ACACIA RIDGE
UNITING CHURCH
Cnr Gloucester & Chandler Sts ACACIA RIDGE
RIDGE OUTREACH –
JULY 2026
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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN JULY 2026?
| 3rd | Damian’s birthday |
| 5th | LEPANI returns to the lectern for today’s Praise & Worship service; with Pasi as Service Leader |
| 10th | 9.30 a.m. Craft with Maree and June
6.00 p.m. Karaoke with Kevin & Joanne |
| 12th | We welcome Robert for our communion service, with Tina being service leader;
ALSO it’s Stephanie’s birthday |
| 15th | Margaret’s birthday |
| 17th | Chinwag morning tea at 10 a.m. at the Airport Café at Archerfield Airport |
| 19th | Paul is our preacher today, with Stephanie as service leader (morning tea to follow) |
| 26th | Pleased to welcome Trinity as our preacher today, with Rosemary as service leader. |
| August | 2nd : Congregational meeting to follow our service. All welcome. |
ADD THESE
FOLK TO YOUR DAILY PRAYER SESSION:
Hazel Eivers Karen Gilland
Trinity Lakatani Dayna Doherty
June & Russell Cannons Sue Garland
Kevin O’Donoghue
Dennis Scott
Claire Mapledoram
These special people are close to us, and we are grateful that you have brought us close to them. Please touch them with your healing hands, that they may overcome their afflictions and continue to worship you. Amen
MORNING TEA : Rodney’s Morning tea sessions continue at 10.00 a.m. every Thursday, and once a month we meet for “Chinwag” – on the 3rd Friday of each month. This month we’ll be back at the café in the Archerfield airport .
We also serve and share morning tea on the third Sunday of each month, following the praise & worship service; as well as on congregational meeting days. All welcome.
SAVE THE DATE: Please note your diaries with Friday 14th August – the EKKA morning tea. Sample bags and Ekka food. Admission by gold coin donation.
PROPERTY PROBLEMS: on 14th June 8 coffee cups/mugs went missing from our tea trolley during the afternoon. We would welcome their return asap.
Also, teaspoons have a habit of walking. Maybe washer-uppers
Early in August Tina has been “volunteered” to provide for the two Emmaus camps to be held in August, and she is needing some help with the provisions. Especially looking for someone who can bake a gluten-free rainbow cake slab for 30 people. Plans are still sketchy, but if anyone has the skills to assist her, she would be grateful to hear from you.
TWENTY-SECOND SERMONS:
Words should be weighted, not counted.
A journey of a thousand kilometers must begin with a single step
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Hope is like the sun which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
It takes more grace than man can tell, to play the second fiddle well.
God bless whoever invented sleep, the mantle that embraces the thoughts of all men, food that satisfies all hunger, the weight that balances the scales, and makes the shepherd the same as the king, the fool the same as the wise man.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep. God is awake.
Happiness is a plant that will grow in any soil that is watered by love and service, but withers in the hot sun of selfishness.
Anger can lose us nearly a lifetime of happiness if stored away in our hearts. Life will be a lot happier, for us and for the people we
