Summer Sunday School news!

I just wanted to let you know that there is full Sunday School this week, June 28th,  and then starting on July 5th we move to our summer schedule.  For the summer there will be no formal Sunday School.  However I have just finished putting together "Busy Boxes".  Inside of these boxes there are lots of choices for our younger members to help them get through worship!  There is one box in the sanctuary and two boxes in the foyer.  

For children who need or would like a little more space to move around or just sprawl out the foyer might be the perfect place.  With the exception of July 5th all other Sunday services will be live fed to the foyer. This means that parents can participate in worship while giving your children the extra space they might need.  

This will give you two options for summer worshipping.  You are more than welcome to stay in the sanctuary and make use of the materials in the Busy Box (located on a table at the back of the sanctuary) there or you may join worship in the foyer.  

For foyer worship:  the Busy Boxes are on the shelf above the coat rack and bibles and hymn books are on the tea cart.

For all Busy Boxes, I just ask that you put everything back in (except for pictures or crafts that were made) and placed back in their spot for use the next Sunday.

Outside Sunday School Fun!

After our story today we decided it was too nice outside to stay indoors.

So we went outside with our bubbles and sidewalk chalk and had some fun together!

It looks like they all went for a ride in a rocket!

A look at the fun from Sunday's rainy day picnic!

Thanks Glen & Stan for bar-b-quing our lunch! (in the rain?)

The Fellowship Committee provided a very good and tasty picnic lunch.

Celebrating 160 years as a congregation!

Our "indoor" picnic.  Mother Nature didn't quite cooperate.

Time to make pinwheels (thanks Christian Education Committee).

Everyone loves balloons.

Balloons and beach balls - so much fun!

Scavenger Hunt!

At Sunday's (indoor) picnic the children and young people participated in a scavenger hunt.

  This is what they found out about some members of our congregation:

1.     Who sings in the choir?  Amy, Sylvia, Shirley, Heather, Bob, Kathy, Bekah, Jean.

2.     Who helps feed many people in the community? Brenda, Helen, Jean, Shirley, Scott, Richard.

3.     Who has more than 1 brother or sister? Bekah, Jacquelyn, Leona, Scott, Lauren, Mary, Tracey, Julia, Monica, Laura.

4.     Who plays a sport? Steve, Lauren, Isabella, Carter, Olivia, Evan, Paul, Jacquelyn, Julia, Jacob, Jack.

5.     Who plays an instrument? Amy, Jacquelyn, Marsha, Carter, Mary, Zoé.

6.     Who has gone on a mission trip? Joni, Gabrielle, Scott, Stan, Shirley, Jean, Alexis.

7.     Who was born before there was colour TV?  Isobel, Jean, Kathy, Shirley, Heinz, Brenda, Carol, Sylvia, George.

8.     Who likes to build and fix things? John, Tracey, Glen, Giles, Cameron, Kier, Stan, Ben.

Back ground actors stopped in to visit!

Some of the back ground actors from the Stephen King mini-series stopped in the visit with the ladies at our Clothing Centre!

Academy Awards STARS pictures!

What's better then organized chaos? 

 Many of our young STARS receiving their awards this past Sunday!

The paparazzi have started to submit photos!  Thank you to all of  paparazzi, and award presenters.

Filming has begun!

Came to work this morning to find that the exit to our parking lot was blocked by a police cruiser.  Filming for the miniseries 11-22-63 has begun.  Do you think we'll see any hollywood stars today?

A Wonderful Celebration!

Today, during worship, we celebrated St. Andrew's STARS with a modified version of the 

4th Annual STARS Academy Awards!  

We had 40 trophies and 6 special certificates - WOW.

More pictures will follow as the "paparazzi start filing their reports and photos".

A BIG thank you to all of our STARS and to their parents/grandparents and siblings who 'hang around after church' every other week through out the year so that we can record the episodes.

Our gardeners are at it again!

Thank you to our gardeners.  Our gardens are looking quite lovely.

Does anyone have pictures of their gardens that you would like to share?  

Please send them to me, Joni   jsmith@standrewshespeler.ca