Gardening update! Contact outreach(at)st-andrews-united.ca.
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[Black text on white overlay in front of a photo of wooden garden beds filled with soil. Text reads: St. A has added 3 new raised beds to our community garden inventory. Contact Laurie-Anne Bourdon if you would like your name added to the waitlist for a plot. And mark Sat, April 15 at 10am in your calendars: this is the community garden work party for cleaning up and preparing the beds for spring planting!]
![Gardening update! Contact outreach(at)st-andrews-united.ca.
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[Black text on white overlay in front of a photo of wooden garden beds filled with soil. Text reads: St. A has added 3 new raised beds to our community garden inventory. Contact Laurie-Anne Bourdon if you would like your name added to the waitlist for a plot. And mark Sat, April 15 at 10am in your calendars: this is the community garden work party for cleaning up and preparing the beds for spring planting!]](https://www.st-andrews-united.ca/wp-content/plugins/custom-facebook-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
Holy week at St. Andrew's!
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[Green and white text on white and green background describing services. In centre, photo of yellow daffodils against a blue sky.
Sun April 2, 10am, Palm Sunday & Communion
Fri Apr 7, 10am, Good Friday service
Sun Apr 9, 10am, Easter Sunday service with trumpet & piano prelude at 9:50am]
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[White and black text over photo of a door propped ajar. Within the room visible through it: pews and stained glass covered in sunlight.
Text reads: Open Sanctuary, weekdays from 10am to 1pm. Take a moment, a breath, a prayer in our quiet space.]
Guaranteed Livable Income: update on our activities.
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[1.Photo of four people outside a building, holding signs. Text below names them, places them in a vigil for GLI outside Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson's office in North Vancouver.
2.Black text on white background: Mary-Anne Telfer will lead monthly GLI vigils at The Shpyards. DM us if interested. Rev. Judith and Laurie-Anne will meet with Minister Wilkinson on April 21 to talk in person about a GLI.]
We're looking for a Sunmer Events Coordinator.
Interested in community engagement, working in our beautiful gardens, planning the Teddy Bear Picnic, undertaking climate actions, and more?
Then check out this link for details and how to apply! www.st-andrews-united.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-Summer-Job-Description.pdf
30 hrs/wk
Apr 25 - Aug 29
Must be 30 years old or younger (it's a Canada Summer Jobs position).
Interested in helping out around the church? Before/after Sunday service? In the gardens or kitchen? Reach out to outreach(at)st-andrews-united.ca.
Thank you!
This Sunay! Jazz Vespers with Bonnie Northgraves.
Not to be missed!
4pm in the Sanctuary. By donation.
Doors open at 11:30 am, lunch is served at noon.
Weekly! All are welcome.
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[Blue and black text on white, surrounding a photo of a bowl of red tomato soup in a green bowl with a tan/orange grilled cheese sandwich cut in a heart beside the bowl. Text includes "Free Community Lunch. Thursdays from 12 - 1 pm in the Friendship Room. Everyone welcome!"
Today! Fall Prevention workshop in the Friendship Room at St. Andrew's.
11 am - 12
Free!
It's the International Day for the Elimination of Racism.
One way to combat the inequalities is with a Guaranteed Livable Income: universal, non-discriminatory and accessible to all.
Rev. Judith will be holding a 20-minute vigil for GLI in front of MP Jonathan Wilkinson's community office on Fri (Mar 24) at 11am.
310 East Esplanade
All are welcome!
youtu.be/S3s4OO6Ch2A
#FightRacism
This Sunay! Jazz Vespers with Bonnie Northgraves.
Not to be missed!
4pm in the Sanctuary. By donation.
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[Alt: close up photo of a bunch of green clovers. Above, black text on white: "Happy St. Patrick's!"]
This Sunday, Taizé Contemplative Service! 4 pm in the Sanctuary. All are welcome.
The bees are returning! Out Alvéole urban beekeeper Andrea has started to wake up the hive.
Here's to happy springtime bee friends!
For more: my hive.alveole.buzz, search for St. A)
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[Alt: close up on wooden hive. At bottom centre, a small bee sits in a square hole.]
Rev. Judith will be away Mar 15 - 18, in Golden for the memorial service of a longtime friend. Let's keep her in our prayers.
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[Alt: photo of smow-topped mountains, snowy coniferous forest and, in the foreground, a icy river. This is Golden, BC from tourismgolden.com]
Today: free fall prevention workshop at St. A!
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[Alt: within black border, at top an icon of a falling stick person within red circle with a black strike-through. Below, black text on white background, green/yellow square and grey square. Text reads: "Fall Prevention Wed, Mar 22 11:00 am - 12:00 pm in the Friendship Room. Join Judy Bjornson at this FREE information hour where she will show you balance and physiotherapy exercises to keep you strong, more agile, and reactive to help stave off falls -- as well as fall prevention tips. Judy is a Master Trainer and co-owner of Surefeet Fall Prevention Balance and Mobility. "]
This Sunday! Taizé Contemplative Service, 4pm.
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Douglas E Christie's public talk and one-day retreat, which were to happen tonight and tomorrow, have been RESCHEDULED due to illness. They will happen on May 26 and 27 instead.
He also won't be preaching at St. A this Sunday.
Thanks for your understanding!
Looking for some help! If you have an hour or two for one Sunday a month, we would love to have you help greet, read scripture, serve communion or set up the Sanctuary for special occasions.
If interested, please reach out.
Thank you! 🙂
Happy #internationalwomensday! This year, the theme is #EmbraceEquity, as the fight for gender equity continues.
Here's a good definition of equity (not the same as equality!) from a Canadian charity/kindness movement.
And here's to all the amazing women who support the life and community at St. Andrew's. You are all powerhouses!
