BULLETIN BOARD
NEW NOTICES
CD BY ALAN THOMAS – A few CD’s of “Your Favourite Hymn Tunes” by Alan Thomas are still available, at the modest cost of $10. Please speak with Rev. Ron (475-3212), if you wish to purchase this CD of the great hymns of the Church. Alan is a most accomplished musician.
PIE SALE – The Ways and Means are selling pies for $5.00 each. Please fill out the order sheet and give it to any member of the Ways and Means Committee. The pies should arrive around the second week in November. All orders must be in by October 16, 2011. Call Joanne Hanley at 876-7348 if you have any questions.
YOUTH CONFERENCE – The 9th Annual Diocesan Youth Conference is being held in Canoe Cove, PEI beginning at 6 pm on Friday, November 11th. Students in grades 7-12 are invited to participate. This is an opportunity to live together in Christian community with youth and their leaders from all over the Diocese. There will be a variety of outdoor and indoor activities, meaningful worship and active learning about PWRDF Living Justice. For information on registration, buses, the host camp, etc., please join the Facebook Group, DYC 2011 or email youth@nspeidiocese.ca. Registration deadline is October 15th.
CHURCH CALENDARS – St. Andrew’s Ladies Group will be selling calendars again this year beginning in October.
FOOD DRIVE – On October 9th, we will be holding our annual food drive for the food bank at St. Marguerite Bourgeois Church. Food items include cans of soup, stews, fruit cocktail, tomato sauce, canned mushrooms, canned milk, canned carrots/peas, as well as boxes of cereal, crackers, and cookies along with pasta. No perishable items pleas. Let’s make this a bigger drive!
BIBLE STUDY GROUPS – The afternoon and evening Bible Study Fellowship Groups will meet on Tuesdays, October 4 and 18, at 2 pm – 3:30 pm and 7 pm to 8:30 pm, respectively, as we continue our study of The Acts of the Apostles. Come and join with us!
BOOK STUDY – The Book Study Group will resume meeting in the Fellowship Room on Wednesday, October 12th at 2 pm. For our fall reading we look at the book “A Compassionate Life in 12 Steps” by Karen Armstrong
YARD SALE – St. Andrew’s Ladies Group will be having their fall Yard Sale on Saturday, October 15th. We are looking for good, clean, used clothing, books, toys, plants, household items, etc. We are no longer able to accept computers and accessories, TV’s, encyclopedias, infant car seats and large furniture items. Items can be brought in and left on the stage after Sunday, October 9th. For more information, contact any member of the Ladies Group.
CRAFTER’S MARKET – Saturday, October 29th from 8 am to 3 pm. Admission $2, children are free. There will be a Canteen, Crafts, Jewellery, Baked Goods and Preserves and much more. Please plan to come. Contact Darlene at 876-1795 (darlenemartell@eastlink.ca) or Jo-Anne at 443-0633 (joian@ns.sympatico.ca).
A NOVA SCOTIA CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION – Please mark this date, November 26th on your calendars. This show will be well worth seeing. More details will follow.
MISSION TO SEAFARERS – St. Andrew’s Ladies Group will be looking after providing shoeboxes for the Mission to Seafarers again this year. We will provide a collection box in the front porch starting in October. List of items for shoeboxes: envelopes, writing tablets,
deodorant, razors, shaving cream, shampoo, soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste, warm socks, hats, mitts, scarves, wrapped hard candy. For more information contact Wendy at 443-4630.
ONGOING NOTICES
SIDES PERSONS – We are looking for people to volunteer as sides persons. A sides person hands out the books and bulletins and greets the people as they arrive for church. They take up the offertory and after church; they stay and count the offering. If this is a job you would like to do, please contact Brenda Morash at 876-2389. The more volunteers we have the fewer times your name will appear on the roster.
RECTOR’S OFFICE MEMORIALS – Memorial donations towards the construction costs of the Rector’s office are now being received. Donations in the amount of $110.00 ($100 plus $10 engraving) will allow contributors to place a memorial on a plaque to be located outside the office. There are twenty-four spaces for memorials. Once all spaces have been filled we will dedicate the office in memory of those identified on the plaque. If you wish to make a donation, please see either Rev. Mike or Rev. Judie. Thank you for your generosity
PWRDF; There are memorial cards for the Primates Fund on the table at the back of the church. They are self explanatory and a worthwhile way of remembering friends or relatives as this fund assists people around the world.
CAMPBELL SOUP LABELS AND POSTAGE STAMPS -Thank you to those who continue to drop off labels and stamps. To those who have not yet contributed: the labels must be complete (with no Scotch tape or staples), and stamps need to have a least ¼” of envelope around them. We have recently received many stamps from foreign countries – the US, UK, Australia, etc. – which are most welcome; please keep them coming. Sale of the stamps supports the Bible Society, while the soup labels provide amenities for Landmark East in the Valley. Our stamps and labels are taken to the ACW office and they distribute them.
FOOD BANK – The St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Food Bank is always in need of canned fruit, canned meat, pasta, peanut butter, jam, crackers and pudding. They are currently running short on the following food items: boxes of cereal, cookies, and jello. Your ongoing support is greatly appreciated.
CYCLES OF PRAYER
ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER: Pray for St. Asaph – (Wales) with the Rt Revd John Wyn Evans.
PROVINCIAL PRAYER CARE – THE ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE OF CANADA
Currently not available.
DIOCESAN CYCLE OF PRAYER – SOUTH SHORE REGION
Bridgewater and the Conqueralls – The Rev Ron Appleton & Sandra.
Blandford – The Rev Marian Lucas-Jeffries & Graham Jefferies.
LET US GIVE THANKS
PLEASE PRAY FOR our Sunday School and the teachers and children as they begin regular classes this morning.
OUR PARISH CYCLE OF PRAYER: Melvin & Agnes Allen, Bob & Anne Angus, Lynn Anstey, Andre & Marcy Barthelotte, Harold & Una Beaver, George Benight and their families.
PRAY FOR THE SICK: Roisin, Sue, Lindy, Mitchell, Andrea, Joan, Cheryl, Bob, Stuart, Weldon, Daisy, James
BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE: Kerry Lyle Slade, Harry Lafford, Barbara L Sawler, George Parsons, Allan Jude Proctor, Floyd Walker. Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them. AMEN