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SEE HERE FOR THE LATEST CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
ST. ANDREW’S PARISH IS SUSPENDING THE USE OF ITS BUILDING FOR SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES, ACTIVITIES, EVENTS AND RENTALS.
The following groups and events will be postponed until further notice:
Yoga
Prayer Shawl group
Messy Church
Choir Practice
Thursday Service
Our plan to stay connected during this time of social distance
Bible Studies online with Zoom!!
We will be going online using Zoom for Tuesday and Thursday Bible Studies. Contact Andrew by email at sandrewh@hotmail.com or on his cell at 778-999-9153 if you have any questions.
The Zoom link to Tuesday Bible Study 7:00 pm is https://zoom.us/j/987274049
The Zoom link to Thursday Bible Study 10:30 am is https://zoom.us/j/459692611
Worship and Sermons
Audio files for Sunday Worships and Sermons can be found on our website
Lent 4 - Book of Alternative Services Audio Service
Lent 4 - Book of Common Prayer Audio Service
The Zoom link for our Sunday 10:00am is https://zoom.us/j/919477422
The BCP Service of the Word PDF can be found here
The BAS Service of the Word PDF can be found here
Office Hours
The office will be on limited hours but closed to the public. Email will be checked regularly.
Please email instead of phoning for church business, but continue to check in with each other over this time. If necessary call Andrew’s cell at 778-999-9153.
PAD (Pre-Authorized Debit) and Weekly Offering
If you wish to continue to donate to St. Andrew’s during this time, you can do so utilizing our PAD option. Once a month, on our 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 send your donation via Canada Post to St. Andrew’s 20955 Old Yale Rd, Langley City, BC V3A 7P8.
See below for information about the PWRDF Lenten Campaign! For every $10 raised a leaf will be added to our Lenten Tree!
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund is pleased to announce that the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation (MCIC) is supporting an ongoing project in Bangladesh.
The project in Bangladesh involves training locals in the coastal regions to be more resilient to the effects of climate change, which has made Bangladesh increasingly vulnerable. PWRDF has been working in climate vulnerable areas that have suffered visible effects of natural disasters, targeting 22,000 Bangladeshi farmers in 10 villages threatened by drought, floods and cyclones. MCIC has matched PWRDF’s contributions on a 1:1 basis to support the second year of the three-year project.
The project has already made great progress in the first year thanks to PWRDF and its donors. Two villages have been prepared for mangrove regeneration in order to help protect the shorelines against erosion, flooding and high winds. The communities have been trained on how to protect these plants to ensure their survival and growth.
Bamboo bindings have been set up to redirect water and prevent river erosion and flooding of valuable farm land. Four of these bindings, locally known as chatkas, have been built. With the support of MCIC, PWRDF looks forward to assisting the local partner and communities in building more of these bindings, protecting more communities from flooding and river erosion.
PWRDF partner UBINIG has begun to set up farmers field schools in six villages in climate vulnerable areas. These schools are sharing knowledge about farming in drought and flood prone areas as well as discussing the challenges that climate change is presenting.
The project has a focus on increasing knowledge, as well as the capacity to adapt to climate change in the local communities. Men and women in disaster prone areas have gathered to discuss common concerns. Women have taken up the cause of seed preservation as a way to address the losses associated with natural disasters and extreme weather. These discussions help to share knowledge and identify the gaps as well as plan to take action to protect the communities and make them more aware of the effects of the changing climate.
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