Divorce and grief addressed

Divorce Care and Grief Share are two programs offered at Kelowna Church of the Nazarene, to meet the needs of specific groups of people.

In addition, the church, meeting in multi-use facilities built and dedicated in 2001, sponsors The Haven, a daytime activity program for disadvantaged women in the community.

Located at 1305 West Highway 33, the church office can be reached at 250.868.2236 or Nazarene@uniserve.com.

Heritage site

Lakeside Presbyterian Church in Summerland is an official Heritage site, having served four denominations and a lodge since it was built as a Baptist church in 1911. The denominations were Baptist, Methodist, United and, now, Presbyterian. For several years, before being sold to the Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1991, it was a Masonic lodge meeting place. The late William Perry, at the time the minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian in Penticton, spearheaded the development of the new congregation in 1991.

James Statham, the first full time minister, arrived in 2004.  He previously served congregations in Duncan and Ottawa.

Part of the heritage significance of the church is a Lye pipe organ, which was moved from Trinity United Church in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) in 1929. Info at 250.494.3291.

Anniversary lunch

A potluck lunch last November 4 at the church marked the fourth anniversary at All Saints Lutheran in Kelowna. The young congregation is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.

As it happens, that particular date is All Saints Sunday in the liturgical calendar followed by many Christian denominations. Church info at 250.762.4084.

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Drivers sought

Emmanuel Assembly, a Pentecostal church in Westbank, is seeking volunteers with class 2 and class 4 drivers licenses, to handle vehicles used in the church’s Sunday transportation ministry.

Community Life Pastor Derek Koch has more info at 250.768.7638.

Prayer for Chile mission

The Potter’s House Community Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in Westbank, is presently listing for prayer on its website (www.tphcc.com), Ken and Cathy Yinger of Chile, South America, to whom the church supplies support.

The citation notes that Ken has been serving as the team leader of the Andean River Valleys denominational missionary team.

Cathy works with him and Chilean Baptists using a variety of methods (such as community development, working with parents in schools, cooperating with rural health clinics) to begin “healthy reproducing churches” in the area’s many rural mountain valley villages.     – LM

Fighting the crystal meth plague

This dramatic image is part of the campaign being conducted by the recently formed Central Okanagan Crystal Meth Task Force. It is from the group’s website, crystalmethtaskforce.ca, which is an initiative by the Living Positive Resource Centre (Nazarene@uniserve.com) and the City of Kelowna. In an effort to inform the public about Crystal Meth and its harmful effects, the ultimate intent is to reduce the level of use of this toxic substance, especially among the youth in Kelowna, according to the All Saints’ Lutheran Church website (allsaintslutheranchurch.com). All Saints’  pastor, Tyler Gingrich is a part of the task force. – LM

January 2008