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CALENDAR OF REGULAR EVENTS

CHANGES

Due to Martin’s current programme of regular interstate visits some activities have changed their rhythm.  Note that Religious Instruction and the Sunday Services will return to the times printed below.

THE ACT OF CONSECRATION OF MAN -  Sunday   10.30am
                                                                   Thursday  9.30am

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION     Sunday  9.30am 
CLASSES 1 to 6                                   Third, Fourth and Fifth  Sundays.
CONFIRMATION                               Third, Fourth and Fifth  Sundays.
Check Programme and Diary to ensure that Martin is present.

THE SUNDAY SERVICE FOR THE CHILDREN  
Consult programme  Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays, 10.00am.

BUILDING OUR COMMUNITY

Community meetings to discuss our community life are scheduled on the programme.  Your initiatives and ideas are most welcome, so please come and share them over morning tea/lunch and during other events

SPIRIT  MATTERS
We meet on Thursday mornings after The Act of Consecration of Man to discuss spiritual and religious activities and practices.  Currently our focus is on technology at the threshold.

 COMMITTEE MEETINGS

There are two committees, Finance and Management, facilitating the flow of activities in our Community.  Please consult diary inside programme for meeting dates for each committee.  Committee members are listed inside the programme.

FESTIVAL PLANNING
Contact Martin Samson 8339 6466 if you are interested in the planning of Festivals in our Community.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Cosmic Child

Sunday 26th September - Sunday 10th October 2010
Note the dates for this year’s opportunity to explore the physical and spiritual beauty of Central Australia, now is the time to make a commitment.  The experience is unforgettable and only $2,200. Download Brochure HERE           Contact Martin 8339 6466

Meditation Group

Meditation group is now a weekly event.  We meet at 6pm for a “bring and share” meal.  At 7pm we move into the chapel for meditation, singing, and labyrinth walking.  We welcome ideas from participants about our future work.  Our aim is to establish this session as an open Sunday Vespers for our community.
$10 contribution at the door.

Visiting Queensland

In July I will spend a week travelling north along the east coast of New South Wales to Queensland.  Over the years there have been several small groups of people holding gatherings as part of our Community.  Every so often we try to visit them all and bring a sense of integration with the whole Community by involving them too in the sacramental work of the community.  I will visit people in Bellingen, Mullumbimbi, Mapleton Falls, and Noosa in that week and hold study groups and sacraments.  Martin

   Australian Council Report   -  April/May  2010

A wonderful time in Sydney for the council, which followed on from the Synod, meant that we were able to re-meet some of the New Zealanders – Hartmut, Kevin, and Helga before they returned home; the delegates from last meeting, as well as Joseph Tandl, who was rejoining after a break.

The Council has rearranged itself as a result of Hartmut stepping away from the position of Lenker.  Cheryl Nekvapil has assumed responsibility as the Synod coordinator within Australia.  Martin Samson has replaced Lisa Devine as council representative at Synod.  I have taken on being the Council Chair and Joseph is taking Jayne’s role as Council Secretary as well as wearing other hats.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHANGE OF TIMES

Please note that due to popular request we will revert to the previous schedule for Religious Instruction and Sunday Services:

Religious Instruction              – 9.30am
Confirmation Class                  - 9.30am
Sunday Service for Children – 10am
Act of Consecration of Man –   10.30am

CHILDMINDING

Childminding will be available during The Act of Consecration of Man from 6th  June.  A gold coin donation can be made towards materials etc.

ST JOHNSTIDE

Fire Leaping Ceremony - 4pm Thursday 24th June
Details over the page

Sunday 27th June

  9.30am                                St John’s story for the whole family
10.0am                  The Sunday Service for the Children
10.3am                  The Act of Consecration of Man
                             With childminding activity; making candles.
11.45am                                Candle Lighting for the World (see below)

CANDLE LIGHTING CEREMONY

Sunday 27th June 11.45 Family Festival.
We invite members and friends of our community to this event.  Children, singles, parents are all warmly invited to light a candle and place it on a map of the world - sending our love and good thoughts to the people and places you know and care for.  It is an opportunity to offer our prayers to those who are in need all around the world

FESTIVALS  &  EVENTS

ST JOHNSTIDE

4pm Thursday 24th June
Our midwinter bonfire and fire jumping celebration will be held at the property ‘Greenmantle’, 6km from Mylor, belonging to Brioni Pridham and Heg Wirthensohn.  See map provided.

At 4pm we gather to build the bonfire together.  Once the fire is alight, we will stand in a circle around the flames.  This is when individuals seek the courage for the changes that we each need to make.  We look into the darkest corners of our life searching for the habits that constrain, and the personal challenges that confront us in our own life.  Together we sing and dance until as an individual we find the strength to leap across the flames with the impetus for change burning fiercely.

Please wear non-flammable clothing.
Fire wardens and first aid wardens will be on duty.
This activity is dangerous and parents are responsible for their own children.
Those who want to watch only will be fully supported.

How to get there
Look for the sign “GREENMANTLE” on the LHS about 6km from Mylor on The Strathalbyn Rd, - RAPID No on the tree stump is 978 148.  Or drive eastward on the Freeway, take the Hahndorf exit.  Drive through the town until you reach the Echunga Rd turn, on the right.  Follow the Echunga Rd to Dolman Rd on the right, and turn right again onto Strathalbyn Rd.  Proceed about ½.km until Greenmantle on RHS.
From Mt. Barker take the Flaxley Rd from Mt Barker High School, turn right onto road to Echunga, turn right at the Echunga pub, head towards Mylor past Dolman Rd, then approx ½.km to Greenmantle on right.

Phone Brioni on 8388 8260 or 0417417878 or Martin on 0488273736 if you need further directions.

  NOTE FROM THE COMMITTEE

Each program we thought that we might add ‘warm interest spots’ that have emerged from our Committee Meetings, to share with the community.  The AGM provides an encouraging space for real discussion with community members.  This year we worked with the theme of personal creativity/expression and community creativity/expression.  In reading Christian Community programs and visiting other communities I have seen how they each have their own dynamic.  How each has an expression that flows out of community life birthed out of the wellspring of the heart of the sacrament.  This provided animated discussion about sacred spaces and their placement for the whole of the community and their spiritual frameworks – adults, fringe-dwellers, women, men, solitudes, free thinkers, youth, children, families.....  How do they weave together?  How do we live with the “I” in the “We”?  This will be the source of further exploration in meetings and it certainly brings challenge to deeply grasping the verse we begin with:

The healthy social life is found
when in the mirror of each human soul
the whole community finds its reflection
and when in the community
the virtue of each one is living.

FESTIVALS  &  EVENTS

BAPTISM

Alice Corbet-Howard will be baptised on Sunday 6thJune at 12.30pm

COVER PICTURE

St Johnstide is the season in which  we reflect on the message of Saint John the Baptist.  Themes include; “change your ways” or  “change your mind” or “thinking” as the path of self development.  St. Johnstide acknowledges the birth of my spirituality.

Singing Group at Sophia

The desire to begin a Sophia Singing group is around women finding  voice, health and breath in song, to have an enjoyable musical experience while creating beauty in harmony, an expression of the life, love and spirit of Sophia.

So, if you think or know you can hold a tune and you wish to participate/learn the art of singing in harmony, than please come along and  help make this group happen.
Sophia is at 225 Cross Rd Cumberland Park.  8373 3781 or www.sophia.org.au

STARGOLD PUPPETS

Listed below are some activities planned for the school holidays:

Making King Winter-A Felted Doll

A  Workshop for 7 year olds and older
  Saturday 26 June at 1pm to 2.30pm
Cost:$18 includes all materials

Making Winter Gnomes
A Workshop for 6 year olds and older
 Saturday 26 June at 10am
Thursday 8 July at 1pm
Cost: $12.50 includes all materials
Making Mother Holle Dolls
 A  Workshop for 7 year olds and older
  Saturday10 July at 1pm to 2.30pm
Cost:$18 includes all materials
For bookings phone 83880075 
Shop Hours:
Wed. to Fri.10am to 4.30pm and Saturday 11am to 2pm
For after hours appointment phone 0423202784

FESTIVALS  &  EVENTS

Wednesday Night Lectures

Wednesday evening lectures will continue with Series II. 
Time 7.30 - 9.30 Cost $10 per evening

THE  SPIRITUAL  PAUSE :  MENOPAUSE  FOR  MEN  AND  WOMEN.
An exploration of The Change – Transforming and Healing
Body, Soul, and Spirit, beyond our cultural and medical norms.
Our frameworks of discussion will be biographical significance in our development stage; the masculine and feminine expression;, heart transitions and metamorphosis; connecting biology to spirituality; sexuality,  wisdom, bitterness or purpose.  

Week 1: 21.7.10
Physiological and hormonal changes and the opportunities they bring in men and women
Week 2: 28.7.10
The illnesses of the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys and preparing for our next life

Week 3: 4.8.10
 Setting new aims as a Child of God

Week 4: 11.8.10.:
Pausing for a more spiritual approach to life. How real is it in today’s world?

REMEDIAL BREATHING - John Wilson

will be visiting our community again in September 2010.
Visit www.remedialbreathing.com for pre-course medical forms, specific illness sheets, and registration forms
Friday Sept. 3rd, 6-8pm
Saturday Sept 4th, 10-12am
Wednesday Sept 8th, 6-8pm is the final night
Individuals may organize visits outside of these times by contacting John on jgwconsult1@optusnet.com.au  John will spend some of his time in Willunga for the convenience of people there.
Special note: John requests that all participants, Hills and Willunga area, attend the 3 sessions at the Church in order to ensure the best basis for his work.

FESTIVALS  &  EVENTS

REPORT FROM INTERNATIONAL SYNOD

Morning tea – Sunday 13th June 11.30am
All the community are invited to stay for morning tea after The Act of Consecration of Man.  We will welcome back those members of our community who attended the International Synod with Martin.  This is your opportunity to hear a first-hand account of this event.

FILM NIGHT

Sunday 20th June 7pm                        Whaledreamers                  $10
Don’t miss this film described ”. by Spilsbury California USA as;
“Amazing, astounding profound touching   so needed right now.”
This important film is a beautiful portrayal of the renaissance and reformation taking place in our indigenous culture today.  It is happening right outside our own front door!
I warmly invite you, your family and your friends to this enlightening experience.