Newsletter for St Paul's Anglican Parish Beaconsfield, WA 31st May 2020

1. ST PAUL'S
ANGLICAN CHURCH
BEACONSFIELD
DAY OF PENTECOST WHITSUNDAY
NEWSLETTER
PARISH
UPDATES &
NOTICES
THE LATEST FROM OUR
PARISH COMMUNITY
NOTICES FOR THIS
COLUMN CAN BE EMAILED
TO ZARA IN THE OFFICE BY
7PM EACH THURSDAY.
31 MAY | 2020
Dear friends in Christ,
As per government requirement our Covid safety plan is now in place. This
means we can now use the Church, Hall and grounds for small groups of up to
20 people provided we stick to the safety requirements listed on the following
page.
Sunday worship will remain on Zoom until phase 3 of the restrictions the
government has planned for the 15th of June. At that point, we hope to be able
to have 40 people in the church and the rest of us accommodated in the Hall,
linked via video and communion in one kind distributed in both. For those
remaining in isolation, we hope to have the video available at home too.
If you intend to remain in isolation, please let me know by sending me an email
at sebastiana.stpauls@gmail or giving me a call on 0434 896 819.
My appointment as temporary, half time priest has been extended for another
three months until the end of September. The parish facilitation process is a
priority at this time so you can begin to find a new Rector. If you would like to
join in with a half-day facilitation workshop please contact Carol Eaton
on caranneat@gmail.com or 0419 098 918.
With every blessing,
Sebastiana
LIMITED RE-OPENING OF ST PAUL’S
CHURCH, HALL AND GROUNDS
The goldfish at the pond beside the
hall now has two friends!
I hope they see them as friends and
not as food. The additions are two
Comets, small goldfish that swim
quickly.

2. will resume when restrictions
allow it.
WEEKLY
FELLOWSHIP
Prayer Chain
Requests to Rosemary
Spark or phone 0414268043
St Paul's Google Group
Join the St Paul's Google
Discussion Group:
groups.google.com/forum/#!f
orum/discussion-st-pauls
SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
The following issues are important for us all to follow as we move forward to
re-opening St Paul's for worship and other community activities to ensure we
not only look after ourselves and one another but that we also meet the
Government of WA COVID-19 Safety requirements:
Maintain physical distancing as per the 4 sqm per person.
Each area of our precinct has clearly displayed, the number of people allowed
in that area.
The church pews have been marked with crosses to indicate where individuals
or members of the same household may sit.
The isle in the church has also been marked with crosses to represent
appropriate physical distancing.
Particular attention is required for waiting areas such as the church foyer
where only one person maybe at any time.
Maintain appropriate hand hygiene and cough and sneeze etiquette.
Hand sanitiser will be provided in each areas.
If you are unwell, remain at home but please let us know if there is
anything we can do to support you.
An increase in routine facility cleaning has been implemented.
Extra cleaning is also to take place by the group using the various facilities at
the end of a session. Cleaning products are provided.
A record of all people attending any event is to be maintained for the
purposes of contact tracing.
UNIT AVAILABLE FOR RENT
Unit (Kim/Lara’s old unit) in St Paul’s community available for rent from the
1st of June 2020.
1 bedroom, ensuite, spacious mezzanine/study, lovely kitchen and living
areas, and carport.
For more information, details or a viewing, please contact Peter Smith:
0415 199 883
sunseed@iinet.net.au

3. Anglican Parish of
Beaconsfield
BSB: 706 001
Account No. 30003006
electronic giving
details
Conversations have always been a starting point for new ideas, new ways of
being and new ways of doing.
In 2019, about 20 people attended the St Paul’s conversations group held over
several weeks. St Paul’s community members who are interested in the idea of
joining a facilitated conversations group commencing in June 2020 are invited
to an information session on zoom after church:
Sunday 31 May 2020 @ 10:45 AM.
If you are interested, in joining the zoom information session,
please email Chris Williams:
chriswilliams@chriswilliams.com.au
CONVERSATIONS FOR A FAITH
COMMUNITY
FACILITATION PROCESS
Greetings, you have now had the facilitation questions for a couple of weeks
and it would appear that we may be emerging from our isolation. With that in
mind, I am hoping to conduct a half day workshop where our journey thus far
with St Paul's can be shared, and how we see ourselves taking the journey into
the future together. You will need to bring the documentation of the questions
with you.
If you would like to attend, please email me and we will see if we can get 16
parishioners. If there are more responses, another workshop will be conducted.
As yet we are unable to use our buildings but I am hopeful that we can meet in
the Hall early in June.
Mapping our future
Cheers,
Carol Eaton on behalf of the Parish Council
caranneat@gmail.com

4. Office:
parish.stpauls@gmail.com
ph: 9335 2242
Zara is in the office
Wednesday and Friday
9am - 3pm
Rev'd Sebastiana Pienaar
sebastiana.stpauls@gmail.com
0434 896 819
contacts:
World Environment Day is one of the most important days for environmental
action and focus. As a global initiative it is a platform to remind us that we are
all interdependent on each other, and that local and personal actions affect
the entire planet.
For Christians, World Environment Day is when we both celebrate the gift of
God’s Creation and lament at our degradation of it.
The EcoCare Commission has a Pew Sheet for World Environment Day with
prayers and reflections and can be downloaded here:
https://bit.ly/ECWED2020
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY (5 JUNE)
Our next Anglican Children's Ministry Network is on Wednesday the 24th of June
at 7:30pm. Alongside catching up and hearing how ministry is going in the
different parts of our Diocese, we will be joined by some intergenerational
experts who will briefly help us think through how we might emerge from
lockdown with new ideas for ministry.
For more details, contact the ACYMC office at
info@acym.perth.anglican.org
NETWORK MEET UP
YOUTH NEWS AND EVENTS