Announcements June 27 -July 3, 2010
Meetings up and coming:
Staff Meeting - Tues., June 29th 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday Eucharist - June 30th 10 a.m.
Senior & Junior Choirs - Thurs.
practices for both Senior and Junior Choir are
discontinued until the fall.
****THE CHURCH OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED ON
THURS. JULY 1ST FOR CANADA
DAY.
Coming Events / Activities
BAOBAB BLAST- July 12th-16th. Vacation Bible school
will be an African adventure. Please send in your child’s/children’s
registration forms as soon as possible. Thank you.
Meals
on Wheels: We need volunteers to deliver meals for the month of July.
Please sign the sheet at the back of the church or contact Alma Tosh
(613- 969-0768)
Please Note: Our summer service hours will begin on July 4th,
2010.There will be one service at St.
Thomas’ - 9:30 a.m. and a
9
a.m. service at St. Paul’s.
Also, during the months of July and
August, the church office will be closed on Friday. Summer hours will be
Mon. to Thurs. 9 am to 12 noon.
Garden Helpers Needed, Please
-
by Catherine Hall
At
last, our church gardens have been cleaned up. This is a job that takes a huge
amount of time and energy! It is very satisfying work, though. This spring, I
have worked for about 65 hours on the gardens and several volunteers have
helped by weeding and planting.
Are
you be able to ‘adopt’ a flower bed this summer? The first two gardens, seen as
you come up the driveway, need care-takers. In addition, one of the two beds at
the North door also needs a volunteer to care for it. It is fun to work in
pairs; so, see if you can, find someone to help you out!
It
would also be good to have a few people who could water gardens when a
volunteer is unable to water for some reason. We can facilitate the sharing or
‘swapping’ of tasks by compiling a list of willing people and their phone
numbers.
Please call me at 613 968-5266 to
volunteer in the gardens.
Whether
or not you can volunteer, do take a walk around our church property. Enjoy the
flowers and notice the nine young trees that are doing well, thanks in part to
those who watered them deeply when they were first planted. Thank you, all ‘garden’ and ‘tree’
volunteers. Together we can make St. Thomas’ church
gardens a relaxing and beautiful place to spend some time.
Refugee Sponsorship :
If anyone has a regular old
type answering machine they no longer use we would be glad of it. Also we could
use 2 straight chairs--for the dining table and desk. Thanks for all the
donations.
OUTREACH:
The National & International grants committee is in
need of a co-ordinator.
Green Team Tips:
Turn lights off
when not in the room and unplug any
electronic devices you are not using, because even if they are off they are
still drawing energy
**This past week the light ballasts in the offices, kitchen and library
were retrofitted as part of the Power Savings Blitz through Veridian (at no
cost to the church).
FARMER’S MARKET:
Now that summer is here, there will
be flowers, vegetables, spices and free trade coffee for sale at our Farmer’s
Market.
The money raised goes to the
Primates world Relief Fund. Many thanks to those of you who bring the produce
from our gardens for the rest of us to enjoy.
Summer Reading
If you have the time to do some
reading this summer, check out some of the new books recently added to our
church library. They cover a wide range
of subjects, so there is something to interest everyone. You will find them in the library cabinet in
the main room of the parish centre.
ADVANCE NOTICE:
1. Instead of a Fish Fry in
September, there will be a Roast Beef Dinner. Date to be announced later.
2. Later Life Learning begins on
Wed. September 22nd
3.Rummage Sale- Fri. Oct. 1st & 2nd
4.Blessing of the Animals Service-
Oct. 3rd
5. Synod Weekend- October 14-16th
6. Municipal Elections - Monday
October 25th (our Parish Hall will be used for this)
7.Altar Guild Meeting - Thurs. Nov.
4th 9:30 am
8. Christmas Market - Sat. November
6th. 10 am -2 pm
