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.
A Day in the Life, November 2015
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...”
A Sneak Peak
St. Andrew's STARS recorded the annual Christmas STARS to be presented on
Sunday, December 13th at 10:00 am.
Here's a quick peak!
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Frosty the Snowman appeared for the recording of the STARS. |
Sunday School gets ready for the Senior’s Tea!
On Sunday our Sunday School classes prepared some table decorations for the Senior's Tea on November 22nd, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, at St. Luke's (in the auditorium).
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And sometimes we just get silly! Sorry we are missing one person. |
Guess who achieved their CLUB 10 this Sunday?
CLUB 10 rewards our Sunday School students every time they have attended Sunday School (at St. Andrew's) for 10 weeks.
This week we had 2 CLUB 10 awards. Way to go Cameron & Sarah!
A BIG thank you!
We would like to say a very BIG thank you to the Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Fund& the D. H. Falle Family Foundation Fundfor supporting Hope Clothing!
Community support for Hope Clothing is very much appreciated and enables us to continue to reach out to members of our community who need some extra help making their budget stretch. We provide clothing for the entire family.
Hope Clothing is open:
Tuesdays: 12 noon - 3:00 pm
Wednesdays: 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Thursdays: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Script Out Passages: Lessons from Sodom and Gomorrah
Hespeler, 15 November, 2015 © Scott McAndless
Genesis 19:1-13, Matthew 10:5-15, Isaiah 1:9-18
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n late August, 2005, as we all remember, a powerful hurricane named Katrina made landfall on the southern coast of Louisiana. Katrina did a whole lot of damage, but no place was hit harder than the City of New Orleans. Many who surveyed the damage at the time gave the opinion that a great American city had simply been wiped off of the map. It was positively apocalyptic.
As always happens in the face of that kind of tragedy, there was a great deal of soul searching and people asking why. Why did this happen? And there were lots of answers that were offered. Climate change and weather, the failure of the levees was blamed on the army corps of engineers, the failings of disaster assistance were blamed on the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But by far the clearest answer to the whyquestion was given by a Christian evangelist by the name of John Hagee. Hagee declared that the cause of the disaster was obvious. It was God’s judgement. In particular, he stated, it had happened because some sort of Gay Pride parade had been planned in the French Quarter of the city. The hurricane had been sent by God to stop it.
And what was the proof that Hagee offered for his explanation. He pointed to an