Newsletter

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Announcements

  • 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

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Our plan to stay connected during this time of social distancing

Zoom Meetings!

  • We are going online using Zoom for Sunday Worship, as well as Tuesday and Thursday Bible Studies

  • You can join Zoom Meetings through your computer or by phoning in (including from a landline)

  • Contact Andrew if you have any questions at sandrewh@hotmail.com or 778-999-9153.

Worship and Sermons

  • Audio files for Sunday Worships and Sermons can be found on our website

  • The Zoom link for our Sunday 10:00am is   https://zoom.us/j/919477422

    • You can also phone into Sunday Worship by dialing 778-907-2071 and entering meeting code 919477422

  • The BCP Service of the Word PDF can be found here

  • The BAS Service of the Word PDF can be found here

Bible Studies Online!

 

Office Hours

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.

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 

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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.

Donations can be mailed to the church, dropped off through the mail slot, or sent directly to PWRDF 80 Hayden St, Toronto ON M4Y 3G2 or https://pwrdf.org/world-of-gifts/

Social Media

Check out our Facebook page and our Instagram page @standrewslangley

 
 
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