Guest Preacher

This Sunday has been St. George's 132nd Anniversary and one of our faithful lay readers preached. You can find his comments by following the following links:

Sermon by Joel Pratt for Anniversary Sunday 14 June 2009 Text Audio

Thank you for your prayers and your support.

Synod 2009

Last month the Diocese joined together for debate, discussion, information and some fun at our 142nd gathering of the Diocesan Synod.

I offer to you my reflection upon one of the major events that occured during this Synod. You may find it by clicking

HERE

Your thoughts and comments would be appreciated.

I do hope that you are enjoying a blessed Pentecost Season!

Friendship

This week Jesus tells us to lay down our lives for our friends. My offering on this lesson can be found by clicking

HERE

Blessed are you if you leave me some valuable feedback.

New Sign

St. George's has a new sign!

Easter Continues

The Season of Easter carries on in its way and we are given the opportunity to hear scripture that points us toward the life of Christ... today is no exception.

You can access my sermon for today in both audio and text formats by clicking

HERE

Your feedback is valuable to me, please offer it.

Good Shepherd Sunday

This Sunday there is a definite theme running through the readings: that of the relationship between sheep and their shepherd.

Thus, and so, my offering for this day can be found by clicking

HERE

The sermon can be found in both audio and text formats.

Please feel free to send me your valuable feed back.

What prophets teach...

Today I had the opportunity to share some wisdom from my friend Judy Steers in my sermon which you can find by clicking

HERE

in both audio and text format.

Your feedback is valuable to me, please share it.

Regional Dean Appointment

Bishop Sue Moxley has seen fit to appoint me as Regional Dean for Northumbria effective May 1st 2009. I am humbled to be asked to take on this ministry and am honoured to accept it. What this will mean is that from time to time I will be required to do some work for the Region. I will help chair Regional Council, I will chair the Regional Clericus and I will take my place at the table of other Regional Deans to offer information, and when asked to offer advice to the Bishops. I will have to visit each parish in this Region every two years to ensure that proper records are being kept and the properties are being attended to. In all the work of a Regional Dean is to ensure that proper administration is being attended to in this Region of the Diocese. I look forward to offering this ministry to the Region and to the Diocese. In due course there will be a Regional Celebration to see that I am liturgically installed into this position - the date will be announced shortly. If you have questions about this appointment do not hesitate to contact me.

PWRDF Focus

This week at St. George's we are focuing our attention on the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund as they celebrate 50 years of faithful ministry and witness to the Gospel. In point of fact St. George's will be focusing our global outreach project for the year on the PWRDF.

I have been asked to draw our attention to this in my homily this week. Which you can find, in both text and audio formats, by clicking

HERE

I hope that you are continuing to celebrate Easter!

Holy Week

There are many opportunities for worship and for me to preach throughout this coming week. I shall endeavour to post the texts of my sermons here as soon as they are completed, and the audio of my sermons as soon after worship as I can. So check back here regularly for updates. As always I would enjoy your feedback and your comments. You can send them to me via email at me.siteman@gmail.com

Palm Sunday Sermon - Written - Text - Audio
Monday of Holy Week - Written - Text - Audio
Tuesday of Holy Week - Audio Only
Wednesday of Holy Week - Audio Only
Maundy Thursday - Written - Text - Audio
Good Friday - Written - Text - Audio
The Easter Vigil - Written - Text - Audio
Easter Day - Written - Text - Audio

Our worship schedule for Holy Week will be found on the Parish Website

Technology is great...

When it works AND when you remember to turn on the recorder.

Unfortunately I did not capture the audio of my sermon for this Third Sunday in Lent. You will have to content yourself with the text format only. Which you can find by clicking

HERE

I'll try to do better next week.

Lent 2

I have published my sermon in both audio and text format. You can access it by clicking

HERE

Your feedback is gratefully received.

Lent 1

The sermon I offered this Sunday, the First Sunday in Lent, can be found by clicking

HERE

Your feedback and comments are valuable to me.

Lent begins

Today we begin the great season of Lent. Ash Wednesday is a day of solemn prayer and fasting. I hope that you are beginning your Lenten observances with a community of faith.

For those of you who would like to please click

HERE

for my offering on this day.

Your feedback is valuable to me, please offer it.

Transfiguration Sunday

The Season of Epiphany is all too quickly coming to an end. The Sunday before Lent begins is often called "Transfiguration Sunday" as we hear the Gospel account of that event in Jesus' life.

Thus, and so,

HERE

is the link to the offering I made on that day in both text and audio format.

I would love to hear what you think.

What you find on your office door...

... on your 40th birthday!

Thanks George!

.... the number between 39 and 41

Today is my 4oth birthday. I will be celebrating it by sharing breakfast with St. George's Men's Group, building puzzles with my daughter, and enjoying the company of family of friends. I love birthdays, even my own! Say a prayer for me today that I will enjoy the next 40 years of life as much as I have enjoyed that first 40 years - even if life is filled with hardship, sorrow and pain it is also filled with joy, faith and hope so rejoice.

Oh, dddddear...

Alas technology has failed me! Or perhaps I have failed technology. My sermon for today was another of my "off script" moments so I do not have a full text to share with you. Also my digital audio recorder did not do a very good job following me around the church so the quality of the recording is really quite poor. If you are willing to wade through the garbled mess that it did pick up then you can click

HERE

and find what you are looking for. I am experimenting with trying to record more of what we offer in worship and sadly this one did not turn out well. The link above will take you to the Gradual Hymn, Gospel Reading and my sermon. If you can make it out please let me know and offer your valuable feedback.

This week's offering

Greetings once again,

Please click HERE to go to my sermon page where you will find links to this week's sermon in both audio and text format.

Blessings to you.

Preaching at High Mass

Tonight I was honoured to be invited to preach at King's College Chapel.

HERE

is the link to my posted sermons page.

Reverse Sunday

On the first Sunday of February the adult congregation and the Sunday school reverse their positions... the adults worship in the hall and the younger members take over the church.

Click HERE for links to my sermon for this week (text posted Saturday and audio posted Sunday).

Third Sunday after Epiphany

This week we hear the familiar story of Jonah, one of my personal favourites.

HERE

is the link to my sermon in both audio and test formats.

Blessings to you all!

Epiphany Continues

The Season of Epiphany continues and this week we welcomed a new member into the Household of Faith through the waters of baptism.

HERE

is the link to my sermon for this occasion. Please feel free to leave your comments and valuable feedback.

What happens when I go off script...

Today, I had a sermon prepared to offer and as I read it before worship I decided that I did not really like it nor did it speak to the community I serve. Thus and so I put it away and went off script and spoke to the community about a stained glass window within our church (above).

The sermon that I offered can be found by clicking

HERE

Your feedback is valuable to me... please offer it.

On the 11th Day of Christmas...

The brief season of Christmas is all too quickly coming to a close.

Click HERE to go to my page of published sermons.
The text is published on Saturday and the audio is published on Sunday.

Hope you are enjoying your Christmas celebrations.

Happy Christmas

Tonight we celebrate the night Jesus was born. Happy Christmas to all my Christian friends. The worship tonight was lovely and moving. I wasn't feeling the best but did manage to get up enough energy to preach. For what its worth, click

HERE

for my offering to the faithful. It is posted in both audio and text format.

Blessings to you all!

Advent 4

Well, my annual Christmas cold has decided to grace me with its presence a few days early. Such is life. Sorry to be late posting this but I fell into bed yesterday after worship and lunch and have only poked my head above the covers long enough to do a little work on my Christmas Eve sermon and to post this.

Thus, and so...

HERE

is the link to what I offered yesterday (Sunday) within worship on the Fourth Sunday in Advent.

Got it done...

Well, this week my beloved laptop decided to catch a nasty virus and had to spend a couple of nights in the shop. All's well now thanks to the techs at GMF Computers!

I did manage to get my sermon completed though and even managed to get it posted

HERE

The text is up now (Saturday) and the audio will be up tomorrow (Sunday).

Second Sunday in Advent - Peace

Advent wends it way toward our Christmas celebrations.  This week our focus is upon peace and what that means to us as Christians.  Thus, and so,

HERE

is my offering for this week.  The text is posted today (Saturday) and the audio will be up tomorrow (Sunday).

I trust that you continue to prepare the way...

Audio is Up

Well I finally tracked down the correct cable to connect the recorder to the computer and so, for those of you who are interesed please feel free to read and listen to this week's sermon by clicking

HERE

Your valuable feedback is important to me.