Annual Meeting Sunday and Much Much More!

On Sunday, February 26, the people of St. Andrews Hespeler will gather, as we always do to worship, praise and celebrate God's presence among us. This week is special, however, for a number of reasons.

On this coming Sunday please join us for:

• The continuation of Rev. Scott McAndless' series looking at how Jesus invites us as individuals on the journey towards wholeness. This week's sermon will be "Joseph: A Journey from Envy to Balance."

•  Margaret McKenzie-Leighton will share her gifts with us by singing, "Hear my Prayer." Words by W. Bartholomew, Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,
• "Joyful Sound" (our men's group) will sing an arrangement of the traditional spiritual, "Go, Tell It on the Mountain" by Donald Moore.

• Last week learned (or re-learned) a wonderful contemporary/ version of a familiar hymn called "Amazing Grace / My Chains are Gone." We'll sing this one again while it is still fresh.
• We will share some of the responses to last week's "Blended worship" survey and announce the winner.
• After worship we will join together downstairs for a pot luck lunch. All are welcome!
• After lunch we will celebrate everything that God did among us in 2016 (and pass a few necessary motions) at our Annual Congregational meeting.

Please make sure you join us this Sunday and that you pick up your Lenten Newsletter if you don't have one yet.

Bake Sale

For the past few weeks our Holy Sherlocks Sunday School class has been planning a Bake Sale.  This Bake Sale was planned to participate in PWS&D's newest Sunday School Challenge, Farming for the Future in Malawi and Guatemala.

The children decided to use $400 from their pop can gatherings and add to the Bake Sale proceeds.  Well this morning they did such a great job (thank you to everyone who baked and purchased the baked goods, too!), they will be able to send over $750.00 for the Farming for the Future PWS&D Sunday School Challenge.

Way to go Holy Sherlocks.  You are awesome!

Sunday School, February 19th

In Sunday School this morning, we heard the parable of the Great Banquet, had time to play together and put the finishing touches on the Bake Sale.

What are those milk bags for?

Today we had a special guest here to teach us how to weave milk bag mats.

Milk bag mats go to countries like Malawi and Haiti for people to sleep on.  By our standards this would not be appealing, but many people sleep on dirt floors in Malawi and Haiti.  The good things about these milk bag mats are that the bugs don't like them (so people don't sleep with bugs), they wash easily and dry quickly and they last a long time.

Thanks, Henk, for helping us out today!

If you are interested, please stop by Tuesday (tomorrow) about 10:30 am as we will be finishing up our 2nd mat.

Youth Group Happenings!

Some of our youth made a start on our new Youth Café!  They started to clean out room 201 and talk about colour & furniture choices.  And of course, after working hard, we had to have a snack, too!

A busy Sunday School!

Our Sunday School was a busy place this morning, even with all the snow.

Next week Sunday will be busy, too.  

The Children & Worship class earned an Ice Cream party, so they will be enjoying vanilla ice cream with a wee bit of sauce and sprinkles.  

The Holy Sherlocks class will be setting up for their bake sale.  The proceeds of this sale will help the newest PWS&D Sunday School Challenge - helping farmers in Malawi and Guatemala. Please help them out by buying a baked good next week.  This class would appreciate your help.  They are going to use money raised from the bake sale and the collection of pop cans to donate to PWS&D.

Sunday, February 12 at St. Andrew's Hespeler

On Sunday, February 12 we will gather, as we usually do at St. Andrew's Hespeler. We will join together in worshiping God. We will lift up the needs of one another and of the world in prayer. We will wait upon the presence of the living God.

Here are some of the highlights we are looking forward to.

• Our Adult choir will be singing "At Calvary" by Daniel B. Towner and William Newell, 

• Bekah, Madison and Amy Lightfoot will be singing a contemporary song, "Angels Among Us" By Becky Hobbs and Don Goodman,

The Lightfoots!

• The minister, the Rev. Scott McAndless continues his sermon series with, "Martha: A journey from pride to freedom"
  
•  Our youth will gather to start work on designing their very own space within the church building: a Youth Cafe

• During our fellowship time, we will be hosting a Alzheimer Society Coffee Break.

Hope to see you!

What is Presbyterians Sharing?

When we donate to Presbyterians Sharing where does our money go?  This is one example of how we can help.

It is the first Sunday in February and we've got a whole lot going on!

Sunday, February 5 is a great time to join us as St. Andrew's Hespeler. Why not invite some friends to join you as you worship! Here's what you can look forward to:

• Music will be included from many beautiful genres including classical, contemporary and pop
• Our Adult choir will be singing "God Be in My Head" by local composer, Jeff Enns
• David, Randy and Corey will be singing "Come As You Are" accompanied by Zoé on the violin. Here is a picture of them practicing:

• The minister, the Rev. Scott McAndless will begin a new sermon series. Here is the video introduction to the series:

• The first sermon in the series is, "Paul of Tarsus: A journey from anger to compassion"

• During our fellowship time, we will also be hosting a Alzheimer Society Coffee Break.