NOTICES
Thank you to Beckenham Methodist for having us today. Next Sunday’s service will be here at Beckenham Methodist. The time is likely to be different – you will be contacted when this is finalised.

Family Nite – Board Games TONIGHT 5.30 – 7.30pm at Beckenham Methodist. BYO fish n chips or pizza to start the evening. Tea/coffee/cordial provided. Please also bring NAMED board games to play. Koha appreciated. All are welcome!

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will take place on Sunday 9th September following morning worship.

CUPPA & CHAT: Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10am – 12 noon AT BECKENHAM METHODIST. All welcome. Aubrey 930 2525.

WEDNESDAY WALKERS 15th August: Meet at church 9am to carpool or meet 9.30am in the Air Force Museum carpark, Wigram. Coffee at Air Force Museum coffee shop. Judith 332 1577.

CRAFTY CRAFTERS meets every Thursday 10am – 12 noon AT BECKENHAM METHODIST. New faces are always welcome. Beverley 332 7786.

FOOTCARE CLINIC: Next Session Thursday 13th September. Lyndsey 388 1264.

Is there anyone in our church family who is in need of short or long term accommodation and who would be interested in renting a 2-bedroom flat in a quiet St Martins street? Contact Liz Penwell 337 3460 for details.

THE PARISH OFFICE is CLOSED. Anna can be contacted as usual on Wed & Thurs 9am – 12 noon & Fri 9-11am. Phone 332 6192 or email stmartpresch@xtra.co.nz

World Day of Prayer National Committee AGM Saturday 25 August 9.30am at Bishopdale Church of Christ, cnr Greers Rd & Eastling St. Anyone interested is welcome to join us.

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK: Sun 12th Kathryn; Mon 13th Catherine; Tue 14th Thomas; Fri 17th Sam; Sat 18th Andreas, Doug.

CALL TO WORSHIP : from the rear of the church
Jesus said, Blessed are the peacemakers;
establishing a new concept of peace:
not as a passive state that comes into being
when conflict has run its course,
but as a state of being created and sought out,
through the attitudes towards life
and towards each other that we live out each day.
May we learn to live peace in all that we do.

HYMN: All the Wonder That Surrounds Us
(Tune: All Through the Night)
All the wonder that surrounds us
springs from God’s care:
all that marvels or confounds us, raw, rich or rare;
touch and texture, sights and voices,
nature’s countless forms and choices:
all for which the heart rejoices
springs from God’s care.

Every creature, every human
lives by God’s grace:
every family, man and woman, culture and race;
those whom fortune seems to favour,
those exploited for their labour,
those who need to know a neighbour
live by God’s grace.

How can we revere God’s goodness
meant for all time?
How ensure that each uniqueness keeps in its prime?
How can we revere with pleasure
all God gives for life and leisure,
how reserve each earthly treasure
meant for all time?

God has willed that peace and justice
walk hand in hand.
These, with love, shall build foundations on which we’ll stand:
love for lover, friend and stranger,
love defying death and danger,
love as first born in a manger –
heaven close at hand. © Wild Goose Publications

OPENING PRAYERS & THE LORD’S PRAYER

LIGHTING OF THE PEACE CANDLE

SONG: Let There Be Peace on Earth
Let there be peace on earth
and let it begin with me;
Let there be peace on earth,
the peace that was meant to be.
With God our Creator we’re one family
Let us walk with each other in perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me,
let this be the moment now.
With every step I take,
let this be my solemn vow:
To take each moment and live each moment
in peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth
and let it begin with me. ©Jan-Lee Music (NJS)

TIME WITH THE CHILDREN Elizabeth Penwell

INTRODUCTION TO THE READINGS

READINGS: Micah 4: 1-4 Anne Johns
Matthew 5: 1-9 (From The Message) Doug Johns

SERMON

A TIME OF QUIET

AN AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

We believe in God, who trusts us
with the whole creation,
who calls us to honour that trust
by living in fairness, justice, generosity and peace.
We believe in Jesus Christ,
who walked the way of the cross
to honour God’s love for us,
who shared all our struggles and lived our deepest fears.
We believe in the Holy Spirit
who is present in our world today,
stirring us into new ways of being,
calling us to risks of faith. Amen.

HYMN: Christ Has Called Us to New Visions (Tune: Austria WOV 577)
Christ has called us to new visions
here to celebrate and praise,
here confess our old divisions,
here our peace petitions raise.
Come repentant, come forgiving,
come in joy and hope and prayer.
Christ, once crucified, now living,
bids us faith and love to share.

As we listen to each other,
as we speak in joy and pain,
we become as sister, brother,
reconciled, at one again.
Only thus in work and feeling
for our neighbour far or near
can we worship God revealing
gifts of grace among us here.

All creation struggles, yearning
for a time of true shalom.
Are we trying, are we learning
now to make the earth our home?
For the hungry and despairing,
for the poor of all the earth,
make us partners, burdens sharing,
bringing all a sense of worth.
Christ still calls us, young and aging,
men and women, bound and free,
colours, talents, thoughts engaging,
joined in one community.
Christ remoulding, healing, leading,
sins forgiven! Life restored!
Let us live, God’s justice heeding,
strengthened by our risen Lord. © Jane Parker Huber (ASF)

THE OFFERING
God, you are the source of everything we are and everything we have; we offer you these gifts that your love may be known in this community and beyond. We offer you this bread, product of many grains, We offer you this wine, product of many grapes, crushed to bring forth new life.
We give you thanks for all your good gifts, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

HYMN: Feed Us Now (Tune: WOV 565)
Chorus: Feed us now, O Son of God, as you fed them long ago.
The people came to hear you, the poor, the lame, the blind; they asked for food to save them, and you fed them body and mind…

The ones who did not listen, the rich, the safe, the sure,
they did not think they needed to be offered any cure…

It’s hard for us to listen; we have the food we need,
but millions still have hunger. Save us from selfish greed…
© Stainer & Bell Ltd. (TIS)
GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
…`God is with you.’ And also with you.
Lift up your hearts We lift them up to God
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give God thanks and praise…
…every time and every place to give you praise and glory:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.

THE COMMUNION

PRAYER FOLLOWING COMMUNION

HYMN: Songbook 58 Lift High the Cross

THE BLESSING

NOTICES
A very warm welcome to you all as you worship with us this morning. Please stay for a cup of tea or coffee in the lounge after the service.

Parishioners are invited to place their ideas, dreams and suggestions for the future of St Martin’s Parish in the Suggestion Box in the foyer. Suggestions for the Mission of St Martin’s, for the building of our new Hall and church buildings, how to involve the community in our worship and the activities we can offer, your dreams for our future and any other ideas you may have.
The Session and Board of Managers look forward to receiving your thoughts.

URGENT: Annual Reports are now required. Please email these to the Office IMMEDIATELY. Deadline is 9am Thursday 9th August.?

AUGUST NEWSLETTER: We are planning the next issue to fit in with delivery of annual reports. All sorts of news required – family highlights, holidays, great photographs, your thoughts about life in general – what scope there is, and how I am depending on you!!! Deadline 10th August. Thank you! Lyn 338 0840 or l.mck@xtra.co.nz

CUPPA & CHAT: Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10am – 12 noon. All welcome. Aubrey 930 2525.

WEDNESDAY WALKERS 8th August: Meet 9.30am cnr Colombo & Wordsworth Streets, Sydenham. Coffee at Just Desserts. June 332 8874.

CRAFTY CRAFTERS meets every Thursday 10am – 12 noon. New faces are always welcome. Beverley 332 7786.

Family Nite – Board Games Sunday 12th August 5.30 – 7.30pm in the lounge. BYO fish n chips or pizza to start the evening. Tea/coffee/cordial provided. Please also bring NAMED board games to play. Koha appreciated. All are welcome!

FOOTCARE CLINIC: Next Session Thursday 13th September. Lyndsey 388 1264.

MARMALADE FOR MISSIONS & BOOK EXCHANGE: Please support these fundraisers! Please note that some of the books are now in the Office.
Hornby Presbyterian Church, 27 Amyes Road, is hosting a U2achrist again! A church service to the music of the band U2, TONIGHT at6.30pm. Theme is ‘Surrender’. All welcome.
Is there anyone in our church family who is in need of short or long term accommodation and who would be interested in renting a 2-bedroom flat in a quiet St Martins street? Contact Liz Penwell 337 3460 for details.

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Wed & Thurs 9am – 12 noon & Fri 9-11am. Phone 332 6192 or email stmartpresch@xtra.co.nz

Please look at the information on the noticeboard to see what the other three parishes in our Hub are doing this week.

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK: Fri 10th Irene

WELCOME AND NOTICES

GATHERING:
When winter is around us, we cannot see the spring;
but still we know, despite the snow, that spring will come one day.
With night-time’s darkness round us, we cannot see the sun;
but still we know, as shadows go, that dawn will break next day.
Though God is all around us, we cannot see his face;
but still we know; our faith says so!
God lives in every day.

HYMN: Songbook 65 ‘Tis Winter Now the Fallen Snow

OPENING PRAYERS

TIME WITH THE CHILDREN

HYMN: Praise the Lord Our God (Tune: Kum Ba Yah)
Praise the Lord our God, praise the Lord!
Praise him from the heights, praise the Lord!
Praise him, angel throngs, praise the Lord;
praise God, all his host!

Praise him, sun and moon and the stars!
Praise him, sky and clouds and the rain!
Let them praise his name, works of God!
All creatures–praise the Lord!

Praise him, wind and storm, mountains steep!
Praise him, fruitful trees, cedars tall!
Sheep and cattle herds, birds that fly!
All creatures–praise the Lord! © Hope Publishing Co (TH)

Reflection: Memories of Winter

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
HYMN: Songbook 64 Throughout This Winter Season

READINGS: Genesis 18: 1-8: Abraham and Sarah host three men
Bernie Brettell
Mark 6: 30-42: Jesus hosts 5000 Jenny Brettell

Reflection: Eating With Jesus

THE OFFERING
Hospitable God, we bring these offerings for your blessing,
conscious of the opportunities they make possible.
We pray that in our fellowship and in our actions:
we may learn to welcome the stranger, to respect differences,
to make all who come, all we meet, feel at home with us;
and so create community.
May our being and our action together, in your name,
become a sign of your love for all people. AMEN.

HYMN: I Come With Joy a Child of God (Tune: Kilmarnock WOV 452)
I come with joy, a child of God,
forgiven, loved, and free,
the life of Jesus to recall,
in love laid down for me.

I come with Christians far and near
to find, as all are fed,
the new community of love
in Christ’s communion bread.

The Spirit of the risen Christ,
unseen, but ever near,
is in such friendship better known,
alive among us here.

Together met, together bound,
by all that God has done,
we’ll go with joy, to give the world
the love that makes us one. ? Stainer & Bell (CH 4)

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER

HYMN: Fill Your Hearts With Joy (Tune: Regent Square WOV 84)
Fill your hearts with joy and gladness,
sing and praise your God and mine!
Great the Lord in love and wisdom,
might and majesty divine!
He who framed the starry heavens
knows and names them as they shine.

Praise the Lord, his people, praise him!
wounded souls his comfort know;
those who fear him find his mercies,
peace for pain and joy for woe;
humble hearts are high exalted,
human pride and power laid low.

Praise the Lord for times and season,
cloud and sunshine, wind and rain;
spring to melt the snows of winter
till the waters flow again;
grass upon the mountain pastures,
golden valleys thick with grain.

Fill your hearts with joy and gladness,
peace and plenty crown your days;
love his laws, declare his judgements,
walk in all his words and ways;
he the Lord and we his children –
praise the Lord, all people, praise! © Timothy Dudley-Smith (HFTC)

THE BLESSING

NOTICES
A very warm welcome to you all as you worship with us this morning. Please stay for a cup of tea or coffee in the lounge after the service.

Over the coming weeks there will be a suggestion box in the Church foyer. Parishioners are invited to place their ideas, dreams and suggestions for the future of St Martin’s Parish in this box. Suggestions for the Mission of St Martin’s, for the building of our new Hall and church buildings, how to involve the community in our worship and the activities we can offer, your dreams for our future and any other ideas you may have. The Session and Board of Managers look forward to receiving your thoughts.

CHEESE ROLLS are available for pick up and payment following worship if you have ordered them. Thank you.

Annual Reports are now required. Please email these to the Office as soon as possible. Deadline is 9am Thursday 9th August.

AUGUST NEWSLETTER: We are planning the next issue to fit in with delivery of annual reports. All sorts of news – family highlights, holidays, great photographs, your thoughts about life in general – what scope there is, and how I am depending on you!!! Deadline August 10. I am looking forward to my inbox at l.mck@xtra.co.nz bursting at the seams with wonderful items. Thanks so much! Lyn 338 0840.

CUPPA & CHAT: Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10am – 12 noon. Please use kitchen entrance again this week. All welcome. Aubrey 930 2525.

WEDNESDAY WALKERS 1st August: Carpool 9.10am from church for a walk around St Albans. Coffee at Ris’tretto, top end of Barbadoes Street.

CRAFTY CRAFTERS Thursdays 10am – 12 noon. Beverley 332 7786.

FOOTCARE CLINIC: Next Session this Thursday 2nd August. Lyndsey 388 1264.

MEN’S GROUP will meet on Thursday 2nd August at 5.45 pm for a Shared Tea.
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN TIME. The members will then Car pool at 6.30 pm for a visit to Air New Zealand Engineering at Christchurch Airport. See you all there – contact Tony 3320 554 for any queries.

MARMALADE FOR MISSIONS & BOOK EXCHANGE: Please support these fundraisers! Please note that some of the books are now in the Office.
Hornby Presbyterian Church, 27 Amyes Road, is hosting a U2achrist again! A church service to the music of the band U2, on Sunday 5th August at 6.30pm. Theme is ‘Surrender’. People from churches in the Presbytery and from the community are welcome to join us.

Family Nite – Board Games Sunday 12th August 5.30 – 7.30pm in the lounge. BYO fish n chips or pizza to start the evening. Tea/coffee/cordial provided. Please also bring NAMED board games to play. Koha appreciated. All are welcome!

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Wed & Thurs 9am – 12 noon & Fri 9-11am. Phone 332 6192 or email stmartpresch@xtra.co.nz

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK: Sun 29th Sylvia; Mon 30th Faye, Drew; Fri 3rd Meg.

WELCOME AND NOTICES
• Session Report
• Chit and Chat

CALL TO WORSHIP:
Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus,
God called into being a new temple,
a church without walls or boundaries;
called to share God’s love and purposes with all people.
This day he calls us, as he calls the body of Christ
in every generation, to be a part of this temple;
to be the church, in and for the world.

HYMN: Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (Tune: WOV 343(ii))
Christ is made the sure foundation,
Christ, our head and cornerstone,
chosen of the Lord and precious,
binding all the Church in one;
holy Zion’s help forever
and our confidence alone.

All within that holy city
dearly loved of God on high,
in exultant jubilation
sing in perfect harmony;
God the One-in-Three adoring
in glad hymns eternally.

We as living stones implore you:
Come among us, Lord, today!
with your gracious loving-kindness
hear your children as we pray;
and the fullness of your blessing
in our fellowship display.

Here entrust to all your servants
what we long from you to gain –
that on earth and in the heavens
we one people shall remain,
till united in your glory
evermore with you we reign.

Praise and honour to the Father,
praise and honour to the Son,
praise and honour to the Spirit,
ever Three and ever One:
one in power and one in glory
while eternal ages run! ? This version Jubilate Hymns (HFTC)

OPENING PRAYERS & THE LORD’S PRAYER

TIME WITH THE CHILDREN ~ Wayne Barton

HYMN: The Church is Wherever People are Praising
The Church is wherever God’s people are praising,
knowing they’re wanted and loved by their Lord.
The Church is wherever Christ’s followers are trying
to live and to share out the good news of God.

the Church is wherever God’s people are loving,
where all are forgiven and start once again,
where all are accepted, whatever their background,
whatever their past and whatever their pain.

The Church is wherever God’s people are seeking
to reach out and touch folk wherever they are –
conveying the Gospel, its joy and its comfort,
to challenge, refresh, and excite and inspire.

The Church is wherever God’s people are praising,
knowing we’re wanted and loved by our Lord.
The Church is where we as Christ’s followers are trying
to live and to share out the good news of God. © W. Jenkins (CH4)

INTRODUCTION TO THE READINGS

READINGS: 2 Samuel 7: 1-14a Barry Moore
Mark 6: 30-34, 53-56 Hilary Moore

SERMON

A TIME OF QUIET

HYMN: Songbook 51 Church of the Living Christ

OFFERING:
Take the gifts we offer, O God.
Use them to pass on the story that we have received.
Use them to further the faith that has nurtured us
and brought us to this place.
We also re-dedicate ourselves as a people of action.
Re-kindle the gifts you have placed within us,
that we might serve you in all things, big and small,
each and every day, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

WE GREET ONE ANOTHER

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

HYMN: 465 All My Hope on God is Founded (Tune: Groeswen)

THE BLESSING

NOTICES
A very warm welcome to you all as you worship with us this morning. Please stay for a cup of tea or coffee in the lounge after the service.

MID WINTER CELEBRATION – Next Sunday. Come dressed in your Winter woollies, hats, scarves etc and then share in a Hot Soup and Roll lunch to follow worship.

Over the coming weeks there will be a suggestion box in the Church foyer. Parishioners are invited to place their ideas, dreams and suggestions for the future of St Martin’s Parish in this box. Suggestions for the Mission of St Martin’s, for the building of our new Hall and church buildings, how to involve the community in our worship and the activities we can offer, your dreams for our future and any other ideas you may have. The Session and Board of Managers look forward to receiving your thoughts.

Annual Reports are now required. Please email these to the Office as soon as possible. Deadline is 9am Thursday 9th August.

A NEW PARISH PHONE LIST is now available – please contact the Office if you would like a copy, or pop your name on the clipboard in the foyer.

AUGUST NEWSLETTER: We are planning the next issue to fit in with delivery of annual reports. That means it would be very helpful if you could get your contributions to me as soon as possible. All sorts of news – family highlights, holidays, great photographs, your thoughts about life in general – what scope there is, and how I am depending on you!!! Deadline August 10. I am looking forward to my inbox at l.mck@xtra.co.nz bursting at the seams with wonderful items. Thanks so much! Lyn Madgwick 338 0840.

CUPPA & CHAT: Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10am – 12 noon. Please use kitchen entrance for the next two weeks. All welcome. Aubrey 930 2525.

WEDNESDAY WALKERS 25th July: Meet 9.30am in Smith St off Ferry Rd for a stroll around Woolston & Linwood. Coffee at Portstone Café. June 332 8874.

CRAFTY CRAFTERS will not meet this week due to hall demolition.

FIRESIDE FUNDRAISER: Last chance for ordering Cheese Rolls today. If you haven’t already done so please place your order on the form in the foyer. These will be available for collection and payment next Sunday 29th July. Thank you.
No Fireside meeting this week. Please would members and anyone interested in helping make the cheese rolls on Saturday 28th meet briefly after church today to plan this. Thanks. Margaret 366 8936.

FOOTCARE CLINIC: Next Session Thursday 2nd August. Lyndsey 388 1264.

MARMALADE FOR MISSIONS & BOOK EXCHANGE: Please support these fundraisers! Please note that some of the books are now in the Office.
Hornby Presbyterian Church, 27 Amyes Road, is hosting a U2achrist again! A church service to the music of the band U2, on Sunday 5th August at 6.30pm. Theme is ‘Surrender’. People from churches in the Presbytery and from the community are welcome to join us.
CARING & SHARING has been cancelled this month.

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Wed & Thurs 9am – 12 noon & Fri 9-11am. Phone 332 6192 or email stmartpresch@xtra.co.nz *Office Closed Friday 27th.

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK: Tues 24th Aubrey; Thu 26th Rachael; Sat 28th Wayne.
Family Nite – Board Games
Sunday 12th August
5.30 – 7.30pm
In the Church Lounge

Bring along your parents, children, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends/neighbours for a fun night out.

BYO fish n chips or pizza to start the evening.

Tea/coffee/cordial provided

Please also bring your NAMED board games to play
Koha appreciated
See you there!