The vegetables are being harvested!

My wonderful, little friend Alice came to visit me today.  She and her brother, Nigel, are unable to attend Harvest Sunday, but wanted to bring in the vegetables they had lovingly tended to all summer!

We ended up making words with the veggies.  Alice was especially thrilled with a certain, two-ey!

Carrots, red potatoes and white potatoes.

Isn't this "two-ey" great?

A beehive of activity ...

Lots of preparations being made for our 160th Anniversary Celebration on

October 24 & 25.

More fun photos!

There are some names on these pictures.  Can you put names to more faces?

E-mail me if you have names, please  jsmith@standrewshespeler.ca 

Thanks ~ Joni 

Youth event!

Harvest Sunday, October 4th.

Please join us on Sunday, October 4th for some fun and food!

The Sacrament of Holy Communion

We finally have names to go with the photo!

You might recall that I posted one of my favourite "oldie" photos a week or so ago and asked for help.  There were no names on it.  Well on Sunday a lady came to me to say one of the ladies was her mother!  These ladies are all sisters. How cool is that?

left to right:  Myrtle Kohli, Rosella Roos, Minnie Jardine and Hazel Howell.

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who helped make the launch of

Place of New Hope a great success!

Thank you to everyone who brought food and worked to put on such a delicious lunch, to those who set up and cleaned up and to everyone who came.

Did you know that in Hespeler there are Youth Drop-In centres; cooking classes; breakfast clubs; Thursday Night suppers; clothing centres; food banks; ESL classes; A-A, Al-Anon, & Al-ateen groups and more?  

Working together with several local organizations and agencies to provide the best care for those in our community.

Karen, and the models in the fashion show showcasing clothing from Hope Clothing.

Who knew this guy could model?!?!

A very pretty dress found at Hope Clothing.

We host Al-ateen, Al-Anon and A-A on Friday nights.

The Y Employment services at our Launch.  They also visit most Food Bank Thursdays.

A pretty mauve dress for a little girl, available at Hope Clothing.

Another pretty dress for a young girl found at Hope Clothing.

A Beautiful Sunday Morning!

This morning was one of those mornings where I wish I could have taken a couple of pictures during worship.  (I know that's kind of inappropriate, but it was one of those mornings!)

First, it was Commissioning Sunday, the time of year when we lift all of our ministry workers and volunteers up in prayer.  And there are many, many people involved in all kinds of ministries in our church.  Thank you to each and every one of you.  You are all a blessing to St. Andrew's Hespeler and the community.

Secondly, the Sunday School children taught the congregation all about having a Feast.  We have a Feast in Children & Worship when we have Communion Sundays.  So instead of having Communion this morning we had a Feast.  It was so moving and sweet to see all of the Sunday School children serve the Feast to everyone who had gathered in a circle at the outside edges of our sanctuary.  Thank you children for leading us in this special Feast.

And thirdly, this morning we Launched Place of New Hope & Hope Clothing. The festivities were made fun by Hope Clothing who treated us to a small fashion show highlighting some of the clothing articles found at Hope Clothing.  Thank you to the staff of Hope Clothing and the models!  And thank you to the Fellowship Committee for providing us with some tasty cakes for Cake Sunday, celebrating July, August & September birthdays and Hope Clothing!

Everyone loves Cake Sunday!

Fellowship time, looks like a good story!

The audience for the Fashion show is building!

One of our volunteers from Hope Clothing modelling for us.

One of our Sunday School students modelling for us!

One of our Sunday School students modelling for us.

Luca, a service dog in training worshipped with us today, and he was nicely colour coordinated with one of our Fashion Show models!

A BIG Shout Out!

Just want to send out a BIG thank you to Value Village!

This Thursday they provided Place of New Hope with 30% off coupons for the clients of Hope Clothing and the off-site location of the Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank.

Especially as school starting, this gift was much appreciated by everyone.

Thanks to the employees of Value Village on Hespeler Rd, Cambridge!

I really need help with this picture!

This is one of my all time favourite photos.  I don't know why as I don't know the people in it.  And there are no names on this photo.  Please let me know if you know!  Thanks, Joni  (jsmith@standrewshespeler.ca)

Guess Who's in This Picture?

St. Andrew's Welcomes You Home …

… Celebrating 160 years in Hespeler.

Send me an e-mail if you can identify anyone in this picture

(jsmith@standrewshespeler.ca)

Names to Memory Lane!

Here are the pictures, now with names attached. I'll post some more photos next week!

Marg Hunter, Karen Little, Karin Hunter, Jane Little, Janice Pearce,  & Kathy Little.

Memory Lane!

St. Andrew's Hespeler is entering its 160th Anniversary!

In the coming year we look forward to hearing and sharing stories about our past.  

We also will be sharing some photos with you.  

Please stay tuned for more updates, events and fun throughout the coming year.

The first date for you to mark on your calendar is our Anniversary Weekend, October 24 and 25.  We are very excited to welcome Rev. Karen Horst (Moderator of General Assembly, 2015) as our guest preacher for worship on October 25th.  More details need to be confirmed about the weekend, so come back often to check for updates.

To start, here are 3 photos to enjoy!

Can you name the people in them?  Send names and comments to Joni (jsmith@standrewshespeler.ca)

Have fun taking a stroll down memory lane!