AWE (alternate worship experience) - on the 1st Friday of the month, we would like to try an experiment in community and worship. Recognizing that the Sunday morning service is sometimes difficult for people to attend due to other commitments, we would like to invite those in the church and wider community who are interested to gather for a simple meal from 5:30pm - 6:30pm (with free-will offering to cover costs) followed by a 30-45 minute contemporary worship for all ages or you can just come for the contemporary worship at 6:30pm. The second AWE night will take place on Friday, November 6 and the third evening - December 4. If you are interested in helping to plan this kind of service, please contact Rev. Val Taylor.

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WPG ECUMENICAL YOUTH NEWS - St. Helen's Anglican, WPG Presbyterian and WPG United churches.
Sunday, November 22: 1:30 - 3:30pm  Senior Youth and Junior Youth  meet at WPG United Church for a special cooking/craft event. There will be no Youth Group meetings on November 25th and November 29th.

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The Yarn Spinners Knitting Outreach Stitch Group meets every Tuesday at 3:00pm. in the Fellowship Room. This is a drop-in group. ALL WELCOME. They will be selling toques every Tuesday until December 1st from 3:30 - 4:30pm. Come and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and see many other wonderful items that are being made for people in hospitals. All money received goes to the purchase of more yarn.

TLC meets on every Thursday at 10:30am. Click here for the full schedule.

The Women's Retreat - Saturday, November 21st - 9:30am - 3:30pm. The Potter's Hands. This annual event is a wonderful time to come together for a day of fellowship, centering and reflection. The cost is $10 and includes a luncheon. Call Janis in the church office to register - 604-224-4388.

Healing Touch - Tuesday, November 24th at 7:00pm in the church and open to the congregation and community to experience the benefits of therapeutic touch.

Sing Along Messiah Rehearsal - Tuesday, November 24th at 7:30pm in the church. Admission is free.

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J.A.M. - (Jesus and Me)

Last week the children began their programs for the fall term. Registration forms for each child are available from the teachers.  This fall the programs focus on Africa, World Food Sunday, writing prayers, The Story of Ruth, Intercultural Festival of Faith and Stewardship.
Children's Ministry - Sheila Carnahan - Coordinator, J.A.M. (Jesus and Me).
Debra Dawes - 6 years+
Stephanie Gustin - 3-5 years.
Sarah Gustin - Nursery.
Kevin Hayes - Ecumenical Youth Ministry.

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Prayer Circle: the Pastoral Care Committee plans to form an intentional prayer circle. This would include people who have or who would like to develop, an individual daily prayer practise. Its purpose would be to respond to particular prayer requests over a period of time so that people in need might have the comfort of knowing that others were prayerfully walking with them during a stressful time. If you would be interested in learning more about this group, please contact Jan Tennant at coffee time, or please call the office. There will be an informal gathering to plan and discuss this very important new ministry. In the meantime, if you have prayer requests, forms may be found on the table at the entrance to the church and in the pews. Once filled out, they may be deposited in the specially marked boxes at the church entrance, or in the gym during coffee time.