Every Sunday at 10am. *ONLINE*
A contemporary service featuring prayer, a reflection, and lively music.
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Sunday Worship
Category: Worship
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Children & Family Ministry
Children & Family Ministry
Every Sunday. *ON HOLD*
Welcomed by name, kids enjoy the opening of worship with their parents in the sanctuary and engage with story during Children’s Time. After that, everyone sings a lively song together before the kids move to Children’s Church, where they engage with scripture through storytelling, activity and creative response. Nursery space is available, although children of all
ages are welcome in the sanctuary.
Children’s Church
Elizabeth Eakin leads Children’s Church with some additional volunteers and accompanying parents.
Children participate in their own worship service and engage with scripture through storytelling, activity and creative response. There’s always time for questions, thoughts and singing!
Nursery space is available for those parents wishing to bring their infants to Children’s Church. However, children of all ages are always welcome in the sanctuary for the entire service.
When baptisms or communions take place, children and their leaders are invited back into the sanctuary to share in these sacraments.
St. Andrew’s also holds All Ages services. We invite children, teens, and adults to participate in planning and offering the Sunday worship experience, engaging all in new ways of being with God.
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Taizé Contemplative Service
Second last Sunday of the month at 4pm. *ON HOLD*
Musicians Jocelyn Pritchard (piano), Pete Matthews (viola), Katie Stewart (violin), Adrienne Wills (flute), Andrew Wilson (vocals), and Alexandra Scott (vocals) provide musical leadership at our monthly Taizé-style contemplative services.
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Christmas Events
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Blessing of the Animals
“EVERYONE wants to hold your new baby. And everywhere you go, people turn and smile because there’s nothing like a newborn to stir hope and promise.”In the church, we celebrate our gratitude for this new life with the sacrament of baptism, the single rite of initiation into the Christian community. A sacrament is a holy act – a ritual of our faith. It says that God’s love surrounds us from the moment we’re born and continues throughout the course of our lives.
Pledge of Support
At St. Andrew’s United Church, baptism takes place during a regular Sunday service. When children are baptized, their parents and godparents make promises before God and the entire congregation to raise them in the Christian faith. Adults seeking baptism make the promises themselves. It’s a significant commitment to bring a child to church every Sunday, so during a baptism, the congregation also pledges to support parents and their children, as well as to help with children’s Christian education.All Ages
Baptism is one of two sacraments in the United Church of Canada (the other one is Communion). It uses water as a symbolic cleansing that signifies the acceptance of new life within the church family. We believe the gift of God’s love doesn’t depend on our ability to understand it, so we baptize people as infants right up through adulthood. Baptism is not a requirement for God’s love, however, nor is it a magic charm for life. The United Church believes people who die without baptism are in no way condemned, lost, or damned.Baptism & Renewal of Baptismal Faith
Here at St. Andrew’s United Church, we celebrate baptism and the renewal of baptismal faith regularly. Baptism in the United Church is recognized by all denominations of the Christian church that practice infant baptism. Similarly, if people have already been baptized in another church, the United Church recognizes their baptism and welcomes them.
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Blue Christmas
Wednesday closest to the Winter Solstice at 7 pm
For many the Christmas season is not necessarily a time of joy and peace. Blue Christmas, a service of hope and remembrance, is for those who find themselves in such a position. Sponsored by St. Andrew’s United Church and The Region of Anglican and Lutheran churches of North Vancouver.
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Jazz Vespers
