November 25, 2022
Your Weekly News
In This Edition
Worship Services & Community
  • This Sunday with Halifax Gay Men's Chorus
  • Advent with St. Andrew's
  • Sunday Services Online
  • Memorial Pointsettias

Your St. Andrew's
  • December 5 - Decorate the Sanctuary!
  • UCW Soup Challenge - Final Week
  • The STAGE Mondays - Arsoniste
  • Quilt Silent Auction

In the Community
  • Volunteer Opportunity- Halifax Community Chaplaincy Society
  • Annual Festival of Carols  
Sunday Services Online
You can LISTEN to our Saint Andrew’s services online. Look for the link on our website www.saintandrewshfx.ca posted every Sunday afternoon. Why the afternoon? It’s the way SoundCloud works: the full version of the service must be uploaded at once. Thanks to Kevin Parks for doing the work of editing and uploading!
 
And what’s happening with Video Livestream?  
We currently do not have the capacity to offer video livestream. Dana-Lynn – our tech lead and Chair of Worship & Music Committee – had a wonderful and unexpected opportunity to move to Fredericton. We’re happy for her, but need now to rebuild our tech team. Big thanks to Ted Lownie for his ongoing commitment to this. But the system cannot be operating alone, and Ted cannot volunteer every Sunday.
 
Bear with us as we work on a solution. Or better – help BE the solution. Volunteer for the tech team. Or volunteer for the visitation team, who stays in touch with people who cannot make it to Sunday Service. 
Let no one feel abandoned by this faithful community.  
Every year we have beautiful MEMORIAL POINTSETTIAS in our sanctuary.  

They are a gift of beauty for hundreds of people attending our services and performances. 

To donate a pointsettia in memory of someone you love, click HERE to email us with your message and to arrange payment of your donation. 
Final Week for the UCW Soup Challenge!!
Just one week left in November to participate in the UCW Soup Challenge.
So eat lots of soup this week and top up that donation for the “School Breakfast Program” at Joseph Howe Elementary School.  

Bring your donation to church on Sunday, December 4th in an envelope marked UCW Soup Challenge and place on the collection plate,
or 
Mail a cheque to the church made out to "St. Andrew's UCW" with UCW Soup Challenge on the cheque notation line,
or
Use the “Donate Now” button on St. Andrew’s webpage choosing UCW Soup Challenge (Nov 2022) from the “Fund” drop down menu.

Help give hungry kids a really great start to their day and make a difference right in your own community!
The STAGE Mondays Presents
Arsoniste
We say goodbye to the artist known as Arsoniste and welcome the dawn of RSUN. This will be a night to hear the collective creativity of 7-years of music, and the new music to come! This isn't a bar show. We're shining and tuning up our Grand piano for Arsoniste to play one last time before she moves to London UK and becomes the star we know she's destined to be.
 
Joining Arsoniste will be SAFEWORD, basement therapy for four friends from Dartmouth and Halifax. They bring honest, often danceable indie-pop to your ears.

Join us November 28 at 7:30pm, right here on The Stage.
Tickets are only $15, available online.
Quilt Silent Auction
Inge Martin’s family has given the UCW a beautiful handmade queen size quilt. The quilt was made for Inge by her sister-in-law who was a local award-winning quilter.
 
The quilt will be sold by silent auction in December and will be on display in the sanctuary on November 27, December 4, 11, and 18th. December 18 will be the final date for bids. 
 
The quilt has been valued at $900. The reserve bid is $250 with increments in bids of $25. The money raised will be used to support Brunswick Street Mission.
 
Become the owner of a beautiful quilt and help this worthy cause.
Volunteer Opportunity-
Board Member, Halifax Community Chaplaincy Society  
The Halifax Community Chaplaincy Society works with individuals who are transitioning from incarceration to community. By working with former offenders, we seek to ease their transition into community and to reduce recidivism. Our twin principles are: “No more victims” and “No one is disposable”. Our two main programs (both supported through federal funding) are:  
  • Faith Community Re-Integration Program (FCRP) acts as a bridge for former offenders who wish to establish, or re-establish, relationships with faith communities.   
  • Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA). Grounded in restorative justice principles, CoSA reduces sexual victimization by assisting people who have been incarcerated for sexual offences and are being released into the community.  
We are looking for committed individuals to join our volunteer Board. We welcome individuals from any faith background who view issues of criminality and incarceration through the multiple lenses of compassion, support, re-integration and accountability. We welcome inquiries from anyone interested and are particularly seeking individuals who might consider taking on (with support from the existing Board) the role of Vice-Chair or Secretary to the Board. 
 
If interested, please contact d.ginn@dal.ca.  
Annual Festival of Carols
RCCO Halifax Centre: Annual Festival of Carols
All Saints Cathedral • Monday, Nov. 28 @ 7:30pm

Begin your Christmas season with the Royal Canadian College of Organists annual Festival of Carols. With The Aeolian Singers as guest choir and guest reader Katy Jean (Columnist, The Saltwire Network), this will be a beautiful way to begin the Christmas season. Freewill donations will be accepted. Organ Preludes begin at 7:00pm. All singers are welcome to join the massed choir for a rehearsal at 5:45pm.

Singers can register to join the choir here: https://forms.gle/Z8qjV6JMcg1o2GxAA  
More details available here.
All are welcome at St. Andrew's
Office Hours
Tuesday - Friday 9:30am-4:30pm
Sunday Service 10:30am
Closed on Mondays and Saturdays

Contact Us
902-422-3157