Fall Bazaar Revisited: Sunday, Dec. 3rd

Fall Bazaar Revisited:  Sunday, Dec. 3rd following the church services we will have the remaining Handicrafts and Country Store items for sale.  Our Total to date is $6,750. We are wondering if $7,000. Is possible?  Please take a moment to have a look and see if you missed a treasure the first time around. I would like to thank all the volunteers this year for their support that made my job so much easier but a special Thank You  to Joanne Walton, Brenda Binns, Sylvia Bradley and Mel Moore just to mention a few.  You went above and beyond! This is also the time to mention my retirement as Bazaar coordinator.  After many years it is time for new and creative ideas and more energetic leadership.  This is not an onerous task as there are many people willing to help but events need a leader.  I’m putting out a request to the total Parish to consider taking on this responsibility. The Bazaar is not only a major fund raiser but it is the largest event we have that involves the entire parish community. The bazaar is always a time of fun and fellowship but also a time of deepening relationship with people that we may not always have contact with.  It would be a shame to not have it continue.  Please prayerfully consider this volunteer position. Ferne Malcolm

Upcoming Dates and Events

  November 16- 10:30 am- 1 pm, St. Johns Food Bank.  Come and join us for the community lunch November 16- 7 pm, Anglican Church Women meeting in the hall.  All welcome. November 18- 11:30 am, Cooper-Read wedding November 20- 1:30-3:30 pm, Seniors Tea in the parish hall November 26- Reign of Christ, Advent wreath making after 10 am service November 27- 7-9 pm, Parish Council meeting in the PMC December 3- Advent Wreath Making Workshop following the 10am service December 10-11:30-12:30, “How to take out Jesus: practicing home communion”

Advent Wreath Workshop – November 26th, ’17

MARK YOUR CALENDAR Advent Wreath Making Workshop Sunday November 26th , 2017     Following the 10:00am service in the Church Hall. Greenery and embellishments will be provided. Please be sure to bring your own cutters and candles! For more information please see Ann Adair Austin.

All Souls Night – Thursday November 2, 7:30 to 9:30 pm

Pray for the souls of the world In the darkness of the turning of the year, we remember those who have died.  Come enter a sacred space and lift them up to God. Whether there are recent losses for you among family or friends, or whether you want to honour victims of violence and disaster in our world, here is a time to remember and to hope.  We light our candles against the darkness and proclaim that love is stronger than death, and that peace and justice will prevail. “But the souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, and no torment will ever touch them.  In the eyes of the foolish they seem to have died, and their departure from us was thought to be a disaster, and their going from us to be their destruction, but they are at peace.”  Wisdom 3: 1-3     In the darkness of our times, pray for the souls of the world Drop in to the church 7:30 to 9:30 pm Walk on our indoor labyrinth Light a candle and add a name or prayer to a wall of remembrance Experience Sung Holden Evening Prayer 9-9:30 pm st. john the apostle church 2208 St. Johns Street Port Moody, BC 604-936-7762 www.stja.ca Sunday services 8:30 & 10 am

Fall Bazaar – November 4th

Fall Bazaar

Fall Bazaar:   Three weeks until The Bazaar but still plenty of time to complete your handicrafts, make your gourmet treats for the Country Store, plan your baking for the Bake Table or to search your house for that Nu 2 U treasure.  A little fall, spring cleaning may also yield items for the White Elephant (no TV’s or electronics ,please). I hope you have your Raffle tickets to sell…maybe one of your friends may win the beautiful quilt or one of our Goodie Baskets.  Have you volunteered to help yet?  If not please see Joanne Walton, Sue Hall or Ferne Malcolm.  

Upcoming Dates at St. John’s

Upcoming Dates  September 30- Orange Shirt Day (wear them to church on October 1 too!) October 8- Thanksgiving Sunday November 2- 7:30 to 9:30 pm, All Souls Night with Holden Evening Prayer November 4- 10 am – 2:30 pm, Fall Bazaar

All Souls Night – Nov. 2, 2017 7:30-9:30 pm

  all souls night thursday november 2 7:30 to 9:30 pm Pray for the souls of the world In the darkness of the turning of the year, we remember those who have died.  Come enter a sacred space and lift them up to God. Whether there are recent losses for you among family or friends, or whether you want to honour victims of violence and disaster in our world, here is a time to remember and to hope.  We light our candles against the darkness and proclaim that love is stronger than death, and that peace and justice will prevail. “But the souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, and no torment will ever touch them.  In the eyes of the foolish they seem to have died, and their departure from us was thought to be a disaster, and their going from us to be their destruction, but they are at peace.”  Wisdom 3: 1-3     In the darkness of our times, pray for the souls of the world Drop in to the church 7:30 to 9:30 pm Walk on our indoor labyrinth Light a candle and add a name or prayer to a wall of remembrance Experience Sung Holden Evening Prayer 9-9:30 pm st. john the apostle church 2208 St. Johns Street Port Moody, BC 604-936-7762 www.stja.ca Sunday services 8:30 & 10 am  

Ladies Hat Day – Sunday September 10th

  This Sunday, September 10th, all the ladies of the parish are encouraged to wear their favorite hat to church. Why you ask? Our response is “Why Not”! So find your favourite hat and wear it proudly to church on Sunday!