On this day when the nation remembers all those who have served and are serving in our military forces, we hear of a force of different character and inclusive of everyone. Welcome to this Easter resurrection community. We hope you experience the wide, long, deep and unstoppable ‘force’ of Jesus’ forgiveness and love in worship this morning.

The resurrection community of new life by faith in God’s grace in the risen Jesus expands. It began as a Jewish movement in one city. The

Book of Acts shows us how it became a global multi-racial community inclusive of all walks of life.

Today we hear that well known account of Philip and the man from Africa – the Ethiopian Eunuch. He is a mystery of man!

He is weak and strong, viewed as only ‘half a man’ and yet the Treasurer of a nation who sits just under the Queen of that nation. He may be Jewish or not. He knows the Temple, the Worship, the Scriptures and yet he by law is forbidden to enter the city temple.

We are going to hear just how inclusive, wide and unstoppable Jesus’ new creation of all kinds of people really is. We are going to also hear how this new creation comes to people. It comes to people via people! May the Spirit give you joy and new inspiration for your own life as you receive his new life and calling for your life today. Pastor Adrian

25th April, 2021

Anzac Day

Worship @ Home Order (websi te or dvd) stpetri.org.au (Service order is online in bulletin available on website)

HOME OR GROUP “WORSHIP SMALL” Sunday 25th April, 2021

Pastor Adrian Kitson WELCOME WE SHARE AN OPENING WORD

Christ is risen!

He is risen indeed

There is salvation in no one else but Jesus, Alleluia

for there is no other name under heaven

by which we must be saved, Alleluia. (Acts 4:12)

WE REMEMBER (prayer)

Response: God of peace, hear our prayer.

WE SING Be Still and Know that I am God” (LHS 885)

Be still and know that I am God

Be still and know that I am God

Be still and know that I am God

I am the Lord who makes you whole

I am the Lord who makes you whole

I am the Lord that makes you whole

Commit your way unto the Lord

Commit your way unto the Lord

Commit your way unto the Lord

Author unknown / Public Domain

GOD SPEAKS HIS WORD

THE GOSPEL

Acts 8:26-40

This is the word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

WE LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE WE PRAY FOR THE CHURCH, THE WORLD AND EACH OTHER

WE SING Broken Vessels/Amazing Grace

Joel Houston | Jonas Myrin ©2014 Hillsong MP Songs (Admin by Hillsong Music Publishing Aust

Used with permission CCLI license #62009 Streaming licence #619313

All these pieces

Broken and scattered

In mercy gathered

Mended and whole

Empty handed

But not forsaken

I've been set free

I've been set free

Amazing grace

How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me

Oh I once was lost

But now I am found

Was blind but now I see

Oh I can see You now

Oh I can see the love in Your eyes

Laying Yourself down

Raising up the broken to life

You take our failure

You take our weakness

You set Your treasure

In jars of clay

So take this heart Lord

I'll be Your vessel

The world to see Your life in me

Amazing grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me Oh I once was lost But now I am found Was blind but now I see

Oh I can see You now Oh I can see the love in Your eyes Laying Yourself down Raising up the broken to life

GOD BLESSES US: WE GO WITH GOD

Lutheran Care need our help (was Lutheran Community Care) Emergency relief is a programme that supports a large number of local families and individuals with food, bedding and toiletries. They really appreciate our help with replenishing their pantry. Items like: ֍ tinned mixed vegetables ֍ pasta sauce ֍ roll on deodorant All donations can be dropped off at Lutheran Community Care, 26 Second Street. Please ring the doorbell and place donated items on the table, someone from the office will collect it from there. Or you can place it in the trolley in the church on

Help required in Paper Shed (tin shed in carpark next to office) Don Rosenzweig, Trevor Irrgang and Robert Reimann have been busy tidying and bundling paper at our paper shed to raise money for Youth Ministry. There is a lot of paper coming in at the moment and they could certainly use a hand with this. If you can spare a couple hours or so a week, have a chat to Don Rosenzweig about how it all works. Or ask at the office and we will introduce you to Don.

WALK MY WAY - NEXT WEEKEND!

Next Weekend a large group of people will Walk My Way from Redeemer Lutheran School to St Jakobi School at Lyndoch (via St Hallets).

The St Petri plodders will be walking as well as others from St Petri who signed up as individuals.

Some of the hundreds of people will be people you know: Pastor Adrian, Jenny Wood, Greg Minge, Greg & Rosie Edwards, Tracy Schache and her friend Maria, Graham & Sandy Smith, Theresa Whitehead, Kevin Lange, Brian & Marie Mibus, Peter May, Ken & Rose Dadds, Abby Beames, Anne & Stuart Roennfeldt, Monica Schiller, Rita Kroehn, Marg Schutz, Talya & Tennyson Jaensch, Brett, Jane & Sonia Geyer, Lyn & Rob Albrecht and Pastor Robert Voigt (walking his own way)!

Cost to participate: $52 for an adult | $26 child and $104 for a family (up to 4 kids) An adult rego supports TWO refugee children to go to school.

If you are unable to walk you might like to sponsor the “St Petri Plodders” or any of the walkers individually. You can go onto the website walkmyway.org.au and click on Barossa Valley. You can type “St Petri Plodders” or any of the walkers names in the search box and sponsor us if you would like to. Many people have already and some have given cash donations in an envelope on the offering plate or dropped into the office. Please be sure to include your name and address for a tax deductible receipt from ALWS.

Thank you so much for your generosity. This will help many children to go to school at refugee camps. It costs only $26 for one child to attend for a whole year! Thanks to many people’s generosity $2889 + $605 in cash donations has been raised so far. Volunteer help required please • The organizers are still looking for people to help with the following: • 2 people to help at Redeemer between 2-4 pm Friday to pack brekkie boxes • Extra people to help serve breakfast on Saturday morning • Marshals to help guide people along the way • People to bake biscuits, cakes, slices — Thank you to those who have already

volunteered but we still need more. These would need to be dropped off at Redeemer school during school hours on Friday or alternatively at the St Petri Church office before lunch on Friday 30th April.

Sign up sheet https://signup.com/go/qDHEnxk or contact Kirra Lewis kirral@alws.org.au PH: 0425 854 476

Or let Rosie know if you can help 8562 1011 admin@stpetri.org.au

Saturday 1st May Australian Lutheran World Service

Movie Night - Holy Trinity Church Hall, Nuriootpa 7PM

The movies at Holy Trinity ARE BACK! Join us Sunday 9 May at 7 PM for the movie “Alison’s Choice” When young Alison finds herself pregnant by a dead-beat boyfriend, she turns to abortion. There in the clinic, as she waits for her name to be called, she encounters a cast of quirky characters, each with their own words of advice for her. Among the mix, Alison meets a gentle-faced janitor with mop “eternally’ in hand. The two begin to talk and it quickly becomes clear he is no mere janitor, but the living God manifest—and He’s come to plead for the life of her baby. With the clock ticking precious minutes away, it is a fight for life or death. What will Alison choose! Rated PG

The cost is just $5 and still includes a drink and popcorn! Social distancing rules will be followed. Looking forward to seeing you all again! God Bless!

Bible College— Open Night 2021 - Wednesday 19th May 6pm Come and learn about studying at Bible College SA At the Malvern campus RSVP 8291 8188 biblecollege.sa.edu.au

Rev Dr Michael Lockwood has answered the call to serve as a missionary with the Lutheran Church in the Philippines (LCP), a partner church of the LCANZ through LCA International Mission.

Dr Lockwood will take up teaching duties at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Baguio in July. His move is in response to a request last year from LCP President Rev Antonio Reyes to LCA International Mission for assistance with the training of pastors and deaconesses for his church.

The LCP seminary had been in desperate need of additional support, said the LCANZ’s Assistant to the Bishop – International Mission, Pastor Matt Anker. However, LCA International Mission was not in a position to respond to this request alone. ‘With few options locally, God provided the way’, Pastor Matt said of a funding partnership with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.

The LCANZ’s General Church Board called Dr Lockwood to the role, which he accepted and, together with his wife, Naomi, and children, Asher and Jadon, is preparing for the move. ‘I am very excited about this opportunity to be part of what God is doing in the Philippines … and to be able to play a part in equipping pastors and church workers with a deep understanding of God’s word and the good news of Jesus Christ’, Dr Lockwood, pictured, said.

LCANZ Bishop John Henderson wholeheartedly endorsed the new partnership. ‘I see the call to Dr Lockwood to serve among our fellow Lutherans in the LCP and our region as a significant moment for the LCANZ’s participation in the mission of God’, he said.

Read more in LCA International Mission’s Border Crossings magazine, which you can access online at https://lcamission.org.au/category/resources/border-crossing-magazine/, or request a printed copy by emailing LCA International Mission at lcaim@lca.org.au or phoning 08 8267 7300. Subscribers to The Lutheran also receive Border Crossings.

A first connection for LDS family

(Lutheran Disability Services) By Jessica Smith

“Yes.” It was a simple word, spoken by a daughter to her father, which was full of huge significance and emotion for the Obst family. For the first time in her 23-year life, daughter Chelsea was able to directly answer a question that her father, Mark Obst asked her – thanks to the assistive technology of an eye-gaze device.

Chelsea, a resident of Lutheran Disability Services (LDS) accommodation in the Barossa, has Rett Syndrome and is non-verbal. Until now she has been unable to communicate through anything but basic actions.

“Chelsea will let me know if she doesn’t want to do something or doesn’t want to eat a certain food through her actions, but the eye-gaze device allowed her to communicate in a real way for the first time,” says Mark.

Mark was visiting Chelsea when the LDS team and a speech therapist were testing the eye-gaze device with her. Eye-gaze technology helps people with significant physical disabilities to operate a computer using just their eyes. A special camera tracks eye movements, in turn moving a mouse on the computer screen, enabling the user to communicate, play games, undertake learning or operate other devices connected to the computer.

At first it seemed Chelsea wasn’t particularly interested – “she wasn’t focussing and the team thought that maybe the device wasn’t right for her,” Mark recalls. But when Mark began asking her questions something clicked, and Chelsea started to use the gaze device to talk to him.

“I asked Chelsea if she’d like to come home with me for the weekend and suddenly she moved her eyes and the machine responded with a ‘yes’,” says Mark. “You can’t imagine how I felt, to have my adult daughter respond to me for the very first time.”

The LDS team and speech therapist watched amazed as Chelsea was able to maintain her first ever conversation with her dad, who was understandably ‘blown away’ by the experience.

To conclude the session the team went through some eye-gaze trial questions, with Chelsea easily able to point out her favourite foods (Cheezels and chocolate) and answer a range of other questions using the device.

Chelsea’s success with the device prompted the LDS team to secure a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan review for her, allowing Chelsea to rent her own eye-gaze unit.

The device will give Chelsea, who found her happy home at LDS in January 2019, even more opportunities to connect with her family, friends, housemates and support workers in the future.

Sourced from sant.lca.org.au (The SA NT District LCA Website)

Image: Chelsea Obst and her dad, Mark. Photo credit Mark Obst.

The Cottage Christian Books and Gift Shop 47 Murray Street Nuriootpa SA 5355 T+ 08 8562 4631 Email: cottage@stpetri.org.au

Closure of Cottage 30th April, 2021

The Cottage Committee is disappointed in having to close it’s doors and would like to thank all of the volunteers for their support over the years.

Thank you to all St Petri members for your patronage and support.

St Petri will be organizing a thank you function, so please watch this space.

Sue Roesler on behalf of the Cottage Committee

The LCA Visual Arts Working Group is organising the first churchwide simultaneous art exhibition in August 2021. We are asking people around our church in Australia and New Zealand to explore the theme, Living Water.

Artists of all ages, stages and media are invited to participate in exhibitions in their local communities during August 2021.

We encourage you to connect with other artists in your church community, school or aged-care facility to explore the theme and unleash your creativity!

St Petri is planning on hosting an art exhibition in the Church Hall during one week in August and Libby Krahling is very keen to find some people who might be interested in being a part of the exhibition. You can contact Libby or the St Petri Church office.

If you require transport, phone Ian Rosenzweig 8562 2213

47 Murray Street Nuriootpa 5353 85624631 info@thecottage.nuriparish.org

Friday 7th May Shed Happens

Nick Riebke’s Lost Penny Wines 538 Carrara hill Road, Ebenezer COVID protocols will apply

6.30 pm - 9.30 pm BBQ Cost $10 - BYO drinks & chairs and coffee mugs

More info: Wayne Rohrlach 8562 1911 Greg Schubert 8562 2163 or Viv Fiebiger 8562 3636

Men’s night out

Barossa Valley Christian Life Week This is a five-day camp for high school aged students centred around an unforgettable experience of faith, friendship and fun! Camp for 2021 will be held from the 5th-9th of July at Cornerstone College in Mount Barker. Christian Life Week is a camp run by Blueprint Ministries and organised by young adults who volunteer within the Barossa Valley.

There are many ways you can get involved in supporting our ministry. Firstly, support from our local congregations and churches is essential to being able to run camp. Your congregations are home for our campers all throughout the year, and we hope that all campers can find a welcoming church-community year-round. We would love to encourage you to take time prior to camp to support and encourage our young people to attend Christian Life Week, and follow up after camp and engage our young people in discussions about the experience. One conversation can go a long way!

Secondly, fundraising enables us to lower the cost of camp for young people who come along and this is something we are putting extra time and focus into this year. We would greatly appreciate receiving financial support for Christian Life Week this year. We can take donations for specific areas of camp where you can specify what area of camp you want your money going towards. This could involve sponsoring a camper, food, activities, venue hire or general camp costs. Donations can be made with cash when we visit churches and are in the community or feel free to contact us for details to electronically transfer or other payment options.

Also, we have a Bake Sale and Sausage Sizzle coming up on the 2nd of May at St Petri Lutheran Church. After the first service we will have a few sweet treats for sale out the front of the church, and after the second service we will have a sausage sizzle happening behind the Hand in Hand Centre by the carpark. We would absolutely love to share some fellowship with you and get the conversations about camp started. So make sure you put the date in your calendars and bring a few dollars to grab some food.

Finally, this year on camp we are aiming to strengthen the relationship between campers and our local church communities. We will be holding an activity for campers to receive and write letters to people from the Barossa community. If you are interested in this initiative, or want to find out more, please contact Rachael and Eliza at barossaclw@blueprintministries.org.au or via phone at 0499 710 908.

Most importantly, prayer is the biggest thing we could ask for from our local community. We just invite you to take some time over the coming months to pray over this ministry, the leaders and people involved in the running but also the young people; that our hearts can be prepared and that the space is able to be utilised for the glory of God. We thank you in advance for your time and energy in this mission.

Safe Church Training level 1 (Full) If you are involved in Children’s Ministry or would like to be … this includes Messy Church, Family Centre groups or creche or any ministry involving children then this course is for you. It also is for you if you visit elderly people or people who are considered more vulnerable. Our Church leaders also need to complete this training as they make decisions which affect our children. It covers

• Standards of Ethical Behaviour

• Working with Children and Youth

• Keeping People Safe (M1)

• Safeguarding Children,

• Child Protection (SCCP)

We have 2 options for this training. 1) Face to Face training 24th May,

31st May and 7th June (need to do all three)

St Petri Hall 5.45 pm — 8.45 pm (Cup of soup available 5.45 pm) 2) Online Training — go to the LCA

website Professional Standards dept training page and click on the link to register. You need to have good internet access.

It is recommended that if you have not completed this training before that you do the face to face training as it is an advantage to work with a group and think of how we do things for our particular local ministry.

Cost for online or face to face level 1 training is $21 and will be paid for by St Petri Church if you are involved in any St Petri ministry or leadership.

Please keep these dates free and contact Rosie or Tania if you have any questions or would like to book in.

Tuning Into Kids

Emotion coaching course

Do you find your child has trouble managing their emotions? Would you like to learn new ways to relate to your child’s experiences? Our 4 week course helps parents to teach their children how to understand and regulate their emotions. This course is suitable for preschool children but also very useful for children up to 10 years. As children develop awareness and knowledge about emotions they become better at expressing them in appropriate ways, improving their communication and helping them to be resilient and helping them to problem solve tricky situations.

Course offered in a casual, accepting, friendly group.

All welcome! Where: Hand in Hand Family Centre, 24 Second Street Nuriootpa

When: Thursday 20th & 27th May, 3rd & 10th June 12.30 pm—2.30 pm Cost: $20 Bookings Essential: Email Rannane at familycentre@stpetri.org.au or the office 85621011

INVIGOR8 2021 – SA Children’s and Youth Ministry Conference

A great Training opportunity (for ministry leaders and volunteers) is

coming up for those involved in Ministry with Children and Youth on

Saturday May 22nd – Invigor8 2021 (9:30am – 4pm)

You can attend this at St Petri Nuriootpa Cost is $15

We encourage everyone to bring their youth & children's volunteers

and staff along for a great day.

The Conference program comprises of two sessions for all attendees

together and two Elective sessions ( Children or Youth ). The speakers

are world class and we are thankful to Amplify Conference Qld for

the use of their speakers. Topics include: Developing young leaders;

Addressing Questions of Children & Young People; The Power of

Mentoring; Empowering Parents (particularly for Faith at Home).

This is an opportunity for great online teaching but in a group setting

and you don’t have to set up the techie stuff.

Harvest Thanksgiving Celebration service We thank you for your generosity in donating packaged goods and fresh produce for our display last week. This has been all given to Lutheran Care (except for the bottle of wine, I wonder where that went?). Thank you to our energetic team who shared their creative skills led by Kaylene to put the display together. Well done!

What ’s on at St Petri

Sunday 25th April - Anzac Day 8.45 am Worship with Holy Communion 10.30 am Worship with Holy Communion

Monday 26th April Public Holiday for Anzac Day

Tuesday 20th April 9.30 am Coffee & Friendship Bible Study Group Resume Bible Study - Gospel according to Mark Pastor Vernon Kleinig - in the Church

Friday 30th April 9.30 am HoOt Playgroup, St Petri Hall

Saturday 1st May Walk May Way Redeemer to St Jakobi To raise money for refugee children to attend school through ALWS

Sunday 2nd May 8.45 am Worship - Service of the Word

Bake Sale for Christian life Week Youth at 9.45 am (you might want to bring a few spare coins)

10.30 am Worship - Service of the Word

Sausage Sizzle to raise money for Christian Life Week Youth (please bring a little “real’ money if you would like to support the young folk to attend Christian Life Week)

Coming up Events

• 24th May/31st May & 7th June (all three) for Safe Churches level one full course

• Saturday 22nd May - Invigor8 Children’s Ministry opportunity

• 15 & 16 May LCA SA NT District Convention at Tanunda BACC • 5 June Listening and responding to God’s Voice workshop—St Petri Church hall

YOU CAN HELP BAROSSA CHRISTIAN LIFE WEEK CAMP

…by supporting a Bake Sale and Sausage Sizzle coming to St

Petri on Sunday 2nd May. After the 8.45am service there

will be some sweet treats for sale and after the 10.30am

service there will be a sausage sizzle. So, please bring your

coins and notes to support this amazing, life changing

camp for year 7-12’s. Camp is held in July at Cornerstone

College, Mt Barker.

• May God be with the people in India where COVID 19 has taken so many

lives and where so many people are sick and unable to receive the

medical help that they need. We pray for relief from this deadly virus.

• We thank God for the work of Lutheran Disability Services in our

community and ask him to bless Matt who works in the LDS office here on

the St Petri campus and to bless all the carers and those people who are

cared for by LDS.

• We ask God’s blessing on the marriage of Brad Heinrich and Shae Grieger

(25 April).

• We share the joy with Heidi Schultz who celebrates her 40th birthday on

30 April and Ruth Richards who celebrated her 85th birthday on 20 April.

May God bless them with his peace and joy.

• We thank God for the gift of new life. Yvonne Angove has a Great

Grandson and his name is Leo. Born 22 April.

• We pray for God’s healing and peace for all those of our church family

who are ill, facing medical treatment or recovering from surgery - and

those who care for them: Janet Harris, Joan Fiebiger, Irene Egel, Vi

Pickert, Rose Zerk, Val McCabe, Pat Scholz, Les Harnath, Roma Bray,

Margaret Kleinig, Barb Doecke and Helen Thiele.

• We pray for others of our St Petri family and friends by name: Chris, Linda,

Jonah, Milly and Ruby Fiebiger, Peter & Rita Kroehn, John Kleinig and

Neville & Yvonne Pascoe & family.

Please email any prayer points or messages of what God is up to in your life. Send them to admin@stpetri.org.au Or you can ring the office 8562 1011.

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Pastor Adrian Kitson pastor@stpetri.org.au Greg Schubert chair@stpetri.org.au Peter Lange businessmanager@stpetri.org.au Rannane Zanker familycentre@stpetri.org.au Sharon Green childyouthfamily@stpetri.org.au The Cottage cottage@stpetri.org.au St Petri Lutheran Church Website stpetri.org.au Messy Church b.hein@stpetri.org.au (Beth Hein)

Office Rosie Edwards admin@stpetri.org.au 21 Second Street, Nuriootpa Hours Tue-Fri 9am - 5pm Closed for lunch 12.30pm-1.30pm

Phone 08 8562 1011

Contact Us .. .

In Touch ‘Don’t worry, you’ll be right!’ How often do we hear this phrase. It could be the

reply from a well meaning friend or a parent in response to an upset child. While the intent is well meaning and often from a place of caring, this almost automatic response highlights how uncomfortable many of us can be in the presence of big emotions, especially ones like anger, sadness and hurt. It can take practice to be able to ‘sit’ with someone when they are experiencing emotions, to listen with empathy, validate and not dismiss or minimise feelings. As a society many aspects of our culture are dismissive of our emotions. The message is often sadness is okay as long as it’s over quickly, crying or fear are displays of weakness or you should never be angry or show anger. As a parent we often desire to fix our child’s emotional experiences or try to take the emotional pain away however there is now research indicating that when emotions are ignored and pushed aside, they tend to last longer and leave the child with no ideas about how to resolve either the feeling or the situation they arise from. Emotion coaching is helping our children to understand and regulate their emotions and express emotion in appropriate ways. This helps to develop their emotional intelligence - improving their communication and relationships with others and increasing confidence and resilience to problem solve tricky situations. If you are a parent or carer and wish to learn more about emotion coaching we will be running an emotion coaching course ‘Tuning into Kids’ over 4 weeks and starting on the 20th May. Please see Rannane for more info and to book your place in the course

I hope all our volunteers and families enjoyed their school holiday break, Connect and Play will resume on Thursday 29th April. For now Connect and play will continue in the hall to ensure we have plenty of space for social distancing. Occasionally we may do a session back in the Hand in Hand building, please follow the Facebook page ‘Barossa Valley Hand in Hand Family Centre’ to keep up to date. It has been lovely to have our fortnightly Coffee Talk group continue over this period. Our Coffee Talk Group is running in the hall every fortnight on a Tuesday from 10-12. It’s a great place to get to know others and we have enjoyed welcoming new faces to this group recently. We would really love to have a diverse group of people attend this group, all ages and people from all walks of life are so welcome to join us.

Volunteering We welcome new volunteers – If you are interested in volunteering in our Coffee Talk social group or our playgroup or creche please contact Rannane. I would like to thank all our volunteers for the time and commitment shown, we value your contribution! Please email Rannane at familycentre@stpetri.org.au Rannane Zanker - Family Centre