Category: News

Stocking stuffer items

Stocking Stuffer items

Beautiful Hand Knit items

Getting ready for dinner.

Walkers, getting ready to walk the doggies and hand out candy canes.

On the float, having a Birthday party!

The drivers.

Accepting the "Best Homemade Float" award at the Hespeler Optimist Club party.

Basket night is always a blast at the Thursday Night Supper and Social at St. Andrew's Hespeler. This year, thanks to the generosity of the people of the church and the community, we were able to fill 54 baskets to distribute to our special guests who come out week after week.

 A great time was had by all. Next week we will be welcoming the community in for a wonderful Christmas feast and, rumour has it, there may even be a special visitor for the kids.

Our Clerk of Session, Rob Hodgson, has the very important (and sometimes difficult) job of making sure that communications always flow as best as they can in the life of the congregation. He latest initiative to keep everyone informed is to create and maintain a blog for session news and information.

You can find his blog at the following link:
Session Clerk's Blog

If you subscribe to our News feed, you will receive notices whenever the blog is updated or you can go back to check it whenever you like.

We are in the process of reorganizing our home page to offer you easy access to all of our blogs.

The Longest Night Service

Join us at 7:30 pm on December 21st.

 

  

A BIG shout out to Food Basics.

On Thursday, December 3rd our Hope Clothing Coordinator would like to hand out care packages to all of the men & women clients of Hope Clothing and the Cambridge Self Help Foodbank.  Won't you please help us?  Pictured below is a sample of what will be contained in a woman's pack.  If you could contribute one of these bags (and perhaps a toonie to help with the cost of the nice bags) it would be very much appreciated.  You may drop off these bags at Hope Clothing or to the office weekdays, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm or on Sunday mornings  Thank you for helping make Christmas a little easier for those in our community who need a llittle extra help.

This song, adapted from the Beatles' classic, was performed this past Sunday by Corey Cotter Linforth. Thank you to Corey for sharing your passion for a better world with us:

I heard the news today, oh boy
About a city torn apart again
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I've heard this song before

They shot them inside Bataclan
They didn't notice that the times have changed
A crowd of people opened doors
Faces never seen before
Everybody is so sure that we should go to war

I read the news today, oh boy
Beirut reeling from the acts of war
A crowd of people turned away
It didn't stir our hearts
They don't look like us
They'd love to make us see

Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs to get some air
Somebody spoke and I couldn't breath

Ahhh....

I saw the news today, oh boy
A child face down in the sand
And though he was so very small
We have to count them all
Now we know we don't have enough to share
“We'd love to take you in, but...”