Pumpkin Party 2017!
Youth from Glenview Church will be going door-to-door collecting non-perishable food items for the North York Harvest Food Bank. Bag Distribution will be Sunday, October 21st, following the service. Bag collection will be on Sunday, October 28th, from 12:00-1:30. Your support is greatly appreciated!
Most Needed Items:
Canned fish and meat
Canned beans
Canned tomatoes
Rice
Pasta
Flour
Cooking Oil
Low Sugar Cereals
Low Sodium Instant Meals and Soups
Baby Products (Formula, Food and Diapers)
Peanut or Soy Butter
Food donations may also be dropped off at Glenview October 21st - 28th in the marked donation bins at the entrance. Please contact Shannon Wiggan if you are interested in volunteering either the 21st or 28th of October.
It seems as if the summer has just flown by us! It's time now to announce some of our plans for the new Church Program Year that will begin in September.
On Sunday, September 9 we will return to our Fall-Winter-Spring Sunday Schedule, with services at 9:00 and 10:30.
Church School: After Kennis Kim left us in June we had a good look at what we will need to do in September, to restart our Church School and Youth Programs. After meetings and consultation with Dr. Tori Smit, our Regional Minister for Faith Formation, we're getting ready for a new Program Year following a tried and true Canadian curriculum, The Whole People of God. Classes will resume on Sunday, September 23. On September 9 and 16 all children and youth are invited to worship at 10:30. There will be Activity Packs for busy hands, but the services will be designed so the whole family can participate.
The Whole People of God follows the ecumenical Revised Common Lectionary. We'll return to that Lectionary in our Sunday worship so the whole congregation will hear and reflect on the same Bible readings each week. There will also be more opportunities to integrate music into our Church School, and to plan intergenerational worship.
Welcome Back Sunday will be September 23. As usual we'll have lunch and fellowship after worship, followed by a Lego Party. Bricks 4 Kidz will invite kids of all ages to work together to create motorized models. Pre-registration isn't necessary, but it would be good to know in advance how many participants we can expect. If possible, contact Laurence, or Lisa in the Church Office to let us know you're coming. No cost to families, though any donations would be received with thanks.
Every summer we welcome our friends from Portland Place Supportive Housing and Evangel Hall MIssion, and our guests at Out of the Cold dinners to a barbecue and a special time of worship. It's always a celebration and those who come every year anticipate it with joy.
Summer Outreach Barbecue 2018 will be on Sunday, July 8.
Helpers come mid-afternoon to get everything ready for our honoured guests' arrival at suppertime. Come and help, serve, and share in the fun!
Contact the Church Office for more information.
We'll celebrate the spiritual life of our Grade Three Church School students and present each of them with a Bible
We'll celebrate the growing faith of eight young members as they claim their baptismal faith as their own. Sometimes we call this Affirmation of Faith. Sometimes we call it Confirmation.
We'll celebrate the gifts for service and leadership the Holy Spirit gives us when we ordain and induct Ruling Elders to our Session.
We'll celebrate at the Lord's Table and share in Holy Communion with God, each other, and the world.
Come and join in the celebrations!
Come after worship on Sunday for an important learning opportunity. Bring a bag lunch. Veggie and fruit trays, and beverages will be provided.
REIMAGINING INDIA - From Colonialism to Contextual Ministry to Persecution: A presentation by Laurence DeWolfe, Wednesday, May 2 at Noon and 7:30 p.m. at Glenview. Admission is free. A freewill offering will be taken in support of the Ecumenical Centre for Homiletic Orientation (ECHO). Early this year Laurence spent a month teaching preaching in Tamil Nadu, Southeast India and Nagaland, Northeast India. Christians in India live in the long shadow of colonialism, and to many other Indians represent that shadow. Indian churches are also engaged in contextual mission and ministry, which inevitably upsets the social order. The Christian minority now shiver under an advancing shadow: the Hindu Nationalism of the Modi Government, anti-Christian laws in several states, and open persecution in many communities. Come at Noon or 7:30 p.m. to learn about our sisters and brothers in India.
We will celebrate in worship with great music. We will celebrate Holy Communion. We will welcome a special guest, The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Crawford. He will return to the pulpit from which he preached his first sermon, in September 1998!
Jeffrey grew up at Glenview, was a member of congregation, worked as assistant caretaker in the summers, , was ordained to ministry at Glenview, and served as Minister-in-Association following his ordination. He is thrilled to be the Anniversary preacher.
Jeffrey is married to The Rev. Courtney Morris Crawford. Together they are proud parents of Nathan (5) and Hannah (2).
He is currently Lead Minister at Westmount Presbyterian Church in London, ON. Jeffrey has served the Presbyterian Church in Canada at all levels- national, Synod, Presbytery and congregational.
Jeffrey is a lifelong learner. He is a graduate of Victoria College (B.A.) and Knox College (M.Div.) at the University of Toronto, and Drew University (D.Min.) in leadership & practical theology. His doctoral thesis focused on the formation of Christian community in worship. Jeffrey is currently engaged in Co-Active Coaching education.
Come and celebrate!
Jeffrey Crawford
It's been awhile since we've celebrated the life and work of the great poet Robert Burns. He was a Hipster before his time, and many other things he doesn't always get credit for. After morning worship on Anniversary Sunday we'll share in a Burns Lunch. We'll have an excellent luncheon meal, after it has been appropriately blessed. And a taste of haggis, after it has been appropriately addressed. We'll toast "The Land We Left and All Who Love It" and "The Land We Live In". Pipers will entertain. The "Immortal Memory" will be observed. Mark the date. Tickets for lunch are $30 ($5 for children) and will be available on Sunday and until Sunday, January 21.
How does a Confirmation Class turn into an exercise in testing the tensile strength of toilet tissue? When the topic is "We wander far from God": The sins we commit and the Sin of the World. We started with a few layers on our semi-willing model's wrists, then arms, then shoulders and ankles. When we realize we've done wrong, we can ask and be forgiven. Sometimes we're able to undo the harm we've done and clean up the messes we've made. But life in this world ties us up in Sin. It takes us beyond anything we can fix. So we have to rely on God's free mercy and unconditional love... which leads us to the next lesson, "Jesus is the way to God." (Thanks to Shannon Wiggan, who didn't know just what would happen when she was recruited!) Click on an image to advance the slide show.
