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CONFIRMATION
Sunday 30 November at 9.30am
Bishop Geoff Smith, Diocesan General Manager, will preside at the confirmation at
St Augustine’s.
From the Notes following the order for Confirmation (APBA p94), we read
“Christians
should be willing to confess their faith publicly (Romans 10.9-13 “ – if you confess with your
lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you
will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with
the mouth and so is saved. The scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to
shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all,
and is generous to all who call on him. For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
shall be saved.”) Those baptised as infants need to profess for themselves the faith into
which they have been baptised. The Anglican tradition provides for this in confirmation in
which a person affirms and renews those promises and receives the strengthening of the
Holy Spirit through prayer and the laying on of the bishop’s hand.”
Please pray for Emily, Katie and Sue as they take this further step in their Christian
journey.
Our thanks to the folks at Masthead Design & Creative
and Fergies Print & Mail for helping produce this PP.
A number of people have been asking what is happening with the
Women’s Hostel and how far the building of the new facility is going, so we
thank Anglicare SQ for providing us with this update.
UPDATE ON THE ANGLICARE SQ HOMELESSNESS SERVICES
BUILDING PROJECT AT TOOWONG
Anglicare Southern Qld Homelessness
Services Women, Children and Families
will have a new premises to operate from
by mid 2015.
This will see the services of the Anglican
Women’s Hostel, St Mary’s and Alina
come together to be formally recognised
as
Homelessness Services, Women,
Children and Families
at Toowong.
The former services will no longer work as
siloed services, as they come together as
an integrated service provider to meet the
needs of the people we work with using
a best practice model to achieve holistic
outcomes.
Our Vision
Homelessness Services aspires to lead
in innovative, contemporary practice;
creating opportunities for women, children
and families to build upon their resilience
supporting their journey, inspiring hope and
working towards sustainable change.
We aim to improve the scope of the
service, which will enhance pathways out
of homelessness for women and children.
The building project has been a work in
progress since 2009, the journey long and
at times arduous, however the learning of
increased resilience is apt for sharing with
the people we support.
Through the new premises Homelessness
Services will provide accommodation for
24 adult women, and the existing premises
at Toowong will continue to accommodate
8 young women and their children. The staff
of the services will operate from the new
premises, however will at times continue to
undertake some support from the current
building.
The staff are incredibly enthusiastic about
the project and are looking forward to
working together to achieve better outcomes
for women, children and families.
We look forward to sharing partnerships
with the community, parishes and schools
into the future and we thankyou for your
ongoing support.
Carol Birrell
Manager / Practice Lead
Homelessness Services, Women and
Children
