Our Vision

A Community Transforming Lives

Our Values Grace, Inclusion, Dignity,

Faith and Hope

Uniting Church in Australia

8th May 2016

Parramatta Mission

Congregational life @ Westmead & Parramatta

&

Hospitality, Community and Mental Health

Services across Greater Sydney and beyond

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Happy Mothers Day

LEIGH CONGREGATION

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY! Prayers & blessings for all of our Mums and Grandmas/ Nannas on your special day today. We hope that everyone enjoys their family time together plus some pampering - and some lovely memories of the much loved mothers and grandmothers who are no longer with us. Below is a Mothers' Day greeting from our Junior Sunday School @ Leigh girls: Erika, Opal, Seini and Shiana.

MOTHERS' DAY MORNING TEA - TODAY The Sunday School children and teachers will be providing a very special Morning Tea for everyone after the service today. Thanks to all contributors & helpers. SPECIAL SERVICE TOMORROW NIGHT - NSW ECUMENICAL COUNCIL Tomorrow, Monday 9 May @ 7pm, Leigh Memorial will be hosting a special, ecumenical service (including contributions by our own Music Praise Team) as part of a week of 'Christian Unity' events. The service will be followed by supper in the Fellowship Centre. All welcome! NB: Contributions of a plate of food for supper will be greatly appreciated. Enquiries: Leaders' team. MAY HOSPITALITY MONTH - UPDATE Hoping that everyone is enjoying their gatherings! Thanks very much to all of our generous hosts & please let us know if you need any assistance, including with transport. Enquiries: Leaders' team. SOME SPECIAL DIARY DATES: MAY & JUNE * Couples & Friends service, Sunday 22 May * Clive Pearson, guest preach-er, Sunday 29 May * 'Sustainable Sunday' - Eco-Theology themed service - 5 June * Safe Church Refresher Workshop - 5 June * Heritage Sunday Service, inc. Dedication of the Gloster Udy plaque - 19 June * AVP (Alternatives to Violence Project) 'Transforming Power Workshops' - Saturdays 18 and 25 June.

WESTMEAD CONGREGATION

Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday Open Door.

Can you believe it but Open Door has been going for 15 years. It was wonderful to have a birthday cake which was cut and other really nice food. (We usually have wonderful food anyway). And a special Happy Mother’s day to all of the mothers, grandmothers and everyone who has acted in a way of mothering others! The time is coming very soon when we will be practising for the Mayflower Concert which will be on the 21st May. The Music was made available on Sunday 1st May and we will have a quick talk through on Mother’s Day with practice on the 15th May. As the songs are well known we do not think there will be too many issues. We anticipate this will be a fun morning with the people at Mayflower village. It is great to have Rev Christine back after Synod and 2 weeks holidays. Synod was a busy time with some great opportunities to meet with people from across NSW and ACT. There were some important things that were talked about and the next Insights will identify many of these things. The Open space at Synod enabled people to raise an issue that they were concerned about then gather in small groups to talk about it so more will be talked about in Insights. Rev Christine was very glad to hear that worship had been wonderful while she was away to thanks to all involved.

DEEPENING FAITH

Bible study Mondays at 2.00pm

LIVING OUT OUR FAITH

Time Out Café (TOC)- Tuesdays and Thursdays 11.00-1.30pm.

Open Door- Wednesdays 1.00-3.30pm Tai Chi- Fridays 10.00-11.00am cost $10 each week.

Fijian Congregation

Vunau Vunau Lesi Vunau Vakarau

Tuvakarau Veiliutaki

Tali Vunau

15-May Rooty Hill V. Kamotu A. Vocea M.1 M.2

22-May S. Toa S. Qata M.2

29-May Fiji Parish S. Qata N. Balavu M.3 M.1

FNC Car Wash

Fundraiser on

18th June

Vei ka e so... Safe Church Refresher Workshop for Sunday School Leaders, Youth

Leaders, Drivers, Support Team on Sunday 5th June from 1-4pm @ $20

Sausage Sizzle for Connect Youth coming up!

Keep an eye out for more information

시드니 조은 교회 Sydney Jo-Eun Church 14-19

부활후 일곱 번째 주일 Easter 7th of Sunday

개회 찬송 (Entrance Hymn) 예배를 위한 묵상

예배의 부름 (Calling) 인도자

송영 (Gloria)

사도신경 신앙고백 (The Apostle’s Creed) …………………………….다함께

찬양/찬송 (Chorus & Hymns)

기도 (Prayer) 다함께

주기도문송

성경 봉독 (Scripture Reading)

말씀 (Preaching)-전현구담임목사

성찬및 봉헌 송 (Holy Communion & Offertory Hymn)

나눔과 알림 (Announcement & Notices)

폐회 찬송 (Final Hymn)

축도 (Benediction) 담임목사

새 5장 통 3장

새29장 통29장

새 268장 통 193장

빌립보서 2:5-11

우리의 고난과 함께 하시는 하나님!

새 635장 하늘에 계신 우리 아버지

새382장 통432장

수요기도회 :오후 7시

사무엘상 7:3-17

새벽기도회 : 오전6시

사무엘상 5:1-8:27

QT나눔 & 성경공부

오후4:00

할렐루야! 오늘 함께 예배드린 여러분에게 주님이 주시는 평안이 충만하시길 축복합니다

성령충만함으로 주께서 주신 사명 잘 감당하는 건강한 교회로 세워지길 기도합니다

한 영혼을 구원하는 전도에 자원하는 마음으로 열심히 동참합니다. 매일 성경으로 묵상하는 QT를 하고 적용하는 훈련을 합니다. 부활후 일곱 번째 주일입니다. 결실의 계절 가을에 주님의 풍성한 은혜가 넘치시길

성도여 다 함께

예수 십자가에 흘린 피로

이 천지간 만물들아

주일 오후 1시 30분

너 근심걱정 말아라

새502장 통 259장 빛의 사자들이여 어서가서(1)

John 17:20-26 (Jesus, lifted up his eyes to heaven, said) “Not for these only do I pray, but also for all who will believe in me through their word, 21 in order that they may all be one, even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 But the glory which you have given me I have given to them that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me that they may be perfected into one that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 Father, for those whom you have given me I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory which you have given to me because you did love me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you; and these have known that you have sent me. 26 I have made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.” (Translation by Keith Hamilton)

Mother’s Day has a fascinating history.

The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honour of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England honoured mothers on "Mothering Sunday", held two Sundays before Easter. The servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. A special cake, called the mothering cake, provided a festive touch. Julia Ward Howe started Mother’s Day Clubs during the American civil war, gathering women from both sides of the conflict to help those who were injured, and orphaned, and work for peace. She first suggested a national Mother’s Day in 1870 as a day dedicated to peace and conflict resolution. In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day. Ana Jarvis persuaded her mother's Methodist Episcopal church to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. Her mother, also named Ana Jarvis, had worked in the Mother’s Day clubs during and after the civil war. Ana and her supporters wrote to ministers, business people, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. By 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every USA State. The US congress passed the day, and President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914 proclaimed Mother's Day as a national holiday to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May. Australian, Janet Heyden of Leichhardt, started the tradition of giving gifts with a campaign in 1924 to collect gifts for lonely aged mothers. This led to Mother’s Day being widely celebrated in Australia.

Reflection

My family has good news to share. My daughter and son-in-law are expecting their first child at the end of June. The baby will be the first grandchild for part of my extended family. The usual preparations are in hand with knitting garments and purchasing of items and fit-out of a bedroom. It is good news. I also can’t help but recall of a pregnant woman coming into Meals Plus, who had spent the night sleeping under a bridge here in Parramatta. Indeed, over the eight years I have been at PM, I have heard about and met a number of women who were homeless and pregnant, and as the nights become cooler, and I put on more clothes to keep me warm on my early morning walk, I also think of women and men and youths who have spent the night exposed to the elements. The budget has been brought down, and the opposition reply made. We know we are having an election on 2 July. Promises have been made and more will be made. But are we doing all that we can to assist young mothers, children, as well as people who find themselves on the streets this autumn? The bottom line of any and every relationship is treating each other with extravagant generosity, i.e. love. On some level we are all in relationship dependent on each other and influencing each other, even people we have never met. The love with which the writer of John’s gospel speaks is a self-giving love that works towards engaging with people and creating community. When Jesus speaks of love, we must always remember that he demonstrated that in the foot washing – serving others – and then gave the commandment to love as he has loved. This practical demonstration of love will be a witness to others that people are friends with God. We celebrate with women for whom this is their first Mother’s Day, and remember mums no longer with us. We remember mums whose children predeceased them. We also remember women who never became a mother even though they wanted to, and those who chose not to. Of course, a woman’s worth is not because she is a mum, but because women and men, children, old and young alike are all loved by God with the same love that God had for Jesus. As we celebrate Mother’s Day, giving thanks for those who mothered us, we are also reminded to treat mum well every day, not just today. Blessings to all and to all mums this Mother’s Day, Keith Hamilton

Future Directions Meeting

10 May at 7:15-9:00 pm. Venue: Ian and Margie Gray; 1 Airlie Place, Oatlands.

ECUMENICAL WORSHIP SERVICE WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY

8-15 MAY 2016

Date: Monday 9th May 2016 Venue: Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta Mission

Address: 119 Macquarie Street Parramatta NSW 2150 Time: 7.00—9.00pm

Followed by Light Refreshments

Further information: Rev Dr Manas Ghosh 0429 892548 or manas.ghosh@parramattamission.org.au

For further enquiries on Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

please contact nswec@ncca.org.au

Parramatta Mission projects supported in the Uniting Church

Please pray for: Living as a multicultural church. Ministry with people in prison. Ministry with hospital patients living with a mental illness. Hospital chaplaincy with patients, staff & families.

Pastoral message for this week…. The bottom line of any Budget

should be love, hope compassion and fairness to all

Foster your faith this week as you read: Acts 2:1-21 Ps 104;24-34 Rom 8:14-17 Jn 14:8-17

Our Congregations are committed to praying for our Congregations, Staff and the People we walk with in their journey of recovery: Sudan, Uganda For the worship, witness and service of: Lidcombe Samoan UC—Give thanks

for the splendid facility this congregation has developed. Pray that they will use it for mission as God leads them.

UC congregations of the Cumberland Zone: Dundas/Ermington, Northmead,

North Rocks, Carlingford, West Epping, Centenary, Wentworthville, Holroyd, Greystanes, Grantham Heights, Parramatta Mission, Auburn.

PM Leigh Fijian: : "For the families and friends affected by Cyclone Winston, "Wendy Morris as she prepares for volunteer placement in Suva with the

Methodist Church in Fiji and UnitingWorld's Pacific Region office. Kula Diqoliwasa, Niko Balavu. For the congregation, continuing the process of calling a new minister."

PM Leigh Memorial: Ken and Nell, Willamena. PM Westmead: Robyne, Deidre and husband, Rajes (Sandra), Phyllis, Billie,

Vita, Satik, Nancy, , Mrs R, Olivia, Ruth, baby James and family, Michelle and family, Don, Soo Ling and family, Caroline A, Ashima and Anusha Saxena, Spencer and family, Scott and family and Paul and Eileen, Mr and Mrs B and family, E and his family, Sheila W, May.

PM UnitingHospitality; UnitingHope; UnitingRecovery; For all who walk with

people on difficult journeys of life. For hope, patience and enduring compassion.

Prayers of encouragement for people around the world working for peace

and reconciliation.

Prayer Points

Worship Services at Parramatta Mission

Mon to Fri 9.00am - 2.00pm Open Church @ Leigh Memorial Tuesday 1.10pm Holy Communion @ Leigh Sunday 9.30am Leigh Memorial Congregation @ Leigh 9.45am Westmead Congregation @ Westmead 11.15am Leigh Fijian Congregation @ Leigh

1.30pm Korean Faith Community @ Leigh 7.00pm Praise, Prayer, Cake & Coffee @ Leigh

Westmead Congregation Rev Christine Bayliss Kelly 0409 925 607

Westmead Church 175 Hawkesbury Road Westmead: 98919354 Senior Minister/Group CEO Rev Keith Hamilton 0417 487 446

Leigh Memorial Congregation Rev Dr Manas Ghosh 0429 892 548 Leigh Memorial Church 119 Macquarie St Parramatta

Leigh Fijian Congregation: 9891 2277

Church Office: 9891 2277 Email : wecare@parramattamission.org.au

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