Parramatters - 3rd September 2021

Spring Wellbeing Challenge
You are invited to take part in our Spring Wellbeing Challenge! We know that many of you have been keeping your 'body, mind & spirit' well during lockdown, and we'd love to see how! If you have been gardening, exercising, puzzling or getting creative, we invite you to send pictures of the various activities you've been doing to stay well in body, mind & spirit. Send your images to sarah.walker@salvationarmy.org.auand we will include them in Parramatters each week so we can see what everyone has been up to! 

Youth Zoom this September!
For the month of September, we’ll be joining with the National Youth Team for online combined Zoom nights from 7pm. We encourage our young people to log on an connect with youth and leaders across the nation. If you need the link or help accessing these Friday night events, get in touch with a youth leader or send Jayne an email at: jayne.combremont@salvationarmy.org.au 

Prayer Meeting
Our prayer meetings will continue throughout the month of September. All are welcome to join us this coming Wednesday night from 7pm-8pm. Everyone is invited to join, reflect and pray together as we take a look at Week 3 of the Territorial Prayer Focus - "One in unity and reconciliation". It would be helpful if you have a copy of the prayer resource booklet for our meeting.

Here is the Zoom link for this coming Wednesday September 8: 
https://zoom.us/j/97564855033?pwd=R2FtWUZ2VmkrZ1BsL1RIcmFkY3JSUT09

Meeting ID: 975 6485 5033
Passcode: 908987

For more resources to help you connect with the Territorial Prayer Focus, click on the link below. 

Territorial Prayer Webinars
As part of the Territorial Prayer Focus, we want to remind you that each night at 7pm you can join online with Salvos across the territory for a prayer meeting led by officers and leaders across the nation. These meetings are 'webinars' in style, meaning that your camera and microphone will remain disabled throughout. We invite you to consider joining with Salvos across the Territory in the final week of these prayer meetings. 

Brass Band Zoom Catch Up
If you would like to join our fortnightly brass band catch up this coming Tuesday evening at 7:30pm, the Zoom link is below. All current and former bandspeople are welcome to attend! 

https://zoom.us/j/95215815991?pwd=amN4Z29zaFhxOXhONkF2NEhZYmhYUT09

Meeting ID: 952 1581 5991
Passcode: 791192

Zoom Movie Night
Save the date for our Zoom movie night on Friday 17 September at 7:30pm. Details, movie and Zoom link to come!  

Staff at Parramatta Salvos
We are grateful for a fantastic team of staff at Parramatta Salvos. With the extension of lockdown, some changes have been implemented as it becomes harder for staff to work at home. Selome, our Connect Site Manager has been temporarily stood down - when lock down ends, Selome will resume her role. For now, this temporary measure allows Selome to claim Govt disaster payments as she cannot work from home. Karen, our office manager and Jayne our Youth Pastor are now working reduced hours. We are again grateful that both employees are eligible to receive the Govt. payment for the hours that they have lost, and both will resume their roles in their full capacity after lockdown. This means that some enquires may be answered a little more slowly than usual over the next month, so thank you in advance for your understanding.

We want to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of all our staff, and their flexibly as we navigate this season and attempt to steward our resources wisely. We will continue to keep you updated as changes occur. 

Tenancy Update 
We are excited to announce that works will commence on the Level 2 Tenancy in the coming month (as restrictions permit). Staff from Eva Burrows College, who will be renting the office space, are hoping to move in in November. We can't wait to have the staff and students of EBC in our building soon!

We have also had some positive 'bites' this week regarding Shops 1 and 2 on the ground level! We will give a formal update as soon as leasing agreements have been confirmed, however, we are excited that there is interest and we ask that you continue to pray for successful leasing of the shops. 

Health Concerns
Please continue to pray for Ken Drysdale who has been taken back to hospital this week. We pray for healing and a sense of peace for Ken at this time of uncertainty. We also ask that you keep Margaret Robinson and Gordon Bowie in your prayers as they recover from surgeries this week. 

Praying through our Corps Directory
We invite everyone to join us as we pray our way through the Corps Directory. Each week we pray for people with surnames beginning with 3 letters of the alphabet. This week we pray for surnames R-T, and we invite you to be praying for these people in your quiet time this week.