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Regular Meetings

Regular Sunday Services
Dural 7:45am, 10am, 6pm
Arcadia 8:45am
Kenthurst 9am, 10:30am

CEBS/GFS
6pm-7:30pm
each Friday in term

Youth Groups
each Friday in term
Snr Youth (yrs11+) 6pm
BLAST (yrs 7-10) 7:45pm

TOTAL COLLECTION from all sources 12,717

Great result! Thank you all.

church members total: 1,998 items

count: 23 June 2008
 
Schools collecting...
  • Annangrove PS
  • Arcadia PS
  • Dural PS
  • Glenorie PS
  • Hillside PS
  • Kenthurst PS
  • Middle Dural PS
  • Northholm Grammar
  • Pacific Hills Christian School
Please tell us if we have inadvertently omitted your school.
 
Businesses supporting...
  • Anglican Retirement Villages Management
  • Bendigo Bank Galston
  • Caltex Kenthurst
  • Glenorie Friendly Grocer
  • Guillotine Creative Executions
  • Hargraves Nurseryland
  • IGA Dural
  • IGA Galston
  • IGA Kenthurst
  • Northmead Signs
  • Promotions International
  • Radio MIX106.5
  • Radio WSFM
  • Radio 103.2
  • Radio 2CH
  • Radio 2GB
  • Radio 2UE
  • Woolworths Dural
Please tell us if we've inadvertently omitted your business.
 
Food Drive 2008 Results

Thank you to everyone involved - on the parish team and in the wider community.

The count for the Dural District Anglican Churches food drive stood at 12,314 on Sunday night in the parish packing room where we gathered with Cherrybrook Anglican for a short church service. This result is about 2,000 items more than last year, and over 1,000 more than the target we'd set for this year. An excellent response and a great help to Anglicare and the families they assist during the challenging Winter months.

We are thankful to God for this result, and express our appreciation for the widespread community support for this initiative, now in its 5th year. Non-perishable food can still be donated by placing it in the collection boxes outside St Jude's Dural, St Columb's Arcadia and Christ Church Kenthurst until Monday 23 June 2008.

 
Why are we collecting?
In one sense, you'd hope that anyone, Christian or not, would compassionately seek to help the needy - and we're glad so many do. But Christians have a special reason for doing so. In a word, it's Jesus.
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When seeking financial support for poor Christians in Jerusalem, the apostle Paul motivated fellow believers by reminding them of Jesus' example with these words: "You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich." (2 Cor 8:9, NIV).
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He didn't mean that Jesus came to make us wealthy, as some have said, but that if Jesus gave up the riches of heaven to die for us, we who have thus received God's generous forgiveness should use our material possessions to help others. Not to be generous is to head in the opposite direction to Jesus' grace.
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You can learn more about Christian attitudes to giving by reading the whole account in 2 Corinthians 8 & 9.
 
Food Drive

The Anglicare Food Drive is held each year on the 3rd Sunday in June.This year the door-knock is Sunday 15 June.

The Food Drive seeks to raise thousands of items of non-perishable food to assist the work Anglicare does to help struggling families in Western Sydney. Last year, with generous community help from households, schools and businesses, the Food Drive collected over 10,000 items - thank you all!

 
What Are We Collecting?

Non-perishable food items.

  • tinned goods: soup, meat, fish, vegetables, fruit etc

  • dry goods: pasta, rice, breakfast cereal

  • drinks: tea, coffee, long-life milk, fruit juice

  • toiletries: soap, toilet paper, toothpaste etc

For safety's sake, no glass containers please.

Please note that all items must be within use-by dates.

Please also note that for security reasons, our collectors DO NOT accept cash donations. If you would like to make a financial contribution to the appeal, then they can provide you with an Anglicare donation envelope which you can put in the mail or you could call their donation hotline on 13 26 22.

 
Who is Anglicare?

Anglicare is a large social welfare, education and advocacy agency of the Anglican Church.

The Food we collect goes to the Anglicare centre at Rooty Hill, where trained staff and volunteers use it to aid the many families who struggle to make ends meet, and for whom the extra costs of winter would otherwise be the last straw.

 
When Are We Collecting?

The Anglicare Food Drive door-knock day is Sunday 15 June 2008. After short services at our church centres, appropriately authorised collectors will doorknock in the residential areas of our district.

Nearly all the local supermarkets have agreed to have collection boxes in the days leading up to the collection day.

Most of the local schools also encourage their students to bring in items to the school collection box in the weeks prior to collection day; check with your child.

Each church centre will have a collection box outside, so that items can be dropped off prior to and for a few days after collection day.

 
Can I Give at Another Time?

You certainly can! We're grateful for your interest. There are at least 3 ways to donate at other times.

  • You can give at local supermarkets and other businesses in the week before the food drive. Schools are also collecting - send some in with your children or grandchildren.
  • There will be collection boxes available outside each of our three church centres in the weeks before and for a few days after the collection.
  • If you can't get here, just contact us (click here or phone the office on 9651-1119) and ask us to send someone 'round to collect your items.
 


Food Drive ad

This video ad was produced for the Food Drive Sunday (15 June 2008). Try it, you'll (maybe) like it..._
Check out other videos on our YouTube Channel.

 
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