Birthday Wishes

Wishing the following people born in February a very Happy and Blessed Birthday! If you are not on our birthday list, let the office know so you can be included.

Feb. 5th - Pastor Larry Denef

Feb. 11th - Colin Stoll

Feb. 12th - Laura Parkinson

Feb. 16th - Kaaren Ferguson

Feb. 18th - Al Kerfoot

Pancake Supper Fundraiser

Shrove Tuesday tradition on a Saturday! - Saturday, February 18, 2023

Come enjoy a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper on a Saturday beginning at 5:00PM. Pancakes and sausages will be prepared to satisfy the hungriest appetite. The cost for the meal is a donation which will go to support the work of CLWR.

The evening will also launch our Silent Auction fundraiser. You will have the opportunity to bid on a beautiful quilt donated by the North Shore Quilters for our own English Language Conversation Circle for Ukrainian mothers.

Please join us for Feasting, Fellowship and Fun Pancake flipping races!

We will need pancake griddles - so if you have one you can lend, please let Shelley know!

For more infomation visit:

http://gloriadei.ca/events/pancake-supper-fundraiser/2023-02-18

Announcements

February 16th at 7:30PM: Council Meeting via Zoom

February 18th at 10:30am: Memorial Service for Warren MacIntyre.

February 24th at 1:30pm: Memorial Service for Herb Storm.

Feb. 18, 5:00PM: Pancake Supper and Silent Auction Fundraiser for CLWR and for our own English Language Conversation Circle for Ukrainian newcomers.

Black History Month

February is Black History Month

For Black History Month the BC Synod will be sharing an article each week in February lifting up a Black leader in British Columbia. This first week focuses on the life of Nora Hendrix.

Born on November 19, 1883 Zenora (Nora) Moore Hendrix’s life shaped the culture of Vancouver’s historical Black community, Hogan’s Alley. Hendrix co-founded The Fountain Chapel, African Methodist Episcopal church in Vancouver which was purchased from a Scandinavian and German Lutheran Congregation in 1918. She was also grandmother to famous music artist Jimmy Hendrix.

“All the families and everybody that wanted a church, we all got together and commence working for it to get this church started”. – Nora Hendrix in her interview for Opening Doors

You can watch this video aboutVancouver's Black community and the central role that Fountain Chapel played in bringing people together.

Video Description: From the early 1900s to the 1960s, the Eastside neighbourhood of Strathcona was home to Vancouver's first and only black community. BlackStrathcona is comprised of ten video stories that celebrate some of the remarkable people and places that made this community vibrant and unique. Stories like Jimi & Nora, feature musician Jimi Hendrix who as a boy in the 1940's lived in Strathcona with his grandmother, and Vie's Chicken & Steaks, featuring Vie Moore who ran a soulfood haven on Union Street frequented by both locals and big name celebrities like Billie Holiday and Sammie Davis Jr.”

With thanks for the compilation of these stories to Rev. Aneeta Saroop, Spirit of Life Lutheran Church, Vancouver, and Rev. Lyndon Sayers, Lutheran Church of the Cross, Victoria

ELCIC and ACC leaders write to Prime Minister in response to escalating violence in Israel and the West Bank

- Friday, February 3, 2023

In December 2022 National Bishop Susan Johnson and Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church in Canada visited the Holy Land. They heard from church leaders about the increasing fragility of the Christian presence, which is primarily Palestinian. In recent years attacks on the Christian community and their places of worship have increased in frequency and severity.

In August, 2022 St. Andrew’s Church, Ramallah was raided by Israeli forces seeking the offices of a human rights organization, Al-Haq, which rented space in the building but had a separate entrance.

And on New Year’s Day more than 30 graves at the Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem were desecrated. Crosses were broken and headstones toppled and smashed.

Bishop Susan and Archbishop Linda wrote the Prime Minister expressing their concern that Canada’s continued silence on the escalation of assaults of various kinds against Christians by Israel’s religious extremists and illegal settlers, emboldens such violations of international law and universal human rights. You can read their letter here.

Following the synagogue shooting in East Jerusalem on International Holocaust Remembrance Day Bishop Susan and Archbishop Linda wrote PM Trudeau again expressing their sorrow and condemnation of the January 27 attack. In their letter they implore the Canadian government to continue to advocate with the current Israeli government to promote de-escalation through a reversal of increasingly inflammatory rhetoric and policies, and to encourage similar commitments from the Palestinian Authority to advancing safety for all. You can read the Bishops' second letter here.

For more infomation visit:

http://gloriadei.ca/blog/elcic-and-acc-leaders-write-to-prime-minister-in-response-to-escalating-violence-in-israel-and-the-west-bank