Our Mission & Outreach Committee is selling MacMillan's Meats, Meals & Munchies. If you are interested in ordering please let us know. An on-line order form will be coming soon! Thank you for your support.
Are you planning on attending the Annual Roast Beef Dinner? It is on March 16th, 2013 at 6:00 pm. Presented by your Christian Education Committee, a great roast beef dinner with vegetables, coleslaw, mashed potatoes and pie for dessert! Tickets are now available from the church office or send Joni an e-mail to reserve yours! Price is $12.00/adult and $6.00/children under 12. ([email protected]) Proceeds from the dinner fund the Christian Education programs. Help will also be needed throughout the day - please consider helping us out this year - thank you.
Bring your camera and laptop (we're going to be working on macs) to this informative and fun workshop. We are pleased to welcome Stan Jones who will lead us this month. Stan will be giving us some good photography tips and a beginner's class on using photoshop. Please let Joni ([email protected]) know if you will be attending as space is limited. All ages and stages are welcome to attend.
Did you know that St. Andrew's Hespeler hosts the Community Clothing Centre. If you or anyone you know is in need of some good, clean, gently used clothing for this cold weather come down to the church when the CCC is open. The hours are: Tuesdays, 12 noon - 3:00 pm; Wednesdays, 9:30 am - 1:30 pm; and Thursdays, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm.
Calling all STARS ..... we are taping again this Sunday. Our videos are always better when everyone is involved. If you would like to bring a friend along, they would be welcome to join us!
Last week I shared some rambling thoughts about what I might preach about during Lent this year. After giving it a bit of thought I have pretty much abandoned those ideas.
This is mostly because of the great reactions that I got to my sermon last week. I preached about forgiveness and, as I explored the theme, I found myself digging deep into the Old Testament notions and practice of sacrifice. I realize how essential it is to understand where these kinds of concepts, like forgiveness, came from in the first place.
The fact of the matter is that when the early church tried to understand what the life and, especially, what the death of Jesus really meant, the first place they looked was to Old Testament practices and concepts. Jesus, in their reflections, became the sacrificial lamb, the scapegoat, the passover lamb and much more. How can we possibly think that we will be able to realize the true significance of what Jesus accomplished on the cross if we have misconceptions about the central concepts of ancient religion that the Christian understanding was based on.
The early Christians could assume that their members knew what a sacrifice looked like, what it smelled like and even what it tasted like. That is no longer the case. So we're going to go back and take a crash course on these Old Testament practices. I hope you find it enlightening.
And, don't worry, I'm not planning to build an altar and bring in a fatted calf...
The STARS are taping this Sunday, January 13th and we need to borrow some spy kits. If you have one would you please bring it with you on Sunday? Thank you, Joni
For anyone in the Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge/Guelph area. You are invited to our Camp Fair on Saturday, January 12th; 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. Find out what summer programs are available at St. Andrew's Hespeler and the surrounding community. This promises to be an action and fun filled time!
