25th March 2018

Pastoral Care Deeper Discipleship Training: Continues tonight, 7:30pm (in the portable). While the focus will be on our Pastoral Care Team and everyone is welcome to attend this 5 week workshop. We will be dealing with many basic skills to help us be a caring community. We will include material from the Good Listening = Good Helping DDT course we have run before.

The remaining dates for the Pastoral Care DDT are March 25, April 15, 22, 29 – Sunday evenings at 7:30pm.

Roll Revision:  The Session is in the process of revising and updating the church rolls. A major reason for this is that we plan to put a motion at the next Annual Congregational Meeting to start procedures to change Andy Buchan’s status from assistant to associate minister. This can only happen through a “Call” process which is based on the votes of the official Communicant Members. This is a good time to think about official membership and being able to participate in this important process. Please see Don or Andy or one of the elders if you would like to be on the Communicant’s roll.

Annual General Meeting: The ACM will be April 15. All ministry reports from 2017 should be emailed to Melody by April 8, (admin@elthampc.com.au).

Craft Group:   Craft Group wishes to thank everyone who purchased Cross-Stitch Cards at Christmas. Proceeds of $150 were sent to and gratefully received by TEAR Australia.  See acknowledgement on Notice Board in the hall.

Next Week: As Resurrection Sunday is the start of school holidays it will also be our Family Service when the Sunday School Children are involved in various parts of the service such as the Bible readings and helping with the offering.

The Session agreed to accept an invitation to join with three other churches (Eltham Baptist, The Vine Baptist Hurstbridge, and Southern Cross Community Church) for a combined service on Good Friday. There is a cross up in the Town Square advertising the service. This is a great way to show Christian unity and witness in our community. Limited seating available, please arrive early.  Eltham Town Square 9:30 am.

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