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Greetings on this Thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost / Back to Church Sunday.

  • 9:30 am – Holy Eucharist
  • (Last Sunday of the summer)  Following the Service, our Time Capsule will be opened on the side lawn outside the Office outdoor area.  Invite the children to see this event for the service and opening of the Time Capsule.  Lemonade provided.

 

Rev. John would like you to open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke and turn to chapter 14 and read verses 25-33.  This passage speaks to the cost of discipleship.  In the context of the 21st century, what is the cost of discipleship?

To view readings for this week and the entire year, please use this link to the common lectionary.  https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/

The Hymns for this Sunday are as follows:  If possible look them up on Google or Youtube and listen to them.

  1. Processional Hymn:             When Morning Gilds The Sky
  2. Offertory Hymn:                    When Jesus Calls Us to Meet Him
  3. Recessional Hymn:               I Have Decided to Follow Jesus

Coffee Hour Hosts

We will be serving Lemonade in August following the service out on the lawn. This will also include Sunday, September 7th, one service only at 9:30.  The following week beginning September 14th, we go back to two services, 8:30 am and 10:00 am.  We need coffee hosts for September through to December.  Please sign up.  We need more help to keep this ministry and fellowship going.  Thank you to all who host the coffee and fellowship hours throughout the year.

 Wednesday Services –  No Services for August.  Will resume September 10th at 10:00 am, followed by “Let’s Talk About Grief” at 10:45 am.  

Sunday School – The Teachers are collecting empty Altoids hinged tins (empty mint containers) or other small hinged metal tins for future crafts.  Also, the Teachers are looking for extra helpers to be there for an extra person.  Please call Joy Kemble, Rev. MJ Meinzinger or the office. Thank you for your consideration.

Sunday School will take a summer break and start back up on Sunday, November 2nd.

Office Hours:  The Office is open Wednesday and Thursday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm; Friday, 9:00 am – 11:30 am.

Financial Givings to the Church

The following are ways of giving financially to the Church:

 The Giving Tree

For the September Month our Giving Tree is celebrating children!  Please keep the little tabs off of pop cans to be donated to a child hoping for a new wheelchair at the Children’s Treatment Centre!  We can collect them all year and Joy will periodically take them to the CTC.  Take a paper off the tree and make a suggestion for a future focus of the Giving Tree?  Thank you.  Joy Kemble

Please be advised that portions of the Worship services are sometimes taped or photographed and placed on our Facebook or Website.  If you do not wish to be recorded or photographed, please advise a Warden, Rev. John or the Church office.

Cash/Gift Cards (Orders due First Friday of the Month) - Friday, September 5th

Please submit your orders to Vicki V. or to the Church Office Mail Box by 11:30 am on the scheduled Friday.  You receive full value of the card and the Church receives a percentage from the value of cards purchase towards our operating fund.

Please note: Loblaws cards (used at the Real Canadian Superstore and No Frills) is appreciated towards the Little Food Pantry and/or Monday Bag Lunch Program.  You purchase the card(s), donate to the church, and the value is added to your yearly contribution on your tax slip.  We thank you for your ongoing support.

 Pop Can Sundays – (first Sunday of each month)- Sunday, September 7th.  Bring your empty aluminum cans in a tied bag (beer cans to be separate)  and place them by the McKeough Memorial Fountain before coming into the Sanctuary.  Thank you with this project.

 Weekly Evening Compline will resume Friday, September 12th at 7:00 pm.   

 Free Spanish Lessons – Will resume on Thursday, September 18th at 5:00 pm. 

 Men’s Breakfast (3rd Friday of the month).  8:00 am -  Friday, September 19th  at Hungry Man’s Restaurant, Keil Drive.

Sunday, September 28th at 2:00 pm the Memorial Gardens Service will take place outside in the Memorial Garden.  If it rains, it will be held in the Sanctuary.

 Roast Beef Dinner Dine In or Take Out – Saturday, October 18th.  Tickets $25.00 each.  Available Monday, September 1st from a Warden or call the Church Office or if you can volunteer.  Roast Beef, Gravy, Red Skinned Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Mixed Vegetables, Coleslaw, Mini Cheesecake, Roll & Butter, Coffee & Tea.

 Christ Church Bazaar will be Saturday, November 29th.  We are looking for items for our White Elephant table, canning/preserves.  Items can be brought into the office for the White Elephant table and we will store them until the date of the Bazaar.

 Anglican Church 2026 Calendars are now available in the Church Office for $7.00 each.  Please call ahead to reserve.  Thank you.

Empty Paper Towel Rolls, Egg Cartons only please being accepted.  We are no longer collecting margarine and cool whip containers.  Please no toilet paper holders.  Thank you for your generosity.  Place at the back of the Church.

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A little background concerning our time capsule:

Our Time Capsule was buried on June 12th, 1994 with the intent for it to be unearthed on our 200th anniversary in 2019. Original church St. Paul’s on Gaol Street (now Stanley Ave) was built in 1819. 

It was not unearthed on our anniversary. 

Fr. Ken Anderson was the rector at the time. The service times were 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Attendance for the Time Capsule burial was 52 at 8:30 a.m. and 240 at 11:00 a.m. services.

The following are replies received of what might be in it.

That Sunday's Bulletin

A Newspaper

A VHS tape, a floppy disk

The signatures of the whole Congregation

A Church Directory

Something Goofy from the Choir

Blue Jays or Detroit Tigers Stats

Please join us on Sunday, September 7th as we unearth the Time Capsule.