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GEORGES RIVER PRESBYTERY
E-NEWS
ISSUE 13: 1 October 2019
GRP Office Ph: 9579 4682 Email: [email protected]
Greetings to all in Georges River Presbytery
Welcome to this edition of the E-News. We hope you find the following information helpful.
Please share this information with your congregation, and if you wish to have the full advertisement sent to you or your church,
please contact the Presbytery office.
The next E-News will be sent out on 22 October 2019 with contributions due at the Presbytery Office by 18 October.
Future events included in this E-News
13 October 2019: Half a Million Steps Documentary, Engadine Uniting Church 2pm (Flyer attached)
12 November 2017: Seniors Christmas Luncheon, Punchbowl Uniting Church 11am
17 November 2019: Celebration and Thanksgiving Service, Rockdale Uniting Church 9.30am
Other Information
Georges River Presbytery – Prayer Points
HALF A MILLION STEPS DOCUMENTARY – Synod Justice Unit
Sunday 13 October 2019 at 2pm
Engadine Uniting Church, Cnr Cambrai & Chipilly Aves, Engadine
Half a Million Steps is an Australian documentary that was filmed in Dubbo and
features Dubbo local residents. The documentary was shown at the July 2019
Synod meeting. It is part of the Uniting Church’s Fair Treatment campaign to
advocate for drug law reform and enhance access to treatment and harm
reduction strategies
The 90 minute documentary tells many people’s stories of the impacts of drug
use as a baton is carried the half a million steps from Dubbo to Sydney. This is the
distance Shantell Irwin, a single mother living in Dubbo, needs to travel to find
suitable treatment and help she so needs and wants. “It takes only a few steps to
get drugs in Dubbo but I have to travel 400kms to Sydney to get treatment”, said
Shantell. Shantell’s story is not unique and there are many other people featured
in the documentary, who live in regional NSW and in Sydney who have no access
to treatment services despite their desire to get well and whole
This is an important issue today as drug induced deaths in Australia have hit their
highest in 20 years
Grace and peace to all
Georges River Presbytery
GEORGES RIVER PRESBYTERY PRAYER LIST – Prayer Points
As per the GRP Prayer list we will be praying for various congregations
over the coming weeks
6 October – Carlton-Ramsgate Uniting Church
20 October – Earlwood Uniting Church
Presbytery Prayer Points:
6 October – for Gail Kilby, Pastoral Care Pastor Uniting
13 October - for those who have taken up the reins of the Presbytery for
2019-20
20 October – for Op-shop volunteers
WE NEED YOU!
Please contact us if any of these apply to you:
you would like to help the Presbytery
you are willing to be called on from time-to-time for one-off tasks
o you are interested in gardening
o you have handyman or handywoman skills
you have a trade licence and insurance
We are looking to build a database of workers, both voluntary and fee-for-
service, to help us on a casual basis
For more details, please contact the Property Committee
0412 445 402
Barbara Moore
If you know of any reliable tradespeople you have used, please send us their
CELEBRATION AND THANKSGIVING SERVICE for Frederick St Rockdale
Congregation/Uniting Church - the building which was lost by fire
Sunday 17 November 2019 at 9.30am
Rockdale Uniting Church, 11 Bay Street, Rockdale
Guest Speaker Rev Terence Corkin
All are invited, especially those who worshipped or had an association with
the church. If you have any memorabilia you would like to share at the
morning tea please bring it along
Contact: Rev Martin Goodwin 0437 498 949 or Dorothy Mammatt
0424 019 083
SENIORS CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON
Tuesday 12 November 2019 at 11am
Punchbowl Uniting Church, 11-15 The Broadway, Punchbowl
Free parking available in adjacent Broadway Plaza for three hours
Entertainment by the students from Punchbowl Public School and Danebank
Anglican School for Girls
RSVP: 9 November 2019
Contact: Pam 9790 4284 or 0428 610 744; Norma 9759 8061; John 9709 2871