Christmas celebration at Bible Church
King Bible Church
Submitted by Lisa Lethangue

King Bible Church Overtimers invites you to Christmas Celebration Dec. 4. Dessert, tea and coffee will be served at 1 p.m. and the program is from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Hilary Price, wife of the Pastor of Peoples Church in Toronto, will be bringing us the Message of Christmas. The Venables Family of Holland Landing will be blessing us with music.

For further information, please contact King Bible Church at (905) 833-5104.

King City United Church

Submitted by

Shirley Burton

Our doors are wide open to the surrounding community and a warm welcome is extended to all from Rev. Bob Biggar and parishioners at King City United Church.

If you are new to the community, King City United Church is one block south of the King Road and one block east of Keele Street, at 50 Elizabeth Grove. Sunday morning services, including the children, start at 10 a.m.

The children participate in the early part of the morning services, and then go to Sunday school with their teachers, to learn about the Bible in the children's way. It will soon be the story of the baby Jesus, and such a wonderful part of the Bible for the children to learn about their friend Jesus.

Fellowship and refreshments follow the morning services for all.

Next week's reflection is to be Different Kinds of Gardeners, based on Isaiah 24: 1, 3-6. All are invited to gather in the parlour after worship to discuss this further.

The King Township Food Bank is in need of the following items. Nov. 18: Oatmeal; Nov. 25: Side Dishes (Potato, Pasta or Rice); Dec 2: Powdered Milk.

Reminder to anyone taking digital pictures of the church events, please consider sending them to Wayne Smith, jwemith@sympatico, ca, so that he can put them on the Web site.

The choir is currently practising music for Advent and we welcome new members, especially female voices.

Come and celebrate with Rena Gordon on the occasion of her 90th birthday this Saturday (Nov. 17) from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the church. No gifts please, but a donation for the food bank would be appreciated. For more information, call Debbie Howe at (905)-833- 6389.

Pikangikum is an Ojibwe reserve in the Kenora District, approximately 100 kilometres north of Red Lake. A fire in June destroyed their school and everything in it. How an we help? Backpacks with school supplies are needed as follows: pencils, sharpeners, erasers, notebooks, dictionary, calculator, etc.

This year's Men's Dinner is Nov. 23 and 24. If you have never been to our Men's Dinner, you have a missed a wonderful time. All of us women get dressed up and for beginners, we sit down to a beautifully laid table, with candle light. Then the men start out with serving a fresh salad. The next course is roast beef, (all you can eat), and then delicious desert and coffee. After the dinner is finished the men of the church put on a two hour show with lots of music and jokes, etc. There are still tickets available, at a cost of $25. Call Alan Henderson at (905) 833- 5407, John Kell at (905) 833-905, or any member of the chorus.

A blood donor clinic is to be held at the church Nov. 26, from 4 to 8 p.m. You can save three lives. That is the beauty of giving blood.

It's that time of year, once again, to think about sharing our abundance with others during the Christmas season. Margaret Swanson, a member of KCUC, operates a program to sponsor families, called the Christmas Angels. Anyone interested in becoming a Christmas Angel, please call (905) 737-9887, or e-mail to christmasangels@ look.ca

To find information regarding King City United Church, e-mail to kcuc@bellnet.ca; visit the Web site at www.kcuc.ca or phone (905) 833-5181. The church office is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 a.m., to 2 p.m.

Seniors' euchre

The top player for the ladies in Nov. 2 euchre play at King City Seniors' Centre was Dorothy Cloutier (75 points), followed by Dianne Wear and Betty Simmonds (67) and Mary O'Brien (49). Leading things at the men's tables was Jack Wear (78), followed by Vic Warner and Ron Coles (69) and Anne Warner (46).

Draw winners were Gord Fawcett, Barb Male and Rena Gordon.

The next euchre evening will be Nov. 16, starting at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.

All Saints' Anglican Church

Submitted by

Claire Alexander

As November brings more traditional fall weather (and some snow), you are invited to participate in events at All Saints' to warm both your hearts and spirits.

This Sunday (Nov. 18), meet together in the Chapel at 8 a.m., or share the joy in the Church at 10:30 a.m., when twin girls and twin boys are to be baptized by Rev. Nicola Skinner. We'll meet happy parents and proud grandparents over the coffee and cake that follows.

Next Sunday (Nov. 25), drop in at 10:30 a.m. for the monthly service for "the youthful," with contemporary music by the Alexander family band, and coffee hour afterward.

Tuesday Night at the Movies continues with The Dorothy Day Story Nov. 20 at 7 p.m., and Mother Teresa Nov. 27. Wednesday mornings, community friends meet for prayer from 9 to 9:50 a.m. (use rear door). Stay to discuss Sunday's Scripture readings from 10 to 11 a.m.

Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. the choir invites you to practise Christmas music.

This Saturday (Nov. 17) is the annual Craft Sale you have been waiting for, running from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.. It draws 35 crafters and hundreds of shoppers. Buy your tickets for the handmade, queen-sized Mennonite quilt to be raffled and join friends over a delicious lunch, served by Girl Guide Pathfinders. You may also reach the church from Doctors Lane east of Keele Street.

Next Friday (Nov. 23) at 7 p.m., we are having a party; a free Barn Dance with beef stew supper to celebrate our 150th Anniversary. Please RSVP during church office hours if you'd like to join us.

All Saints' Anglican Church, at 12935 Keele St. in King City, is a few doors south of King Road. Office hours are Tuesday to Friday, from 10 to 2. Contact Rev. Skinner at (905) 833-5432, or e-mail allsaints@eol.ca. www.allsaintskingcity.com.