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This Week at Saint George's |
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Men's BreakfastThe Men's Breakfast's speaker on Saturday, May 17th will be the Executive Director of the Shelbourne Community Kitchen, Kim Cummins. Kim will provide an overview of the kitchen and its outreach in our community. St George’s generously gives to the kitchen on a weekly basis with food donations. A light breakfast will be served. Looking forward to seeing you. Please RSVP Bruce Winter @ labs4ever@gmail.com if you are planning to attend. Image: Zen Chung |
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Centering Prayer - CancelledThere will be no centering prayer on Monday May 19th. We will resume as usual on May 26th. Photo by Nishta Sharma on Unsplash |
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Holden Evening Prayer And Community DinnerHolden Prayer continues at 5pm. Join us for the contemporary sung service followed by a community meal. All are welcome to the service, meal, or both. |
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Keeping the Faith in the Turbulent 2020sBishop Anna and our Reverend Christine Conkin are teaming up again for this Diocesan Women’s Retreat Keeping the Faith in the Turbulent 2020s. Click below for more information and registration form. |
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GVAT Presents: Our Shared Future - Discernment AssemblyTwo weeks after we heard from our community with the Building Communities of Care: Listening Action event, GVAT Delegates will gather to report on the past few years of work, share what we have learned together in our listening, and establish Action Research Teams around the problems we’ve heard. This will be an engaging opportunity to learn more about how GVAT operates, and for members to have their say in how we Act Together. Click below to register. |
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St George's Housing Society AGMSt George's Housing Society 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held in the church at 3:00PM Wednesday 28 May, 2025. Coffee, tea and snacks will be available after the meeting. All members of St. George's parish and all Orchard residents are welcome to attend. |
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Monthly OutreachDuring the month of May your Social Justice and Outreach Team [SJOT] will be bringing focus on the North Island Ministries. This was the focus of Bishop Ana during her December Fund Raising Dinner. The Bishop spoke about what she had seen in her travels across the Diocese. She shared some stories about churches in the north of the island, which have a particular charisma for outreach and reconciliation. All funds raised from that evening were directed to ministry in the north of our diocese. Following are a couple of sites to visit on the Diocesan website: https://faithtides.ca/gwasala-nakwaxdaxw-nations-building-hope-for-the-future/ https://bc.anglican.ca/diocesan-ministries/reconciliation-beyond “As a Diocese we seek to live out our baptismal covenant to respect the dignity of every human being and to safeguard the integrity of God's Creation. We understand ourselves to be at the beginning of the long road to Truth and Reconciliation. Our churches seek to welcome all of God's children as beloved.” St George’s Social Justice and Outreach Team asks for your support and prayers for this Diocesan Ministry. |
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Faith Tides diocesan newsletterFaith Tides is the online, faith-based publication of the Anglican Diocese of Islands and Inlets (BC). Through news stories, reflections and feature articles Faith Tides aims to showcase the work God is doing through our churches. It is a space where people of faith and doubt can walk alongside one another, share their stories and grow together. To read the May issue online or download a PDF version, CLICK HERE. |
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Deconsecration AnnouncementAfter much discernment about the path forward for St. Dunstan’s, Gordon Head, the Parish Council has taken the hard, holy, and faithful step of asking the bishop to deconsecrate the building in preparation for its sale. On Saturday, June 7, Bishop Anna will lead a service celebrating the decades of vibrant ministry at St. Dunstan’s and deconsecrate the space for its use for other purposes. We know that God is not contained within any of our parish buildings, and at the same time, they are places where we have encountered God in both ordinary times and special days, in worship and in one another. We encourage all members of the diocese to join with the people of St. Dunstan’s in this day of celebration and grief. The service will take place at St. Dunstan’s at 11:00am and will be followed by a catered lunch (registration required). Clergy are invited to vest and process. The color for the day is white. Please register if you wish to attend the lunch so we can make sure there is enough food provided for all. Registration is not required to attend the service. The deadline to register for the lunch is May 19th. |
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Victoria Children's Choir & Seattle Children's Chorus together in concert!Join us at St. George's Church for a night of choral music with the Seattle Children's Chorus and the Victoria Children's Choir. Admission is free. |
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Hope & Belonging!COME AND WARM YOUR HEARTS! The Hope & Belonging Benefit Concert in Victoria features more than 60 wonderful performers coming together in support of the Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees (VICCIR). The work they do for those who have experienced significant trauma is truly life changing. Full information and tickets available here: https://hopeandbelonging.eventbrite.ca |
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Compassion: Mutual Care for Troubled TimesOn May 27–28, 2025 the VST will host Compassion: Mutual Care for Troubled Times. Kicking off with a free, public keynote lecture on May 27 at 7pm, this conference is all about engaging with what the spirituality and practice of compassion should look like in our time. There will be presentations from scholars and activists, time for conversations with like-hearted individuals, workshops, and an abundance of inter-religious community. All these presentations will be available both in-person and online. Click below for more information and registration link. |
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Abbeyfield St. Peter's, VictoriaAbbeyfield St Peter's is a small family-style Independent Living seniors’ residence centrally located in a quiet residential neighbourhood of Victoria at 1133 Reynold's Road (behind St. Peter's Anglican Church), walking distance to shops, medical care, churches and bus service. Currently accepting applications. For more information tel. 250-590-9330 or check out the website at http://abbeyfieldstpeters.org/ |
