We had a wonderful time

Thursday Night Supper and Social was another wonderful success on the evening of December 17. A wonderful supper of Turkey, ham, stuffing, potatoes, pies and more was served to a roomful of happy people. We celebrated a birthday and welcomed a very special guest for the children:

A special Thursday

Today is a special Thursday.

It's stocking stuffer day at Food Bank.  Julia brought lots of of great "stuffers" from Operation Christmas Child.  There are many items donated to the Christmas Shoeboxes that cannot be kept in them, i.e: liquids, any toy with a war theme (that tends to be a lot of lego themed kits), feather boas for girls, lots of candy, etc.  These items don't go to waste, they are distributed to local charities in order to help as many people out as possible.

We thank the talented ladies who have donated their beautiful knitted items.  There are colourful mittens, hats, baby items, sweaters, etc.  There will be a table of these items out at Food Bank today.

And lastly it is the annual Christmas dinner/party for Thursday Night Supper & Social.  The ladies have been busy cooking up a storm.  It smells incredible in the church. 

(please note that this will be the last Thursday Night Supper & Social until January 7th) 

Stocking stuffer items

Stocking Stuffer items

Beautiful Hand Knit items

Getting ready for dinner.

Highlights from the Hespeler Santa Clause parade

Walkers, getting ready to walk the doggies and hand out candy canes. 

On the float, having a Birthday party!

The drivers.

Accepting the "Best Homemade Float" award at the Hespeler Optimist Club party.

Check out Corey's latest music blog!

Here is a link to our Music Director, Corey Cotter Linforth's latest Music Blog about the music for this Sunday's service.

http://standrewsmusic.blogspot.ca/2015/12/music-for-dec-13th-2015.html

Basket Night at Thursday Night Supper and Social

Basket night is always a blast at the Thursday Night Supper and Social at St. Andrew's Hespeler. This year, thanks to the generosity of the people of the church and the community, we were able to fill 54 baskets to distribute to our special guests who come out week after week.

 A great time was had by all. Next week we will be welcoming the community in for a wonderful Christmas feast and, rumour has it, there may even be a special visitor for the kids.

New Blog to Help Keep Everyone up to date

Our Clerk of Session, Rob Hodgson, has the very important (and sometimes difficult) job of making sure that communications always flow as best as they can in the life of the congregation. He latest initiative to keep everyone informed is to create and maintain a blog for session news and information.

You can find his blog at the following link:
Session Clerk's Blog

If you subscribe to our News feed, you will receive notices whenever the blog is updated or you can go back to check it whenever you like.

We are in the process of reorganizing our home page to offer you easy access to all of our blogs.

Cookies!

Hope Clothing staff is busy making Chocolate Chips cookies.  

All proceeds will go directly to Hope Clothing.  

The cookies are delicious and only $3.00 per dozen!

Longest Night Service

The Longest Night Service

Join us at 7:30 pm on December 21st.

 

  

Thank you Food Basics!

A BIG shout out to Food Basics.

Food Basics helped us out when we were making up care packages for the clients of the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank and Hope Clothing.

You helped make budgets stretch and that is so important, especially at this time of year.