We are welcoming back the Choir on Thanksgiving Sunday! Safety protocols will be in place, but we are glad to have the choir's leadership in our worship. It will be a gradual return as we continue to transition,  with the choir singing on Festival Sundays  at first and gradually returning to a more regular rhythm. 

We are grateful to Kathleen Stoll, Jim Berger, Ellen Luthy and Sonja Koruga for their faithful ministry that saw us through our online services and gradual return to the sanctuary. 

Here are some upcoming dates and events in October. 

October 10 - Thanksgivng Sunday

We will celebrate with a service of Holy Communion and welcoming back our Choir!

October 17 - A Special Service of the Word at 2:00 PM with Guest Preacher Deacon Rennie Nahanee

October 23 - BC Synod Learning Day 

The Synod is inviting all of us—not just pastors—to a Learning Day with Rev. Susan Beaumont who will help us be better prepared for that different, unknown future by teaching us how to deepen our discernment as we continue to walk through this present liminal season.

From Lin Parkinson, our Community Garden Co-ordinator: 

We are still in the Season of Creation.  Now is the perfect time to pray, to learn, to act on behalf of this beautiful world that is our home.

The BC Synod Climate Justice Action Group invites you to a showing of the widely acclaimed 2019 documentary "The Story of Plastic" (here is a link to the trailer on Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PDwW0c1so ). This doc tells the story of how the mass production of single-use plastic has put us is in the biggest environmental crisis in history.  You want to see it!

You can watch the film tonight, tomorrow or Sunday. It will not be available after October 3. Here is the link and the password you need:  https://vimeo.com/521409385   The Password: BC2021

After you see the movie please plan to join the Synod wide ZOOM discussion on what we have seen and heard in this film on

Wednesday, October 6th at 7 PM. 

(All who plan on attending, send an email to Rev. Brenda Nestegaard Paul at bnestegaardpaul@bc.anglican.ca).   

There is no planet B.  This is our home. 

Together let's keep on learning and doing all we can to care for it.  Blessings!

We commemorated the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliaton with a ceremony in the church courtyard. We are grateful to Carolyn Klaassen, an Indigenous leader in our Synod for leading us in prayer and singing and drumming the honor song of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. We are also grateful that community members from the neighborhood were able to join us for this solemn occasion. You can view the video on our church homepage - www.gloriadei.ca