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

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!

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!

The below items are wanted to help our refugee family when they arrive.  Click here for details about our partnership with Grace Church, Markham.

Pleased email information and picture of items to mckelvey@nullrogers.com

A HEALING JOURNEY THROUGH LENT

Led by Dr. David Reed

Saturday, February 13, 2016 – 9:00am-12 noon

The days between Ash Wednesday and Easter tell the ‘Greatest Story Ever Told.’ It’s the Story of a God who created the world out of love, Who looked at that world and said, ‘it’s good!’ It’s the story of disobedience, broken relationships and disorder, of rebellion and death.

There’s Good News. It’s the Story of a God whose love never gives up—the story of a God who heals our sin and sorrow. Lent is the Story of an incarnate God—God made flesh—who came among us, died for us, and was raised from death to bring healing to the whole world—to us, to the nations and to the whole creation.

To prepare for our Lenten journey, we will follow the healing ministry of Jesus and the Apostolic Church, signs that the reign of God has begun. We will share today’s healing stories to remind us that this kingdom of God is still unfolding before our eyes.

In Easter we will rejoice that the Great Reversal which began in a manger and on a cross will be brought to its completion in that new heaven and earth where God ‘will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more.’

Cost: $15.00 for the morning; please email Katharine to sign up.