Welcome
to St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
295 Queen Street South in Streetsville
Join us for Worship
Sunday at 10:30am
We
hope that you will enjoy spending time with us
as we praise God together and share
in the discovery of the great, good possibilities
of life and faith. All that we do in ministry
at St. Andrew's is designed to
"invite and encourage people to become
all God wants them to be."
2010
Sundays at 10:30am
August 1st
Message: "The Ministry of the Pulpit"
Summer
Worship Services
The Rev. Carolyn McAvoy will preach for her final Sunday at
St. Andrew's on August 1st. She has been filling in while
our Pastor,
the Rev. Dr. Douglas McQuaig is on Vacation.
Next Sunday, August 8th we welcome
the Rev. Dr. Victor Shepherd to the pulpit.
Our Pastor will return on August 15th
Carolyn is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church
in Canada with special certification as an Interim Minister.
She specializes in assisting congregations in transition after
long tenures or ministries with unhappy endings. Currently
between appointments, we are glad that she is able to provide
ministry in St. Andrew’s this summer.
Victor was ordained into the United Church of Canada in 1970,
and left that denomination in the late nineties and joined
the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He has served four pastorates
in New
Brunswick and Ontario (Streetsville United). He is the author
of
several books and journal articles.
Children’s Summer Ministry
Please note that there will NOT be a supervised
Children’s or Youth Ministry this Summer. Children and
Youth are encouraged to
attend the Worship Service with their families. There is an
unsupervised Nursery available for any parents needing a quiet
place to attend to their babies during the Service.
Living
Legacies Series
Everyone wants to be able to live a life that makes a difference
in the world around them. It may not be a life that is world-renowned
or significant in terms of the size
of its impact. It may be a life more important because of
the quality of its impact. The fact
of the matter is that everyone has a legacy - the benefit
of other people’s lives and the contributions that each
of us make by our own lives.
How much impact you have - and whether it’s positive
or negative - depends upon the choices you make. This series
will look at the lives of some people in the historical record
of the Bible - a few of them famous, most of them unknown
- to discover how their choices determined the kind of legacies
that they left behind.
As Jean Stewart observed in her historical note regarding
St. Andrew’s when we expanded our church building in
2001, it is good to be aware of those pioneers of our faith
so close by because they encourage us by their example to
press on in our own quest for a legacy that will live on after
we’re gone.
The writer to the Hebrews said it well:
"Do you see what this means - all these pioneers
who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It
means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and
never quit!”
(Hebrews 12:1)
This Living Legacies series will resume on
August 15th when the Rev. Dr. Douglas McQuaig returns from
Vacation. It will continue into September as we continue to
examine the lives of pioneers of the faith and the choices
that they - and we -
made that determined the legacies that are left.
