Events

United Church of Canada General Council

The 41st meeting of the General Council of the United Church will be meeting in Ottawa at Carleton University on August 11 – 18, 2012.   Planning is well underway for this event.     There is a call for people to serve as Stewards and an application form can be obtained from Rev. Carla or requested via email from ksmart@united-church.ca  Deadline is March 23, 2012.   More information will be shared about this event as it draws closer.

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Communion

Communions dates for 2012 are:

• Easter Sunday   April 8th
• Pentecost Sunday  May 27th
• Father’s Day  June 17th
• World Wide Communion – Thanksgiving    Sunday, Oct. 7th
• Sunday, November 7th
• Monday, December 24th   8 pm

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Bursaries for Young People

• If you are interested in learning more about the qualifications to apply for this bursary for 2012-2013 year, contact  Lynne Pearen @ 613-838-2294 or Judy Wagdin 613-838-5483.

Baptism

Please contact Rev. Carla @ the church office at 613-838-5397  if you would like to have a baptism.

Church Membership

Are you a person who would like their membership transferred?   Just let Rev. Carla or Jim Wagdin know so you too can be recognized at that service.    Also, would you like to become a member of the United Church?   Plans are underway for youth and adult confirmation classes to begin in late winter/early spring.    Please let Rev. Carla know if you or your child is interested.

Prayer Walking

Do you enjoy walking?    Would you like to take your prayers to a new level?  How about Prayer Walking!    Join us here at Hyde Park on Tuesday. February  21 at 7:00pm for a new activity beginning here in Richmond.   What is it??   Prayer Walking is an ecumenical, silent prayer for goodness for our neighbours along our walking route.   Meet new people and spread the love!    Feel free to ask Rev. Carla about this new event in Richmond!

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FYI

• We have updated our sound system recently! We wanted to be able to transmit the audio and video from the sanctuary down to the basement hall.   Thanks to a couple of anonymous donations as well as some of the proceeds from the UCW pie sales, we now have a video camera in the sanctuary which transmits the sound & picture to our new 50″ flat screen TV in the hall.   If you don’t want to sit in the sanctuary for the church service, you can watch it downstairs! We can also record the services to a DVD if this is something people request us to do. We have updated a couple of the mics as we now have four mic jacks in the sanctuary – that work! We also purchased a portable sound system that can be used in the hall for our events or anywhere else as long as there is hydro available!    The sound from the CD player & microphones in the sanctuary can be set up to be heard in the sanctuary, downstairs and from the speakers outside in the front of the church.   Nobody can say that St. Paul’s isn’t getting high tech!!