Everyone come to the 55th Flower Festival - July 15th & 16th

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Come to the 55th Flower Festival

The 55th Annual Flower Festival will be held at Christ Church on Saturday, July 15th and Sunday, July 16th .

A Tea of scones, home made strawberry jam and whipped cream will be held at the Church House on Saturday only from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The cost is $6.00 per person, $3.00 for children 6 and under.
Strawberry Recipe Cookbooks and jars of Strawberry Jam will be available for purchase.

As usual, the church, grounds and cemetery will be beautifully decorated with flowers. Donations of potted plants, floral arrangements and cut flowers are needed.
If you can help provide these, please call Cathie Scatterty at 403-938-7717. Flowers should be brought to the church on Friday evening around 6:00 p.m. Children are welcome to help place flowers on the graves in the cemetery.

The Christ Church Millarville Ladies Guild is responsible for organizing the tea, decorating the church and grounds and helping to serve at the Tea. The ladies appreciate the help of the
Millarville Horticultural Society and members of the local community.

The flowers can still be viewed at our Church Service on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend. 

Invitation to Fundraising Event - April 28th

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We would like to invite you to come and see what we do as YWAM. We are hosting a fundraising event for our base here in Turner Valley. We will be doing small program which will be able to give some idea to people about what we do here. We would like to invite people to come and join us in what God is doing. So please come and be part of what God is doing here and into the nations. Your presence and prayers will make big difference! Blessings and love! Minal & Sanal

Big thanks to all who volunteered at the food bank

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Big thanks to all who volunteered at the food bank in January.   Usage over the past few months has increased and I think everyone who did work was kept pretty busy with the filling of hampers.  A reminder that the general meeting is on the 21st of this month at 3:30 p.m. and the annual general meeting will be held directly after the annual meeting.  Anyone can attend the meetings; however if you wish to vote on a motion, you will have to have purchased a membership.  These cost $5.00 and can be purchased any Tuesday during food bank hours or at the meeting on the 21st.  

Ordination Service for Gordon Pontifex

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Bus leaving Christ Church Millarville promptly at 5:45 pm on Wednesday, January 18th
to attend the Ordination Service being held at Cathedral Church of the Redeemer – 604 1st St. S.E. off of 7th Ave., Calgary  where

Gordon Pontifex will be ordained as a Priest by Archbishop Greg Kerr-Wilson. 

If you are planning to take this Bus, you must let Pauline Buckley know asap with your name & the number planning to take the Bus. Her phone # is: 403-931-3773

A donation of $20 per person is suggested to help defray the cost of hiring the Bus.

Downey Lectures - October 19th & 20th

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Downey Lectures are open to all and free of charge. They are being held next Wednesday Oct 19th and Thursday Oct 20th  at Ambrose Seminary in Calgary. This is of special interest to some of us this year as the lecturer is the esteemed Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner from Wycliffe Seminary in Toronto.

The lectures are:
Wednesday, October 19, 7:30 pm – The Bible and the God of the Living: How Things Happen Scripturally
Thursday, October 20, 11:00 am – How I Learned to Read the Bible
Thursday, October 20, 7:30 pm – A Scriptural ‘Natural Theology’?  How the Bible Talks about the World

If our congregation has an opportunity to hear Dr. Radner, Rev. Alan and I would both encourage them to go. The address is 150 Ambrose Circle S.W. It is west off 69 St SW at the Westside Recreation Complex (between 17th and 26th Avenues).

Heart For Healing - Niger

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Michelle Pieké
Physiotherapist serving with SIM at Danja Hospital, Niger

Email: michelle.pieke@sim.org
Blog: heart4healing-niger.blogspot.ca

Though I did not grow up in the church, I always felt I knew who God was. At age 12, I was challenged through a family tragedy to choose to see God as sovereign and to put my trust in Him. Around the same age, I decided I wanted to be a physiotherapist.

I did not want to be an overseas missionary. I loved to travel, but I wanted to be a light at home in Canada. In 2009, however, the Spirit firmly pressed upon me that it was time for me to follow Him into the mission field.

I spent the following summer at Mukinge Hospital, Zambia for my first missions exposure. While I was challenged professionally, treating conditions I had never seen before, God also challenged me spiritually, increasing my trust on Him and leading me to choose to work for Him long-term overseas. In 2012 I began work at SIM’s Danja Hospital in Niger, and completed my first term in 2015. 

Habitat for Humanity project

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Rev. Alan is partnering with a Habitat for Humanity project building a house in Calgary on August 24th, 2016. The Diocese of Calgary has encouraged clergy to participate as part of it's 125th anniversary as a diocese. It is part of an interfaith project and many clergy and ministers will be working together from different faith backgrounds to build a total of 12 homes. He hopes to raise $1000. Please consider donating to this very worthy cause!!! Many thanks in advance!
Here is the fundraising link for you to donate if you are so inclined :
https://fundraise.habitatsouthernab.ca/fundraise?is_new=1&fcid=732053