St Paul's Beaconsfield Parish Newsletter

1. NEWSLETTER
ST PAUL'S
ANGLICAN CHURCH
BEACONSFIELD
FIRST SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
27 DECEMBER | 2020
PARISH
UPDATES
& NOTICES
Christmas Eve
Community Nativity
4pm
'Midnight Mass' 10pm,
Rev John Dunnill
celebrating
Christmas Day
Eucharist 9:15am,
Rt.Rev Kate Wilmot
Shared Festivity 6pm,
bring food, drink and
good will to share and
celebrate
Sunday 3rd
January
Epiphany dinner, 6pm
Votive candles
Hand Sanitizers
Packs of pens
Toilet Rolls
Communion Wafers cost about $50
Internet and phone for one month costs about $80
One month’s hire of photocopier costs about $110
One packet of photocopier paper costs about $25
One month’s electricity supply about $100
Any money towards our annual bills for insurance,
water and council rates (which comes to over
$6,000p.a.)
Epiphany Gifts
Sunday January 3rd is the Epiphany dinner.
Just as the Magi brought gifts from afar, we suggest that
we, too, bring gifts to our church.
Some suggestions are:
You may wish to give some cash towards some of our
ongoing expenses, here are some examples:
The important present is your presence. We hope
you will come and join us!

2. Morning Prayer
Mon-Sat, 6:30am
Chapel
Evening Prayer
Mon-Thur, 6.30pm
Chapel
Morning Tea
10.30am Mon & Thurs
Meeting Room
Gardening Group followed by
Morning Tea
Wednesday mornings
Friday Drinks 5.30pm at the
Firepit
Saturday Morning Breakfast
8.15am
Hall, $5
ALL WELCOME
WEEKLY
FELLOWSHIP
Prayer Chain
Requests to Rosemary
Spark or phone 0414268043
St Paul's Google Group
Join the St Paul's Google
Discussion Group:
groups.google.com/forum/#!
forum/discussion-st-pauls
Heart Song
Please note there will be no service in January. Heart
Song will resume again in February.
Keep Chanting!
Nothing is more conducive to communion with the Living God
than a meditative common prayer with singing that never ends,
but continues in the silence of one's heart, when one is alone
again——Brother Roger of Taize
Office Closed for January
I have had to return to Melbourne because of a family
emergency as of Wednesday the 23rd. I already had
leave booked to go to Melbourne for a wedding at the
end of January. I have decided to stay in Victoria for the
intermediate time. As a result, the office will be closed
for the month of January. I will do the
newsletter/email/bookings remotely, and the phone
messages will be checked several times per week by
some volunteers here. Thanks for all the kind words and
support I have received in the past couple of days. I'm
sorry that I will not be here to celebrate Christmas with
you all, as I had been very much looking forward to.
God Bless,
Lewis

3. General Giving:
Anglican Parish of
Beaconsfield
BSB: 706 001
Account No. 30003006
Building Restoration:
Anglican Parish of
Beaconsfield
BSB: 706 001
Account No. 30008256 (not
tax deductible)
Tax Deductible donations
to NATIONAL TRUST
BSB: 306 089
Account No. 4189329,
Reference: 1928 AND YOUR
NAME
IGWR donations:
BSB: 706 001
Account No. 30006088
Just Manna donations:
BSB: 633-000
Account No. 151597085
If Paying by cheque, please
make out to:
ANGLICAN PARISH OF
BEACONSFIELD
Electronic
Giving and
Banking
information
Request for Jam Jars
Our supply of jam jars is running low, so if you have a
bunch of spares lying around, you can bring them to
the hall after church on Sunday. We store them at the
back of the hall in the cupboard by the front entrance
(if you'll excuse the mixed geography)
Covid Update
The Midnight Mass may be more popular than our
regular services as the Easter-and-Christmas crowd
come down. This might put us close to the Covid limit in
the church of 86 people. We are looking at
contingencies like projecting the service into the chapel
so as to ensure that nobody is turned away. To help us
with planning, please register your attendance at
Christmas mass at https://www.trybooking.com/BNSNT
There will also be a sheet in the church: Please only sign
up via trybooking OR the sheet. You can also email or
call the office to RSVP

4. Office:
parish.stpauls@gmail.com
ph: 9335 2242
Lewis is in the office
Tuesdays from 9 til 4
and Fridays from 9 til 3
Contacts:
Diocese News
Each month the
diocese publishes
the Messenger
magazine. It can be
found at
perth.anglican.org/n
ews-and-events
Reminders
Kid's Advent Activities
Christmas Eve from 4 til 5 is the community nativity (no
rehearsals required!)
IGWR Gift Cards
Maureen is still selling IGWR gift cards. A no landfill Christmas
gift contributing to education in Nepal.
Containers For Change
St Paul's is now hosting a bin provided by the City of
Fremantle as part of the Containers for Change
program. Put your glass bottles, aluminium cans,
water/soft drink bottles, flavoured milk, juice
cartons/pouches in the bin and the council will collect
it and give St Paul's the 10c refund on each container. It
does not take wine/spirit bottles, regular milk bottles, or
soy milk cartons. Beer bottles are fine though!
Look out for a bin with a white lid.