Announcements - November 24, 2024

The church planned to have the following outreach events during the Christmas season :

• A Clothing Drive will be held in December as a Christmas donation to Covenant House to support youth in need. Congregants can place donated clothing in Room G downstairs after worship services on December 14, 15, 21, 22 and 24.

• Christmas Carolling – December 22 between 2– 3pm at Marine Gateway. The church is recruiting singers. Practice Date: Sunday, December 15, 2024.Time: 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. Please register at universe.com/carolling .Registration Deadline: Dec 1

• Candlelight service on December 24. The church is recruiting children choir members and adult choir members. Please register at universe.com/choir Registration Deadline: Dec 1

• Marpole Cares Christmas Hamper packing – Volunteers are needed to help prepare the gift baskets. Please register at universe.com/hamper Registration Deadline: Dec 1

• Hopeful gifts for Change – the church encourage congregants to support this program organized by CBM. Donation can be made directly through the CBM website.

• Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Toy Shop! This program aims to ensure that children from low-income families receive gifts during Christmas. We need volunteers to help set up and operate the toy shop each Tuesday morning from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm, located at 3213 Fraser St. Please contact Pastor Patrick for more details.

Our new annual theme “Co-Mission” will begin next weekend as Advent arrives. We invite all brothers and sisters to engage in the spiritual discipline of the following Christian Calendar through our weekly worship services and through Scripture Reading. Every week, we will be posting a daily scripture reading plan for the week on this bulletin. The reading plan will coincide with the Christian Calendar as well as our sermon topics. Each day’s reading will be on average about 20 verses, short enough to be done in 3 minutes. If you follow this reading plan, you will finish reading the New Testament once in a year.

Starting from January 2025, parking at the church or 8508 Ash during worship services congregants are required to register online annually. Registration link: https://forms.gle/TDSft5sAJgk5QMeN8