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We welcome you to our worship service!  Randy VanStempvoort will lead us in worship this morning.  

TONIGHT: will be led by First CRC with Tim Luimes. 

We will be celebrating Lord’s Supper in the evening service on March 18. 

The Lenten season begins next Sunday (February 26^th) and we will be focusing on Psalm 23 each week.  Please take some time to read this Psalm in your devotions reflecting on what it says.  Pastor Fred will be using other passages as well as we spend the next several weeks refocusing our lives on Christ and what he has done for us as we prepare for his death and resurrection.  May you be blessed as we bring our worship to our Shepherd!

 

 

 

§ There is no worship service today since MeadowPark Home is closed due to illness.

§ There is a worship service on Friday at Residence-on-the-Thames at 10am.

February 19 - JOINT REFUGEE CMTE: This project is supported by Grace, First, Calvary and Blenheim CRC.  We help and support our refugees help them with housing and other needs they may have.

February 26 – BACK TO GOD MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: The Lord uses this ministry to open hearts of people from diverse cultural backgrounds to Him.  Hundreds of millions of people around the world are able to hear The back To God Hour broadcast in a language they can speak and understand.

§  Please come Sunday mornings at 9am and join in prayer for our church and community.  We meet in Room #2 (in the lower level)

§  Join us for prayer following the worship services in the room at the back of the sanctuary.  All requests remain confidential.  

COUNCIL VISITORS: Pastor Jim Poelman and Elder Fred Rekman will be attending our Council meeting on Wednesday February 29^th as church visitors.  If you have any issues or concerns that you would like to discuss with them you must first raise these concerns with Council.  Thank you. 

PANCAKE BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER:  Come support our youth tomorrow morning (Family Day).  Doors open at 7:30am and breakfast will be served until 11am.  All proceeds will go towards registration costs for the All Ontario Youth Convention and SERVE.  Free will donations accepted at the door.  

 FLOWER MINISTRY: There are still a lot of spots needing to be filled to donate flowers to the church.  If these spots aren’t filled we will have to cancel this ministry which has been a real blessing to those who have received the flowers.  Please consider being a part of encouraging church family members who are shut in or going through difficult circumstances.  The sign up sheet is on the table in the Narthex.  Thank you.

LIBRARY NEWS: Shawn Grady’s latest novel “Falls Like Lightning” will keep you in suspense when a suspicious engine explosion forces smokejumper, Silas Kwent and his crew to parachute early.  Upon landing they realize there is more to fear than just a raging forest fire. 

Friendly Reminder: The quiet room in the back of the sanctuary is provided for parents and children under 1 year of age only. This way the infants can sleep and/or be fed. Children who are older are welcome to play in the nursery that is provided downstairs. Thank you 

SCHOOL AND DENTAL SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR LIMA, PERU: Rebecca is going on a mission trip to Lima, Peru in May and needs donations of school and dental supplies to bring with her.  These supplies will be given to children in underdeveloped schools, as well as helping to teach and promote an ongoing oral hygiene campaign. Suggested supplies include pencils, pencil crayons, crayons, paper (construction or plain), erasers, pencil sharpeners, notebooks, highlighters, glue, scissor, rulers, colouring books, essentially anything you would send with your child to school, as well as toothbrushes, toothpaste, and floss. Each member partaking in this volunteer experience is asked to bring a suitcase full of supplies, therefore a suitcase will be place in the narthex for supplies to be dropped off to. Thank-you in advance for all your help and donations.  – Rebecca

  

 

TUESDAY NIGHT: Girls are meeting at the Galaxy Cinema on Tuesday night @ 6:15 to watch "The Vow".  Guys are invited to Pastor Jake's home at 7:30pm. 

TONIGHT: Youth Service at First CRC in London. We will leave from Grace CRC at 5:30. Service starts at 7pm with hotdogs and refreshments served after. We need Parent drivers so talk to Pastor Jake if you can drive.

 

 

 

MARCH BREAK TORONTO SERVE TRIP: (March 12-13) We will be spending Monday evening exploring downtown and shopping at the Eaton's Centre.  Tuesday will be a full day of volunteering at Yonge Street Mission in their clothing store.  Cost $50.  Sign up on Facebook.  We will also be collecting gently used clothing to donate to YSM.  Drop your donations off outside Pastor Jake's office.

 ALL ONTARIO YOUTH CONVENTION: Online Registration now open.  Register before March 1 and save.   

PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Tomorrow Morning!  All money raised will go towards your AOYC or SERVE registration.  Be at the church at 6:30 to start setting up and making pancakes.  Doors will open for breakfast at 7:30.  Clean up will be finished by noon. 

YOUTH UNLIMITED SERVE – SUMMER MISSION TRIP: When: July 7-14. Where: Woodstock, ON. Interested in going on a mission trip this summer but don't have a lot of cash to pay for it?  This year we are keeping the cost of Serve very affordable by staying close to home and eliminating travel expenses.  Interested in knowing more?  Talk to Pastor Jake.   

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24: All grade 7&8's are invited to join us on Friday, Feb 24 from 8-9:30pm at the church for the return of the 20 foot Sundae and a Bunco Tournament.