Who would have imagined 50 years ago that God would take a group of 22 people and grow it into the large church and school we have today? It is amazing what God can do through a small group of committed people. It’s fitting that we as a church community take the time to honour God and celebrate his goodness to us over the last 50 years.
We also pray that our future is ignited through celebrating the past. If God can do all this among us and through us over the last fifty years, what can he do in the next fifty years? What steps of faith is God calling us to take so that we can continue to share the good news message of Jesus with our local community? How can we draw encouragement from our past to courageously move into the future?
Come and join us this Sunday for a very special celebration in the life of Good Shepherd. Bishop David Altus will be our guest preacher and his message will be based on our anniversary theme, ‘Celebrating the past: Igniting the future.’
Bible Readings: John 10:11-18; Psalm 100
Podcasts of weekly messages are available at www.paravista.org.au
Our IGNITING THE FUTURE appeal to raise $250 000 to upgrade our hall, kitchen and rear church entrance finishes this Sunday 6th November. Please remember to bring your completed response slip to the 50th Anniversary service this Sunday.
Please note that while we’re asking everyone to indicate what they will give to this appeal by 6th November, your gift can be given after this date in one payment or via instalments over the next 12 months.
For gifts made after 6th November, or by Direct Deposit, we ask that you complete the appeal response slip and place it in the offering bowl this Sunday. If you have already donated money you do not need to complete a response slip.
We look forward to celebrating God’s provision for this project through your generosity.
Prayer Requests:
Prayer requests are not included in the weekly news. If you would like to view the current requests refer to the email that alerted you to this weekly news. If you have a prayer request please email churchenquiries@paravista.org.au with your request.
Faith at Home
At the Kingdom Kids sign in desk and in the Parenting Room you will find a Taking Faith Home resource for the month of November that contains a month’s worth of daily bible readings.
Little Lambs Playgroup
Come and join us for Playgroup on Wednesday mornings at 9.15am in the church hall. Come on over straight after dropping off the kids at school. Join other Mums and Dads and Grandies for a coffee and chat with activities for the little ones.
This week we have our screening of “God’s Not Dead 2”. It is a great movie and will invoke some great discussion, which we will be having after the movie. As a little teaser I love this quote “I would rather stand with God and be judged by the world than stand with the world and be judged by God!” Now isn’t that saying it all.
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Remember this term, due to the nature of our events we have a new starting time of 6.30pm. We will still be going through until 9.30pm. Youth is a great way of being fed both spiritually and physically, with like-minded teens learning to own their own faith. It’s never too late to start coming along and making some great friendships and connections with fellow young Christians. Check out our term planner for term 4. Further details regarding youth contact Margot Mertin 0401 850814 or mmertin@paravista.org.au
Combined North Eastern Lutheran Youth
We have a date for the next event – 19th November – so mark it in your diaries. We are going to be having a “Tribal War”. Check out our flyer for further details, or our North Eastern Lutheran Youth Facebook page for a direct link for tickets.
Australian Lutheran College end of year events
ALC's closing service for the 2016 academic year will be held in the Immanuel Lutheran Church, 139 Archer Street, North Adelaide on Friday, 11 November at 9.00 am. Holy Communion will be celebrated at this service and a number of ALC staff who are retiring, will be farewelled. Morning tea will be served in the ALC Refectory following the service. All are welcome to attend.
The University of Divinity will hold its Adelaide Graduation Ceremony for ALC students on Friday, 2 December at Immanuel College, 32 Morphett Road, Novar Gardens, commencing at 7.30pm. All are welcome to attend this celebration.
From the office
Notes for the 50th Sunday morning
Be a gift to our visitors by:
• Parking will be available in Mattiske’s car park or why not park on the school oval and bring your share food to the school gym before going to the service.
• Food to share to be dropped off at the gym at 9:15am or earlier on the day.
• Remember to sit in the middle of the isles on entering the service. Will save embarrassment of being asked to move later
Saturday Night
Table bookings are not required for the 7:30pm start in the church. You are invited to bring nibbles and drinks to help celebrate. Be a bidder at the silent auction.
Remember to bring your ‘Igniting The Future’ envelopes with the appeal response slip included for Sunday.
We have planned and done everything we can to make this special celebration perfect. If you do happen to come across anything we have missed we would really appreciate you stepping in and doing what needs to be done to improve the situation.
Half Yearly meeting
The half yearly meetings of the congregation and school will be held on Sunday November 20th at 12:30pm. To keep the hunger pangs at bay there will be a BBQ after the second service. Proceeds from the BBQ will go to support the work of Marantha Health.
Hard copies of the church information will be available on Sunday November 13th and emailed early the next week.
Main agenda items will be:
• decision on if we proceed with our proposed facilities upgrade.
• 2017 budget
• removal of sexist language from constitution
Thank you to
• the 12 people who turned up on Saturday to complete the tidying of our grounds in preparation for the 50th celebrations. The grounds look as good as they have for many years. In total over 25 assisted over the 3 working bees.
• those who provided cakes for the LCC fete. The day was successful and they exceeded their target for the day. Money raised will enable LCC to employ a person to coordinate their playgroups in term 4
Notice Board
Christmas Trees from Holy Cross, Birdwood
We have Christmas trees available for purchase again this year.
We are able to offer our high quality trees at $35 each. Please note that delivery can only be arranged for orders of 10 or more trees, however, we can notify you of the closest Church from where your order can be collected. Trees will be delivered to your nominated location on the morning of Saturday 10th December 2016.
Please place your order at the front office by Wednesday 23 November.
For through wisdom your days will be many,
and years will be added to your life.
and years will be added to your life.
Proverbs 9:11
