Northcote Takapuna Methodist Parish
Welcome
If you are a new comer, please make yourself known. Morning tea will be served after worship and you are invited to share. Parish Superintendent Rev Peter Norman Phone 442 1945 Email: pete.norman@xtra.co.nz Mobile 027 378 7042 **Please note the Minister has Friday off. Office also closed Fridays.**
Takapuna Church
Corner Lake Road & Tennyson Avenue PO Box 331013, Takapuna, Auckland, 0740
Sunday Worship, 10am Parish Stewards Richard Biddle Ashleen Theunisen
Phone 022 018 6968 Phone 479 7969
Email: richardbiddle@gmail.com Email: ashleen.j.t@gmail.com
Church Office Jan Tasker & Cathy Fraser
Phone 489 4590 Office Hours:
Email: takapunamethodist@xtra.co.nz Monday to Thursday 9am – 12 noon
St Lukes Church
16-20 Greenslade Crescent, Northcote, Auckland, 0627
Sunday Worship, 9.30am Parish Stewards Etta Spence Pat Carroll
Phone 418 4288 Phone 480 8389
Email: ettaspence@xtra.co.nz Email: patcarroll17@icloud.com
Church Office/Room Bookings
Phone 489 4590
Email: takapunamethodist@xtra.co.nz
Pentecost 23
8 November 2020
Pentecost 22 Sunday 8 November 2020 Remembrance Sunday Worship Leaders: Pamela and Rev Mervyn Dine Organist: Norman Firth Welcome and explanation about the service. Leader:
We gather here to celebrate, to seek the truth, to grow in love, to join in service. We gather here inspired by life's beauty yet seeking to find healing for its pain, to honour our kinship with each other and with the earth; and to create a more compassionate world, beginning with ourselves.
People: We gather here to wonder at the mystery that gave us birth; to find courage for the journey; and to listen for the wisdom that guides us in the quietness of this moment. (Gary Kowalski) Hymn
O God our help …..
O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home:
Beneath the shadow of your throne your people lived secure; sufficient is your arm alone, and our defence is sure. Before the hills in order stood, or earth from darkness came, from everlasting you are God, to endless years the same. A thousand ages in your sight are like an evening gone; short is the watch that ends the night, before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, will bear us all away; we pass forgotten, as a dream dies with the dawning day. O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come: be our defence while life shall last, and our eternal home! Prayer Lord’s Prayer Time for all ages‌‌.
Isaac Watts
Marco’s Question
Gospel reading
Matthew 5:1-13
Michelle Javate
Reflection Hymn:
Teach me to love you ‌..
Teach me to love you with all my heart, Reshape my life to your design, To serve with open and willing hands, Allow your light to freely shine. Teach me to love you with all my soul; Forgiven, may I now forgive, Released from ev' ry resentful thought, With fresh compassion learn to live.
Teach me to love you with all my mind And not to shrink from honest doubt, Explore and probe with integrity, To search for truth, then live it out. Teach me to love you with all my strength, Attentive to my neighbour's need, Reflect your self-giving love for me; Then shall your will be done indeed. Joy Dine (1937-2001) (Please remain standing for the dedication of the offering)
Offertory Prayer (together) Loving God, you surround us with your endless love, peace and forgiveness. Receive and bless these gifts. We offer them and our lives in your name to be used to proclaim your love, peace and forgiveness to all people. Amen Prayers for others and for ourselves Leader: People:
Compassionate God In your love, hear our prayer.
Church family Hymn:
Dear God Creator of us all
Dear God Creator of us all forgive our foolish ways: reclothe us in our rightful mind; in purer lives your service find, in deeper reverence praise, in deeper reverence praise. In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian sea, the gracious calling of the Lord — let us, like them, obey his word: 'Rise up and follow me, rise up and follow me!' O Sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm of hills above, when Jesus shared on bended knee the silence of eternity interpreted by love, interpreted by love! With that deep hush subduing all our words and works that drown the tender whisper of your call, as noiseless let your blessing fall as fell your manna down, as fell your manna down. Drop your still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of your peace, the beauty of your peace.
Breathe through the heats of our desire your coolness and your balm; let sense be dumb, let flesh retire, speak through the earthquake, wind,and fire, O still small voice of calm, O still small voice of calm! J. G. Whittier (1807-1892) in this version Jubilate Hymns Commissioning Leader:
All:
Go in peace, love and care for one another in the name of Christ. May you be blessed by God's continual presence. May your path each day be lit by God's indwelling Spirit. May joy, love and wisdom of the Risen and living Christ fill your hearts. Amen
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with us all. Amen.
Acknowledgements: Hymns printed by permission from CCL-Copyright Number 110126
Notices 8 November 2020
Church and Family Congratulations to Lynnette and Peter Norman for their wedding anniversary on Thursday 12 November.. Happy Birthday to Jenny Firth for Saturday 14 November.
Today
Morning Worship Rev Mervyn Dine
10.00am
This service will be live streamed from TMC at: https://takapuna.methodist.org.nz/live-stream from 10am and can also be watched at any time during the week. This Week Wed 11 Nov Sun 15 Nov
Coming Events Thurs 19 Nov
Property Committee Collins Room
7.30pm
Combined Service with St Lukes - here 10.00am Parish Annual Meeting Please bring your Annual Report and a plate for morning tea would be appreciated. CommunityMatters Woolloxall Room
7.30pm
Sun 22 Nov
Morning Worship Lorraine Parker and Rev Barry Jones
10.00am
24 or 26 Nov tbc
Development Team Back of church
7.30pm
Sun 29 Nov
Morning worship Rev Peter Norman
10.00am
Sun 6 Dec
Holy Communion Rev Peter Norman
10.00am
Sun 13 Dec
Morning Worship Rev Barry Jones
10.00am
TMC Roster for next Sunday 15 November Annual Parish Meeting Worship Leader: Rev Peter Norman Organist: Rebecca Lee Welcomers: Rasovo Family Reader: Alessandra Agcaoili Morning Tea: Heather Holloway Joy Norton
From Victor , Waitakere Community Outreach Once again, thank you all for your donations of food to our food bank. These are very trying times for many people, especially with the Christmas season nearly upon us, and with the covid 19 dilemma to deal with. God Bless you all.
Cleaner Available: Rakesh Bhan, congregation member and TMC church cleaner, had his own cleaning business for 12 years prior to coming to Auckland. He can do house interiors, windows and car grooming for reasonable rates. Please contact Rakesh on 027 298 9737 if you would like cleaning done at your home.
A Floral Affair –High Tea
The Community of St Aidan’s invite you to an afternoon of musical entertainment and delicious homemade food. Saturday 21 November 2pm Tickets Adults $25 Child (Under 16) $5. Phone Rosemarie 021 656 781 St Aidan’s is at 97 Onewa Road Northcote
Fast contact Tracing of Covid-19 is important We need to keep Covid-19 out of our communities. The Government is asking you to continue to scan QR Codes. There is one on each door of the church. Please continue to sign the roll in the foyer when you arrive at church each Sunday. Please get tested if you experience any cold or flu symptoms.
there's something different about this show. It's not that the theatre is part of Pitt St Methodist Church or that it is three short plays about people connecting somehow during lockdown. It's not that it's patriotic or funny or poignant. Not about the team of five million - or that it is written by one person and directed by two - or that it Is based on the words of the greatest Prime Minister New Zealand has ever had.
The difference is - it's my last. This is goodbye. I thank you all. God Bless, it's been quite a journey, many parts of which we have been there together kia pai Ĺ? koutou ora, Geoff Allen, Galatea Theatre
So come and see - NOV 4 - 14th BOOK iTICKET FAITHFUL wed - sat 7:30pm / matinee Sat 7th 3:30pm Rebekah Dack, Joseph Wycoff, Giorgia Doughty, Julie Collis directed by Patrick Graham and Geoff Allen