tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123090272009-06-08T15:04:13.093-04:00<b> An Anglican Parish in the Diocese of Niagara </b> <br> 60 Guelph St., Georgetown, ON L7G 3Z5 <br> 905.877.8044 office@stgeorgesgeorgetown.comSt. George's Anglican Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135306104214878510noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12309027.post-3412891038741444442009-06-08T14:57:00.002-04:002009-06-08T15:04:06.487-04:00

My Brothers and Sisters in Christ,This is my note to you for June to bring you up to date with things that have happened and what is happening here at St. George's.“Coffee Hour” ExpandedFor just over a month we have be experimenting with a change to our traditional church “coffee hour” that followed the 9:30 service on Sunday’s. In its place, we have set up an large insulated urn of Coffee from

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My Brothers and Sisters in Christ,This is my note to you for April to bring you up to date with some of the "happenings" around here, at St. George's.Easter CelebrationsWow! Easter Day was amazing, thanks to the hard work of some many volunteers here. From the flowers to the music, everything was awesome on Easter. 210 folks celebrated the Resurrection of our Lord at St. George's over our three

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Services at St. George's, Georgetown:Maundy Thursday, April 96:00 pm Parish Potluck Supper and WorshipGood Friday, April 1010:00 am WorshipEaster Sunday, April 128:00, 9:30 & 11:15 amA Service together with other local Anglican Churches at St. John's, Stewarttown:Easter Vigil, April 118:00 pm Worship

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This evening, St. George's team of volunteers for the Acton/Georgetown ALS Walk headed over to the Superstore Community Room to join the Kick-off event. One of our first orders of business as a team was to pick a team name and we decided on the "Saint George's Saints."My thanks to our team leaders Terry and Sandra, who have now set up our team's website to help us take donations. Check out our

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MeSsy CHuRch is a way of gathering to worship that encourages people, young in years as well as young in heart, to explore your spiritual journey in an open and interactive way. Life is messy and MessY ChUrch embraces looking for God at the messy edges of our lives. Noisy, and lively are the order of the day and releasing the energy that comes from enjoying God’s gifts is at the

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Lent is our Christian journey toward Easter. We begin the journey on Ash Wednesday with the sign of ashes, an ancient sign. It is a solemn journey that last 40 days (Sundays are not considered part of the 40 days). The last week of Lent we follow the path that Christ took beginning with Palm Sunday and Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, the last supper on Maundy Thursday, the desolation of the

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In Mark chapter 1, as Jesus begins his ministry at his first stop in the town of Capernaum, Jesus concludes his visit by saying to his disciples, "Let us go on to the neighbouring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do."Jesus doesn't stay a Capernaum. Jesus doesn't stay at Simon's house. Jesus could have stayed. The disciples were ready to stay.

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When we get stuck in life, God wants to help us get “unstuck”. God wants to free us from the things in our life that bind us. God wants to free us from the things that have us feeling like we are trapped and can not escape.There are lots of things that we can get stuck on. It can be big things in our life like an addiction, or our problem we have at our job or in a relationship with someone from

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Wednesday, December 24th - Christmas Eve5:00 p.m. Carols and The Christmas Story7:00 p.m. Worship and Carols accompanied by guitar & piano9:00 p.m. Worship with Parish Choir11:00 p.m. Traditional Worship and MusicThursday, Christmas Day10:00 a.m. Worship and CarolsSunday, December 28th - 1st Sunday after Christmas8:00 am

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Here are our YouTube videos for the Amazing Grace Project.The First is from the 11:15 service.The second is from the 9:30 sevice.

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This past Sunday, like so many Anglican Church across Canada, the good folks here at St. George's joined in song to sing an old favorite hymn. The singing of the hymn "Amazing Grace" in all these churches was intended to remind us God's saving grace, as the words of the song remind us, and also to celebrate our unity as an Anglican Community.The Unity focus itself was two-fold. Primarily, each

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This past Sunday at St. George's the topic of my sermon was justice. Justice is, for me, a basic value of fairness and equality. It is a place where we should begin life and end life.Of course, as we all find out, life is not like that. Justice is something hard to find and injustice is too often where we find ourselves. Human frailty and the ease with which we fall to selfish greed and pride,

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When the current stone church was built in 1878, the peaks of the stone walls on the east and west ends of the nave were adorned each with a stone cross, as was the stone wall of the entrance to the church basement on the Guelph Street side. These crosses are visible in many of the early photographs of St. George’s. In 1921, the sanctuary of the church was extended and the cross that was placed

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I am posting the pdf file of a survey we are circulating to all parishioners, so that anyone who needs a copy can get it from here as well. I realize that you would probably have to print it out to answer it and submit it, and that does seem a bit counter-productive as no trees would be saved in the process.I would be interested in anyone who might be able to give me a better solution to provide

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Back in April, the youth of St. George’s were invited to participate in an event held here overnight called Off the Grid. It is a program developed by The PWRDF, to help increase the awareness of our youth of the serious global issues faced by our planet and all the things that are living on it. As part of the event the youth were encouraged to think about the many ways we use God’s creation, and

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As a special way to mark the coming of the summer is the annual church picnic. With the arrival of the Rev'd Nancy Rowe, as part time assistant priest at St. George's, it was decided that St. George's should have a picnic together with St. Paul's, Norval, where Nancy, as rector, is also the priest in charge. So on Sunday June 15th, at St. Paul's in Norval, at 10:30 am we are having a church

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When the Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream in the very first chapter of Matthew’s Gospel the angel told Joseph that of his son would that “they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us”” (Verse 23).God is with us.This is the promise and the strength of Jesus Christ. We find strength and hope in the knowledge that God is with us, that God walks beside us, that God

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When time is getting short for Jesus’ earthly ministry, Jesus begins to try to prepare the disciples for his departure. Understandably, his disciples don't really take it too well. Even thought they have been there the whole way,they have not quite grasped fully whom Jesus is and what he has been chosen to do. They are anxious about Jesus’ talk about leaving. They are uncertain about the future

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Henriette Thompson is a person of great faith and has a strong sense of ministry in living out her Christian Faith. St. George's is blessed to have Henriette as an active member of our congregation and this article about her work at our Nation Church Office gives us all some insight into the work she does in Christ's name beyond our community and in the larger mission field and the world.In this

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Happy Easter!I have to say that trying to communicate the importance of the resurrection is like trying to capture the grandeur of the mountains with a 5x7 photograph. This is because, in some ways, the story of Easter is one that everyone of you know, and have heard most of your life, and so when we say Jesus was raised from the dead, I wonder what real impact that truth has on you. Yep, that’s

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Palm Sunday Services, March 168:00 am - Said Traditional Service9:30 am - Blessing of the Palms and Communion Service Choir, Church School and Nursery available 10:30 am - Coffee and Fellowship in the Hall11:15 am - Contemporary Worship led by guitar, piano, and vocals, Nursery AvailableMaundy Thursday, March 205:30 pm -

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Hey, guess what? It's snowing. Again.Well, unfortunately, we are canceling the 4pm Messy Church gathering for this afternoon.So, stay inside and have a Hot Chocolate (until it stops and you have to shovel it). But come to Messy Church next month, OK!?!

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I recently saw the Oscar winning movie “A Beautiful Mind” with Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly from 2001. It is a story about the life John Nash, a genius mathematician who struggles with the mental illness schizophrenia and about his relationship with his wife Alicia Nash. Although the movie has many elements that make it an excellent movie to watch, it is, at its heart, a Love story. In the

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When I reading Gospel story about Nicodemus' visit to Jesus, I connected with Nicodemus, who was very disorientated by Jesus’ ministry and his new teachings. In that story, he comes to Jesus to try and figure things out and get a handle on the new covenant that that Jesus is teaching. But, he is definitely lost. Even as Jesus begins to explain further to him his main purposes, in his bewilderment

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There are two questions I would like to raise that I have and, I hope, you can reflect on. Both are questions that are appropriate to story of the wise men’s quest, and to the beginning of this New Year of 2008.The first question is where did God found you, in the last year? Or another way of saying it is, at what places or times in our life in the last year was God’s presence been most evident?

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