Announcements

Bishop Susan will be with us this Sunday, 10:30 a.m. service only. We will not be having an 8:30 a.m. service.

This Sunday at 4:00 the Rev. Pamela Guyatt will be installed as a Canon of the Cathedral. Everyone is invited. If you can’t get to Hamilton the service will be live streamed.

Congratulations Rev. Pam!

This coming Friday

The 2024 Church Calendars have arrived, they are $5 each. They are beautiful! The photos inside are from Churches across Canada. We have limited supply, if you want to reserve one email or call the office and Lindsey will put your name on one.

With Ven. Sheila. Our Friday morning Bible Study has started and runs from Friday January 26th until February 9th. We start at 10:30 and wrap up around 11:30. Everyone is welcome to come and explore the Bible and its relevance to our lives today (and it is relevant!) Meeting Room.

No later than this Thursday, January 25. Please get them to Lindsey as soon as possible. This is a big project so please take the time to get your reports done to help ease the heavy workload. Lindsey thanks you big time.

The cleaning crew found several dishes from food and goodies people brought into the Church over time. Chris will put these dishes out in the Fireside Room on Sunday Jan 21. If you have left any dishes, please pick them up otherwise they will be donated.

We will be holding a budget planning meeting next week, if you have not handed in your intention letter and would like to pass along your intentions please feel free to email me at rectortransfiguration320@gmail.com or call me at the office.

Your donation envelopes and offering numbers will be issued as soon as Charmaine, our Envelope Secretary, returns from vacation. Please use a blank envelope or one from last year if you have any extra. If you have any questions, contact Kelly.

Closed Monday, December 25 and reopening Wednesday January 3, 2024 Ven. Sheila and Lindsey will be away during this time.

Our Advent bake sake brought in a total of $541. Thank you to everyone who purchased and a special thanks to our bakers!

Please pick up your Christmas Letter on Sunday. Also, if you know anyone who is not here, and you can deliver their letter it would be so helpful. Help us save on the cost of stamps.

For Christmas this year, we will again be sponsoring young people in need through FACS Niagara’s ‘Adopt-A-Youth’ program. We will be sponsoring three young adults who have recently moved out on their own. I have posted all three forms on the CYFM board- if there is an item you wish to donate, please check the box and print your name on the line next to it. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me in person or at transfigcyfm@gmail.com.

All items are needed by Sunday, December 17th at the absolute latest. (If you wish to donate financially, please do so by Sunday, December 10th)

Thank-you in advance! Last year was so successful and we are excited to get to do this again!

December’s Messy Church is going to be held on Christmas Eve Sunday, December 24th at the 10:30am service. This will be a children and family-oriented service, with familiar Christmas Carols and an improv-style narration of the Christmas Story. Join us for cookies and hot chocolate afterwards.

We are offering take-home booklets for Advent, with four weekly devotionals. They have been designed in colouring-book style to spark your creativity. These are no-charge, and are available at the back of the church.

There are 4 DIY wooden Nativity kits left over from Messy Church. We are asking $10 to cover the cost. First come first serve.

Nights are long and deep
Stars are twinkling bright
The nip in the air says
Snuggle down
It’s the Cozy Season

This CD is full of winter tunes and carols to warm the heart. Each CD comes with an additional code to download the music to your phone from your favourite streaming service. $20. Contact Dorothy.

This Wednesday December 6th we are serving soup to Brock students again. Please if you’re able to make some soup call Rev. Sheila or add your name to the list on the bulletin board.

Please put your name on the base and lid of your crockpot so that we return everyone’s to them and please also put the type of soup on the crockpot. The vegetarian options are wonderful although there are lots of those who like meat as well and chilli is a really big hit.

Thank you so much for your help with this!