Dear Friends
We hope you can join us in worship and the Holy Eucharist, BAS service, at 10:30 am this Sunday. With winter weather here, and the challenges that go with it we plan to resume Zoom coverage this week. If you are unwell please join in on Zoom as you are able.
Zoom Service at 10:30 AM
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Meeting ID: 580 558 8254 Passcode: Fellowship
Announcements:
Santa Claus Parade: This Friday Dec 2- many thanks to those who have donated cookies and come to help with this outreach. Parade starts at 6:30 pm, so we will be handing out hot chocolate and cookies from 6 pm onwards at the beginning of the parade route.
Potluck Breakfast: This Sunday December 4th. At 9 am. Why not invite a friend out for breakfast?
Food Bank: a bin is in the front foyer for collecting items for the local foodbank. Let us support this important ministry for those in need in our community.
Coffee Hour: There is a signup sheet in the Hall if you are able to help out after service. Cookies and/or other items for the freezer for Sundays are welcome.
Prayer Chain: confidential requests are welcome, and updates are appreciated and are of great encouragement. Contact Elaine at [email protected]
Memorial Plaque: we are accepting donations toward a second memorial plaque to remember past parishioners of our church.
Please remember in your prayers:
– the clergy and people of our Diocese
– those who are sick, suffering, fearful or in need, and their caregivers, especially doctors and nurses
– for peace within our country, and in the world, remembering areas of war, unrest and riots, and so many refugees. We ask for wise discernment in our leaders.
– for the victims of violence and natural disasters and those who suffer from the emotional and physical wounds from conflict
– for those who mourn
– our Indigenous brothers and sisters, remembering their hurt and grief at this time;
– those who are persecuted and oppressed for their faith in Jesus Christ
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Christmas Services December 18- Advent Lessons and Carols– 10:30 am December 24- Christmas Eve Eucharist– 7 pm December 25- Christmas Morning Eucharist– 10:30 am |
A Diocesan Missional Minute
The liminal space of Advent asks much of us. It is an existential tension between darkness and light, waiting and receiving, not having and having. We are asked to step into a memory we have never had as modern Christians – that time before the plan of salvation was incarnate in the Son of God; and we are asked to step into a miracle we can hardly fathom – the birth of a child, heralded by an angel and crowned as king, an outcast even before he was born. Advent is full of dichotomy.
As we travel through this short season we journey with the very sun. In the Northern Hemisphere we note the amount of light in the day lessens dramatically, the air around us cools, nature responds with starkness where once there was lush green. Change is so perceptible that it surprises us, no matter how many times we have experienced this season of waiting.
In such a time of change, we might look for what is constant, what is comfort. We seek the ideas, patterns, and moments that anchor us, that remind us that we have been here before and we will move through this again. We take stock of what roots us in our lives.
Many of us look to family at this time of year. Some of us focus on what is to come. In Church we learn of the story of our salvation, and the plans in place to bring everything into its completion. Through all of this we rely on the promise God made to God’s people, a promise of abundance so spectacular that it can only come from an extravagant, generous God. A God who will lend us a piece of Their divinity in the humanity of flesh like ours. We are rooted in abundance. We are people of Advent Hope.
What tensions do you experience in Advent and how do you reconcile them? In what ways do you experience abundance even when the skies are heavy and the nights are long?
Check out “From the Prayer Chair” by Rev Haydn
Rev Haydn will have office hours this coming week on Wednesday and Friday from approximately 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM. Helen is in the office from 10-12 on Wednesdays.
Please contact the Wardens with any concerns and good news!
Rector: 403 999 4181. [email protected]
Rector’s Warden: Liz Sutherland: 403 601 6952 C
People’s warden: Pat Reid: 403 652 2021
Church office: 403-652-2271 Email: [email protected]
Offerings by e-transfer via [email protected]
