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Why we need to tell the stories of Hope Clothing

Posted by on Friday, October 2nd, 2015 in News

The other day we posted the first in what we expect will be the stories of Hope Clothing. The story, told by Karen Kincaid, our volunteer coordinator is just a typical example of many stories we could tell and are planning to tell.




It is the kind of story we need more of -- the kind of story that captures what being part of this community is all about. And we really need to tell that kind of story to as many people as possible.

There are too many stories of bad news. There are too many stories about people putting people down, hating them or mistreating them. We need to hear this kind of story.

There are too many stories of hopelessness. We need to hear stories of hope. We need to hear about what God is doing.

So will you help us spread this story and the ones that will follow it?

Follow this link: Stories of Hope Clothing #1 and then click on "Share" to find all kinds of sharing options. You can post to twitter, facebook, send out emails or use any number of other social media links. Let's share the good news story.
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The vegetables are being harvested!

Posted by on Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 in News

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?

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We finally have names to go with the photo!

Posted by on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015 in News

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.




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Thank you!

Posted by on Thursday, September 17th, 2015 in News

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.


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A Beautiful Sunday Morning!

Posted by on Sunday, September 13th, 2015 in News

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!



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