Our Community
Chapel and Chaplaincy
Chaplain
Father David, our School Chaplain, has many years of experience in ministry in general and in School Chaplaincy in particular. His prime responsibility is pastoral care of our whole school community, which includes students and their families and staff and their families. Father David is available if you would like to speak of personal issues, faith questions or about Baptisms, Holy Communion, Confirmation, weddings or funerals or any other matter. He is available to meet with students and parents at a time convenient to both. Please feel free to contact him on the School telephone number.
Chapel Life at PCACS
Peter Carnley Anglican Community School is a Christian school in the Anglican tradition; therefore worship is an essential and integral part of the weekly rhythm within the School. Chapels allow children to celebrate their spirituality and participate in the very important Christian faith of the School. Chapel worship symbolises the importance the School places upon the centrality of the Christian experience lived out in the Anglican tradition within the School. The religious, spiritual and liturgical life of the School is central to its mission; be that enacted in the Chapel, in the classroom, on the stage, or on the sporting field, in social activities, or while travelling to and from the school. It is not to be seen simply as a separate isolated compartment. To that end, the School baptises new believers, welcomes to Holy Communion and confirms, as well as teaches and nurtures all in its midst.
The mission of the Anglican Church is to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom, to teach, baptise and nurture new believers, and to respond to human need by loving service. We welcome all who come from whatever religious background (or none) and work to be non-judgemental and inclusive. The Chapel sets the Eucharist at the heart of its worship and proclaims that in broken bread and shared wine we seek to reflect the self-giving love of Christ. Every student will worship regularly in an age appropriate Chapel Service. Having regular Chapel Services, the School as a whole and the students in particular are able to follow the rise and fall of the Church’s year, immersing the School in the pattern of the major festivals of Easter, Christmas, Advent, Pentecost and other Sundays in between; in this way the worship of the School replicates the pattern of an Anglican Parish, making the School a worshipping community within the Diocese of Perth. Chapel Services are at the very heart of what makes our School Anglican. Services are meant to be inclusive and participatory in nature, therefore students will be encouraged to take as much part as possible in the age appropriate service.
PCACS Community Church
All are welcome to join the Community of PCACS in worship on a Sunday Evening. PCACS Community Church worships at 5.00pm on a Sunday in Upper Library. The worship is inclusive and accepting of all. At the moment we gather for worship once a month, the dates for this Semester are:
Sunday 6 May 2012
Sunday 10 June 2012
Sunday 1 July 2012
For further information please contact Fr. David
Reachout Manila
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aGqkd-74Y
In July 2012 students from ASC schools will be embarking on the second Reachout Manila. Participants will work alongside materially poor people in Manila, people who live in squatter camps alongside the rubbish dump and other marginalised areas of the city. The families who live in these areas have moved from regional parts of the Philippines to try and find a better life. They live in shanties erected on the side of the hill next to the rubbish dump. The parents spend their day picking through the rubbish finding plastic, metal and other items that can be sold for recycling.
These camps are isolated from schools and other amenities, meaning that the children have very limited opportunities for education. The youth group of the local Anglican parish spends Saturday’s teaching basic numeracy and literacy to these children and giving them a meal. In Reachout Manila 2012 we will spend two weeks supplementing the efforts of local Anglican parishes by immersing ourselves in the communities, teaching, befriending and feeding the children; learning how to be present in the moment with another human being, to sit and be.
We will be taken out of our familiar and comfortable lifestyles and placed into a whole new space of meaning, into cultures and environments that are in many ways alien to what we are used to. In these places we will have opportunities to serve and work alongside the ‘poorest of the poor’. Young people today want to have real and tangible opportunities to learn and grow. Through these tangible experiences, opportunities for growth emerge in a deepening understanding of ourselves, of God and of the world in which we live.
Enquiries: Father David Lord
www.reachoutpilgrimages.com
Tel: 9439 3499 Mob: 0427 921 342