PEW SHEET 5th April 2015

Happy Easter

Join us to celebrate Christ's Resurrection:

Saturday night 8.00pm Lighting of new fire with reaffirmation of Baptismal Vows at Holy Trinity Yarram
Sunday 9.00am at Holy Trinity Yarram and 10.30am St John's Port Albert (followed by an Easter Hunt in the grounds)

NEW TO MISSION TABLE

CBM Christian Blind Mission; Easter Appeal
Defence Force Anglican Chaplaincy; Prayer Diary 2105
Anglicare Imagine magazine March issue; person story about family violence and how Anglicare is assisting. (There are multiple copies so please feel free to take one home.)

BIBLE STUDY
"The Gospel of Luke: New Hope, New Joy" by Ada Lum.
Won Wron Connect Group meets Tuesdays 6pm dinner; 7pm study
Port Albert Group meets weekly at St John’s Raglan St Port Albert - Wednesdays 4pm
Yarram Coffee Connect Group meets at Coffee Palace in recess during School Holidays Wednesdays 3.45pm

INTERRUTPTION TO ELECTRICITY WEDNESDAY 8^th 9.00am until 3.30pm this outage will affect Holy Trinity this week.

Blessing of the Fleet Sunday 26^th April – 11.00am Slip Jetty Port Albert
We recently applied for and been successful in receiving a grant from Wellington Shire to assist with the staging of this event.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to The Vanuatu Appeal we raised $135.00 that has been sent via Anglican Overseas Aid.

 

VANUATU APPEAL

Vanuatu Cyclone Appeal

THROUGH ANGLICAN OVERSEAS AID

Communities such as this one on coastal areas in the northern islands of Vanuatu are simple and highly vulnerable to disasters. The impact of the cyclone will have been devastating.

The Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu is reeling from the devastation wrought by Cyclone Pam over the weekend.

The projects that we support through our partner, the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM), are based in the northern islands, the most remote part of the country.
Communities in these islands, like the one pictured, are mostly in coastal areas and buildings are simple and fragile. The impact of the cyclone will have been huge, but given the scale of the damage communications are difficult and we are still trying to find out the details.

This part of Vanuatu is a mostly Anglican area. We will be supporting ACOM once they have made their assessments and know what needs to be done.
Please help us to support ACOM and people in this remote and hard-hit part of Vanuatu.
We will share more information as it becomes available, but please be aware that this will be a long and difficult response given the remoteness of the islands and the scale of the destruction.
The Vanuatu lands minister, Ralph Regenvanu, said the government regarded the entire population of about 266,000 people as having been affected by the huge storm, which ripped through the South Pacific
“This is the worst disaster to affect Vanuatu ever, as far as we know. We’re going to need a lot of assistance,” he said.