News from All Saints
What a week! It seems like we are getting hit with wave after wave of sad news both in our church family and in the wider world.
As Reverend Liz informed us, Joyce Blaber sadly died last week. The funeral will be on Saturday 4 November. Time TBA. Joyce was another of the matriarchal figures at All Saints and will be greatly missed. She was always ready to get to work and was of great support to her many friends - a good and faithful servant indeed.
Speaking of good and faithful servants, we come together tomorrow, Saturday 14 October at 12 noon, to celebrate the life of Brian Strehler and the many gifts he shared with us. Brian too was always willing to lend a hand and was endlessly encouraging to all who knew him. He took his faith seriously and built his life around it in a wonderfully humble example to us all. If you plan to attend the funeral tomorrow please be aware parking may be a challenge and allow a little extra time. Our prayers are with Jan and the family as they come to terms with their loss.
Our Sunday Eucharist is at 9.30 am as usual. Please be sure to welcome new faces and those we have missed over recent months.
Next week - Tuesday 17 October at 6pm - the Men’s Fellowship group meets for dinner. If you are interested in attending please call the church office for information.
A few words from Reverend Liz:
Dear friends in Christ. We have all been shocked and disturbed by the escalating violence in Israel and Palestine. Let us pray for peace.
A Prayer from The Most Reverend Hosam Naoum, Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem...
O God of all justice and peace we cry out to you in the midst of the pain and trauma of violence and fear which prevails in the Holy Land.
Be with those who need you in these days of suffering; we pray for people of all faiths -- Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and for all people of the land.
While we pray to you, O Lord, for an end to violence and the establishment of peace, we also call for you to bring justice and equity to the peoples. Guide us into your kingdom where all people are treated with dignity and honour as your children for, to all of us, you are our Heavenly Father.
In Jesus’s name we pray.
Amen.