Check out a new post under the Worship Tab if you ever wondered about going to church with children, or being in worship with a bunch of children.

Vacation Bible Camp was a great success with a record number of children participating.  Thank you to all the volunteers and the many donations of food and supplies.  Water day, scavanger hunt, and music were all part of the busy week long event.

Both parishes offer Sunday School on a regular basis, and once again we are using “The Best of The Whole People of God” series. The children going with loved ones at the beginning of the service and after a short children’s focus they are led to their respective classes, where they have Children’s Church. Children’s Church follows the format and readings that the rest of the church family listens to and responds to, even the children’s tiny altar is set up in a similar fashion. Crafts, story-telling, and drama are all part of Children’s Church. The join the rest of the church family in the sanctuary for the Great Thanksgiving and all children are seen as important participants in God’s Church and worship.

St. Martin’s and St. Columba provides outreach in various forms. One form in which we participate financially is through our Monthly Outreach Appeals. We focus on various Church and secular organizations, but local, diocesan, and world-wide. Thank you for your continued support to these many and varied ministries.

 

 

St. Columba January – Rainbow Kitchen February – Mustard Seed March – Camp Columbia Bursary Fund April – Street Hope May – Anawim Companions Society June – Western Community Food Bank July – Our Place August – Camp Columbia General Fund September – Sisterhood of St. John the Divine October – Threshold Housing November – Women’s Sexual Assault Centre December – Christmas Hampers

St. Martin-in-the-Fields January – TBD February – TBD March – TBD April – TBD May – TBD June – TBD July – Camp Columbia August – Mustard Seed Food Bank September – Threshold Housing October – PWRDF November – Christmas Hampers December – Christmas Hampers

 

 

Baptism is considered the entrance rite of the church in which we recognize and celebrate God’s ‘Yes!’ to us as unique individuals. Children and adults are welcome to inquirer about baptism with the parish priest or other baptized Christians in the church. Both congregations have celebrated recent baptisms and we welcome, Jake, Oscar, Malena, and soon MacKenzie into the Christian family.