CHURCH NEWS  

Rev’d Jacqui’s final day with our parish is Wednesday 15 January. We are holding a farewell afternoon tea for Jacqui on Tuesday 14th January, at 2 pm, in the church.

If you are able to attend, please RSVP to churchoffice@anglicanchurchmandurah.org.au

or 9535 6152 for catering purposes by 3 pm on Monday.

Elvie passed to her eternal rest on Monday 6th January. Her funeral will be at the Bowra & O’Dea chapel, Pinjarra Road, on Thursday 16th January at 2.30pm.There will be a livestream of the service available via the Bowra & O’Dea website for those who are unable to attend in person.

Our Op Shop will reopen on Wednesday 15th January, and our Bookshop will reopen on Sunday 19th January.

Stocktake for the Bookshop will take place in the coming week.

We will be holding our AGM on 9th March 2025. If you wish to have a vote at this meeting you need to be on the voting parishioner roll for the Anglican Parish of Mandurah. If you were on this roll last year then you will still be there this year.

If however you are new to the parish or have not been on the roll before you will need to enrol. Please check to see if you are on the roll, a copy of which is in the blue folder at the back of the church, and fill in a voting parishioner form if your name is not listed and you would like to be able to vote.

In accordance with Diocesan Statutes the roll will close on Sunday 9th February.

The Voting Parishioner Roll is separate to our church register of parishioners. If you are new, or relatively new to worshipping with us, we invite you to complete a registration form, available at the back of the church. Your name will be entered on our church database, which will enable us to contact you if necessary and will ensure that you receive all regular email messages we send to our parishioners.

If you are the leader of a parish ministry, we would like to have a report from you for our 2024 Annual Report Booklet which outlines the activities undertaken within your ministry for the 2024 year. The report book is due to be published on the weekend of 21 – 23 February. All reports should be emailed, if possible, to the parish office by the end of January.

I am delighted to announce that we raised $2,169.70 at the Christmas Wrapping Stall at Bunnings at Greenfields this Christmas.

A big thankyou to the generous people that volunteered to work on the stall under trying times with the heat and wind that blasted us many days at the front entrance of the store. However the Bunnings staff were very kind and offered coffee vouchers and water to some of the volunteers.

A huge thankyou from me to Shirley Abbott and her son Gareth. Some days they covered most of the shifts during some of the very hot days. Shirley also brought along all her hand made items and raised $279.70. Her hand towels sold like hot cakes. Our hard work has been rewarded with this record amount raised. I am most grateful for all the support a small number of people provided.

Will we do it again next Christmas? Hopefully yes. I am looking for someone to help Coordinate the roster and assist in the organizing of this event. If you think you could assist us please ring me on 0427 616 083 Thankyou Maggie Goss.

8 AM MORNING PRAYER

Our morning prayer services will NOT be live streamed from 25 Dec 2024 - 6 Jan 2025.

Our Parish Office will reopen 7 January.

Fr Ian and Wendy will be away from the parish from Saturday 28 December, returning 8 January.

We welcome Karen this weekend (29th December ) to our services. She and Fr Ian have undertaken an altar swap for this Sunday.

Jacqui has advised the parish that she will be leaving her ministry as Assistant Priest with us in mid January. Her final day will be Wednesday 15 January. We hold a farewell afternoon tea for Jacqui on Tuesday 13th January, at 2pm.

Our mission giving for January will be directed to the Diocese of Kapsabet.

ANGLICAN PARISH OF MANDURAH ANNUAL MEETING OF PARISHIONERS

9TH MARCH 11:30 AM IN CHRIST’S CHURCH, MANDURAH

VOTING PARISHIONER ROLL

Please see notices below regarding enrolling to be a voting parishioner, parish council nominations, and the submission of reports for the annual report book.


We will be holding our AGM on 9th March 2025. If you wish to have a vote at this meeting you need to be on the voting parishioner roll for the Anglican Parish of Mandurah. If you were on this roll last year then you will still be there this year. If however you are new to the parish or have not been on the roll before you will need to enrol. Please check to see if you are on the roll, a copy of which is in the blue folder at the back of the church, and fill in a voting parishioner form if your name is not listed and you would like to be able to vote.

In accordance with Diocesan Statutes, the roll will close on Sunday 9th February.

The Voting Parishioner Roll is separate to our church register of parishioners. If you are new, or relatively new to worshipping with us, we invite you to complete a registration form, available at the back of the church. Your name will be entered on our church database, which will enable us to contact you if necessary and will ensure that you receive all regular email messages we send to our parishioners.

Nominations for the 2025 Parish Council will open on 26th January and close on 23rd February. To nominate you must be a voting parishioner and meet all relevant Safe Church compliance requirements.

Please contact parish office for more information about Safe Church Compliance requirements.

If you are the leader of a parish ministry, we would like to have a report from you for our 2024 Annual Report Booklet which outlines the activities undertaken within your ministry for the 2024 year. The report book is due to be published on the weekend of 21 – 23 February. All reports should be emailed, if possible, to the parish office by the end of January.

The Wardens invite parishioners who have joined our parish in the past twelve months to a meet and greet at the church.

This is an opportunity to chat with parish clergy, wardens, and office staff and to have any questions you may have about our parish and its ministry answered. Please RSVP tochurchoffice@anglicanchurchmandurah.org.au

9535 6152 for catering purposes.

Last weekend Revd Jacqui advised the parish that she will be leaving her ministry as Assistant Priest with us in mid January. Her final day will be Wednesday 15 January. We hope to be able to hold a farewell afternoon tea for Jacqui on Tuesday 14th January.

20-22 Dec Normal service times

22 Dec 5.30 pm 9 Lessons & Carols

24 Dec 6 pm Christmas Eve Family Service & Eucharist

24 Dec 11 pm Midnight Eucharist

25 Dec 8 am Christmas Eucharist

25 Dec 10 am Christmas Eucharist

27 Dec – NO Friday 10 am service

28—29 Dec Normal service times

3 Jan- – NO Friday 10 am service

24 Dec (12noon) Parish Office will close and reopen 7 January.

Fr Ian and Wendy will be away from the parish from Saturday 28 December, returning on 8 January.

The Bookshop will be closed from Monday 23rd December and will reopen on Sunday 19th January

The Op Shop is currently closed and will reopen on Wednesday 15th January

Revd Canon Karen Cave will be celebrating and preaching at our services in Christ Church on Sunday 29th December. On the same day, Canon Ian will be taking services in St John’s Albany.

We are in the season of Advent. We are using the Third Order of Holy Communion from the Anglican Prayer Book for Australia (p168), with some variations for Advent.

The liturgy content and order will be different.

We will have the lighting of the candles of the Advent wreath at the beginning of the service.

For some of the weeks, the first reading is a part of the candle lighting liturgy.

We will not sing or say The Gloria and the 8.15 am service will have said responses

Other changes you may notice in our church:

We will use the colour violet, or purple, to mark the season of waiting.

We will remove all floral arrangements, and these will return for Christmas.

18 Dec 6pm Hyden Christmas

20-22 Dec Normal service times

22 Dec 5.30pm 9 Lessons & Carols

24 Dec 6pm Christmas Eve Family Service & Eucharist

24 Dec 11pm Midnight Eucharist

25 Dec 8am Christmas Eucharist

25 Dec 10am Christmas Eucharist

27 Dec – NO Friday 10am service

28—29 Dec Normal service times

24 Dec (12noon) — 6 Jan Parish Office will be closed

The Bookshop will be closed from Monday 23rd and will Reopen on Sunday 19th January

The Op Shop’s last trading day for 2024 will be Wednesday 18th and it will reopen on Wednesday 15th.

Knit and Knatter have had their last meeting for the year and will meet again in the Ken Barrett Room on Wednesday 15th January.

The pigeon holes at the back of the church have been established to allow parishioners to receive mail from each other and from the parish. At this time of year they become particularly full as Christmas Cards are exchanged. Each time you are in the church please check the pigeon hole that corresponds with the first letter of your surname to see if you have any mail.

The funds raised from this project go to Boniface Care who provide some much needed funds for those disadvantaged and homeless people in our community. If you would like to offer to assist in the coming weeks or have any questions contact Maggie Goss 0427 616 083

Our Parish has an important Outreach Programme that helps a lot of people in our community.

On Thursday evenings, we collect the unsold bread from Baker’s Delight in Meadow Springs at 5.45 pm and deliver it to our OP Shop Friday morning by 08.30 am.

I urgently need a couple of extra people as collectors for the roster which would require a commitment of 2 or 3 collections over a 6 month period.

A wagon or SUV would be needed as a small car would not be capable of collecting all the bread.

If you would like to help, please contact John Geoghegan by email, jomageo117@gmail.com as the next roster starts in January 2025.

Our mission giving for December will be directed to the Christmas Bowl. Giving envelopes are available in the church foyer.

Australian Churches, through the Christmas Bowl, have acted together to bring peace and hope into the world. You are invited to help continue to act for peace. As children of God we will share this year’s bowl with people who are displaced, oppressed or living in poverty.

Reverend Frank Byatt believed that we have a responsibility to share what we have with others who need it.

He saw it as a fundamental part of living out Jesus’ call to love our neighbours as ourselves.

So, he called on his congregation to “get a bowl to put on your Christmas dinner table as a Bowl of Remembrance and ask if you can get everybody around the table to make a generous gift so that you can share your good dinner with hungry children in other lands.”

Are you able to contribute this Advent Season to the food needs of our community by donating non-perishable items? A collection box is under the pigeon holes a the back of the church. These donations are taken weekly to the Community Kitchen for their use. Staples of tea, coffee, sugar, rice, etc are always needed.