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Setting SailFamily Day
AGM Official Notice
Community Events Fund
Sunday Rostered Ministries
Holden Evening Prayer and Community Dinners
Men's Breakfast
Lent 2024: “Where did all the young people go?
HANGING BASKET TIME AGAIN
Request for Housing
Intersections: A Lenten Program
Call For A Day of Prayer and Fasting
Sisterhood of St John the Divine Celebration
ARC Survey Report and Brendon Neilson's February 11th Sermon
Congratulations to the Rev. Leslie Flynn
PWRDF Gaza Hospital Emergency Appeal
February Outreach: South Island Counselling
Image: Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat by Simon de Myle |
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This Week at Saint George's |
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AGM Official NoticePlease be advised that St. George Anglican Church's Annual General Meeting will be held in-person on Sunday, February 25th after the 10am service. The regular zoom link will also remain open so you can participate that way as well. All active members of the parish are welcome and invited to vote. **This is a great opportunity to ensure you are on the parish list (if you're newer to the parish and want to be able to vote)! Please contact Sage to add your contact details to the list. |
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Community Events Fund
FUN FACT: Beginning next week, for the next SEVEN (7) weeks, you can have dinner at St. George's once a week!!!
From Shrove Tuesday pancakes (Feb 13), through weekly Wednesday night community dinners, and on to Maundy Thursday (March 28) when we commemorate the Last Supper, we have 7 different opportunities to eat together.
"How do we pay for all that?!?" You wonder?
Last year we initiated a funding model for our social and community events within and beyond the parish whereby we ask you to contribute to our "Community Events Fund" with a tax-receiptable gift. You may do so once per year, or on an on-going basis. This can be done by indicating so on your regular envelope or cheque, by using the "Community Events" envelopes (please include your regular envelope number) or online through the "donate" button on the website (please choose "Community Events" tab).
This approach allows us to offer generous hospitality to all who come through the doors and frees us from focusing our events on fundraising. Please invite your friends and neighbours to join us anytime, without asking for a little cash out of their pockets.
We are grateful for your presence and participation at St. George's, and we look forward to sharing a meal together.
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Holden Evening Prayer and Community DinnersHolden Prayer continues this Lent at 5pm each Wednesday. Join us for this contemporary, sung service of evening prayer, followed by a community meal beginning around 5:30pm. All are welcome to the service, meal, or both. The simple dinner menus are thoughtfully prepared by our Hospitality Team. If you would like to contribute to the meal, you may consider bringing a salad or a dessert. Please coordinate with Signi (signi@telus.net) to ensure that we may expect and plan to include your contribution. There is no expectation of monetary contribution as we do this through our “Community Events” offerings. |
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Lent 2024: “Where did all the young people go?”For decades we’ve been wondering and worrying about our young people leaving our beloved church. For 4 Wednesday mornings this Lent, join Bp Anna and Rev Christine to explore the social, spiritual, religious and theological movements of the late 20th century. What happened in the wake of the great optimism of the 1960’s? Why haven’t any of the many approaches we’ve tried to engage young people over the decades worked in the long term? And finally, what are some of the emerging ideas and practices of 21st century Christianity and beyond? Where might we go from here? Dates: Wed. Feb 28, March 6, 13, 20 Time: 9:45am - Coffee and light snacks; 10:00-11:30am program |
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HANGING BASKET TIME AGAINPrices are:- Sun 12" $42.00 Shade 12" $42.00 Sun 10" $32.00 Shade 10"$32.00 Mixed Pot Sun 8" $20.00 Mixed Pot Shade 8" $20.00 Strawberry Pot 10" $26.00 Strawberry Basket 10" $26.00
Prices include 12% taxes. Place your order by contacting Susan Grant at 250.477.7035 Or Sheila Jones at 250 294 1054 We are not asking for payment until later, just as many orders as we can get now.
PLEASE TELL A FRIEND! |
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Request for HousingThe St. George’s Refugee Community has received the great news that the application for our Eritrean refugee Ruth Afeworki and her husband Tesfalem Asefa has finally been approved. After a fifty-four month wait fraught with domestic strife in Ethiopia, COVID and bureaucracy, we have been advised that they will be arriving within seven to twelve weeks. A blessing! With this in mind, we are now looking forward to helping to settle Ruth and Tesfalem in a new home in the Victoria area for March 31. Might you know of available housing? Could you reach out to your community connections? We are seeking accommodation in the greater Victoria area, close to bus routes and (ideally) close to Ruth’s brother and co-sponsor Ermias Afeworki, who lives in the North Park community. Please reach out to any member of the Refugee Committee (Jennifer Handley, John Sager, Ros Soares, David Stuart and Peter Rowand) if you have suggestions. As we prepare for their arrival, we’ll be reaching out to the community for contributions of household items, technology (computer and cell phone) and time - please stay posted! Thank-you for your support of this ministry! |
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Intersections: A Lenten ProgramJoin Christ Church Cathedral for an in-person offering of Intersections. These sessions will be facilitated by the Rev’d Canon Jeannine Friesen, Priest in Charge, and Dr. Martha McGinnis, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria, and Chair of the Cathedral’s Reconciliation Group. More information can be found HERE and below in the Introduction Video with Bishop Anna.
When: Tuesday evenings from 7-9 pm beginning February 13 and running until March 26. |
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Call For A Day of Prayer and FastingOur Primate, The Most Rev. Linda Nicholls, and Lutheran Bishop, Susan Johnson, have put out a call for Canadian Anglicans and Lutherans to join in a day of prayer and fasting. On February 16, 2024 everyone is asked to join together in prayer and fasting for peace in Israel, Gaza, and the Ukraine. As part of that day, Christ Church Cathedral will be holding prayers for peace at Noon. For more information on this event please call the Cathedral Office or visit their website by CLICKING HERE. They plan to hold weekly Friday at Noon prayers for peace throughout Lent. To read the letter from our Primate, please CLICK HERE. |
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Sisterhood of St John the Divine CelebrationJoin the Sisterhood of St John the Divine in their celebration of the life of the Mother Foundress, Hannah Grier Coome : |
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Congratulations to the Rev. Leslie FlynnThe Rev. Leslie Flynn was ordained on February 10th, 2024 by Bishop Anna at St. Philips, Cedar in Nanaimo. Leslie will be the new curate at St. Philips. Congratulations Leslie! Words of congratulations can be sent to her email: lflynn@bc.anglican.ca. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Razzo
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February Outreach: South Island CounsellingPlease join your Social Justice and Outreach Team by focusing your prayers and support towards this worthy agency, South Island Counselling, during the month of February.
There is much need for the conversation about mental health and this agency of South Island Counselling, is a team of Registered Clinical Counsellors, Canadian Certified Counsellors, Interns and Volunteer Counsellors who offer counselling services to individuals, couples and families in the Greater Victoria area. For more in-depth information please go to the website from which the above information was taken: https://www.southislandcounselling.org/ |
