St. James Anglican Church
225 Edmund St., Carleton Place, ON K7C 3E7
Rector: The Rev David Andrew
Wardens: Eleanor Code and Debbie Newton. Church Office (613) 257 3178
225 Edmund St., Carleton Place, ON K7C 3E7
Rector: The Rev David Andrew
Wardens: Eleanor Code and Debbie Newton. Church Office (613) 257 3178
Services
SUNDAY:
Eucharist at 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. (family)
Sunday School meets during the 10 a.m. service
THURSDAY:
Eucharist at 10.00 a.m.
Bible Study: after the 10 a.m. service
Welcome to St. James
WHO WE ARE:
St. James is vibrant, loving and welcoming. We value tradition and seek new ways to do God's will.
WHAT WE OFFER:
Twice-weekly Eucharist services, weekly youth group and Bible studies, several women's groups, a variety of youth activities, a choir, and an ever-expanding Outreach program to help the less fortunate in other parts of the world.
WHO WE ARE:
St. James is vibrant, loving and welcoming. We value tradition and seek new ways to do God's will.
WHAT WE OFFER:
Twice-weekly Eucharist services, weekly youth group and Bible studies, several women's groups, a variety of youth activities, a choir, and an ever-expanding Outreach program to help the less fortunate in other parts of the world.
NOTICE
July 6 to August 31 inclusive
Thursdays: 10 a.m. - Holy Eucharist
Sundays: 9 a.m. - Holy Eucharist
There will be only one service on Sunday mornings. Lemonade/iced tea will be served on the lawn after the service (indoors if raining). Please be sure to make yourself known to visitors and newcomers during the summer months.
The Nursery, in the Office Wing, will
be open each Sunday for our younger children. Older children may attend church. An activity table at the back of the church will be set up for their use.
NEWS:
Read your church newsletter here:
Summer 2008
Pastoral visitors needed!
Our Pastoral Care Team could use your help for a few hours each week. We have a number of parishioners who are housebound, some temporarily shut-in, some who are lonely and some unwell. An occasional visit or even just a phone call from someone who cares can be a great blessing. We would gladly provide some training and support if you feel you could help out. Please contact David Swift through the church office.
Read your church newsletter here:
Summer 2008
Pastoral visitors needed!
Our Pastoral Care Team could use your help for a few hours each week. We have a number of parishioners who are housebound, some temporarily shut-in, some who are lonely and some unwell. An occasional visit or even just a phone call from someone who cares can be a great blessing. We would gladly provide some training and support if you feel you could help out. Please contact David Swift through the church office.
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St. James Anglican Church
225 Edmund St., Carleton Place, ON K7C 3E7
Rector: The Rev David Andrew
Wardens: Ross Beck and Allyson Rossiter. Church Office (613) 257 3178
225 Edmund St., Carleton Place, ON K7C 3E7
Rector: The Rev David Andrew
Wardens: Ross Beck and Allyson Rossiter. Church Office (613) 257 3178
© St. James Anglican Church, 2008.
Webmaster: Sheila Ascroft
Webmaster: Sheila Ascroft
St. James is vibrant, loving and welcoming. We value tradition and seek new ways to do God's will.
Outreach Archives 2010
Christian work in Madagascar is supported by St. James and many other churches. The projects include:
Akany Famonjena - a Madagascar Orphanage and photos
Akany Tafita - Outreach to poor children and photos
Christian work in Madagascar is supported by St. James and many other churches. The projects include:
Akany Famonjena - a Madagascar Orphanage and photos
Akany Tafita - Outreach to poor children and photos
Dear Friends of St. James,
MADAGASCAR NEWS - spring 2010
Services
SUNDAY:
Eucharist at 8:00 a.m.
and 10:00 a.m. (family)
Sunday School meets during the 10 a.m. service
THURSDAY:
Eucharist at 10.00 a.m.
SUNDAY:
Eucharist at 8:00 a.m.
and 10:00 a.m. (family)
Sunday School meets during the 10 a.m. service
THURSDAY:
Eucharist at 10.00 a.m.
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to-day as their teachers are celebrating Mother's Day (8th March).As they play, their voices are muffled by the sound of a hair blower right beside me. Yes, a professional hair blower! We have three older girls who are learning hair dressing at three different hair dressing schools. The benefit of this decision is that they learn from each other their most recently acquired techniques. Fara is creating a newly learned fashion on Armance's hair ... before she goes to school and shows her new style to her friends.
I am very much enjoying being once again with my Malagasy children and adult friends. The weekends give me great joy and deep satisfaction. We now have one older girl and six older boys who are studying at post-high school levels in the city of Antananarivo. Some come "home" on Friday late afternoon and others on Saturday after their classes. By Saturday evening meal, our Akany Famonjena family is complete ... though briefly because all return to their "city nests" on Sunday afternoon ready for Monday morning classes at their respective schools.
I am very much enjoying being once again with my Malagasy children and adult friends. The weekends give me great joy and deep satisfaction. We now have one older girl and six older boys who are studying at post-high school levels in the city of Antananarivo. Some come "home" on Friday late afternoon and others on Saturday after their classes. By Saturday evening meal, our Akany Famonjena family is complete ... though briefly because all return to their "city nests" on Sunday afternoon ready for Monday morning classes at their respective schools.
CONT'd
Friday March 5th, I joined many Malagasy women for their World Day of Prayer service, which the Cameroon ladies had composed. Many were outfitted in traditional Cameroon dress. The music was very alive and even included the blowing of whistles! Perhaps your services were similar? I was pleased to join them here as internationally and ecumenically we all joined hands in worship and prayer!
Saturday and Sunday afternoon were sadder days. Saturday we buried a dear friend and member of the Akany Tafita Board. He also was very active in various ministries in our Diocese. A tremendous number of family and friends drove many kilometres, some on very difficult roads, to his ancestral village, church and family tomb. The funeral service was a wonderful celebration of his Christian life and witness. I will personally miss him.
Then on Sunday, we gave thanks in our own little rural church for the life and witness of a very old dear Malagasy lady of 103 years!This lady was also my dear friend and we were always glad to see each other again each time I came to Madagascar.
This Friday at the very early hour of 6 a.m., I am going to Antsirabe to visit friends. On the way I will stop and visit LIVA at his agricultural centre just north of Antsirabe. Then I will drive on to Ambositra, which is a large popular artisan centre in Madagascar. I hope to purchase a few Madagascar items, including wood carvings, which I hope some of you will enjoy enough to buy! The profit always returns to our two Akany Centres here.
This has been a rather "chatty" letter, but I did want to share with you some aspects of life here since my arrival on 4th February.
May God deeply bless and keep you ... as He blesses and keeps us here!
Lovingly in Jesus
Mary
Friday March 5th, I joined many Malagasy women for their World Day of Prayer service, which the Cameroon ladies had composed. Many were outfitted in traditional Cameroon dress. The music was very alive and even included the blowing of whistles! Perhaps your services were similar? I was pleased to join them here as internationally and ecumenically we all joined hands in worship and prayer!
Saturday and Sunday afternoon were sadder days. Saturday we buried a dear friend and member of the Akany Tafita Board. He also was very active in various ministries in our Diocese. A tremendous number of family and friends drove many kilometres, some on very difficult roads, to his ancestral village, church and family tomb. The funeral service was a wonderful celebration of his Christian life and witness. I will personally miss him.
Then on Sunday, we gave thanks in our own little rural church for the life and witness of a very old dear Malagasy lady of 103 years!This lady was also my dear friend and we were always glad to see each other again each time I came to Madagascar.
This Friday at the very early hour of 6 a.m., I am going to Antsirabe to visit friends. On the way I will stop and visit LIVA at his agricultural centre just north of Antsirabe. Then I will drive on to Ambositra, which is a large popular artisan centre in Madagascar. I hope to purchase a few Madagascar items, including wood carvings, which I hope some of you will enjoy enough to buy! The profit always returns to our two Akany Centres here.
This has been a rather "chatty" letter, but I did want to share with you some aspects of life here since my arrival on 4th February.
May God deeply bless and keep you ... as He blesses and keeps us here!
Lovingly in Jesus
Mary
I am writing this letter from just outside my room on the Akany Famonjena upper verandah. Most of the children have left for school and only a few are at home
I love observing how glad the children are to see each other on the week-ends! Even though the time is short, I try to find a few private minutes with each of these older students, just to catch up with our relationship, their lives and lifestyles and their studies. I continue to assure them of your love and prayers for them. I know that they very much appreciate the opportunity for life and education that you, their sponsors, are providing for them!
Visiting the children at Akany Tafita is also a time I cherish! They are all still very young and so uninhibited in the ways they show their love and excitement when I or any other visitor appears. This is refreshing and I, like all of us, need to be hugged and loved! Sometimes their love is overwhelming!
The last time I was at Akany Tafita, four or five of the children read parts of a Malagasy story in front of the whole class. Then I asked the children if I, Bébé Marie, could read a little to them! With huge eyes they watched and listened. I read my very best and with all the expression I could muster. They were so surprised that Bébé Marie could read in Malagasy too! Of course they would have no way of knowing that I really can read and write as well as speak in Malagasy... even though far from perfectly!
Our Bishop has assigned a priest to spend time at Akany Tafita twice weekly. He teaches and just spends relaxed time with the children. Later, he visits the families of the children. On Sunday mornings he leads in worship at the Akany Tafita centre. He tells me that 40-50 folk gather with him to worship. We have been praying about this possibility for a long time so I am most grateful for Bishop's interest in encouraging this to develop.
Visiting the children at Akany Tafita is also a time I cherish! They are all still very young and so uninhibited in the ways they show their love and excitement when I or any other visitor appears. This is refreshing and I, like all of us, need to be hugged and loved! Sometimes their love is overwhelming!
The last time I was at Akany Tafita, four or five of the children read parts of a Malagasy story in front of the whole class. Then I asked the children if I, Bébé Marie, could read a little to them! With huge eyes they watched and listened. I read my very best and with all the expression I could muster. They were so surprised that Bébé Marie could read in Malagasy too! Of course they would have no way of knowing that I really can read and write as well as speak in Malagasy... even though far from perfectly!
Our Bishop has assigned a priest to spend time at Akany Tafita twice weekly. He teaches and just spends relaxed time with the children. Later, he visits the families of the children. On Sunday mornings he leads in worship at the Akany Tafita centre. He tells me that 40-50 folk gather with him to worship. We have been praying about this possibility for a long time so I am most grateful for Bishop's interest in encouraging this to develop.
