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The Christian celebration of Advent, which simply means "coming", emerged in the church in the 4th or 5th Century. It is a season of expectation and preparation as the church celebrates the coming of Christ, the light of hope into the darkness of this world.
St Matthew's produces a booklet of 24 Advent Readings every year to help us reflect on the story of our Saviour's birth. Pick one up this Sunday, or click on the image to download your own copy and join the St Matthew's family as we prepare to celebrate His coming this Christmas season.
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Christmas Postcards Ready for Delivery!
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Laura has designed a beautiful invitation for all of our Christmas services this year, and we just need willing hands to deliver them into the post boxes in our neighbourhood.
If you can spare an hour to stroll around a block in Shenton Park, please come and collect a set from the table in the foyer. The blocks are marked out, postcards bundled and clearly labelled, so you just need to pop in, sign off what block you've chosen and get out in the sunshine.
Postcards will also be available as usual at each service if you wish to use them to invite your friends and family too.
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Sharing the Joy of Christmas Day Together
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Christmas can be a great time to extend hospitality to others. This happens informally every year at St Matthew’s and we wish to encourage that to continue.
2020 is a year when many people who might normally be able to go and be with family interstate or overseas, will instead be in Perth.
We don’t want anyone who’d like to share Christmas Day with St Matt’s family to be alone. If you’d like to offer hospitality for Christmas lunch or dinner and you’re not sure who to invite, or you’d like to join others for a meal on Christmas Day, please let one of our staff know.
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We will then be in touch with those who are offering hospitality so they can invite people to their home. Whether you are a host, or a guest, simply let one of the staff know over the next few weeks (no later than Sunday 6 th December). If you’d rather express your interest online, you can do that here or click the image above. |
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Sunday 13 December
5:30pm Carols by the Lake at Lake Jualbup
Thursday 24 December
5:30pm Kids n Carols (and Camels!) at Rosalie Primary School
11:00pm Christmas Eve Service at St Matthew's Church
Friday 25 December
8am Traditional Christmas Day Service at St Matthew's Church
9:30am All Ages Service at Rosalie Primary School
Sunday 27 December
10am All Ages Service at Rosalie Primary School
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Christmas is a wonderful time where we as Christians celebrate God's kindness to us in giving us Jesus. It's also a time when our culture spends millions on giving gifts to each other. We would love you to take this opportunity to give friends and family a gift that will help change the lives of others living in poverty around the world in Jesus' name.
Through Compassion Australia you can give a needy family overseas a gift (like a goat, a mosquito net, or vaccinations), and you get a card to give to your friend or family which explains that the gift you got them is overseas helping improve lives in Jesus 'name.
You can read more about the Gifts of Compassion project, and see the full list of gifts for purchase at this link.
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Livestream Struggles Continue
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I wish to express further apologies as we are continuing to have ongoing issues with the recording and broadcast of the livestream over these last few weeks. There are lots of reasons (and new ones each week!) for the problems. We are now looking into getting professional assistance and are continuing to work on it.
We remain committed to the livestream as long as COVID is with us and are so very grateful to the technically adept staff members and parishioners at St Matthew's, Chris Roberts and Simon Treadgold in particular, who have gone above and beyond during this COVID season to bring us the capability to broadcast our services live up to now.
In Christ,
Evan
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Click the blue button above to RSVP for one of this Sunday's morning services.
If you would like your children to participate in any of our kids ministries, from creche through to teens, during the service, these will be available at 9am and 11am.
St Matthew's Sunday services are held at the following times:
- 9am (includes Kids Ministry & Creche)
- 11am (includes Kids Ministry & Creche)
- 4:30pm (no RSVP required)
- 6:30pm (no RSVP required)
All services will be held in the St Matthew's building at 114 Onslow Road, Shenton Park.
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Sermon Text for This Sunday
Luke 22: 39-46
Mike Horgan
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Sermon Text for Next Sunday
John 17
Jeff Hunt
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If you find yourself in need physically, spiritually, or socially, please reach out to us. Email us at hello@stmatthews.com.au or call (08) 9381 2640.
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