Piping up

Choirs from four churches were participating, on Sunday afternoon, March 21, in a Festival of Praise, in aid of an upcoming Victoria summer event. The four were St. Luke’s Anglican, First-Metropolitan United, St. Aidan’s United and Oak Bay United.

The session took place at St. Aidan’s,  and proceeds of the offering went to the Royal Canadian College of Organists’ Summer International Organ Festival, set for July 18 – 22 in Victoria.

The festival, taking the name of Pipes Around the Pacific, will take place in several downtown pipe organ venues, including St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, First Baptist, Church of Our Lord, First-Metropolitan United, Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria Conservatory of Music and St. Ann’s Academy.

More info is available at rcco2010.ca.  

Beth by satellite

Duncan’s New Life Community Baptist Church is the scene of a simulcast with popular author Beth Moore, beginning at 9 am, April 24.

The Duncan venue is the only Island simulcast of the event, which will be provided by satellite throughout North America.

Anyone interested can register online at newlifechurch.ca.

Ticket prices, with and without lunch, are posted on the site, as well as other details.  The purpose of the event is to help participants declare ‘So Long, Insecurity.’

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Nazarenes helping

Nazarene churches on Vancouver Island are reaching out in a variety of ways to help meet physical, medical and housing needs of people in other countries.

Many of those needs are being supported through First Church of the Nazarene’s Victoria Nazarene Resource Centre. They are looking for such items as used computers, medical supplies and equipment, clothing in good condition, furniture, beddings – and more.

The Nanaimo church is encouraging its members who have such items to take them to Victoria, and also help load containers.

Those containers are sent to hospitals in various countries. Organizers also arrange shipments of bandages made from bedsheets, from various donors. Info: 250.585.5553 (Nanaimo); and 250.381.4473 (Victoria).

Oak Bay Easter egg hunt

An Easter Egg Hunt, for children aged          2 – 10, was part of the Easter celebration this year at Providence Community Church, a Presbyterian congregation meeting in Oak Bay Village.

The fun was scheduled to start at 10 am April 3, and included face-painting, refreshments – and lots of eggs, presumably planted by a Christian equivalent of the Easter Bunny.

The event was planned for Windsor Park, just west of the Oak Bay Marina – come rain or shine.

                   – Lloyd Mackey

April 2010