Overtimers

Submitted by

Lisa Lethangue

Do you like hymns? Come join us as our own Linda Evans will do a number of hymns we love to sing.

It will be Sept. 14 , starting at 1 p.m.

Join us for a cup of tea and dessert as well.

King City United Church

Submitted by Eleanor Fry

It’s here — Sept. 1, and CNE soon will be gone, kids back to school. But, hasn’t it been such a marvellous summer. Everyone is so tanned and healthy looking.

Our Return to Routine corn roast is Sept. 12 (not the 11th). This is for the whole congregation. Let’s meet with our friends and catch up on their summer activities. There will be lots for the children. Sunday school will formally begin Sept. 26, the week after the Sparrow Lake retreat.

Next week’s meditation will be entitled Our God is full of surprises, based on Acts 9:10 - 18. This is the first in a series of messages about the encouraging ways God works through the church. It will also inaugurate the resumption of our “reflection followup” discussions, which will be held in the parlour following the service. Grab your coffee and cookie and join us where we will go, and what we will do in respect to God’s encouraging word.

Thanks to Marg Ferguson for filling in with our music leadership most Sundays in August. Thanks also to our guests from York Pines. We enjoyed your participation in our services and glad we could worship together during the summer months.

Have you helped out the victims of the Pakistan Floods? Please try to give a donation, through our own church. Mark the envelop “Pakistan Flood Relief.”

Please keep our Shirleys in your prayers. Shirley Burton is back in hospital, as is Mary Lowden. Shirley Scott, please come back soon. We miss you.

Thanks to John Kell for two beautiful songs he sang for us last Sunday. The various choirs will resume their practices during September. Watch for dates as they are finalized.

The official board is planning a special meeting for Sept. 9.

Nancy is in our church office Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please call her if you would like a ride to church, a prayer said for someone special or any information. Services are Sundays at 10 a.m. with Sunday school, then coffee and a cookie in the auditorium. We welcome new and old faces, always.

Written by kids

Question - How do you decide who to marry?

Answer - God decides it all 'way before, and you get to find out later who you’re stuck with.

Kristen — age 10

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church

Submitted by

Kathy Patterson

Church-in-the-Park finally took place this Sunday (Aug. 29) with the weather being perfect. We welcomed many friends, both local and visitors from Graceview Presbyterian Church, Etobicoke. Pastor Chris started a new sermon mini-series: Our Identity In Christ. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at what the Bible tells us who we are as believers in Jesus. In a world of constant change, it will be good to remember and rediscover who we are. Do join us for this exciting series.

Worship services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m. with childcare provided. Sunday school and nursery care will officially start Sept. 12, after the long weekend.

Our Welcome Back Barbecue is Sept. 11. Mark your calendars. Everyone's invited. It starts at 5:30 p.m. Bring your appetites, friends and lawn chairs. There'll be singing ‘round the campfire and smores. It’s a great opportunity to greet old friends, meet new folks, share holiday stories and learn what’s being planned for St. Andrew’s this year.

The prayer-time groups have been meeting when able throughout the summer Sunday and Tuesday mornings. If you are interested in the Prayer-time groups, please contact Kathy Patterson regarding summer times. It is a privilege and a blessing to pray collectively in Jesus’ name, knowing that the Lord is in our midst as promised.

Thoughts and prayers continue to be with Pakistan at this time. One way we can assist financially is through the PWS&D (Presbyterian World Service and Development) which is working with Canadian Foodgrains and the ACT Alliance.

Please contact us should you have any questions, wish to talk, have prayer or praise items or need a ride. Call the Church Office at (905) 833- 2325 or e-mail the church at chris@standrews-kingcity.ca

Check our Web site at www.standrews-kingcity.ca

All Saints’ Anglican Church

Submitted by

Claire Alexander

Sept. 5, the final Sunday of summer holidays, All Saints’ welcomes you at 8 or 10 a.m. Rev. Carole Nixon, relocating from Nova Scotia, will lead us in Holy Communion in the small chapel adjoining the church.

The following Sunday (Sept. 12), the fall worship schedule continues at 8 a.m. in the chapel. At 10:30 a.m. (note change of time), we move back into the sanctuary once again for Holy Communion, with choir and pipe organ, to dedicate the Berwick memorial altar frontal and stained glass windows.

The two worship locations help contrast the dreams of the builders of the first local church in King City almost 153 years ago — as people walked, or arrived with horses through the mud — and those of families seeking more space 50 years ago, when the main church was built in 1960.

In 1857, the same year as our original small chapel was dedicated, Anthony Trollope wrote Barchester Towers, the second of six books about a cathedral town. If we had the patience to take a fresh look at his endless paragraphs laced with wit and gentleness, Trollope’s perspective on the social lives of (male) clergymen, wives, children and parishioners helps us see the kind of transition All Saints’ might also have had over the past century and a half.

No longer are clergy only male. And what about all those unfamiliar Anglican terms: bishop, priest, archdeacon, prebendary, rector, chaplain, curate, warden, see, cure, dean, scholar, high church and low church?

All Saints’ does not have a Trollope today to tell us of the past, but we continue to gather to worship — all pilgrims on the journey of life. Come and join in the narrative of King City. Bring your flaws — we also have them. Bring your gifts — whether of teaching, listening or of encouraging others. We are in the story together.

Now, for us in the 21st century, Rev. Nicola Skinner opens up the Gospel and other Bible readings from 2,000 years ago, or more. Let’s return with joy Sept. 12. If you are new, try out the monthly hot breakfast at 8:50 a.m. between services. Stay at noon, for a potluck lunch and time to greet old and new friends. Your presence can add a new character to the church’s evolving history.

Interested members may attend Parish Council in the Fellowship Room, the evening of Sept. 13.

All Saints’ Anglican Church is at 12935 Keele St., just south of King Road. Please leave messages for Rev. Skinner at (905) 833- 5432, or at allsaintsrev@bellnet.ca