to vestry feedback in November.
After such a long period of COVID restrictions, we can now prepare to move back into Communion of “both kinds,” so we are desperately seeking Assistants for our Sunday morning services. This will allow us to have a roster of people willing to be chalice bearers with the Vicar at Communion time each week.
Many people are quite familiar with the communion chalice, but most have no idea why it is important in the Christian faith as well as it’s meaning.
Most of the time, a chalice is made from either gold or silver and decorated in various stones. Back in the day, the gold goblet was something that symbolized family.
Someone once said “When we look at symbolism, there can be a fuller, richer symbol or sign of that thing. Baptism can be done with water in a gutter. It still does the same thing as baptism in a beautiful baptismal font and a beautiful white gown and all that. Nothing is lost in terms of grace imparted from the sacrament. But the other goods of the sacrament are often the signs. It’s kind of like ‘Why would a chalice be something that’s beautiful?’ Because it signifies that it’s a vessel of the Blood of Christ.”
So, everyone who takes Communion can drink from the chalice to partake of the Blood of Christ.
The chalice as a vessel is treated with great reverence and is kept in a sacred place. Most of the time, when people hear of the word chalice or communion cup they automatically think ‘holy grail’ or the cup that Christ used in the Last Supper.
Please let the Vicar know if you are available and able to help her. Once we get enough names, we will then have a refresher course just to remind ourselves of our expected duties.
Invitation: I would deeply appreciate a team to attend this Conference in October.
As we look to rebuild our faith and engage with our community, this is a great opportunity for us!!
Please register your interest with Kofe.
REGISTER HERE – https://bit.ly/3vXLtKZ
FOR YOUR DIARIES
The (postponed) Art and Craft Fair now has a new date: Saturday 18th March, 2023
This is a community event hosted by St Aug’s. that will include art and crafts that people have made, such as paintings, sculpture, photography etc.
Watch this space for more details soon…
Personal prayer is available with Rev Ron and/or Rev Sue in the prayer corner when communion is on offer at both morning services.
(For 930am Communion is held is every Sunday and for 11am it is held each 2nd and 4th Sunday)
Our 11Sharp service is now offering Communion twice a month on the 2nd and 4th Sundays. This is a great opportunity to be part of our Lord’s holy table. With steadily growing numbers, we are so excited to be able to accommodate our contemporary congregation and grow with them in the Holy Spirit!
As many of you might know, our parish focus throughout the month of September will be on ourselves as a parish family.
In years past, we have concentrated on supporting the work of Missions overseas and outside our parish boundary. This year, I invite you all to allow your hearts and minds to be centred on the work we do here at St Aug’s. I am hoping that through prayer and teaching, we will know the call of the Holy Spirit in our lives and accept the challenges that God sends us.
In receiving the Holy Spirit anew, we will then be able to move forward together as a church, strengthened and renewed in God’s work. We will then be spiritually refreshed.
We will then be enthused and invigorated in a spectacular way to heed the call of our Maker and to make a difference in the culture that we live in.
I invite us all to move away from the Sunday routine of attending services, and towards becoming truly grafted as branches of God’s vine, allowing Him to prune our lives so that we too, can bear more fruit! This, we will do through scriptural messages, prayer and deep fellowship with each other which will empower us to then go out again to serve our Living God outside of Cashmere. Someone recently said, “This is Discipleship revamped!” Let us be revamped indeed!
I am excited about sharing September with you good folks: you have carried me, loved me and driven me over these last couple of years – let’s now do the same for each other; for all those around us in this wonderful home we call St Aug’s!
Remaining as ever, Your Friend and Vicar, Kofe
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