ANNOUNCEMENTS
TODAY **Join us for special fellowship time after worship in the Fellowship Hall. CEC is providing Baked Potatoes in celebration of Camp Sunday **
Tuesday Tuesday Luncheon 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Prayer Group – 7:30 p.m.
Thursday Praise Team Rehearsal – 6:30 p.m.
Choir Rehearsal – 7:30 p.m.
Friday Elmira Youth Network Event – see announcement
Woolwich Community Services provide support for the most vulnerable in our Community. We help by filling our grocery cart each month. For the month of March we are collecting: Salt & Kleenex
Recently there have been several Sunday Morning Offering Envelopes used which were from 2014. Please destroy any 2014 envelopes that you have. From year to year the envelope numbers change and the danger is that the donation is credited to the wrong donor. Thank you!
Gale Presbyterian will be hosting an event organized by the Youth leaders of several area churches who have formed the Elmira Youth Network, EYN.
This event will take place on Friday April 24th from 7pm to 9pm. It is a community youth/young adults contemporary worship night for all area youth groups, featuring a live band, food, and free admission.
For more info, please email youth@galepresbyterian.com or call (519) 836-7244.
On April 24th there will be a Youth Community Service held here at Gale. We are expecting 100 youth to be attending. Gale church will be providing a snack that evening and would love it you can help by donating some items. There is a sign up list hanging out on the board if you can sign up for an item or two! Thanks Melanie
Crieff Hills Conference and Retreat Center invites you to our May Manna Day “Christian Mission: One Starfish at a Time,” on Thursday May 14th with guest speaker Rev. Karen Horst. Join us as we explore appropriate ways to engage in Christian mission at home and internationally. Please register before May 5th by calling 1-800-884-1525. Cost for the day is $20.00 and includes lunch. For further information see www.crieffhills.com
| Gale is hosting a FISH FRY on Wed., May 6th.
Continuous serving from 4:45-7 p.m. ADVANCE TICKETS ONLY – Adults $17, Children (12 & under) $8. |
Presbytery of Waterloo-Wellington – Day for Visioning Invitation
The Presbytery of Waterloo-Wellington invites all 10,086 Presbyterian members and adherents under pastoral care across 32 congregations to a Day for Visioning on Saturday, May 2, 2015, from 8:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. at Gale Presbyterian Church in Elmira, Ont.
This strategic visioning session will allow participants to share their views and ideas about where the Presbytery of Waterloo-Wellington should be headed – which will help determine how the Presbytery’s financial resources will be used moving forward.
The Day for Visioning will be facilitated by the Rev. Peter Coutts, General Presbyter of the Presbytery of Calgary-Macleod. Rev. Coutts brings nearly three decades of experience in parish ministry at churches in Calgary, London and Victoria, B.C. to his current role, as he assists clergy, sessions and congregations with leadership, planning and resources. He is also the author of Choosing Change: How to Motivate Churches to Face the Future.
Some key questions to consider in advance of the Day for Visioning include:
• What is the church called to be?
• What is the church’s context – in society and in our congregations and presbytery?
• How do we fulfill our calling, given the context today – and in the future?
The Day for Visioning will include devotions, a presentation, discussion groups and prayer.
Please register online at www.dayforvisioning.eventbrite.com
If you do not have Internet access, please call 519-621-3630 to register.
Kintail on the Road will be returning once again this summer to Gale Church! Mark the week on Monday August 24 to Friday August 28 on your calendar and plan to have your children join us. This year’s theme is “No Matter What!”
Registration forms are now available in the church office or online. Please drop off all completed registration forms at the church office.
Registration is open to Gale families and returning campers only for the month of April. In May we will be opening registration to others in our community.
We have spots for just 55 children so sign up soon!
Pilates…
Monday night’s starting Monday, April 27th at 7pm in the Fellowship Hall.
All fitness levels welcome. $40 for 4 weeks or $12 drop in.
Contact Crystal Hammell – crystal.hammell@gmail.com or on facebook: Crystal’s Pilates.
WOW, A WHOLE TRUCK FULL!
15 bottles of Ketchup, 25 tubes of toothpaste along with jam, peanut butter, canned vegetables, tuna, juice, rice, coffee, cookies, pasta, cereal, jello, beef bouillon cubes, baking powder, toilet paper, personal care products and cleaning supplies were delivered to the WCS Food Bank.
The Ketchup arrived in the nick of time as they had just run out!
Thank you so much!
The Library has an additon of nine new books, be sure have a look!
On Saturday May 2, approximately 75 to 100 representatives from churches in the Waterloo-Wellington Presbytery will be at Gale Church participating in workshops concerning the visionary process for our Presbytery.
As they will be our guests for the day they will require coffee breaks and lunch. Your help would be greatly appreciated in any on e of the following ways: Donating muffins, squares, tarts or cookies OR
Helping make sandwiches from 9:30-11:30 a.m. OR
Serving lunch from 11:30-1:30 p.m.
If you can help out please contact Dave Chalmers, (519)669-0934 no later than Wednesday April 29th.
The St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Women’s League will again be hosting their
ANNUAL MOTHER’S DAY TEA on Saturday, May 9th from 1-3 p.m. at
St. Teresa of Avila Church Hall, 19 Flamingo Drive, Elmira.
There are door prizes, bake & penny tables, and of course tea and dessert!
Keep this date in mind. This is an open invitation for everyone (men too) to come out for an enjoyable afternoon to honour our Mothers.