Newsletter
Covid-19 Pandemic
Please see the Diocesan website for the most recent correspondence from the Archbishop regarding the Covid-19 Pandemic: https://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/
St. Andrew’s Office
The office is closed, and we are suspending the use of the building for Sunday church services, activities, events and rentals. The office staff are working from home so please email standrewslangley@shaw.ca, instead of phoning for church business as the phone will only be checked occasionally.
Please continue to check in with one another over this time, especially with those who you know don't use email. If necessary, call Andrew’s cell at 778-999-9153.
The following groups and events will be postponed until further notice:
Yoga
Prayer Shawl group
Messy Church
Choir practice
Thursday Service
Online Worship and Sermons
“When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.” Luke 24:30-31
We are online using the Zoom website for our 10am Sunday Worship.
Connecting with Zoom is as easy as clicking on the link! You can also use your phone (landlines included) to phone into a Zoom meeting! Contact Andrew if you have any questions at sandrewh@hotmail.com or 778-999-9153.
The Zoom link for Sunday 10am is https://zoom.us/j/919477422
You can also phone into Sunday Worship at 778-907-2071 and enter meeting code 919477422
Audio recordings of our Sunday Worship (BCP & BAS) including Sermons are on our website. Bulletins for theses Services can be found at the links below.
Online Bible Study
We are online using Zoom for Bible Studies during the week.
The link to St. Andrew’s Tuesday evening 7pm Bible Study: https://zoom.us/j/987274049 or phone 778-907-2071 & enter meeting code 987274049
The link to St. Dunstan’s Wednesday evening 7pm Bible Study: https://zoom.us/j/645038743
The link to St. Andrews’s Thursday morning 10:30am Bible Study: https://zoom.us/j/459692611 or phone 778-907-2071 & enter meeting code 459692611
The link to St. Dunstan’s Friday lunch 12:30 pm Lectio Divina: https://zoom.us/j/593338969
Your Weekly Financial Offering
If you wish to continue to donate to St. Andrew’s during this time, you can do so utilizing our PAD (Pre-Authorized Debit) option. Once a month, on or after the 12th, we submit to RBC our PAD file to automatically debit from your bank account. If the 12th falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, we process the file the next bank business day. To begin this process, call Carl Markwart at 604-575-3068 to provide your name and banking information. Three bank details are needed (usually taken from the bottom of a void cheque) – your bank’s transit number, bank number and your personal bank account number.
Alternatively, you can drop off your weekly envelopes through the church’s mail slot or mail your donation to St. Andrew’s 20955 Old Yale Rd, Langley City BC V3A 7P8.
There is also the option of e-transfer. You can just send it to the church’s email, standrewslangley@shaw.ca, and it will be sent to our Treasurer.
Sources Food Bank
Our church building is closed, and our baskets remain empty. We invite people to still give money to Sources Langley Food Bank: https://sourcesfoundation.ca/give
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has announced a plan to allocate $200,000 to respond to COVID-19 around the world and in Canada. The money will be spread across four partners: Village Health Works (Burundi), Partners in Health (global response), ACT Alliance’s Global Appeal and HelpAge Canada, supporting vulnerable seniors here.
Donations can be mailed directly to PWRDF 80 Hayden St, Toronto ON M4Y 3G2
If you have a story to share, or want to let us know how you are faring in isolation, please email Joanie or phone Andrew.
“Greetings from isolation!!
This sure is a weird time we find ourselves in!! I hope everyone is staying safe and well, and keeping busy. I miss you all so much, and it is a joy for me to see your faces each Sunday on Zoom! Keeping busy during this time of isolation has honestly not been a challenge for me, as I have been navigating the end of an already very busy term - research is extra interesting when the libraries are all closed, and keeping my cats out of the camera during lectures is a challenge I never thought I would have to navigate!
My studies have had me thinking about the concept of house-churches we often romanticize when we think of early Christian gatherings. I think most of us envision cozy homes much like our own, with nice little make-shift basements outfitted with candles, and small groups of Christians sitting in a circle praying. Having just finished studying Paul and early Christian History in depth, I can tell you it was probably not at all like that - many people in the Roman Empire lived in extreme poverty, 7-10 people in each family squashed into tiny little tenement apartments (the size of an average modern bedroom) with no running water, no cooking facilities and no bathrooms (and no Netflix!)!! In comparison, most of us have a pretty nice setup to be quarantined in! Although for the time being we cannot hug one another, share in the Eucharist, or kneel at the altar in our beloved church buildings (which I know we all grieve - at least I do, very much so), we are so blessed to have safe, warm places to live and food to eat, and soap and water to wash our hands with. I hope we can continue to keep one another in our prayers during these difficult times, especially those who do not have the safety and amenities that we do.
I’m so grateful that while we care for each other from a safe distance, we can continue to meet together via technology until we can be in person again. I love and miss you all, and my heart is with you always. May God protect us, care for us, and comfort us all as we navigate these strange times together. Love and peace in Christ.”
Amanda Ruston
Something to make you smile…
Our Church gardens are bursting with blooms!!! Thank you to David Harrison for his loving care of our gardens while we are in isolation.
“…far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that with the sun’s love, in the Spring, becomes the rose…”
Send pictures to Joanie at standrewslangley@shaw.ca
Please keep checking in on each other!
St. Andrew’s Anglican Church
20955 Old Yale Road, Langley BC V2A 7P8
604-534-6514
standrewslangley@shaw.ca
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