Announcements - updated February 9, 2012
Annual Tax Receipts
If you have not already picked it up, your annual Income Tax Receipt from St. Paul’s is on the Welcome Table. Your tax receipt for any donations to the Our Faith Our Hope Campaign will come separately from the Diocese of Toronto.
Please do not hand deliver receipts to fellow parishioners – they will be mailed out from the church office. Thank you.
Coffee House
Come join us for an open-mic coffee house on Friday February 10 from 7pm -10pm in the parish hall. No charge admission. All welcome. Refreshments available.
“Getting to the Gambia” Dinner
Please come to the Valentine's Spaghetti Dinner here at St. Paul's on Saturday February 11th, serving starts at 6:30pm. Support Penny, Benjamin and Christopher Weese as they go and serve the people of The Gambia on a YFC mission this July. This event is a donation event, so come enjoy a meal in fellowship, then donate what you think the mission needs to succeed. Come enjoy award winning spaghetti sauce, friends, family, fun and fellowship. Call your friends to join you and this will be a night to support mission in your church!The Annual Vestry Meeting will be taking place Sunday February 12, 2012, following a combined 10am service.
- Refreshments will be provided at the Vestry meeting, but please bring your own bagged lunch.
- Vestry Reports will be available for pick-up on the Welcome Table on Tuesday morning (Feb 7). *Please* only take one copy per family. If you require additional copies we encourage you to download the report from the church website and print it at home. Vestry Report
- The list of eligible voters is posted on the bulletin board outside Father Rob’s office. If you believe any additions or corrections need to be made to this list, please speak to Father Rob, Lawrence Weese, or Brian Stonehouse.
Finding The Hope On behalf of the Brighton Ministerial's "Finding The Hope" campaign leading up to the Easter season and beyond, I would like to invite people of prayer to come to a "Concert Of Prayer" at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Brighton, at 2:45pm Sunday Feb. 19th. A short introduction and video will precede a time of inspiration, worship, and guided prayer for our community, closing at 4pm. A time of fellowship with refreshments will follow. All welcome! Also, everyone is welcome every Thursday morning at 11am to attend a time of prayer at Evangel Pentecostal Church, Butler St. We are expecting God to do great things in Brighton! For more information, please call Andrew Fortier at 613-885-5409, or Pastor Paul Shank at 613-475-2444.
Pancake Supper
Shrove Tuesday and the beginning of Lent are just around the corner. Our annual pancake supper will be held on Tuesday, February 21. Further details to be announced soon.
Lenten Lunch & Ecumenical Service
Lenten lunches begin on Wednesday, February 29th at Fellowship Christian Reformed Church. St.Paul’s will be hosting Lenten Lunch on Wednesday March 7th.
World Day of Prayer
The World Day of Prayer takes place on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 10am at Fellowship Christian Reformed Church. All are welcome to attend. If you are interested in volunteering please speak to Rose Ellery.
TRENT-DURHAM AREA DAY OF CELEBRATION
“Come to the Banquet!” No, this isn’t an announcement for another St Paul’s dinner. It is the theme for the 2012 Trent – Durham Area Day of Celebration on Saturday, March 3, taking place at St. Peter’s Church, Cobourg. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to join others across our Trent - Durham church family in a day of food, fellowship, learning and fun. Workshops provide food for the body, mind and spirit such as: The Holy Spirit as Wisdom, Diet and Conscience, Aromatherapy and Essential Oils of Scripture, the Prayer of Lexia Divina and much, much more. Children (4 – 9) and Youth (10 – 17) have their own special programs to attend, running concurrently with the others..
Cost for the day is $15.00 per adult, $9.00 per youth/child. Registration for a group of 10 or more is $10.00 per individual. Cost includes lunch and snacks. For more information, check the Welcome Table for the Area Day brochure. It includes all workshop information and registration forms. Deadline for advanced registration is Friday, February 17, 2012. Hope to see you there!
March 22-29, Ellen Goodeve will be visiting Our Little Roses Ministries in Honduras. Started 25 years ago by the wife of the Episcopal (U.S. Anglican) Bishop of South Florida, they provide safe housing and supervision, food, clothing, medical/dental care, and a full education for girls in Honduras removed by the courts from dangerous homes and life on the streets. At present, 72 girls are wards in residence. $750 provides for 1 girl FOR A YEAR! Ellen will be taking gently used or new girls clothing and accessories (ages toddler-university student), single bed linens, towels, kitchen linens and more. Please speak to her about this important mission, and make use of the big jug on the Welcome Table!
Altar Flowers If you would like to contribute altar flowers in 2012, please speak to Donna Doucette or Ingrid Gerry. The following Sundays are open:
July 1, Sept 16, Oct 28, Nov 4, Dec 2
Advisory Board The next Advisory Board meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 7pm in the Parish Hall.
December Minutes; December Treasurers Report
November Minutes; Nov Treasurers Report; Nov Attendance Figures
October Minutes
September Minutes
Website Pictures
If you are at a church related event, it is possible that your picture will be taken and used for promotional and/or archival purposes by the church. If for any reason you are not willing to have your picture used, please advise Sarah in the church office, the minister, or one of the wardens.. A list will be kept in the church office of those persons who advise us that they do not permit their photo(s) to be used. If you have children under the age of 16, the legal parent/guardian will need to sign a photo release form in order for their pictures to be used on the website. These are available through the church office. Thank you!
