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Our
Daily Bread by
Robyn Schaefer
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Flat
bread, short bread, Indian naan
Cottage white or multigrain
Pita,
crouton, crumpet, cob
Manna from the realms of God
Pumpernickel,
johnny cake,
Muffins from the stores hot bake,
Focaccia
bread, or gluten free
Damper for the billy tea,
Turkish
bread or raisin toast
Flinders bread from down the coast
Soda
bread and Sunny Crust,
Linseed loaf with fibre plus.
Roti,
scone or dinner role,
Bagels with a donut hole.
High
tin white, or matzah flat,
Salt reduced and low in fat,
Baguette,
spud bread, pandoro,
Black rye bread or sourdough
Woolworths
wrap or fresh farmstead
All these make our daily bread. |
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Rev
Dr Robyn Schaefer composed and presented in
her delightful ‘Rap-style’ Our Daily Bread (shown
at right) during
the service she conducted in Warragul on Sunday 12th August, titled
‘Soul of Our Essence, Bread of Life’.
Listen
to Robyn presenting this poetry —
go to the What’s on Sundays page, 12
August 2018 @ approx.
25 minutes into the recording. |
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What
is the Great Outback BBQ?
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Each
year, congregations from all over Australia gather ‘round the grill’ and
host a BBQ event to show support for keeping our Bush Chaplains on the
road and resource our Outback Links volunteering program, ensuring practical,
pastoral and spiritual care is available to people of the Outback. Every
dollar means we will help overcome the tyranny of distance.
Following
on from our church service on Sunday 21 October, we will hold our
‘Great Outback BBQ’ for Frontier Services. Enjoy a BBQ lunch and
contribute your donations to this important fund raising event.
Play
Group – it was pleasing
to hear how the Thursday morning Play Group is continuing to grow in number.
Twenty children are now registered. Apart from the children learning to
share and have fun together, the mothers/carers that come along with them also
find it a time of sharing and caring for each other.
Southern
Car Park – very generous
donations from the Teese family and the Warragul Uniting Church Catering Group
have enabled us to go ahead with the sealing of this car park.
At present, this car park has a rather rough crushed rock surface.
Sure
Constructions have been contracted to do the work, which will take place
during the second week of the next school holidays (1st – 5th October).
Funding
for the project is still however short by $2,000.00; donations can be made at
the Church Office if you would like to help fund this work.
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The
blue/purple added to this aerial view, shows extent of planned sealing
for the southern section of our church car park.
This
car park area accomodates about
40 vehicles. |
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Diary
Dates –
Sunday
21st October –
Frontier Services BBQ following Worship Service.
Sunday
4th November – Farm Relief Soup & Roll Lunch, following Worship Service.
Sunday
25th November – Congregational Meeting which will include election of Elders
and Church Councillors.
VERGER
FOR FUNERALS
Bill has indicated that he will not be available after this year to operate the
data projector/sound system and put out chairs and tables for funerals.
Remuneration is made for this task and information for what is involved can be
obtained from either Bill or the Church Office.
CLEANER
After 10 years of cleaning
our Church complex the present cleaner will be retiring at the end of
2018. This is a paid position and if you, or anyone that you know could be
interested in taking on the position, a job description can be obtained from the
Church Office.
St
Andrew's Kindergarten, 210 Sutton St. Warragul
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All
women welcome
To
enjoy an
evening of fellowship with
a very friendly group of women
Wednesday
12 September
Wednesday
10 October
The
Railway Hotel
at 6pm |
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Next
meeting of Men's
Group
7.30pm, Monday 1 October
In the Centre Room of our church |
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Hurry,
Hurry
. . . . If
you would like to learn more of Aboriginal history, biographies and stories - we
have
books on loan to our Reconciliation Group which may be borrowed from a
‘plastic tub’ in our church library.
Please record your borrowing details
BUT books must be returned by the end of September.
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UN-ANSWERED
PRAYER
The minister's five year-old daughter
noticed that her father always paused and bowed his head for a moment
before starting his sermon. One day, she asked him why.
'Well, dear,' he began, proud that his daughter was so observant of his
messages. 'I'm asking the Lord to help me preach a good sermon. '
'How come He doesn't answer it? ' she asked.
UN-TIMELY ANSWERED PRAYER
During the minister's prayer one Sunday,
there was a loud whistle from one of the back pews. Richard's mother
was horrified. She pinched him into silence and, after church,
asked, 'Richard, whatever made you do such a thing? '
Richard
answered slowly, 'I asked God to teach me to whistle, and He did! '
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