In this issue:
- Lent Stuff
- Hope25 and us
- A Garden Full of Hope Quiet Afternoon
- Community Joy Matters
A Stormy Community Indeed!
No… we are not having fights and altercations! Cyclone Alfred posed some challenges that we had to work together to overcome.
As it turned out Alfie lost his puff as a cyclone but as a storm kept us on our toes. Archbishop Jeremy and regional Bishop John reached out and encouraged us to take extreme caution and, particularly in coastal communities, to make the call to minimise travel. Pretty much every parish along the coast, including our neighbours Wynnum, Waterloo Bay and East Redlands, and many inland, chose to suspend in person worship and many like us offered online opportunities.
At St Paul’s we offer a Zoom option every Sunday so it wasn’t too hard to get folk to gather. Some us were still challenged with internet signal and at various times Rev Andrew and the LA had to step out and try other data streams. It all worked itself out in the end and the simple liturgy for the First Sunday in Lent went ahead. It was actually nice to hear the lyrics of our hymns read by Mel as poetry… well she mostly spoke…. Couldn’t help bursting into beautiful song at some points. 22 folk in all joined in prayer.
There’s more about our Lenten signs of hope inside.
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