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
NOTE FOR PALM SUNDAY
If you are safely able to, please find a branch of some kind to wave around in place of our usual procession. Andrew has the palm crosses and they will be blessed and available when we are able to gather together again.
We have gone 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.
Holy Week Services
Andrew & David will host on Zoom a sung night prayer service each day at 7pm. Sunday to Wednesday the service will be the same and pretty-straight forward.
Maundy Thursday at 7pm, our hope is that you will fill a small basin or bowl with water, grab the soap and, in place of the usual foot washing, engage in the act of loving service that our current circumstance requires. We will all together wash our hands!
For Good Friday, we will have a service with the reading of John’s Passion at 10am. We are trying to collect pictures of various art pieces depicting the crucifixion to display on the screen during the service. We will have a solemn night prayer in the evening of Good Friday with no music at 7pm.
On Saturday, we will celebrate the Vigil of the Resurrection at 7pm. We invite you to find and light a candle as we sing the Exultet to welcome the new light of Christ into our lives.
The Zoom link for the evening prayer services are https://zoom.us/j/480702216 or call 778-907-2071 and enter meeting code 480702216.
The Zoom link for Good Friday at 10am is https://zoom.us/j/331991441 or call 778-907-2071 and enter meeting code 331991441.
Online Bible Study
Note: For Holy Week there will be no 7pm Bible Studies due to online Holy Week services.
We will be going online using the Zoom website 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 Anglican Journal
This month's Anglican Journal issue is now online, with a focus on Easter. While Eastertide may look different than expected in this time of social distancing and isolation, we hope the April issue will bring some hope, with stories that celebrate resurrection:
See how Anglicans are helping resurrect a community, four years after a devastating wildfire
In his monthly column, the national Indigenous Anglican archbishop muses on the critical importance of love
How Anglicans are working together for good
Liturgical lessons in the Netflix film The Two Popes
PWRDF Lenten Campaign
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/
Our project is number 4, Mangrove Replanting in Bangladesh
For every $10 raised a leaf will be added to our Lenten Tree!
The project involves training locals in the coastal regions to be more resilient to the effects of climate change, which has made Bangladesh increasingly vulnerable. This three-year 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 farmland. Four of these bindings, locally known as chatkas, have been built. PWRDF looks forward to assisting the local partner and communities in building more of these bindings, protecting more communities from flooding and river erosion.
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.
"I suspect living with the COVID-19 'best practices' may have been less traumatic for me than for others. I am comfortable with my own company, at least for the present. I spend more time on the telephone with folk I might ordinarily see regularly, and hope to figure out FaceTime soon to be able to actually see some. Holy Week and Easter just will not be the same this year, yet it is our continued effort to follow Dr. Bonnie Henry's (a local hero is ever there was one) orders that will see us through. For us, I wonder how we will feel comfortable in close company once this epidemic is declared ended?" Please pray for all our 'local heroes'.
Janet Brown
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