Gale’s Weekly Update – July 16, 2021

CHURCH OFFICE REMINDER

If there are any pastoral concerns, you can contact our Interim Moderator,
Rev. Diane Boyd (dimcboyd@rogers.com OR 519-835-4323)

For all other inquiries, contact the church office
office@galepresbyterian.com OR 519-669-2852

SEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBERS – Please continue to pray for our search committee who has begun the process of looking for a new Minister for Gale.

Kim Denstedt (Convenor), Pam Janeczko, John Kendall, Sarah Bradshaw,
Amy Hopper, Adam Dickieson, Jan Parsons, Carlee Mueller

Join us online each Sunday for a pre-recorded worship service, available on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/GalePresbyterian

Gale remains closed until further notice. Staff can be contacted by email or phone.
(Contact info at the bottom of this message)

Looking for a tasty homemade jam or something pickled?

Hilke has been busy in the kitchen and has preserves available for purchasing.

Click here https://www.galepresbyterian.com/gale-preserves/ to visit our website where you can see what’s available now and what you can order for September.

Vacation Bible School is coming to Gale this summer!!!
August 16 – 20, 2021 (9am-12pm, outdoors only)

Click here https://www.galepresbyterian.com/church-life/campership/ to go directly to our VBS page.

You can send your questions to Melanie vbs@galepresbyterian.com

Donations and Volunteers – We could still use a few more volunteers if you are able to join us. Please talk to Melanie if you are interested in helping or if you have any questions.

This year we will also be looking for donations of items that are different from snacks. Keep an eye out for the list of items we are needing to support this week.

Gale Fellowship Retreat has been booked at Camp Kintail for
Friday August 27- Sunday August 29.

Click here https://www.galepresbyterian.com/church-life/campership/ for more details.

If you have questions, please email Melanie Dow melanie.dow@galepresbyterian.com

House of Friendship Update
Online Golf – This year’s Friendship Golf is going online. Golfers AND non-golfers can attend and hear impactful stories of homelessness & housing and learn more about these issues.

Woolwich Community Services – Backpack Program
Click here to read the letter from WCS
Click here for the list of items

FOOD TRUCKS at Gale tonight from 4:30 to 8pm

Pablas Street Food Of India
Schmuck Truck

Or check out what’s at Elmira Pentecostal Assembly , 290 Arthur St. S.:
Thewildboar
The Funnel Cloud

**Specific food trucks are always subject to change.

Check Heavenly Eats – Food Trucks facebook page for details.

In response to the devastating confirmation of unmarked graves on the grounds of former Residential Schools in Canada, a statement was published https://presbyterian.ca/2021/06/15/moderator-joint-statement/ on June 15, 2021, written in consultation with the National Indigenous Ministry Council https://presbyterian.ca/canadian-ministries/indigenous-ministries/, a Committee of the General Assembly, and signed by both the Rev. Dr. Dan Scott, Moderator of the 2021 General Assembly, and by the Rev. Amanda Currie, Moderator for 2019–2020. It speaks, through repentance and lament and in humility, for the lives of all the children who were lost, those we know who died at the schools and those still to be found in unmarked graves. The statement makes many commitments for the church to act upon.