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Thursday, September 27th, 2007Upcoming Events
- October 7 - Harvest Thanksgiving
- October 8 - Noon Community Dinner
- October 9 - 2,00 pm Group “B”
- October 12 - Diocesan Synod
- October 13 - Diocesan Synod
- October 14 - Ultrea
- October 17 - Parish Council
- October 21 - Food Bank Collection
- October 23 - Ministerial - 6.00 pm
- October 27 - Harvest Bazaar - 12.00 noon - 3.00 pm
- October 21 - Food Bank Collection
Harvest Thanksgiving
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Saturday October 6–Sunday October 7–Harvest Thanksgiving Worship: “Creator of the fruitful earth, you made us stewards of all things. Give us grateful hearts for all your goodness, and steadfast wills to use your bounty well, that the whole human family today and in generations to come, may with us give thanks for the riches of your creation.” Collect–BAS page 396
Harvest Bazaar
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Saturday October 23–St. John’s Harvest Bazaar: 12:00-3:00 in the parish halls.
In addition to raising funds for the ministry of St. John’s, the parish Bazaar provides a time of fellowship, the opportunity to purchase quality foods, clothing and crafts and an affordable lunch. Further details will be made known over time.
Community Dinner
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Monday October 8–Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner (doors open at 12:30 with the meal at 1:00 p.m. Please join us as this parish outreach ministry puts faith into action.
Community Dinners are held on the 3rd Sunday of each month (except December when St. Francis de Sales offers their Christmas meal and at Easter and Thanksgiving when our meal is served on the holiday Monday at 1:00 p.m.) St. John’s ministry of Community Dinners which began as a stopgap measure has sustained itself and grown in response to Jesus’ call to his church to feed the hungry, welcome the lonely and be an instrument of God’s care for all people.
Diocesan Synod
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Friday October 12–Saturday October 13–Diocesan Synod in Cornwall.
“Behold I make all things new”-Revelation 21:5 (Embracing the future)
Members from St. John’s will join with Anglicans from our Diocese to prayerfully consider serious issues currently facing our church that will impact our future. It will provide us an opportunity to listen to each other and to our new Bishop John Chapman and to consider how best to approach being the church in a rapidly changing world.
In our Anglican spiritual tradition, we do not have a centralised authoritarian organisation or have decisions made for us based upon a few written-in-stone “faith” statements. Instead we make decisions carefully over time as a community. Representative groups of both clergy and lay people meet together under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and reflect on Scripture and Tradition in the light of Reason when making decisions. We consider a variety of positions and emphases to be healthy within the family of our world-wide communion. Diocesan Synods are one example of how the Anglican way works.