Please join us for worship on Sunday, October 4 at 10.00 am for Holy Eucharist and our annual Harvest Festival with Blessing of the Animals. Please plan on bringing flowers, garden produce, preserves etc. to the church (ideally already on Saturday). There will also be a Blessing of the Animals as part of the service – so bring your pets large and small! This will be a Family Service (no Sunday School). Our readings are Philippians 3:4b-14 and Matthew 21:33-46. Here is the order of service. Rev. Chris Easthill will be the celebrant and Rev. Dr. Mark Lee will be preaching.

You should be able to go straight to the Livestreams 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).

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 Or if you are watching the service live on Facebook, you can write your prayer request in the comments and we will pick them up.
Here are this week’s announcements:

• WEDNESDAY  NO Word & Worship.
• FRIDAY            8.30 pm. A 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.
                                          No Sunday School (fall break).
                          5.00 pm. Worship in Mainz (Christophskirche).

Flowers
We welcome flower donations and designations either using the special envelopes or via email to Juliana Fiedler.

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.

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, November 1.

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
• Christmas Bazaar will be on Saturday 21st November from 9.00 – 16:00.