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News > 2010 Parish Life Notes > 10.07.11 Parish Life
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July 11, 2010
St. John’s Family BBQ - TODAY!Please stay after the 10 am service for a family BBQ in the courtyard. There will be games, good food and the World Cup game playing on a big screen in the gym. The cost is $5 for individuals and $10 for a family. This should be a great time of fellowship and fun. See you there! Missions UpdateThis spring several young adults from St. John’s went on mission trips. On Wednesday, July 21 at 8:00 pm you are invited to hear Nick, Olivia and Jamie talk about their time in India, and Sophia speak about her sojourn in Uganda. Refreshments will be served. Legal update:On Tues, Jun 9, Justice Kelleher ruled that the plantiffs, St. John’s, Good Shepherd, St. Matthews, and St. Mathias & St. Luke trustees, should bear the majority of costs of trial and that the Dioceses of New Westminster should be able to hold a Sunday worship service at St. Matthews Abbotsford. Both these items will be added to the appeal argument. 2011 Giving EnvelopesIf you give financially more than once a year to St. John’s we recommend that you have an assigned giving code and a set of boxed giving envelopes. Assigned giving codes help us to keep better track of your giving and helps ensure that you receive an accurate tax receipt at the end of the year. In July we will be ordering giving envelopes for the year 2011. If you do not have an assigned giving code, and want one, please contact Krista Friebel by email or phone at 604.731.4966 ext 19 for more information. Summer Youth ProgramDurning the summer months the youth program changes. Parents should have received an email with the activiites that are going on for grades 7-12 students. The programs are as follows:
If you have any questions, please contact Ben Short. Via MediaAvailable at the exits today are copies of Via Media, the newsletter of the Anglican Studies Program at Regent College. Read reports from three people in our congregation -- J.I. Packer, Jim Salladin and Don Lewis -- on how God is using this program to train people for Anglican ministry. Lost and FoundThis is the final week the lost and found table will be up. Anything not claimed this Sunday will be given to charity. The table is located outside the Trendell Lounge by the Library. Parish Family NewsBirth Condolences

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BIGGER & BETTER Today, the FIFA World Cup Final will be the biggest thing going on in a number of households across the world. Even if you are Spanish or Dutch the reality is that there is something Bigger and Better. The past few days, the Children attending the summer camp spent time exploring the fact that God is bigger and better than anything they can fully understand. He is bigger than the world and the universe because he made it. He is better because he loves us more than we can imagine and because He loves it so much He is fulfilling His plan to save it. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17 Today, please come and celebrate at our parish family picnic after the 10 am service in the courtyard between the church and hall. There will be food, family games, and if you need to, you can check out the FIFA World Cup game in the gym.
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