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Fair trade for Christmas
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Sick of socks? Bored with bubble bath? For some
people, choosing gifts can be quite an ordeal. That’s why Ten
Thousand Villages is once again running the Living Gift Festival this
holiday season, with a unique collection of gifts to help give something
little to someone who has a lot and a lot to someone who hasn’t got
much at all.
Living Gifts help Mennonite Central Committee –
Ten Thousand Villages’ parent organization – to carry out
important relief and development work around the world. The gift’s
recipient gets a detailed description of the present chosen for them, while
the actual gift goes to those in developing countries who need it most.
Individuals or groups interested in purchasing a Living
Gift are encouraged to visit Ten Thousand Villages stores located at 1976
Oak Bay Avenue, Broadmead Village Shopping Centre and Garden Court, Sidney,
for the Living Gift Festival kick-off November 24.
TenThousandVillages.ca
Hire a choir
Yes, you can hire a whole choir for your Christmas
party or event! St. Andrew’s Regional High School choir is making
itself available for a suitable honorarium December 14,
6 – 9 pm; and December 15, 1
– 5 pm. Info available from Mr. O’Reilly at 250-479-1414.
Peace musicale
Central Baptist Church’s popular Christmas Musicale is
happening again this season. Peace on earth is the theme, and the
performances will take place on the Friday and Saturday evenings, December
7 and 8, at 7:30 pm; and on Sunday, December 9, at 10:30 am and 7 pm. Info
at 250-385-7786, about the musicale and all the other planned Central
Christmas services and events.
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Joint worship
Two churches of differing denominations have agreed to
worship together for the next year.
On September 9, the members of Victoria Pacific Rim
Alliance Church welcomed Pipeline Congregational Church to Pacific
Rim’s sanctuary at 1792 Townley Road, near Camosun College, where the
congregations will worship.
As part of the day’s events, Pacific Rim pastor
and board chair, Chuck Addison, and Pipeline pastor and board chair
respectively, Don Olsen and Donna Perrin signed the arrangement documents
on behalf of the two churches. Pipeline had been worshipping previously in
Goward House, near the University of Victoria.
Moorecroft Camp sale?
The possibility of selling part of the property making
up Moorecroft Camp, a long-established United Church waterfront facility at
Nanoose Bay, between Nanaimo and Courtenay, is being explored by the
church’s Comox Nanaimo Presbytery.
Options are still being explored by the
presbytery’s negotiating committee, in discussions with the B.C.
Conference, the church’s province-wide body. Questions relating to a
possible sale are tied in to a conference Camp Future Report, which is
intended as a guide toward redevelopment of United Church camping
facilities.
Archival home
The archival team at Church of our Lord,
Victoria’s oldest church, is very happy that they are going to be
able to set up the church archives. They are sharing space upstairs in the
ministry centre with the Cridge Memorial Theological College.
In reporting the news, they cite a document which
highlights the important role that the women of the church have always
played in fundraising. It notes that in 1923, the church women raised
$540.85 from their teas and bazaars and made a donation of $425 to help
defray church taxes.
– Lloyd Mackey
November 2007
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