THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29th, 2009 - If you are out and about this weekend you might take in the Art With a Heart Show & Sale in Oshawa this Saturday. www.artwithaheart.ca
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31st, 2009 - HALLOWEEN and don't forget to turn your clocks back.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1st, 2009 - All Saints Day - join us for worship at 10.30 - the nursery will be open. Rev . Matthew McKay leading.
Following worship we are holding a "clean-up" day. Please plan to stay and help for an hour.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1st, 2009 - 3pm - Toronto Chamber Choir - Renaissance Soul Music. Kaffeemusik's first performance of the season features John Sheppard's Media Vita, a 6 part motet that begins "In the midst of life, we are in death". Exploring the theme of All Saints Day, uncovering music for the souls' repose by Renaissance composers. Christ Church Deer Park, Yonge & Heath Streets. Ticket prices; $20.00, $26.00 or $12.50
MISSION CAPSULES: Our gifts to Presbyterians Sharing ... support Justice Ministries and the church to advocate for poverty reduction. "Our mission is service: a call to help people in need and to permeate all of life with the compassion of God" (Living Faith 9.1.3). We yearn for a world where every person has access to sufficient food, safe and secure homes and communities, access to health care and education, and participates fully in community life. Seven of ten provincial governments have or are developing programs to reduce poverty. October 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives will produce a four page resource highlighting the connections between poverty and climate change, and suggest ways to mark this date. Justice Ministries would be delighted to speak with your presbytery or congregation. Our gifts to Presbyterians Sharing ... support Justice Ministries and the church to advocate for poverty reduction.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7th, 2009 - Concert at Beaches Presbyterian by the Lost Pilgrims
Reception at 6:30 Concert at 7:30 - Tickets in advance $12.50 at the door $15.00
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 2009 - THE BEACH OUT OF THE COLD program at St. Aidan's church at Silverbirch and Queen will begin it's fourth season. They still need volunteers for three hours per month. For information go to - outofthecold.beach@gmail.com
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 2009 - Beaches Annual Artist's & Artisans Show. For information, or to volunteer your assistance, contact Marcia Livingstone livinstonem@rogers.com
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13th, 2009 - Tom Allen and Lori Gemmel are again presenting a reading of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. So far the readers are our own Tom Allen and Michael Brett. Peter Oundjian, conductor of the TSO, and Donna and Colm Feore.
More information to come.....but, do mark this on your calendar.
MORE NONSENSE:
"By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere." Billy Crystal
and the cardiologist's diet - If it tastes good, spit it out!
Have a good week - MB
