We have planned some unique services during Holy Week in preparation for the great celebration of Easter. Each service allows us to participate in the events leading up to our Lord’s triumphant Resurrection. Marking Holy Week heightens our Easter Joy!

Maundy Thursday April 13, 7:30 PM – Participate in moving ritual hand or foot washing as we celebrate the inauguration of the Lord’s Supper, and then strip the altar in preparation for Good Friday.

The interactive family service including children is at 6:00 PM.

Good Friday April 14 – Participate in a deeply reflective service with drama at 10:30 AM.

Consider coming early for 9:30AM as families with young children actively learn more about Jesus’ costly love for the world.

Easter Vigil April 15 – An ancient service of fire and light 7:30 PM. We light the new fire outside the church and process into the darkened “open tomb” with candles and the light of Christ, in celebration of the Resurrection.

Easter Sunday April 16 – Alleluia, Christ is Risen! We joyfully celebrate Jesus’ Victory over sin, hell, death and the grave at 8:15 and 10:30 AM services.

Kids enjoy the Easter egg hunt following the 10:30 service.

Invite your friends to celebrate with us the joyful news of Jesus’ victory, and ours.

Mardi Gras dinner and evening prayer on Tuesday Feb. 28 starting at 6:30pm – tickets are available for a wonderful celebratory fellowship dinner, followed by a short evening prayer to help us shift gears for Lent. Please email Katharine at office@nullspoth.ca or call 905-477-1991 to get tickets. You can choose from a Roast Beef or Jerk Chicken Dinner.  Pancakes and sausages will be served for the children.

Lent is a season of engaging with practices that help us be more responsive to God. We have planned a number opportunities to help you make your Lent a Holy season.

Imposition of Ashes- available at the Unionville Go Station starting at 7am or in worship services at the Church at 9:30 am – Holy Communion and Imposition of Ashes

6:00 pm – Family Interactive Service with Communion and Ashes

7:30 pm – Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes, music by Peggy Keeler

There will be two new opportunities to join a small group for Lent. Both groups will be studying an excellent video series, “Making Sense of the Cross” by Lutheran teacher Dr. David Lose. Come journey with us as we explore the most sacred and life-giving mystery of the cross of Christ. You will learn a great deal, and your appreciation of what Jesus has done for us and all creation will grow.

Monday Evening at 7:30 pm at the Church – “Making Sense of the Cross” study led by Rev. Stephen, beginning March 6 Thursday Morning, 10:00 am

Morning Prayer on Thursdays at 10am led by Mr. Brian Suggs, followed by study of “Making Sense of the Cross,” led by Beverley Kingsbury, beginning March 2. All are welcome!

St. Philip’s is also participating in the Markham-Unionville Ministerial’s Sunday Evening Lenten Series. There will be a service for each Sunday in Lent, hosted by a different congregation. St. Philip’s will be hosting an Evensong service on Sunday, March 12 at 7:00 pm.

Come help us celebrate Chinese New Year!

Join the fun at St. Philip’s this summer! Registration is now open! Click below to learn more and to register.

Musical Theatre Camp – July 10-14

Summer Day Camp – July 17-21

Join the fun at St. Philip’s this summer! Registration is now open! Click below to learn more and to register.

Musical Theatre Camp – July 10-14

Summer Day Camp – July 17-21

Join the fun at St. Philip’s this summer! Registration is now open! Click below to learn more and to register.

Musical Theatre Camp – July 10-14

Summer Day Camp – July 17-21

Calling all fathers, daughters, grandfathers, and granddaughters!  You’re invited to this year’s dinner and dance on Saturday, February 4 from 6-9pm.

This is a fun event for all who attend with a delicious dinner, fun games, dancing, a photobooth, and door prizes to be won!

Tickets are $30 per father/daughter ticket, $10 for additional daughters, and free for those age 3 and under (just let us know they’re coming).

Tickets go on sale January 15 and are available by contacting Brian Suggs at bnsuggs@nullspoth.ca

Feel free to invite friends, neighbours, and other family members to be part of the fun!

Join us at one of the following services for joyful and inspiring worship this Christmas season!

We will be celebrating the Mid Autumn Festival on Sunday, September 11 immediately following the 10:30am service with tea and moon cakes.

Legends and myths aside, the Mid-Autumn Festival, often popularly called the Moon Festival or the Festival of the August Moon, is actually a celebration of the harvest, very similar to Canadian Thanksgiving. As China was primarily an agricultural country before, the harvest played an important role in people’s 3 lives. After all the tilling, planting, sweat and toil, the time had come to reap from the year’s efforts and labour, and to thank the heavens for the crops. Traditionally, the date was (still is) the fifteenth day of the eighth moon in the lunar calendar, also known as Mid-Autumn. People gathered together to celebrate their harvests and partake of their freshly-picked crops. They also exchanged little cakes made from their reapings, and it was said that every family had a special recipe!

Early mooncakes were not as sophisticated a delicacy as they are nowadays. But things started to change in the Yuan Dynasty. Under the Mongolians, the Han Chinese majority was severely oppressed. A group of militant leaders decided to stage an uprising but had difficulty in spreading the word to the public. It was the time of Mid-Autumn, and one leader thought of using the custom of exchanging cakes to relay the message by hiding little notes inside the cakes. Though that particular revolution was unsuccessful, it started a new trend in mooncake making. People began to put fillings in the cakes, such as preserved egg yolks, melon, nuts and other sweetmeats. And so we have the gourmet’s delight of today!