Bake Sale!

Please join the Sunday School children and the Christian Education Committee for this Bake Sale.

This will be a chance for you to "do some Christmas baking!" :)

Senior's Christmas Tea

Everyone is welcome to join us!

163rd Anniversary Celebration at St. Andrew’s

 This coming Sunday, October 21, 2018, St. Andrew's Hespeler will celebrate our 163rd anniversary as a congregation. We will mark this anniversary, as we always do, by celebrating our heritage, but this year we will try to look at that heritage in some new ways and take a look at our connection with the people who inhabited the land before us. We will pray for healing and reconciliation for both indigenous and non-indigenous people in Canada.

We will have some very special guests that will help us to celebrate as we learn and grow. We are very pleased to welcome:

Theresa McGregor: Drum and Song carrier, Moon Bundle, Earth and Water Protector and Traditional Women’s Dancer

Mino Ode Kwewak N’gamowak (Good Hearted Women Singers) will sing and dance with Theresa.

Sasha Sky & Shannon Pride of the White Owl Native Ancestry Association who work to bring healing to aboriginal people and others.

After worship at 10 am, the celebration will continue downstairs in the Fellowship Hall.

A Potluck Lunch will follow at 11:30. Please plan to bring a dish to share. All are welcome.

The Blanket Exercise which will follow the lunch at noon. The Blanket Exercise is a moving experience that has helped many people understand how aboriginal people have experienced our common history. It will be led by Sasha Sky and Shannon Pride

An Opportunity to Experience the Blanket Excercise

Please join us on Sunday, October 21, 2018 at noon for

The Blanket Exercise is a workshop that explores the nation-to-nation relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Its goal is to build understanding about our shared history by walking through pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization, resistance and reconciliation. Participants will also be able to smudge before and after (if they wish) and participate in a discussion around what the exercise was like for them.

Our special guests to assist us in this workshop will be Sasha Sky and Shannon Pride of the White Owl Native Ancestry Association.

All are welcome to come and participate in this moving event. Join us at St. Andrew’s Hespeler, 73 Queen St. E., Cambridge, ON in the Lower Fellowship Hall.

Join in a Pot Luck Lunch 11:15 am if you wish.

Children are invited to “Explorations in Music” which will include playing and making instruments during the Blanket Exercise.

Hosted by St. Andrew’s Hespeler (standrewshespeler.ca) with the White Owl Native Ancestry Association (wonaa.ca)

A Very Special Sunday: Thanksgiving, World Communion and More!

In an event happens only every decade or so, this year both World Communion (celebrated the first Sunday of October) and Thanksgiving Sunday (celebrated the day before the second Monday) will fall on the same day this year. All of this will make for a very special service this week.

• We will celebrate Thanksgiving with traditional hymns, message and prayers of thanksgiving.
• We will celebrate the common communion table that is shared by all Christians of every time, place and denomination.
• There will be some very special music including:
• Agnus Dei (by George Bizet) Given in praise by Margaret McKenzie-Leighton 
• Love is Like a River (By Jeff Silvey and Suzanne Jennings)  Given in praise by Joyful Sound! with solos by David and Bob!
• The Minister, Rev. W. Scott McAndless will preach on the practice of Gratitude.

It is also our custom to offer our people an extra opportunity to support our outreach work on Communion Sundays. This Sunday special offering envelopes are being made available to support the community lunches that we offer every second week to those who come to the Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank distribution.

Also, a couple of final reminders:

• Ballots to elect Elders and Deacon need to be returned to the church for counting by the end of the service this Sunday.
• Questionnaires for the upcoming Presbytery Visitation can be returned this Sunday and need to be returned to the church by the end of worship on October 14.