Sunday, December 1st Family Advent Breakfast

Enjoy a festive Advent breakfast with SPOTH friends and family. Cost is by donation (suggestion $5 per person). After the delicious breakfast, we will explore themes, do activities, create keepsakes and share ideas around the meaning of Advent. Volunteers welcomed! Please let Pastor Amy know if you are able to help.

Advent is the story of a wonderous moment when God entered our world to make things right. It is the greatest story ever told and it changes everything – including the way we celebrate Christmas. Have you heard about Advent Conspiracy? Advent Conspiracy was founded on the radical idea that we can celebrate Christmas humbly, beautifully and generously. We can Worship-fully, Spend Less, Give More and Love All. Children in junior and senior Sunday school will be learning about Advent and given tools to make Christmas what it should be – a joyous celebration of Jesus’ birth? An accompanying Parent resource will be available to help reinforce the lessons each week. Would you like to conspire with us? Come to the Advent Breakfast to enjoy a delicious breakfast and to learn how we can celebrate Christmas differently.

Children in JK-Grade 5 are invited to the Glow Party! Pizza, games and candy make the evening fun and exciting! Friendly costumes are encouraged. Please bring $5 for pizza. Youth Gr 6-12 are welcome to help run the event. Contact Pastor Amy adesousa@nullspoth.ca

Bring your backpack on September 8th! We will be praying a blessing over each bag. Kids will receive a tag to adhere to there bag to remind them we are praying for and support them.

As part of celebrating our 180 years of faithful service we will be having a Strawberry Festival. Enjoy fresh strawberries, whip cream and biscuits on Sunday June 23rd! See you there!

Join us as we congratulate our grads! We have youth graduating from grade eight and grade twelve and we want to wish them well on the next journey of their lives.

We will have a celebration cake after the 10:30am service during coffee time on Sunday, June 9th.

Come and support our youth and encourage them as they continue on their journey.

Mark your calendars for the first of our SPOTH 180th anniversary celebration events!

We will be honouring our Patron Saint, St. Philip, in a special Patronal Festival service on Sunday May 26, 2019 at 10:30am. We will gather at 9:45am to “Beat the Bounds” o our church property. This is an ancient custom modernized. We will carry banners and walk the boundary of our property, singing and praying, and then gather for the 10:30am service. A free light luncheon and cake to follow. Come celebrate our God, our Saint and our historic church.

May 5th, Walkathon

We are walking to support the summer camp program for Indigenous youth at GRUNDY LAKE.  Money raised will send indigenous children (many of whom live in foster care in Toronto) to an Aboriginal based camp, run by Native Child and Family Services Toronto.

We will have a shortened 10:30am service and begin our walk around 11:30. Sponsorship sheets available at the church, or donate online.

To donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/grace-stphilips-family-sponsorship/