St. Thomas Anglican Church, Stittsville, Ottawa, Ontario

Welcome to all and a special welcome to anyone visiting St Thomas’ this weekend. May you find God’s hope, peace and joy as you worship with us on Sundays at 8:30 am or 10:30 am

There is a Nursery Room available for babies and pre kinder church children during the 10:30 service. Volunteers are welcome for nursery duty. Please contact Judy McCorkell at 613-836-2348 for more information.

We pray for members of our Parish Family: Nicholas Kouri & Diane Wilkinson; Rev Lee, Sheri, Samantha, Abbey & Jack Lambert; Nancy & John Lavictoire; Elaine Leach; Michael & Carol Lenz; John & Wendy Lepore; Joan Lockyer.

We pray for the Sick and those in need of Healing: Pat, Daisy, Nancy, Nicholas, Giuliano, Laura, Anne, Elisabeth, Sarah, John, James, Dilys, Lyall, Marion, Bev, Richard, Murray, Lizeth, Cyril, Al, CJ.

Chalice: Arlene Simonovich
Reader: David Dallaway
Intercessions: Judy Dallaway
Projectionist: Audrey Robinson
Sides people: David and Judy Dallaway
Altar Guild: Pam Hazen, Grace Bell, Mary Passmore, Tanya Drew

Assisting in Sunday’s 10:30 a.m. Liturgy
Chalice: William Passmore
Server: Keara Watson-Laird
Intercessions: Robin Tilgner
Projectionist: Pat McNally
Sides people: Susan Boutilier & Helen Greatrex
Prayer Ministry: Denise Torunski & Mary Passmore
Altar Guild: Pam Hazen, Grace Bell, Mary Passmore, Tanya Drew

Please join us for coffee/tea and fellowship in the Church Hall following the 10:30 Liturgy.

Christmas Services

Sun Dec 16 8:30 am - Holy Eucharist
                      10:30 am - Holy Eucharist with the Christmas Pageant
Sunday Dec. 23 - 1 service at 9:30 am followed by a pot luck lunch
Monday Christmas Eve - 4:30 pm family service
                                       10:30 pm Carols
                                       11:00 pm Midnight Mass
Tue Dec 25 Christmas Day - 1 service at 10:00 am
Sun Dec 30 - 1 service at 9:30 am

Prayer Ministry for healing or other concerns is available in the prayer nook during the time of Communion.

To hilite the spirit of Advent, Rev. Lee showed a Star Wars Advent video on Dec 9.

Christmas Brunch: Sunday December 23rd following the 9:30 AM service. Please respond to the office if you will be attending and/or would like to contribute. Thank you, Ryan & Nicole

Coffee & Chat Social: Please join us for a social at 10:00 AM in the Council Room on Wednesday December 19th for a coffee hour. Everyone is welcome. For more information please contact Pam at 613-831-3093.

We will be having 2 Christmas Carolling events. The 1st one is a neighbourhood sing on Friday, Dec 21 at 6:30 pm and the 2nd is at the Stittsville Villa on Saturday, Dec 22 at 2:00 pm. If you are interested in joining, please sign up on the form in the narthex. We will meet at St Thomas. Please see Sherri Lambert with any questions.

Request for Yarn: You may have noticed rather a lot of knitted hats at the church bazaar this year. Pat Brush knits (incessantly) from donated yarn, but is running out. In order to have a good selection of hats again next year, would you consider cleaning out your stash of all the odd ends of balls of yarn or colours that you don't think you will use after all? You can bring them to church and find Pat, or put them in the choir stalls for Pat to find.

Christmas Flowers: Anyone wishing to donate towards the flowers at Christmas may do so until Sunday December 16th. This allows time to put the names in the bulletins. Please use the white envelopes found in the narthex. Fill in the information and return to the office, or on the collection plate, or give directly to Arlene.

The next gathering of the Wine, Women and Words book club will be held on Tuesday, January 22nd at Tara MacDougall’s home starting at 7:30 p.m. The group is reading "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith. It is a semi-autobiographical award-winning 1943 novel. The story focuses on an impoverished but aspirational adolescent girl and her family living in New York City during the first two decades of the 20th century. We will be discussing the book up to the end of Chapter 28. Please bring something to eat/drink to share. Please contact Tara for more information ntaramacdougall@gmail.com

Family Faith Time begins in the downstairs hall at 9:00 am until 9:25 am. This includes activities for all members of God's family regardless of age.

God's Garden begins at 9:40 following the Children's Talk in church. This is for children 3-12 years of age. Registration forms are in the church foyer as well as in the Downstairs Rainbow Room. All registered children receive a free Bible. See Merilee Clarke for more information or call her at 613-831-7704.

Bridlewood Home Hardware, Michael Cowpland Drive has partnered with St Thomas Church. Everything you buy at the store entitles us to receive a 10% rebate pre tax. Just mention you are from St Thomas at check out. In 2016, our church received a rebate of $33 from Home Hardware.

Thanks to all who participate in the grocery store certificate program, but what if you don’t feel like cooking and want a meal out! Well we’ve teamed up with Hurley’s Grill at 1261 Stittsville Main Street. Now when you have a meal, or snack, before you pay tell the waitress or waiter that you are on team 5741, and 10% of your bill will come back to the church. This does not include taxes or alcohol. Our team number is the last 4 digits of the churches telephone number or just tell them you are with St Thomas. In 2018, the church received a rebate of $340 from Hurley's.

St Thomas is on Facebook. If you are a Facebook user, you can find our page by searching for 'St Thomas Stittsville' and then 'Liking' our page. Then any posts made on the St Thomas page will also show on your personal page - an easy way to keep in touch with the events happening at St Thomas. We now have about 78 people who are receiving St Thomas news on their Facebook page. If you are not a Facebook user, you can visit our Facebook page by clicking on this link.