Meetings up and coming:
1. Mon. Mar. 3 – Belleville Choral Society 6:30 – 9:15pm
2. Tues. Mar. 4 – Communion at Bridge St. Retirement 10:30am
3. Tues. Mar. 4 – Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper 5 pm
4. Tues. Mar. 4 – Youth Choir – 5:30 – 6:30 pm
5. Tues. Mar. 4 – Youth Group – 7- 8pm
6. Wed. Mar. 5- Ash Wed. Service 5:30 pm
7. Thurs. Mar. 6– Communion service at Arabella- 10:30 am
8. Fri. Mar. 7 – World Day of Prayer – Lutheran Church 2-4 pm
9. Sat. Mar. 8 – Syrian Orthodox Church service 3 -6pm
Coming events/ Activities
1. Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Supper, Mar. 4
Doors open at 4:30 pm until 6:30pm.
Volunteer sign-up sheets are next to kitchen door. Your help would be appreciated.
2. Ash Wednesday Service will be held on March 5th at 5:30 pm.
3. World Day of Prayer 2025– Theme -”I Made you Wonderful”
The service was prepared by the WDP Committee of the Cook Islands
The service will be held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Friday, March 7 at 2 pm. This event is co-hosted by the ladies from Holy Trinity Lutheran and St. Thomas’ Anglican Church. We hope you can join us.
4. Spaghetti Supper – postponed to Sunday, May 4.
Since Shrove Tuesday is later this year and there are other fundraisers in March, it was decided to postpone the Spaghetti supper.
5. Lenten Heat & Serve Meals
After the 10:30 am services throughout Lent, frozen heat & serve meals will be offered for sale in the Parish Hall. All meals will be plant-based, gluten-free and guaranteed delicious!
Come chop and learn! Here’s a great opportunity to find out how to add more plant-based foods to your diet. Help out in the kitchen as we prepare the Lenten meals and discuss tips and trends in plant-based cooking.
Cooking days are Friday morning March 7; Saturday afternoon March 15; Friday afternoon March 21; Thursday afternoon March 27.
Sign-up sheet for cooking sessions is on the bulletin board. (Meal sales are first-come-first-serve) Contact Sheila Stanley at shelaki@gmail.com for more details and/or to sign up.
6. Community Visions & Networking Quinte (CVNQuinte) supports adults with developmental disabilities across the Quinte Region and they are announcing the launch of its “Services with a Twist” .
One of the new programs is CVNQuinte ADVENTURES where themed retreat experiences will be offered to adults with developmental disabilities such as: fishing trips, food tours, sports outings, etc
There is information posted on the bulletin board regarding the great initiative plus ways that you can support.
Please visit cvnquinte.org for more information.
7. International Women’s Day – Saturday, March 8 from 11am – 12:30 pm
-at Loyola School of Adult and Continuing Education. Location: 250 Sidney Street, Belleville (back entrance)
All are welcome- free admission- refreshments provided.
8. NEEDED: COORDINATOR FOR ST. THOMAS’ MEALS ON WHEELS (MOW) DELIVERY OUTREACH PROGRAM
Michelle and Mel Plewes are retiring as coordinators for the St. Thomas’ Meals on Wheels (MOW) Delivery Outreach Program. If St. Thomas’ is to continue involvement, it is necessary that a Coordinator be appointed. We offer our assistance to train the new parishioner(s) for the July duties.
All parish MOW volunteers are accessible via email so that contact and scheduling is quite easy. The Coordinator supervises at the Wednesday meal pick-ups from the kitchen of the Community Care for South Hastings (CCSH) during July and December. Each time the Coordinator will spend about 40 minutes to ensure the meals are collected and to deal with any changes. Maintenance of records and emails to arrange scheduling takes about four hours in the month preceding our July and December dates. St. Thomas’ is responsible for seven routes. Volunteers usually work in teams of two – a driver and a delivery person – although two routes are each completed by a single person. Our routes cover the urbanized portion of the City of Belleville.
One benefit of voluntary participation by our parishioners is that Belleville residents are reminded St. Thomas’ Anglican Church is alive and active in providing service to the residents of our community. Check out our video describing the St. Thomas’ MOW Outreach Program at
We hope a parishioner(s) will come forward by March 31, 2025 to coordinate this important St. Thomas’ Outreach Program.
The next delivery month is July 2025. If no Coordinator steps forward, we, on behalf of St. Thomas’ will contact CCSH to inform them of the withdrawal of St. Thomas’ from the MOW program. We will then encourage our volunteers to apply as individuals to CCSH to make meal deliveries for MOW.
We thank all the volunteers who delivered meals on Wednesdays during July and December over the years since 1996. We also wish to acknowledge and to thank Sandra Kennerley for the behind-the-scenes assistance she has provided over the years. She has been an integral part of the program. We hope the Parish continues to be involved in this much needed community service program for years to come.
To volunteer for the position of Coordinator, St. Thomas’ Meals On Wheels Outreach Program, please contact Sandra Kennerley at 613 962 3636.
