CHURCH NEWS  

Please join us at 9.30 am on Sunday, 14th June, as we gather at our niche wall to bless Adrian's plaque and give thanks for his service to God as a member of our parish.

We welcome members of the FIAS community to our worship services this Sunday. Clergy from the school will lead and preach at each of our services and we will have members of the school community undertaking roles and sharing their music with us at the 10 am service. Please come along and support the school community as we continue to enjoy a fruitful relationship between the parish and the school.

Please pray for Michelle Collins and all candidates to be ordained, God willing, on Saturday, 27th June and for Bishop Jeremy James, who will be leading the ordination Retreat.

Please also pray for Rev Justine Richmond, Canon James Tabor and Canon Karen Cave, who are to be commissioned into new diocesan roles.

Bishop Ian will be retiring and “Laying up his staff” at a service at the Cathedral in Bunbury on 29th August 2026. Consequently, the Bishopric Nomination Committee has begun its work searching for a new Bishop.

During this time, you may care to use the following prayer:

Eternal God, shepherd and guide, in your mercy, give your church in this Diocese a shepherd after your own heart who will walk in your ways, and with loving care, watch over your people.

Give us a leader of vision and a teacher of your truth. So may your Church be built up and your name glorified; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

(APBA 1995, p211, #35)

All are invited to join us at Mothers Union for a time of quiet meditation and prayer, followed by a celebration Eucharist.

You are encouraged to bring a journal or similar and something to write with. Plus a prayer you might like to share.

Please note the change of time.

1 pm - 3 pm Wednesday 17th June

CHILDREN'S CHURCH - Our next Children's Service will be at 10 am on 21st June. We look forward to the young people of our parish being involved in leading this service.

YOUTHCARE SUNDAY - We will be welcoming school chaplains from Mandurah YouthCARE at each of our services on Sunday, 28th June, where they will share with us what they do as chaplains in our state schools.

Our Parish has an important outreach Programme which 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 on 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 July 2026

On Saturday, 20th June, we will hold our last monster garage sale at the Anglican Community Centre. On Wednesday, 24th June at 9 am, we will be packing up the goods at the ACC, ready for the move on 4th July at 8.30 am. Help will be needed on both of these days. If you feel able to assist with the pack up and/or the move, please leave your name with the parish office.

The op shop provides a valuable and meaningful service to the community, but we are in need of volunteers at the Op shop on the following days: Monday mornings, Wednesday afternoons (urgent): Friday afternoon, and Saturday morning (urgent). If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, please contact Fr Joe or Isobelle through the church office.

In the church, we currently have a surplus of jars suitable for jam and relish making. If you would like some jars to use for your creations, please help yourself to the collection in the church kitchen.

Our mission giving for June will be directed to Bishop’s Foundation For Ministry—Diocese of Bunbury

With Monday, 1st June being a public holiday, the church, parish office, and bookshop will be closed.

Epray Daily is now available again following recent upgrades. Please note that the old

Epray app no longer works and you should delete it from your devices. The new version

is accessed by visiting https://daily.epray.com.au

You can save it to your phone or home Screen so it works like an app. If you would like assistance or further information please contact Wendy in the parish office.

We are celebrating Pentecost at all of our services this weekend. You are encouraged to wear red if you are able.

The parish of Christ’s Church Mandurah has a wide-ranging and far-reaching ministry in the community of the City of Mandurah. To maintain this, we are grateful for all those who volunteer their time and talents to support the work we do.

We currently have volunteers working in ministry in Parish Council, Wardens, Safe Church, bell ringing, Bible studies, Bookshop, bread collection, card making, church caretakers, children and youth ministry, Cursillo, EfM, Fete, gardening and maintenance, knit and natter, men’s group, monster garage sale, Mothers Union, music ministry, nursing homes & retirement villages, Op-Shop, pastoral care, recycling, service rosters, Soul Singers, Sunday morning teas, Youth Care morning teas.

Thank you to all who are involved in one or more of these ministries.

We are also always looking for more people to step up and volunteer their time and talents. Be it in outreach such as the op shop, book shop or the pastoral care of visiting the nursing homes or hospital or those sick at home. We are always grateful for those who do so much towards the mission of the parish. We are always open to new people putting their names forward, or people who are currently involved offering to do more or to change how they are involved.

We thank God for those who take hold of these ministries and put their hand up to say, ‘I will do this.’

Yours in Christ, Fr Ian Mabey

Since our Annual meeting of Parishioners in March, we have had 3 of our 6 elected members of our parish council resign for personal reasons. We did not receive any nominations for the third warden. It is of deep concern that a parish of our size cannot fill its parish council. We would be delighted to discuss the positions with anyone interested in either role.

A brief description of each role is:

Warden: A lay person acts as a trusted leader and office of the Bishop within a local parish. They are in effect, the managers of the Church’s property, finances and legal administration, working closely with the Priest-in-charge.

Parish councilor: A lay person who is on the parish council, the governing body responsible for the financial, administrative and practical operations of a local parish in partnership with the priest-in-charge. It oversees property, approves budgets, ensures safe ministry compliance and supports the strategic mission and ministry of the church within its community.

Blessings, Karen Reeves and Bronwyn Jones

This year’s Lay Retreat will be held August 21 – 23 at the St John of God Retreat Centre, Shoalwater. The cost of the retreat is $345.

The Diocesan Lay Retreat team are offering a retreat with a focus on rest, refreshment, and returning people’s awareness to the deep love of God within their lives. All meals are provided, each room has an ensuite and the retreat centre is extremely comfortable with beautiful gardens and the beach across the road. Retreat registration forms are available at the back of the church

Unfortunately, our bell ringers were unable to ring last Sunday morning due to illness.

They will ring our church bells at half muffle from 8 am on Sunday, 17th, in honour of John. They will not be ringing at 9.30 am as many of the ringers would like to be able to attend John's funeral.

We are delighted that Michelle Collins will be joining us in the role of Lay Pastoral Care Worker from Monday, 18th May, for 16 hours per week. She will formally

become a part of our clergy team following her ordination as a deacon in late June.

A service honouring Ken's life will be held in our church on Thursday, 28th May, commencing at 2 pm, with refreshments in the church grounds following the service.

A men's fellowship evening will be held on Thursday, 28th May, in the Ken Barrett Room, commencing at 6 pm. It will be soup and toast night. The cost will be $10. Please put your name on the attendance list at the back of the church if you will be coming.

Pentecost this year falls on the weekend 22 - 24 May. Coming 50 days after Easter Sunday, it is the day we celebrate the descending of the Holy Spirit. Also considered the birth day of the church, it is also known as Whit Sunday. Red is the colour of the Holy Spirt and we are encouraged to wear red at services on this weekend.

There is a planned power outage for the Church on Wednesday 27th May between 9am - 5pm. Should this go ahead we will not have electricity into the church on that day. The office will be open but we will only be able to undertake limited activities.

The op shop provides a valuable and meaningful service to the community, but

We are in need of volunteers at the opshop on the following days: Monday mornings: Wednesday afternoons (urgent): Friday afternoon: and Saturday morning (urgent). If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, please contact Fr Joe or Isobelle through the church office.

With the assistance of the Diocesan Office, our parish wardens are currently negotiating the lease of a new premises to use as storage for the parish and to provide a venue for continuing our monthly garage sales once we are no longer operating the Anglican Community Centre in Leslie Street. More details will be provided soon.

John and Ken both passed to their eternal rest during this past week. Please uphold their families in your prayers at this time.