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Many Thanks ...

... to everyone who came out this afternoon (Saturday, November 24th) to St. Luke's Place for our annual Senior's Christmas Tea.  Thank you to everyone who baked, to our Sunday School and youth servers and everyone else who helped out in any way.  

Two good helpers!

More wonderful helpers.

Enjoying the music by Joyful Sound!

Joyful Sound!

Enjoying coffee, tea and Christmas goodies.

There's lots happening on Sunday and next week!

• the Christian Education Committee is holding a bake sale after worship with the proceeds helping to maintain current programs and grow/start more.  The Holy Sherlocks Sunday School class have been busy preparing posters and they will be setting up and managing the bake sale.  I know there will be quite a few Christmas goodies available!
• Bill & Margret Hunter and Yvonne Heaman will be speaking to us during worship to tell us about their most recent trip to Malawi. 
• the sermon title is “Why Pray”
• Special music will be given in praise by the Women’s Ensemble and Annette Denis 

Thank you to Ray & Jack for ringing the bell at St. Andrew's at sundown today as part of The Bells of Peace.

The Athalie Read Group 

is going to assist with preparing boxes for shipping by Samaritan’s Purse for Operation Christmas Child on Friday November 30th. Operation Christmas Child is a hands on way for Canadians to bless struggling children in the developing world by filling shoeboxes with toys, hygiene items and school supplies. This is a fun way for parents and grandparents to teach children to care for and about others.

Each member of the Athalie Read Group packs a shoebox and we invite the congregation to do the same. Instructions for packing boxes can be found at samaritanspurse.ca You can choose the gender and age of the child you want to receive your shoebox. A donation of $10 is needed to cover the cost of shipping. 

Please have your shoebox to the church by Sunday, November 25th.  The shoeboxes will be dedicated during our worship service by Rev. Scott McAndless.

Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

The Athalie Read Group.

Please join the Sunday School children and the Christian Education Committee for this Bake Sale.

This will be a chance for you to "do some Christmas baking!" :)

Everyone is welcome to join us!

 This coming Sunday, October 21, 2018, St. Andrew's Hespeler will celebrate our 163rd anniversary as a congregation. We will mark this anniversary, as we always do, by celebrating our heritage, but this year we will try to look at that heritage in some new ways and take a look at our connection with the people who inhabited the land before us. We will pray for healing and reconciliation for both indigenous and non-indigenous people in Canada.

We will have some very special guests that will help us to celebrate as we learn and grow. We are very pleased to welcome:

Theresa McGregor: Drum and Song carrier, Moon Bundle, Earth and Water Protector and Traditional Women’s Dancer

Mino Ode Kwewak N’gamowak (Good Hearted Women Singers) will sing and dance with Theresa.

Sasha Sky & Shannon Pride of the White Owl Native Ancestry Association who work to bring healing to aboriginal people and others.

After worship at 10 am, the celebration will continue downstairs in the Fellowship Hall.

A Potluck Lunch will follow at 11:30. Please plan to bring a dish to share. All are welcome.

The Blanket Exercise which will follow the lunch at noon. The Blanket Exercise is a moving experience that has helped many people understand how aboriginal people have experienced our common history. It will be led by Sasha Sky and Shannon Pride

In an event happens only every decade or so, this year both World Communion (celebrated the first Sunday of October) and Thanksgiving Sunday (celebrated the day before the second Monday) will fall on the same day this year. All of this will make for a very special service this week.

• We will celebrate Thanksgiving with traditional hymns, message and prayers of thanksgiving.
• We will celebrate the common communion table that is shared by all Christians of every time, place and denomination.
• There will be some very special music including:
• Agnus Dei (by George Bizet) Given in praise by Margaret McKenzie-Leighton 
• Love is Like a River (By Jeff Silvey and Suzanne Jennings)  Given in praise by Joyful Sound! with solos by David and Bob!
• The Minister, Rev. W. Scott McAndless will preach on the practice of Gratitude.

Also, a couple of final reminders: