Parishes

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Break O'Day

Mission region: Northern Mission Network
Contact person: Revd Michael Wakefield
Secretary: Revd Marjorie Mann
Treasurer: Mr Alan Telford
Administrator: Revd Michael Wakefield
Email: mawakefield@bigpond.com
Telephone: (03) 6376 1144

Postal address:
PO Box 143
ST HELENS TAS 7216

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To be a Christ Centred Parish committed to each other, reaching out to the local community through Worship, Evangelism, Prayer and Pastoral Care.

Sunday worship times

St Pauls
Cecilia St, St Helens
8.00am - traditional
10.30am - contemporary

Holy Trinity
Esk Main Rd, St Marys
10.00am

St Michael and All Angels
Tasman Highway, Pyengana
5th Sunday of month only, 7.30pm plus Christmas and Easter services

Visitors and new worshippers are very welcome at the service and afterwards for morning tea.

Prayer Ministry

All worshippers are encouraged to contribute to the prayers of the people during services. Prayer for healing is available at the end of each service. Regular prayer meetings are held during the week.

Pastoral Care

Weekly services are taken at Medea Park retirement village / nursing home. Home communion and pastoral visits are also available for those unable to get to the church services.

Home groups

Small groups meet for fellowship and bible study including three 3 KYB (Know your Bible/CWCI) groups.

Community Outreach

We are constantly looking for new ways to engage with the local community.

Regular and seasonal services and events in St Helens include:

• Palm Sunday, Anzac Day, Blessing of the Fleet, Carols by Candlelight, dawn Easter service
• hosting the annual Beach Mission team (together with the Break O'Day Uniting Church) and Bikes for Bibles
• monthly 'shopping lunches' for those in need of good food and company
• practical home help through 'Helping Hands'
• partnership with Anglicare to provide food, blankets, petrol and other financial help and through the generosity of many local residents good second hand furniture is made available to those in need
• Hearts and Hands for creative people of all ages - an activity of CWCI
• Spring Fair

Children's Ministry

Weekly KANGA at St Helens, each Sunday at 10.30am, for primary aged children. At the start of the year a Fun Day held on the foreshore attracts up to 100 children.

Christian Religious Education (CRE) classes are held weekly at the St Helens Primary School.

Baptisms, Marriages, Funerals

Please contact Rev. Michael Wakefield or one of the Local Ministry Support Team to discuss your needs.

History of Break O'Day Parish

The parish of Break O'Day was designated in 1891 to encompass much of the tin mining area of the north-east including Georges River (now Pyengana), Goshen, Goulds Country, Lottah, Poimena and Weldborough.

The present church of St Paul in Cecilia St. was built of hand-made brick in 1884 to replace the former weatherboard church in Tully St which had been completed in 1875.

In 1893 St Peters at Weldborough was opened and in 1894 the church of St Michael and All Angels at Pyengana was completed and is still in use. St Gabriel's at Goulds Country was dedicated in 1912 and was in regular use until 1994.

Holy Trinity at St Marys was incorporated into the Break O'Day parish in 1994, previously being part of the Fingal parish. The current 1984 building replaced an earlier wooden building which was demolished due to a concern that the leaning spire may be unsafe.

Priests-in-charge in the early years were:

• 1892 - 1895 Rev. Owen Fitzherbert Jacson
• 1896 - 1909 Rev. Charles L'Oste

Some significant dates in the life of the parish are:

• 1929 Dedication of new sanctuary at St Pauls
• 1957 First Blessing of the Fleet
• 2002 Commencement of the Enabler Supported ministry