Please join us for worship on Sunday, October 18 at 10.00 am for Holy Eucharist. Our readings are Isaiah 45:1-7, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, and Matthew 22:15-22. Here is the order of service. Rev. Chris Easthill will be the celebrant and Rev. Terri King our preacher.

Sunday, November 1, we celebrate the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls. If you would like us to pray by name during the service for someone who has died in the past 12 months, please send his or her full name to the office by Friday, October 30.

You can join our worship services either in church, or live online (via Facebook Live). You should be able to go straight to the Livestream using this link (even if you do not have a Facebook account – just ignore any attempts to make you register)! Should that not work, please go to our Facebook page here and scroll down until you find the Livestream, which we will start at 9.45 am (the service will start at the usual time of 10.00 am).

There will be no creche/nursery care facility this Sunday, but there will be Sunday school.

If you want to include prayers for yourself or another during the Prayers of the People at any of our services, please send me an email
Here are this week’s announcements:

• WEDNESDAY  11.00 am. Word & Worship (Zoom).
• FRIDAY            9.00 am – 5.50 pm. Convention Open Session.
                           7.00 pm. Benefit Concert.
                           NO Service of Compline (Zoom).
• SATURDAY    11.00 am – 2.00 pm. Booksale/Nearly New.
• SUNDAY        10.00 am. Sunday Worship: Online and at St. Augustine’s.
                                          Sunday School.
                          5.00 pm. Worship in Mainz (Christophskirche).

Flowers
The flowers today were given by the Nelson family in celebration of Richard and his brother Steve’s birthday; and in loving memory of his mother, Genevieve, and Jeanne’s brother Scott’s October birthdays as well as from Maria Geilen in thanksgiving of her mother Bernhadina’s 90th birthday on 2 Oct.

Stewardship
We invite all members of the congregation to support the mission and ministry of St. Augustine’s. Sunday, November 1st will be our Pledge Ingathering Sunday.

Participate in this year’s Open Session of ConventionThis year’s annual Convention will be an entirely virtual gathering, held from Thursday, October 22 to Saturday, October 24. The middle day of this year’s Convention — Friday, October 23 — will be open to everyone in the Convocation. On this day, we’ll hear about the work done over the past year by four different Task Forces in the Convocation, that have been working on

Ministry to Migrants and Refugees
Ministry to Youth and Children
Climate and Creation Care
Racism, Reconciliation, and Beloved Community

You can register to hear presentations from those who have done this work and engage in conversations with others in the church across Europe. Register to join us by clicking on this link.For more information, you can download the packet for the Open Session of Convention at this link.

All Saints and All Souls
On Sunday, November 1st, we celebrate the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls. During the service we read by name those who have died in the past 12 months. If you would like us to pray by name for someone who has died in the past 12 months, please send his or her full name to the office by Friday, October 30.

Upcoming events
• Benefit Concert: Friday, 23rd October. All the proceeds will go towards the purchase and refurbishing of our grand piano.
• Quiz Night: Thursday October 29 at 7 pm. Here’s the link to join.
• Christmas Bazaar: Saturday 21st November from 9.00 – 16:00. You can sign up here to help – we have lots of slots to fill!