Sunday 8:00 am Said Eucharist Service

Sunday 10:00 am Sung Eucharist Service

Tuesday 7:00 pm Online Bible Study

The Bible Study Zoom link is: https://zoom.us/j/919477422

Wednesday 6:30 pm Yoga

Thursday Eucharist and Spiritual Practice are cancelled for May 12

This Week’s Worship

Sunday, May 8

Please join us for in-person services

(masks and socially distancing is recommended)

8 am Said Eucharist Service
10 am Sung Eucharist Service

or you can join at 10 am on Zoom

The Zoom link for Sunday 10 am is:

https://zoom.us/j/919477422

You can also phone into Sunday Worship at 778-907-2071 and enter meeting code 919477422

Plan for moving Sunday worship to the Hall

St Andrew’s ‘Café Church’, Spring/Summer 2022

Beginning on Sunday May 15th, the St Andrew’s congregation will move from worshipping in the church Sanctuary to worshipping in the church hall to give us time to prepare the Sanctuary for upcoming renovations. This change will last for up to 12 weeks until the end of July (or until the renovations to the Sanctuary are completed).

For Café Church, we will leave the hall set up as it is for coffee time and will add more chairs if that becomes necessary. We will move a lot of the Sound equipment (including the computers for Zoom) into the hall but will pack the projectors away and use TV monitors to display the service. The regular service bulletin will also be available. We will also move the small credence table (which we will use as the altar), the lectern, and the wooden music stand to the hall. The electric piano is already there. All these items will be stored in the little storage room in the hallway during the week so as to not interfere with regularly scheduled programming.

The current tentative schedule for renovation is as follows:

May 14 – removal of the altar platform
Late May – tidying and organizing all our stuff so that renovations can proceed
Early June – electrical work to prepare for floor polishing
Early to mid-June – floor polishing
Late June / early July – painting
Late June / early July – electrical work related to the lighting and AV set up
Early to mid-July – we move back into our newly renovated Sanctuary

the Rev. Andrew Halladay
Vicar, St Andrew's Church - Langley

Tickets are available through the church office or Vancouver Orpheus website. Please make cheques out to Vancouver Orpheus Male Choir.

Rev. Lorie Martin will be ordained into the priesthood on June 11 at 10:30 am at Christ Church Cathedral. It will be live streamed also. You can find the link on the diocesan website. https://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/

The Thursday Spiritual practices for May will be:

10:30 am “What is a Spiritual Companion Group?”

The Saturday practice for May will be:

May 28 4:30 pm. A World Full of Wonder: Spiritual Practices from Evolution and Ecology – Facilitated by Rev. Cameron Gutjahr.

Science and religion have much in common; at their best, they are disciplines that encourage curiosity, wonder and delight – spaces that are open for asking questions and exploring connection and relationship. Together, over the course of this evening, we will pray with phylogenetic trees, meditate with microscopic organisms, and reflect on the relationships that connect us to all living things, and ultimately, to God.
Cameron is a priest of St. John the Divine Anglican Church in beautiful Squamish, BC. He has a Master of Divinity at Huron University in London Ontario, after a BSc, with a focus on evolution and ecology, at UBC in Vancouver.

Suggested Donation: $10 - $20. (Sung Prayer follows 6 - 6:30 pm - no fee)

Sung Evening Prayer Last Saturday of the Month

6:00 pm Facilitated by the Rev. Andrew Halladay. Come enjoy the beautiful music, calm, quiet, and the new Easter Prayer Stations. No registration or fee. Bring a friend and make a meaningful memory.

Upcoming Events - Save the date!

May 7 9 am to 12 pm. Grace in Grief Retreat Day - Facilitated by Rev. Lorie Martin (please register by calling or emailing the office.) Suggested Donation $40 $20 $10 (Full scholarship is available so all who want to attend are welcome.)

Hope can rise in the midst of loss. This retreat invites participants to acknowledge loss and grief by coming a bit closer to it, and as Rumi says, "Stay with it." It includes looking at loss through story and symbol, reflecting with simple art expression, and lightly guided listening in prayer.
We all have soul force to spring back when life offers challenges - P. Fleming.

New Prayer Stations are up for the Easter Season.

Go and check out the beautiful new rock garden space in the front of the Church!! Thank you to Heather and Sid for all their hard work!! We will need help in keeping it beautiful…many hands make light work.

We invite the congregation to add any significant rocks
to the stream bed.

Newsletter - Thursday, May 5