"Humility" Study Guide Feb-Mar 2021 (8am&10am sermon series companion)

See below a study guide to use alongside the 8am&10am sermon series "Humility". 

The purpose of this study guide is to help you explore our weekly preaching focus by taking you to the bible to read and reflect for yourself. Use it in your Growth Groups; use it for solo reflection.

When it comes to “humility”, we need all the help we can get (myself included)! So I hope this offering will help you to marvel afresh at our humble Jesus, and to seek after your own humble discipleship.

Sermons can be listened to here: https://www.wellspring.org.au/sermons/

May God bless us in our hearing and doing His word.

Term 1 Kids Ministry Teaching Schedule Feb 14-March 28 2021

See attached a plan of the teaching schedule for spring chickens (ages 2-4), spring bugs (K-Grade 2) and springers (Grades 3-5) in our Sunday morning (10am service) ministry. 

 

Any questions contact Jackson, kids@wellspring.org.au.

Volunteering at 10am & Role Descriptions

Our life with Jesus is expressed by our four core values: Belong, Believe, Grow and Share. To belong is to feel part of something where we give and receive. Believe is our heart of worship, word and prayer. We (and others) grow when we have the opportunity to share and practice our God-given gifts with one another.

It is a joy and a blessing to see members thriving when contributing from their spiritual gifts and passions. We would like to give you more opportunities for this to happen. The practice of volunteering to serve the 10am community on Sundays is a great expression of these core values.

If you are unsure how our Heavenly Father has gifted you Rob would love to connect you with someone to pray and make the discovery together. Drop him a line! Of course there are many different ways each of us contributes to the life of the church through our gifts, and Sunday service serving may not be appropriate for you at this time. That is OK. But if you have been thinking you'd like to serve, we'd love to hear from you!

 

We are looking for more volunteers to help us make our Sunday Services function well. If you are interested in serving or finding out more about a particular role we'd love to hear from you. 

We are extremely keen for more people to join our Welcoming Team, Sound desk Team and Visual Data Team. 

 

Position Descriptions for some of these roles are attached.  More to be added.

 

Submit your interest by the form here.

Next steps to respond to Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill

Bp Richard Condie writes:

The End of Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill) has recently been tabled in the Legislative Council and will be debated over the coming weeks. The Bill is a cause of concern to me for a number of reasons. 

As Christians we affirm that every life is valuable, regardless of the state of the person, because we are made in God’s image (Gen 1:27). We therefore believe that our life and death is in the providential hands of God. The Psalmist affirms that “our times are in his hands” (Ps 31:14), and we know that it is God who determines our length of days. Our lives are not our own, but we belong to the creator (1 Cor 6:19). We know that often people suffer from illnesses and that these are part of our human condition. We express compassion for those who suffer, knowing that Christ himself entered into our embodied humanity, and shared the griefs and trials of our human condition. 

While we do not expect wider Tasmanian society or our law makers to necessarily hold to Christian ideals, the “sanctity of life” is not only a religious idea but the foundation of many of our laws and many government programs. We have just had the most unprecedented restriction of our economy to protect lives from the threat of Coronavirus based on this idea that life is worth saving.  

The proposed legislation allows for a person to take their own life with the assistance of a medical practitioner. While the legislation calls this “assisted dying” and stops the death being recorded as a “suicide”, this is exactly what it is – a suicide, the taking of one’s own life. The suicide of its citizens should never be allowed or encouraged by a government.

 

I have concerns about the inadequate protections in the Bill for the vulnerable in our society. We have an alarming problem with elder abuse, and while the legislation tries to mitigate the risk of a person being coerced into accessing it, one can imagine this may happen in some families. If just one elderly Tasmanian is pressured into taking their own life under the legislation, that will be one too many. Another concern that I have is that the legislation has not been subject to a great deal of scrutiny. Some information sessions have been held but have been inadequate in testing the legislation. We need to call on our Parliamentarians to support full consultation on the Bill."

 

What can you do?

1. Check out this website - https://livendiewell.org

2. It is good to hand-write and post letters to local Members Parliament. (All letters can be posted to ‘Parliament House Hobart 7000’). The next best is to print, sign and post a letter. If you can only write one letter, please address it to ‘The Premier’ or email peter.gutwein@parliament.tas.gov.au .Another option is to phone the Premier’s office (6165 7650) and leave a message.

A letter/phone-call/email need not be long. See the below example:

Dear Premier/MP,
Thank you for your service to Tasmania, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. Tasmanian lives really do matter which is why I am writing to ask that you establish an inquiry into end-of-life matters in Tasmania before Mike Gaffney’s End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Bill 2020 is debated.

This is because I have been informed that Mr Gaffney’s bill allows for people to request to be euthanized even if they have no physical suffering at the time. I also believe that palliative care in Tasmania is underfunded and that many people don’t understand their end-of-life choices.


Sincerely,
Your name and address

2020-21 Parish Council nominations

We thank God for our 2019-20 Parish Council, who have served faithfully. We've had a good year together. They have been: Bill Folkerts; Karrie Malan; Jessie Whittle; Gemma Kleywegt; Darren Vos; Keith Scott; Sandy Whight; Jude Davies; Richard Lord; John Morse; Heidi Harback; and Linda Chau.

We especially acknowledge those stepping down - Linda Chau, Karrie Malan, Jessie Whittle and Keith Scott - we appreciate their blessing us with their time and passion.

Our 3 Synod Representatives (Richard Lord; Sandy Whight; Jude Davies) remain on Parish Council by default, as they are in the middle of their 3 year term. Also, with only 2 nominations for 2 positions of Warden, Richard Lord and John Morse will be duly appointed at our AGM.

For Parish Council in the coming 2020-21 year, there are 6 nominations for 4 positions, so an (electronic) election will be held at our AGM. As Rector, Rob Imberger also directly appoints 2 PC members as well as 1 Warden.

Please see the attachment for profiles of who has been nominated as Parish Councillors for the coming year, and pray God leads our church through godly leaders.