Pentecost 8
ROB
8TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – 19 JULY 2026
SENTENCE: “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples,” said Jesus, “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.” John 15:8,9
COLLECT: Saving God, through Jesus you bind us into your power and love so that we may produce fruit: fill us with your spirit so that we may produce love, joy, peace, hope and faith, from you, into the lives of people around us we pray; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever. Amen.
ROSTER from the new roster, a number of changes so please check and confirm
WELCOME
Inga
MUSIC
Glenys
PRAYERS
Bronwen
MORNING TEA
Maggie
READER
Rob L
LA
Stephen G
PREACHER
Rev’d Rob
HYMNS AND READINGS
1ST READING
Isaiah 41:1-10
PSALM
139:1-18, 23-24
APBA p.370
EPISTLE
1 Corinthians 13
GOSPEL
John 15:1-16
Jesus is the vine and we are the branches
HYMNS
PROCESSION
491
Father welcomes all his children
GOSPEL
268
Joy to the world
COMMUNION
619
Have faith in God my heart
RECESSION
595
O Jesus, I have promised to serve you to the end
PRAYERS WITHIN OUR PARISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
For people we know and love, in times of sickness or surgery and for all who love and care for them, particularly: Andrew, Geoff, Andrew, David, James, Rod.
As school returns, we pray for teachers, staff (including volunteers), students, parents and grandparents; we have been blest with a world class education system but there are many, many stresses therein.
For everyone searching for God’s love and hope and faith in their lives.
For Archbishop Jeremy and all who are trying in God’s power to lead God’s Anglican Church where God would have us go.
That we as God’s church in Moggill, in the power of the Holy Spirit, may know God’s love personally and share this love with people around us.
NOTICES
SERVICES THIS WEEK
SERVICE
Sunday 26 July
8:30AM Bishop’s visit Holy Communion & Children’s program followed by Morning Tea
Wednesday 29 July 8:30AM
Morning Prayer & Bible Discussion
COMING EVENTS
Saturday 25 July
7:30AM
Women and Men's Breakfasts
Women – The Reserve, Anstead
Men – Mocca Bella Café, Bellbowrie
Sunday 2 August
8:30AM
Holy Communion & Children’s program followed by Morning Tea
Wed 5 August
8:30AM
Morning Prayer & Bible Discussion
Sunday 9 August
8:30AM
Holy Communion & Children’s program followed by Morning Tea
OUR NEW PARISH ADMINISTRATOR – Natalie has commenced as our new Parish Administrator. Natalie is employed by St Mark’s at The Gap. Ashgrove and now Moggill/Mt Crosby pay The Gap for her time supporting us. We won’t see Natalie here most of the time; the work that she will do for us is all electronic and she will be available to us as she is for the others by email, SMS and phone. She is already fully trained and has proven effective in using the procedures required by our diocese.
Her first priority has been working with Richard on finance and accounting. Next we will move to all of the registers that we need to have under legislation for Licensing and Safety.
Natalie will work for us some time on each of her workdays Tuesday to Friday. The best way to contact her is through our normal Parish email address and normal Church phone number.
Over coming weeks Natalie will take over production of GNT and will lead us in the redevelopment of our Parish Website.
LOW GLUTEN OR GLUTEN FREE WAFERS – We have ‘low gluten’ wafers available every Sunday and are happy to ‘consecrate’ and give them to you but we need to know who would like them. We also have ‘gluten free’ wafers. Asking before the Service is helpful but you can also ask during the distribution of the bread and wine.
CAREFORCE, INALA PANTRY – The volunteers from St Hugh’s Anglican Church at Inala greatly appreciate our support for their work. Food items for Inala Pantry can be left in the marked area in the church for delivery to Inala.
NEXT SUNDAY 9th Sunday after Pentecost 26 July 2026
ROSTER from the new roster, a number of changes so please check and confirm
WELCOME
Lainie
MUSIC
Peter
PRAYERS
John G
MORNING TEA
Sam
READER
Wendy
LA
Jon H
PREACHER
Bishop Roundhill
HYMNS AND READINGS
1ST READING
Genesis 29.15-28
PSALM
Psalm 105.1-11
EPISTLE
Romans 8.26-39
GOSPEL
Matthew 13.44-58
HYMNS
PROCESSION
GOSPEL
COMMUNION
RECESSION
CHURCH CONTACTS
CHURCH EMAIL moggillmtcrosby@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
Follow Anglican News on our Website www.mmcanglican.org.au
CLERGY
Mobile
The Reverend Angela McNeill
(Honorary Assistant Priest)
0439 877 057
ajmcneil@bigpond.net.au
CHURCH WARDENS
Mobile
Bronwen Thomas
0448 120 218
bronwen.thomas@sap.com
Helen Donovan
0417 789 433
alheld@bigpond.net.au
Richard Ponsonby
0448 899 801
rbponsonby@gmail.com
PARISH ADMINISTRATOR: Natalie Watkins | Mobile 0411 46 1502 | Email moggillmtcrosby@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
(works from The Gap Tues and Thurs)
PARISH COUNCIL SECRETARY: Rob Law | Mobile 0403 842 329 | Email roblaw1512@gmail.com
TREASURER AND HALL HIRE CONTACT: Richard Ponsonby | Mobile 0448 899 801 | Email moggillmtcrosby.treasurer@anglicanchurchsq.org.au
CHILDREN’S MINISTRY COORDINATOR: Helen Donovan | Mobile 0417 789 433
MAINTENANCE COORDINATOR: Anne Greenwood | Mobile 0438 201 900 | Email annejeanette1949@outlook.com
READINGS FOR SUNDAY 19 JULY
OLD TESTAMENT READING Isaiah 41:1-10
1 Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment. 2 Who has roused a victor from the east, summoned him to his service? He delivers up nations to him, and tramples kings under foot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow. 3 He pursues them and passes on safely, scarcely touching the path with his feet. 4 Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am first, and will be with the last. 5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come. 6 Each one helps the other, saying to one another, "Take courage!" 7 The artisan encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved. 8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend; 9 you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off"; 10 do not fear, for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.
EPISTLE 1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
GOSPEL John 15:1-16
1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. 3 You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.