Newsletter: Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Sunday, March 31st, 8 & 10am - Easter Sunday

We celebrate the Resurrection with joyful music! At the 10am service, Greg’s brass quintet Free Range Brass will join us to ring in Easter in style! With special anthems from Maureen & the St Andrew’s Choir.

Bring Flowers!

Rob has put together a cross for us to weave flowers into on Easter morning, so please bring as many flowers as you can to help decorate the church! Don’t forget to bring some flowers! Also, please remember to bring some flowers…

Remember to identify you offering envelopes!

Due to the number of new people both attending the church and working at the church, please ensure that your name and/or offering number are clearly marked on any and all offering envelopes! We want to make sure that we can credit you for the monetary gifts you give to the church.

Please make sure that your name and/or offering number are clearly marked on your envelopes!

Spring Yard Clean-Up

Starting on Saturday, March 23rd at 9am, I’ll be here at the church getting started on the yard work. You are invited to come as you are able! And if you don’t feel able, feel free to bring water and snacks for the hungry workers! We meet every Saturday at this time through March and April.

Some of the jobs that need doing:

  • raking up leaves, branches and pine cones from the grass and parking lot.

  • cleaning up the garden beds

  • scraping moss off the curbs

  • pulling grass from the rock strip around the church

  • pulling buttercups from the memorial garden under the cross window

  • cutting low-hanging branches from the trees

  • raking out all the little mole holes

  • removing the dead tree from the sacristy courtyard

  • washing the outside of the windows around the church

  • raking out the daycare yard

If you are interested in doing ongoing lawn maintenance through the summer, please speak to Cathy who will set up a lawn-care schedule in the coming weeks. Ideally, we would like four lawn-care teams.

Special thanks to Jim G for sharpening the blades on the lawn mowers!

Events!

Tuesday Bible Study will be on hiatus for Holy Week and Easter week! Stay tuned for when the next series begins.

The Thursday Healing Eucharist will be on hiatus for Holy Week and Easter week. Stay tuned for when we start up again. And please offer feedback if you are interested in keeping up with the Thursday in-person Bible Study at 10am. Attendance was low, but there were some committed attenders. Let me know if you think this is something we can build up!

Our Saturday afternoon Spiritual Practice Retreat will be on the 30th of this month, beginning at 1:30pm and going until 4:45. Our topic is The Seven Last Words of Christ. Please sign up for the retreat on the sheet on the office window! There will be another retreat April 27th, where we’ll be looking at The Spiritual Practice of Pastoral Visiting.

Keep your eyes open for the Knitting Group. They usually meet on Wednesdays.

The next Family Eucharist service will be on April 20th from 4:30-630pm, and the theme will be Easter! This is a fun time for the whole family and includes a Bible story, some crafts and activities, Holy Communion, and pizza supper. Please mark this day in your calendar and plan to bring your whole family. And, if you are interested in helping with some of the activities, Cathy & I are going to have a short meeting to make some plans. Please let me or Cathy know if you would like to help out!

Care Home Ministry in April

Wed, Apr 17th 2pm Harrison Landing service

Thu, Apr 18th 2pm Harrison Pointe service

Centre for Spiritual Renewal

Check out the Centre’s offerings! Click the button below…

As always, please let me know if you or anyone you know would like a visit from the clergy!

Love from,

Andrew