Announcements

Chris needs helpers to clean kitchen Tuesday, January 16 @ 9:30 a.m. Our
Health and Inspection Team is coming to inspect our Kitchen and we need to be sure everything is in order. Please talk to Chris for more details.

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!

A Message from Ven. Sheila:

We are looking for people who would be willing to bake bread to be used at communion. There is a sign up sheet posted if you are interested.

We now have a final tally on our vendor sale…we made $2,399.50! Thank you again to everyone who helped out, who had tables, and especially those that shopped! We couldn’t have done it without you. Sorry for the delay, unfortunately I got sick right after the vendor sale so my co-workers sold the leftover popcorn for me, once I was well enough to return to the office I was able to add that to our total.
Thank you once again!
Kelly

This Sunday @ 7 pm

On behalf of the Silent Auction Committee, we would like to sincerely thank all of you who participated in this year’s Silent Auction. All of you who donated items, attended the event, bid on items, took items home, and helped throughout the evening. We are not going to name people, because with so many helpers we may miss someone! It takes a whole Team to make an evening like this so special, and worthy of all the work it takes to pull this off. We had a record number of items submitted (180!), and for the night, a record amount of much- needed cash brought it (somewhere in the neighbourhood of $5,000.00!). For those who participated, it warms our hearts to know you all come together at just the right time to make this such a memorable evening. To those that could not attend, come next year, bring a friend, and see what you missed! See you in 2024!

The Silent Auction Committee: Jeanette, Don, Nancy and Ray

Mark Your Calendars as we have many events Coming up
Nov. 24 – Messy Church
Dec. 3 – Roadshow for Hospice Niagara

Today! November 17, 2023 at 7 PM

Free Admission with a non-perishable food item or a loonie per person, and those proceeds will be donated to Community Care, so the more people come the more will be donated!

As usual there will be a “Quick Auction” along with door prizes. So, please plan to attend, bring your friends, relatives, neighbours, and anyone else you know for a great evening.

Jeanette Alsop who will be receiving the Order of Niagara Sunday, November 12 at the 4:00 p.m. Service at the Cathedral in Hamilton.

Everyone from the church is invited and we would like to encourage everyone to come out and Celebrate with Jeanette and her family.

If you are able to attend, would you please email Lindsey at the office, by noon on Thursday as we are trying to get an approximate number of people so we can let the Cathedral know.

Here is the site and directions to the Cathedral:
https://niagaraanglican.ca/parish/christs-church-cathedral-hamilton