GORFFENNAF 2019 JULY 2019

Y WAWR THE DAWN

The magazine of the Melbourne Welsh Church

Registered by Australia Post Print Post Approved PP 100005221

Happy

St. David’s

Day

Fellowship

Group

10th & 24th 312 La Trobe St.

10:00am

Evening bible

study

9th 10 / 331 Orrong Rd.

St.Kilda 7:00pm

Bupa Caulfield

services

1st at 11:00am

15th at 2:00pm 349 North Rd

Caulfield

MID-WEEK

SERVICE

10th 12:00pm

CHURCH SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES

Prayer list

SUNDAY SERVICES

Please remember the following in your prayers:

Will Owen, Wilma Lomax, John Rees, Glyn Thomas, Alan Morris

Remember all the sick, sad, scared, hungry and lonely in our community and beyond.

JULY 7

11:00am English Mr. Peter Whitefield Junior Church

JULY 14

11:00am English Rev. Siôn Gough Hughes

Junior Church

JULY 21 CHURCH ANNIVERSARY

11:00am English Rev. Siôn Gough Hughes Junior Church

JULY 28

11:000am English Rev. Siôn Gough Hughes

Junior Church

2:30pm Welsh Rev. Siôn Gough Hughes

JUly

anniversaries

Congratulations to all couples celebrating

their wedding

anniversary in July.

Special guest

On July 7th and August 4th & 11th we have invited Lynton Allan, local

artist and story teller, to take part in Church services and Junior Church.

If you would like to check Lynton’s webpage, get on www.lyntonallan.com

MORNING TEA

Morning tea is offered each Sunday following the

11:00am service. Assistance is always

sought to prepare, serve and clean up.

CHURCH SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES

Best wishes and congratulations to :

july birthdays

1st Vianna Lam

5th Rachel Holding

Lucy Morrison

9th Nathan Gardiner

20th Bronwen Warburton

21st Sue Williams

28th Colleen Berry

Please support our 2019 effort

Working bee date: July 17th from 10:00am

Volunteers: It would be great to see some new

faces

Needs: empty shoe boxes

Pencil cases

Coloured pencils

Face washers

Combs

Soaps

Size 8 boy’s tops

Monitory donations: always handy to buy items not donated but needed

Thank you in anticipation

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

11th Kimberley Dunt

14th Audrey Fields

18th Janet Jones– Roberts

Michael Min Fa

August

Gymanfa

Ganu

Sunday, August 11

11:00am

A service of song, music and praise

Conductor: Tom Buchanan

Organist: Wendy Couch

Guest choir: Excelsis

See you there!

sion’s MEssAGE

Dear Friends,

I’m not very good at maths, I never have been. I struggled at school with it, I even had a private tutor to help me, his name was Mr. Ogden, he was awesome at maths and he helped me

pass my O level. Since then I have never used trigonometry and, yes Mr. Parry, I actually do have a calculator with me where ever I go! Why am I telling you this? Well - this year is the church’s

166th anniversary and I did some maths. 2019 - 166 = 1853. (I did use a calculator to do that).

Seeing that date I wondered what else was founded in the year we were. What other august bodies came into being at the same time? What other things were happening on

the world in 1853?

Well that Australian icon Dimmeys was founded as were Levi Strauss & Co (makers of jeans), Steinway Pianos (makers of, er, pianos) and Bausch Lomb (makers of Ray Ban

sunglasses). Condensed milk was invented and potato chips (crisps) were sold commercially for the first time.

In other world news Charles Dickens wrote Bleak House, New Zealand held its first general election, and the first train in Asia ran from Bombay to Tanna (a distance of

36km), oh and Central Park in New York came into being.

Closer to home Tasmania issued it’s first adhesive stamps and gold becomes Australia’s primary export (surpassing wool for the 1st time). Here in Victoria Beechworth was

proclaimed a town, our State starts to officially record births, deaths and marriages and the Bank of Victoria was opened.

In Melbourne Australia’s first government maintained public library opens, as does the University of Melbourne. The Melbourne Philharmonic Society was established and the

MCG was built and of course the first Welsh service was held in Collins Street beginning the history of the Melbourne Welsh Church.

All of this should remind us that we were just a small part of what was going on in the world at that time. A small fragment of all was happening. Lives were going on, companies we’re being formed and history was being written all around us.

And nothing has changed except everything. Lives are still being lived (many more of them), businesses are still running (vastly different from 166 years ago), history travels

on inexorably and on top of all that we are still here.

For 166 years the light of the Gospel of Jesus has been shinning from 320 LaTrobe

Street, for 166 years we have had an impact in and on our city that far outweighs our size, for 166 years we have served God from the little sanctuary in the midst of the busy city of Melbourne. With God’s grade let’s keep doing that.

Happy Birthday to us.

Yours, in his service, Siôn.

pEtEr’s MEssAGE

pEtEr’s MEssAGE

“Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred , or intrinsically of no account; it is in inconceivable that it

should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.” ~ Annie Dillard: ‘The Abundance.’

I’ve been reading the book from which the above quote comes. The book, a gift from Jim, was been sitting, waiting to be read since 2017.

It challenged me in relation to those people I spend time with. Many deemed to be ‘unworthy’ of dignity or being shown humanity. This was a timely reminder that in God’s eyes none of us none of us are ‘worthy’ BUT

we are all ‘Welcome’.

1. By total area, Australia is the ... largest country in the world.

fourth fifth sixth ninth

2. By 2010, the most medals Australia has ever won at a single Olympic Games

was :

58 121 98 44

3. The foggiest capital city in Australia has an annual average of 47 fog days per year. The town is ?

__________________

4. Australians invented notepads (1902), the surf lifesaving reel (1906), aspirin (1915), the pacemaker (1926), penicillin (1940) the Hills Hoist clothesline

(1946) and ?

patented clothes peg (1832) lawn mower(1827)

slippers(1948) anti-counterfeiting technology for banknotes

5. Australia has the greatest number of types of any country, with 755 species.

reptiles mammals amphibians birds

6. Where is the most westernmost point on the continent?

__________________

7. What’s the only town to be added to the National Heritage list?

__________________

8. The longest official place name in Australia is Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya

Hill. What state is it in?

__________________

AUSSIE TRIVIA QUESTIONS

ANSWERS: 1. sixth 2. 58 3. Canberra 4. anti-counterfeit tech.

5. reptiles 6. Steep Point, Shark Bay 7. Broken Hill 8. S.A.

THE CHURCH SIGN RECENTLY

ChristinE’s CulinAry CornEr

500g pkt macaroni 50g butter - chopped

1 clove garlic - crushed ¼ cup plain flour

Hi there, This month I have a recipe for an all-time favourite:

MAC ’N’ CHEESE

3 cups milk 2 tbsp. Dijon mustard

2½ cups grated tasty cheese Salt and ground white pepper to taste

1. Cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling salted water until tender. 2. Drain and transfer to a large bowl.

3. Melt butter in same large saucepan over a medium heat. 4. Add garlic and cook, whilst stirring, for 30 seconds.

5. Add flour and cook a further 1 minute whilst stirring. 6. Whisk in the milk and mustard until smooth. 7. Continue whisking over a medium to high heat until boiling and thickened.

8. Remove from heat and stir into the pasta with 1½ cups of the cheese. 9. Season with salt and pepper. 10. Transfer the mixture to a large greased ovenproof dish.

11. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese. 12. Cook, uncovered, in a 200° oven for about 30 minutes or until golden brown.

13. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving. Hwyl fawr, Christine

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility,

envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God. ~ Radhanath Swami

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the

decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices. ~ Kirk Cameron

The church recently

Our Church Organist, Wendy Couch, a talented percussionist, is featured in an exhibition at the

moment. The exhibition ‘How it Plays — innovations in percussion’ at the Grainger Museum, University of

Melbourne runs until November 1st. She is featured in the section about PE, the first Percussion Ensemble in Australia. She speaks and performs on a video

describing her experiences during this time. Her concert programs, newspaper articles and publicity material are also on display. This is a very interesting exhibition

tracing radical innovations in Percussion in Melbourne from the time of

Percy Grainger until the present day.

The museum is open from Sunday-Friday

12-4.00pm if you would like

to visit.

Each year, the Melbourne Welsh Church provides a £500 prize for the winner in the U19 soloist

singer division at the Urdd National Eisteddfod. The Eisteddfod is a competitive festival with over

15,000 children and young people under the age of 25 competing during the Eisteddfod week in various competitions such as singing, dancing and

performing. They are the elite few from around 40,000 competitors across Wales who have won their place following local and regional rounds

held in the spring months leading up to the Eisteddfod.

The Urdd Eisteddfod is a touring festival and is held in a different location in Wales each year. In 2019 the home of the Urdd Eisteddfod was Cardiff

Bay. The winner of the Melbourne Welsh Church prize this year is Ms Sophie Jones, aged XX from XXXXXXXX.

We congratulate her and acknowledge her voice teacher, Ms Eleri Edwards who was our Gymanfa Ganu guest soloist in 2014, as winner of the blue riband at the 2013

National Eisteddfod.

Llongyfarchiadau Sophie !

A delightful pair of nonagenarians, the

wonderful Wilma Lomax and the debonair Mac Harris,

both celebrated birthdays recently with their friends at the church.

Good health to you both!

NEWS FROM THE PEWS

Your Intrepid Reporter - Medi Jones- Roberts 9758-0014

A light hearted start this month - When a father becomes a lawyer , what do you call him ?. Why - ‘Father- in- law’, of

course !

The annual Queens Birthday church service held at St. Georges Anglican Church, Malvern was attended by a small group from

our church. Attired in Welsh National costume Janet, wife of the undersigned, paraded Y Ddraig Goch, (Welsh National banner) escorted by Geraldine Affley, also suitably clad in

her National costume. It was my privilege to read the lesson -Acts 1, verses 1 to 11.

Dilys and Arthur Greenacre have returned from their visit to North Queensland with daughter Janet and her partner Michael. Cairns, Mission Beach and a couple of days on a

Captain Cook cruise were part of the occupational therapy.

Recent visitors to grace the pews of our historic church have included Raye and Clive

Davies, Troedrhiwgwair ( literal translation - foot of the hill of straw/hay), Tredeager, South Wales; Chen Xiad Piang, China ; Olwen and Dan. Jones, Cymru; Gordon James,

suburban Bentleigh, an ex pat from Pont y Moele, De Cymru; Gareth Dixon, Perth, also an ex pat from Maesteg, South Wales; Gary Jones, a neighbour of our inimitable harpist Huw Jones, out Kyneton way. Miranda Serra, in our fair city for two years studying

marketing and communications; Jenny Watkins whose forebears hailed from Blaenavon, South Wales, site of that great tourist coal mine.

At the service on June 23 led by Presence Minister, God Squad member and former school chaplain, Peter Whitfield were peers of his - Heather and Nathan Warrick of Sunbury and also Suzanne Hemming and Helen Baker from Avondale Heights and Ascot

Vale respectively.

I have been perusing the great Church Annual General Members Meeting report in

readiness for the postponed Church AGM to now be held on July 28. It never ceases to amaze me how many donations/gifts/ grants this church distributes, and the diligent manner in which our finances are managed by the brothers Gardiner. Wayne, Treasurer

and his assistant Darren. Now here's an appropriate quote uttered by an American lass on the same UK and Ireland tour as yours truly way back in 1980. 'Money is like manure

- it's no earthly good until you spread it around !!.' Oh yes !!.

Now here's something different involving our church organist Wendy Couch. Titled- 'How it plays, innovations in percussion ' the exhibition is on now until November 1 at The

Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne . A most interesting exhibition of all manner of percussive instruments. Some of the instruments are available for visitors to create

their own music. There's a great video of Wendy to be seen and heard as she discusses her early days at the university.

Gail Rees is back after a vacation with daughter Megan Saunders in Brisbane,

Queensland. Janet Jenkins and other members of the Springvale View Club went to Bendigo for a couple of days to look over an exhibition entitled Tudors to Windsor at the

Art Gallery. Then off she went again with her long time girl friend Rhonda Trainer to relax for 10 days on the. New South Wales Sapphire coast at Merimbula.

CAMBRIAN NEWS

The Cambrian Society met on Thursday, June 6th. The Committee met firstly to discuss

forward planning and currents issues. The General Meeting then followed, commencing at 11:30. Following the business section of

our gathering, all present enjoyed the warmth and nourishment of a hearty Leak and Potato soup provided by our President Christine. A lovely time of fellowship. A big thank you to all who brought something along to share. Much appreciated.

We were joined for lunch by our guest speaker, Ms Elizabeth Corbett, already known

to many of the church through her heavy involvement with the Welsh Classes that are held weekly at the Welsh Church.

Elizabeth is also a dedicated author and she spoke about her

passion for writing and the final realisation of her

debut novel, The Tides Between.

The story is begins in the year 1841. On the eve of her departure from London, Bridie Stewart’s

mother demands she forget her dead father and prepare for a sensible, adult life in Port Phillip. Desperate to save her childhood memories, fifteen-year-old Bridie is determined to

smuggle a notebook filled with dad’s fairy-tales to the far side of the world. When Rhys Bevan, a soft-voiced young

storyteller and fellow traveller realises Bridie is hiding something, a magical friendship is born. But Rhys has his own

secrets and the words written in Bridie’s notebook carry a double meaning. As they inch

towards their destination, Rhys’s past returns to haunt him. Bridie grapples with the implications of her dad’s final message. The pair take refuge in fairytales, little expecting the trouble it will cause.

Elizabeth proved to be a wonderful and insightful speaker, and those present thoroughly enjoyed the journey she related of her career as an author. Many took

advantage of purchasing a signed copy of The Tides Between, anxious to read the story for themselves.

The next Cambrian Society meeting will be in October, a date yet to be finalised.

Guest Elizabeth Corbett with Cambrian Society Vice-President Geraldine Affley

Finally. Ana Valleau-Gardiner is back home after making a surprise visit to the 40th birthday party of long time friend Leah Carroll in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Ana was away

three weeks to pay her respects to her former bridesmaid at her own wedding now about 2 1/2 years distant !!.

Accompanist Ming Yu

"In Memoriam A.H.H." or simply "In Memoriam" is a poem by the British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson,

completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's beloved Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who

died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage in Vienna in 1833. It contains some of Tennyson's most accomplished lyrical work, and is an unusually

sustained exercise in lyric verse. It is widely considered to be one of the great poems of the 19th century.

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Strong Son of God, immortal Love,

Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove;

Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute;

Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.

Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why,

He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.

Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou.

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be:

They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see

And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.

Let knowledge grow from more to more,

But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before,

But vaster. We are fools and slight; We mock thee when we do not fear:

But help thy foolish ones to bear; Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light.

Forgive what seem'd my sin in me; What seem'd my worth since I began;

For merit lives from man to man, And not from man, O Lord, to thee.

Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair.

I trust he lives in thee, and there I find him worthier to be loved.

Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth;

Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes:

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and

die.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Welsh tourism

The varied landscape of Wales attracts tourism. There are three national parks: the Brecon Beacons National Park, the Snowdonia National Park and the Pembrokeshire

Coast National Park. Popular activities in the national parks include hill walk-ing, hiking, canoeing, mountain biking, kayaking and climbing. Wales is also becoming increasingly popular for 'extreme' sports, such as surfing, hang gliding and downhill

cycling (in which Wales hosts the 'Dragon Downhill Series'). The terrain of Wales has also attracted the World Rally Championship (WRC). The Wales Rally GB is held

annually. In Cardiff, the regenerated Cardiff Bay area is one of the most popular destinations.

Wales' history and culture also attract tourists. The Museum of Welsh Life, which focuses largely on the industrial past of Wales, is currently the most popular tourist attraction in Wales, attracting over 600,000 visitors annually. The scars of the industrial

revolution and Wales' industrial heritage can still be seen on parts of the Welsh landscape today. Many other places of historical interest attract large numbers of

tourists: for example the many castles, such as Caernarfon Castle and Caerphilly Castle—most of them built to enable or to consolidate the English conquest of Wales, during the reign of the English king Edward I.

The Wye Valley witnessed the birth of British

tourism in the 18th century. The area became

widely known after Observations on the River Wye by the Reverand

William Gilpin was published in 1782. The first illustrated tour guide

to be published in Britain, it helped travellers locate

and enjoy the most picturesque places, such as Tintern Abbey. A

particular attraction of the Wye Valley was its river scenery, and the many guidebooks, engravings and paintings encouraged a continuing steady stream of visitors which grew

after the building of a new turnpike road up the valley in 1822 and the opening of a rail line in 1865. However, when George Borrow wrote Wild Wales in 1862 it is clear from his

descriptions that the notion of tourism in more mountainous parts of Wales hardly existed except for the most intrepid traveller. Indeed, he records that many locals regarded the mountainous and wild landscapes as monstrous and ugly rather than

romantic or picturesque. However, later in the 19th century the concept of mountains and valleys as both interesting and visually pleasing landscapes developed; and North

Wales in particular benefited, as towns and villages such as Betws-y-Coed developed to accommodate the increasing numbers of visitors.

Lost In Emotion

by Josephine Zavala-Florez

Sometimes I feel lost in a maze of emotions,

where every direction feels like a dead-end street. I feel so alone in my search for an answer

that I start to blame God for not meeting my needs.

But God never promised that life would be easy,

for trials will come in different forms. But He did promise that He would never forsake us and that we can still have peace in the midst of the storm.

God's love runs deeper than the deepest ocean, but He is not altered by the moods that we bring.

For every problem, He has a solution. He is consistently working behind the scenes.

So whenever you feel like you're losing the battle and you want to just bow your head in defeat,

remember, with God you are always the winner, for with Him by your side, you will never be beat!

TO MY CHILD

I worry if you are tired and how your

day has been. I pray that you are happy and surrounded by friends.

A part of me still needs to hear these things from you. Many days you are busy, but a simple

“hello I’m fine” definitely will do. You are an adult now and have told me

so, but the parent in me can never completely let go. As you will always be my baby deep in

my mind and sometimes I need to hear, “hello, I’m doing fine”

BITS AND PIECES

ADVICE

Become friends with people who aren’t

your age. Hang out with people whose first language isn’t the same as yours.

Get to know someone who doesn’t come from your social class. This is how you see the world.

This is how you grow.

DEAR GOD

Dear God,

I don’t know what the future holds, but I know the future is in your hands. Bring me to a better tomorrow.

Make the days of my life and the life in my days overflow with love, kindness and appreciation.

Amen.

understanding

It’s easy to judge.

It’s more difficult to understand. Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe

that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. Through judging, we separate.

Through understanding, we grow.

humans

Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is

treat each other like humans — not heroes, not villains, not Liberals, not Labour, not Calvinists, not Emergents — just humans.

This wouldn’t mean we stop disagreeing, but I think it would mean we could disagree well. ~ Rachel Held Evans

GALILEO GALILEI

I do not feel obliged to believe that the

same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first

observer of marvellous things.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider

themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

VICTORIES OF THE CROSS

Christ’s wounds are thy HEALINGS

His agonies thy REPOSE

His conflicts thy CONQUESTS

His groans thy SONGS

His pains thine EASE

His shame thy GLORY

His death thy LIFE

His sufferings thy

SALVATION

~ Matthew Henry

humour

ASLEEP IN CHRIST. Concerning them

which are asleep that ye sorrow not,

even as others which have no hope.

1 Thes. 4:13

If Jesus tried to feed the 5000 today……….

The Paster wants us to smile in Church. You know how I

hate to try new things !

puzzles

ACROSS

1 One of the Old Testament Prophets 7 The capital of Lesser Asia and

celebrated for the temple of Diana 8 A nobel citizen of Colossa 9 Number of Apostles

10 First of the Evangelists that wrote the gospel in Hebrew 12 Whose Creed?

13 Leader of the Apostles 14 Longest book in the New Testament

DOWN 2 Smallest book of the Old Testament 3 Long formal letter of sacred character

4 Number of books in the New Testament 5 Name for the five books of Moses

6 Other name for the New Testament book of prophecy 9 Other name for the Apostle Jude

11 One of the four Gospels

Bible crossword

Bible word search

CHURCH CONTACT INFORMATION

Rev. Siôn Gough Hughes 0405 146 544

Presence Ministry

- Mr. Peter Whitefield 0402 030 360

Ministry team

Board of elders

Church Secretary

Mrs. Christine Boomsma 9758 6997

Treasurer

Mr. Wayne Gardiner 9558 2149

Assistant Treasurer

Mr. Darren Gardiner 041 297 0509

Elders:

Mr. John Doré 9457 2567

Mrs. Bronwen Holding 9762 3830

Mr. David Rees 9416 1484

CHURCH office

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DIVINE WORSHIP

11:00am

WELSH SERVICES

Second and last Sunday of each

month at 2:30pm.

HOLY COMMUNION

First Sunday of each month and as

advertised.

JUNIOR CHURCH

Every Sunday during the morning

Service.

GYMANFA GANU

March and August

The Welsh Church office hours are:

8:45am to 2:45pm

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

Administrative Assistant: Mr. Fred Boomsma 9329 5139

Church caretaker / hall hire

Ms. Lyn Rowlands 9329 6961

Church Organist

Ms. Wendy Couch 9813 2675

Deacons:

Mr. Geraint Griffiths 9877 7282

Mr. Michael Min Fa

0411 027 478

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