Newsletter of The Church of St Timothy, North Toronto, February 2015, Volume 10 Issue 1 In early February The Reverend Liska Stefko will be joining us as an Associate Priest, here at St Timothy’s. “Liska”, as she prefers to be called, will focus her time and energy on young families and young people. As an ordained priest, Liska will also help on Sunday mornings with worship and preaching. She will be working part time with us and sharing her many gifts with L’Arche in Richmond Hill. We have a wonderful collection of young families who participate in a variety of ways in the life of our parish. Some come to Messy Church, Family Fun Nights and Sunday Worship. I believe they need support and encouragement as this is a busy time for them. Liska will be working to support and encourage them to form a more cohesive group. I am thrilled that Liska is joining us and bringing energy and skill to this part of our parish family. Richard Carrier-Bragg, who has been with us for two years, will continue with us until the end of May as our Lay Pastoral Assistant. Richard visits our seniors, alongside the Lay Pastoral Care Committee and has organized JazzEvenSong as well as Confirmation Preparation. Richard has also assisted in Sunday morning and Wednesday morning services. On Sunday February 18, as part of my sermon, I asked those in attendance to tell me what their favourite thing about St Timothy’s was. I was delighted to get over 25 responses! The majority valued their participation in the community. People referred to support, trust, non-judgemental acceptance and the kindness of other members that meant a great deal to them. Others spoke of how their participation in the community assisted them in living out their faith through outreach. Many spoke of how worship was important to them and this included their appreciation of our music. The main message of the sermon was the importance of knowing what we appreciate about St Timothy’s so we can invite others to “come and see.” Personal invitation is the number one reason people stated for their first visit to a church. “Someone invited me !” I hope you will reflect on what you treasure about our faith community and think of someone you might extend that warm invitation to. “Come and See.” A warm welcome awaits you! Peace, Greg Come to Vestry on Feb 22nd a chance to ask questions and make constructive suggestions. The meeting will start at 9:00 am for those who wish to review the financial reports in depth. Then after 10 am worship we will convene in Soward Hall for the Vestry meeting. There will be a potluck spread of finger foods to snack on, along with the usual coffee hour beverages. Child care will be provided for this part of the meeting. So please mark Feb 22 on your calendar, look over Our Annual Vestry meeting will be held on Sunday February 22. This is the annual meeting of the church and all of the congregation are asked to attend. If you have been at church recently you are eligible to vote! We will be reviewing the financial health of the church and reports from all committees, voting on our 2015 budget, and electing new people to serve on the Parish Board and the Soward Trust. You will have 1 Passages the vestry reports which will be available at the church and by email the week prior to the Vestry meeting, and on Feb 22 bring yourself and your potluck snack and have a say in what happens at St Timothy’s. Janet Gordon and Emily Manson, Churchwardens With thanksgiving we celebrate the baptism of Elizabeth Marina Wehmeyer. A THANK YOU to Jean T, St Timothy’s Resident Gardens and Grounds Expert When we completed the renovation of the building in 2000 the grounds outside were still in need of some tender, loving care. Jean has a love and knowledge of gardens and took on this project. She has been doing the majority of the work by herself for the past twelve years and has now decided to turn it over to someone else. Any volunteers? Jean designed and planted the majority of the garden off the parking lot, which we call the Alcove Garden. It has a blue and white theme. There is a small bench there for people to go and contemplate life. She has worked tirelessly around the sign area planting, weeding and pruning to make it look welcoming to the neighbourhood. Jean suggested the front urns many years ago and most seasons, Jean has been the one out there designing, planting, weeding and watering the urns. Our biggest challenge was the area close to the Ridley weekday door where we had planted periwinkle on both the north and south side of the black wrought iron fence. Weeding this area has been a huge battle and the weeds won out and we grassed most of it but still have one small patch left. Jean has spent countless hours fighting with the weeds in the periwinkle patch with assistance from Irmgard Habib, Greg and Ardith Symmes who also have been seen pulling weeds as they walk by but they just keep coming back. For the last few years we have hired an outside contractor, Green Side Up, to do the majority of the labour under Jean’s patronage and supervision. This has helped enormously. We would like to thank Jean for all her time spent in St Timothy’s gardens and hope she will continue to offer input as the need arises. Anne D Stone Soup February 8th Stone Soup: Our guest will be the Rev. Riscylla Shaw, Incumbent at Christ Church, Bolton. Rev. Shaw will preach at the 8 am and 10 am services. Our Stone Soup will be a question and answer opportunity with Rev. Shaw on the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. To ensure a successful Stone soup, prior to the 10 am service, please bring your donations of food to the kitchen. Don’t know what to bring? Check the suggestions on the Outreach bulletin board. Anything you like in soup and foods to accompany soup, for example, cheese, bread, crackers, vegetables, fruit, cookies and squares will be appreciated. Help setting up the tables and chairs and working in the kitchen is also needed. Come to the Annual Pancake Supper On Shrove Tuesday, February 17th (5:30 – 7:00 p.m.) Tickets at the door: Ages 10 -100 – $6.00, Ages 3 - 10 – $3.00, Kids under 3 – free Want to Help? Please sign up at the church bulletin board or talk to John W. 2 TIMPRINT NCD Report planning committee to Parish Board is: Noticing God • Saying thanks • Using prayer overtly • Supporting the growth of personal prayer which takes many forms • Raising St Timothy’s God Consciousness using our strengths of which there are many. (Spiritual Gifts, Structures, Loving Relationships, Empowering Leadership) So what might we do or have done to get started: • We brought back the “thanks trees” during Advent and Christmas – giving persons an expression of their prayers and thanks. All three trees were well used during the season. • We are working on providing resources for those leading meetings to open and close with prayer. • Breakaway this year will focus on the area of Personal Spiritual Styles giving insight into your own spirituality • We will encourage personal storytelling about faith journeys and experiences. • Asking permission to pray if someone is in need – we already do it every Sunday but can do more • Adult education to explore these areas for action. We are only getting started. We hope that you will join us in helping adjust our community behavior to support noticing and sharing, mentoring and personal testimony. God is here and working in the parish not just at our Sunday worship service but all week long. Our next survey is set for November 1, 2015. Let us all explore and rejoice as we “Notice God in our parish and in our lives”. Alan F This is an update on St Timothy’s progress related to our NCD activity. St Timothy’s was one of the first parishes in the diocese to use NCD tracking to discover how we could improve our parish life. The 2014 survey is our fifth survey. These results provide us with insights to help plan and develop further in meeting our vision of serving Christ with open hearts, open minds and open arms. What is the Natural Church Development program: NCD applies research indicators to help us “learn from growing churches”. By applying their practices to discover the universal principals, we can discover our own indicators and construct programs accordingly to improve the health of the parish. Healthy parishes have the best chance to be growing parishes. So what happened and what did we learn? The News is good but could be better! On November 30 parishioners completed a survey which join the other 65,000 surveys which have been completed globally to give us our St Timothy’s score. Our scores were tabulated in a cohort of the Canadian main line churches. It’s a good reading among our peers. Our overall average score was 58.6 and our min/max score was 42.3. Both improved in Survey 5. These are the broad indicators. We have a presentation prepared with more detail which will be delivered after the Vestry meeting in February for those who are interested. A summary was presented to Parish Board at the December meeting. We have work to do to maintain and grow in our church health. In NCD terms our current challenges should focus on Faith development, Passionate Spirituality, Prayer, Hope and GodConsciousness. Work in these areas will help improve the health of the parish. So what is the call to action? The call to action is to make God personal, create recognition of how God is working in our lives and of course to adjust some of the things we do. Historically we have demonstrated that by taking action we have increased our ratings. Our first survey over 7 years ago provided a vision of a less than healthy parish. We have shifted from a score in the bottom 15% of parishes to the top 15% where we are today. The call to action recommended by the NCD Invitation: Induction/Celebration of New Ministry Your prayers and presence are requested at the Celebration of New Ministry and Induction as Incumbent of the Reverend Maggie Helwig at the Church of St Stephen-in-the-Fields 365 College St, Toronto Sunday, February 22, 4 pm A reception in the church will follow the service. 3 Alan R, WW2 Code Breaker Photo by George Goodwin" Recently I was told that Alan, a member of our parish, had worked at Bletchley Park in England during World War II. I was intrigued as I had heard about the breaking of the German code system and had recently enjoyed seeing this year’s Oscar nominated film The Imitation Game. When I saw him at coffee hour on the following Sunday morning, I asked him about his experience during the war as a code breaker. Of course I asked him if we could write something for Timprint! In interview format, this is more or less what he told me then and in writing since our very interesting conversation. – Janet G Janet: I have heard you worked at the place where the “Enigma Code” was broken during the war. You must have been very young at that time! Alan: In 1941, while a mathematics student at the U of T, I volunteered to join the navy. Expecting to be a radar officer, I was greatly surprised to be assigned to “Operational Intelligence” which operated a number of direction finding stations listening to U-boat radio transmissions. The stations obtained bearings on such signals and forwarded them to us. We plotted them onto maps and where the lines crossed was the location of the U-boat. We were then able to signal this information to any naval ships in the area. In October 1944 some of the staff, including me, were considered surplus, so we were transferred to the British Navy in London. At first they did not know what to do with us. Then it was decided that another mathematician, Wally Fraser, and I should go to Bletchley Park to work as code breakers. We were billeted together in a private home in Bedford and commuted back and forth by train to the Park. Janet: What did you do there? Alan: We were assigned to work on Japanese 4 merchant navy wireless messages. The Japanese used a common system in which all the words in a message are converted into 5 figure numbers found against the individual word in a code book. Then the numbers are written under a series of 5 figure numbers found in a cypher book. The operator chooses the page, the line and the distance in from the start of this line to begin the enciphering. He subtracts his code number from the number above it and the number is the result sent out in his message. The recipient repeats this process when he is told in a coded manner of the page, line and number where to start. Then he subtracts his transmitted number from the number in the encoding cypher book. He gets the original codes which he translates into original language using the code book. This ethos has a good amount of security to it as a decoder has to have a large number of messages which duplicate the use of the same page in the enciphering book. When a decoder finds a match, he has to hope there are several. The system is not helped by computers. Janet: What did you think about the portrayal of the Bletchley Park in the recent film called “The Imitation Game”? Alan: Our first meeting with staff was in the mansion house shown in the movie. The naval commander shown in the movie was no longer there. One of the other men in the room with Commander Denniston was identified as Hugh Alexander, the British chess champion, and he actually became our supervisor. Janet: Did you know anything about the Enigma code success at the time? Did you meet Alan Turing? Alan: The secrecy at Bletchley Park was very high so those working in one hut did not know who was working in the next. I therefore never met Alan Turing and I didn’t know about my supervisor’s involvement either. After the war, Churchill ordered most records and equipment to be destroyed and 30 years of complete secrecy. It was not until writers were allowed to publish books about Bletchley and code breaking that I learned about Turing and his work. Janet: It is sad that people who contributed so much to winning the war were not recognized for their great contributions. Alan: Many of the employees at Bletchley during the war were civilians and not entitled to medals like service personnel. In 2009 the Prime Minister of Great Britain decided they should be recognized and distributed a beautiful badge and certificate to all who had served there. Unfortunately, a large percentage would have been dead by that time. In 2010 the Queen dedicated a memorial at Bletchley. Janet: What happened to the location – Bletchley Park? Alan: The buildings at Bletchley started to deteriorate until a group of former employees started to convert it into a museum. I visited about 5 years ago with my eldest son who was born in 1945 while I was at Bletchley. A great deal of money has been spent recently on restoration; the museum is running well and worth a visit. Janet: You left University to join the navy before you graduated. Did you return to University after the war? Alan: I had finished three years when I joined the navy and I was granted my degree without needing to return to classes after the war was over. Janet: Did you use your mathematical skills in your subsequent career? Alan: Yes, I worked for many years as an actuary. Alan R with Janet G News from the Old Orchard Blossoms Centre at Bloor and Spadina. This is a stunning collection of fabric art made to honour and stimulate awareness of the role of grandmothers in Africa as they deal with the effects of HIV/AIDS on their families and communities. The exhibit will be open to the public, free of charge, in the gallery at the MNJCC from Thursday February 26 until Monday March 9. The gallery hours are 9 am to 9 pm weekdays, and 9 am to 7 pm on weekends. More information on the exhibit, which is travelling around Ontario, is available here ; www.omas-siskonakw.org/textile-artproject-2014.html Voices of Power: Grandmothers Creating the Future is an event on International Women’s Day – Sunday Mar 8 at 2 pm, in the Al Green Theatre at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre. The program is designed to celebrate and examine the power of grandmothers in shaping the future for their grandchildren and communities, particularly in regard to social justice and especially in the context of the HIV/ AIDS pandemic in Africa. The program is still a work in progress but we have confirmed that Michele Landsberg , Canadian journalist, author, public speaker, feminist and social activist, will be one of the speakers and Canadian Doraaward winning actor, playwright, dub poet, monodramatist, and educator, d’bi Young, is confirmed to perform. Following this event there will be a reception and a silent auction. Tickets for Voices of Power are $20 each and may be purchased from January 25 on Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.ca/e/voices-of-powertickets-14669473791 (or go to the Eventbrite site and type in Voices of Power) or by talking to Marian Archbold. We hope to see many of you out to these events. Mary K Thanks to everyone who supported all our events in 2014. We raised $14,000 for the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers Campaign last year, and have raised an amazing $105,000 since our group started in 2006. But of course we can’t rest on our laurels, so we have several interesting events to tell you about for February. For the third year, we are selling tickets to all performances of the North Toronto Players’ production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s El Mikado. Each ticket we sell will generate income for SLF. As those of you who attended The Pirates of Penzance or Patience know, these productions are lots of fun – a perfect way to have some laughs, support a great cause and escape winter for a few hours. We will be taking ticket orders at coffee hour or you can email oldorchardblossoms@ gmail.com This year you can pay by cash or credit card. Dates: Fri, Feb 20 – 8 pm; Sat, Feb 21 – 2 pm; Sun, Feb 22 – 2 pm; Fri, Feb 27 – 8 pm; Sat. Feb 28 – 2 pm and 8 pm; Sun, Mar 1 – 2 pm Ticket prices: Adults $25, Seniors $22, Students (grade 9 plus) $15, Children under 14 – Free Location: Jubilee United Church, 40 Underhill Drive – lots of parking, accessible by TTC (2 blocks north of Lawrence E , east of the Don Valley Parkway), the church is wheelchair accessible. Several Toronto grandmother groups have joined together to host the Creating Futures:Threads of Hope exhibit, first visualized and created by the Omas Siskona grandmother group in Waterloo. It will be in Toronto from February 25 until March 9 in the Jacobs Lounge Gallery at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community 5 Outreach News Ontario. This group created and promoted the Action on Poverty Candidate’s Pledge for the recent municipal election. This evening may present an additional advocacy opportunity. We will continue to provide monthly meals for the residents of St George House. New volunteers, working with experienced volunteers, are welcome and there is a sign-up sheet on the Outreach bulletin board. Fourteen parishioners who regularly volunteer with our monthly Community Lunches met on January 11 to talk about improving the Community Lunch program. We will continue our usual buffet style served by volunteers but some months we will have a set menu and volunteers will serve our guests as we did at Christmas. We are cognizant of the potential risk of having guests take away food and plan to have available safer alternatives. Some of our regular volunteers will be away over the winter months and new volunteers are more than welcome to join us on the fourth Monday of the month for whatever time you can give. It is a very satisfying volunteer activity. For further information about any outreach activities, please speak to Linda Gilpin. Linda G, Outreach Committee Chair From our budgeted funds and with generous support from parishioners, St Timothy’s provided financial support to FaithWorks, the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund and an additional ten worthy organizations. While these donations are important, they do little to address the root causes of poverty and income inequality. Each of us support our favourite charitable organizations and is perhaps involved in advocacy on an individual basis. It is my hope that St Timothy’s, in addition to outreach, becomes involved in advocacy in 2015. This could involve working on this year’s Vestry motion on climate change, meeting with politicians on social justice issues, responding to newspaper articles, supporting Put Food in the Budget, a grassroots organization working to achieve social and economic justice for the growing number of poor people in this province or involvement with Bruce Cameron and the Aboriginal Working Group at the Church of the Redeemer. Voices for a Just Society’s first meeting for 2015 will be held at Fairlawn Avenue United Church on Wednesday, February 4 at 7 pm. The speaker will be Michael Polanyi, a member of the steering committee of the Alliance for a Poverty Free Advent Cookie Baking 6 Photos by George G participants performed for a packed church. 2014 was an eventful, enjoyable year. We would like to thank all who supported Children @ St. Timothy’s in 2014, especially Irina C, Marianne C, Sheila G, Rosemary H, Ginny L, John S, Ardith and Greg S, Rupert and Joanna W, and of course the parents! We would also like to thank the St. Andrew’s Group for making knitted puppets for Church School. They really help to make Bible stories come to life. Children @ St. Timothy’s A Look Back at 2014 In 2014 we welcomed more children to our small but enthusiastic group – an encouraging sign! In addition to Sunday morning Church School, the special events highlighted below were well received. January 17 Messy Church – 18 adults, 13 children and1 baby participated in an evening of activities & discussion centred on the theme of Baptism. Feb 23 Pretzel Baking – Children baked and served pretzels for the Stone Soup Lunch. March 5 to April 12 Lenten Project – We held a book drive for The Children’s Book Bank, which provides free books and literacy support to low income families and children up to Grade 6. On April 12 families visited The Book Bank to deliver contributions and were given a tour. Stone Soup March 23 – The book drive was generously supported by the Outreach Committee’s lunch, and two of the children spoke about why having and reading books is so important for kids. April 4 Messy Church – Back by popular demand, families made Resurrection Gardens. October 5 Mini Messy Church – For the Creation Story Theme, great fun was had by 17 children and 14 adults. They made Days of Creation stick puppets to use to tell the story at home and Created in God’s Image cookies, which they ate immediately. October 31 Open House Hallowe’en Style – Over 100 of our neighbours were welcomed into St Timothy’s. Special thanks to those who came early to decorate and to Rupert White and Alex Gall for their scary sound effects. November 19 Meet our 101 year old parishioner – 25 people, 19 of them kids, gathered in the Marsh Room to talk with Norma Duggan. They learned that she was born before even radio was readily available, that milk and bread were delivered by horse and wagon, and that as a wellrespected and highly paid commercial artist, she earned $24 a week. Messy Church November 29 – (followed by Advent Pot Luck Dinner) One of the crafts was a take-home tree decoration containing the child’s personal message to God. December 14 Cookie Baking – The cookies were made for the Outreach Community Lunch. December 24 Pageant – Under the skillful direction of Emily Manson, over 25 young 2015 Coming Special Events February 8 Pretzel Baking – During the 10 AM service, we will be baking pretzels in the basement kitchen for the Stone Soup Lunch. Our guest baker will be The Reverend Liska Stefko. Children are welcome to bring along adults to meet her. March 1 Life in Jesus’ Time – During the 10 AM service, there will be a special event in Soward Hall for families and anyone else who wishes to participate during the service.. This event will also continue during Coffee Hour for those who were in the service. We will be tasting food from Jesus’ time, playing games he might have played and much more. (Note from Carol - If anyone has seen locusts / grasshoppers for sale in edible form, please let me know). All parishioners are encouraged to come dressed for Biblical times. Carol S, Dave and Anne D Family Fun Time 7 Photos by Sarah Kelly On November 15, 2014, families enjoyed a Games Night at the church for Family Fun Time! To start the evening off we played “Would you Rather” – a game where two possibilities were given at a time, and everyone had to choose one of the two possibilities and then run to a certain part of the gym according to the possibility they chose. For Photos by Sarah Kelly example, “Would you rather live on an airplane or live on a ship?” Next we did a silly relay race which required everyone to ride on a scooter board, drop pennies into a jar, spin a hoola hoop, eat a cracker as fast as possible and then try to whistle before the next person in their group could go. There was lots of laughter, especially watching the adults try to hoola hoop and ride a scooter board! We then divided into three groups and each group was given the task of choosing someone to be their ‘model’, while the rest of their group designed and dressed the model with ONLY toilet paper and masking tape. We had three creative designs produced within the time limit. To change things up again, we had a game of indoor soccer. Julia and Cathy were amazing in net! To end the evening we enjoyed some juice and popcorn while playing charades. It was a fun evening for all. Thanks to Anne, Ardith, Carol, Dave, and Greg for coming to help with set up and joining in the fun. Sarah Kelly Next Family Fun Time Saturday,February 7, 6:30-8:00 p.m. We will be skating at Otter Creek outdoor skating rink (Lawrence/Avenue Road area). Everyone welcome! Hot chocolate and treats will be provided. Any questions please contact Sarah K Christmas 2014 8 Photos by George Goodwin Garrison Keillor on Episcopalians from crossing the aisle while passing the peace. Episcopalians drink coffee as if it were the Third Sacrament. Episcopalians feel guilty for not staying to clean up after their own wedding reception in the Fellowship Hall. Episcopalians are willing to pay up to one dollar for a meal at church. Episcopalians still serve Jell-O in the proper liturgical color of the season and Episcopalians believe that it is OK to poke fun at themselves and never take themselves too seriously. And finally, you know you are an Episcopalian when: • It’s 100 degrees, with 90% humidity, and you still have coffee after the service. • You hear something really funny during the sermon and smile as loudly as you can. • Donuts are a line item in the church budget, just like coffee. • When you watch a Star Wars movie and they say, “May the Force be with you,” and you respond, “and also with you.” And lastly, it takes ten minutes to say good-bye… We make fun of Episcopalians for their blandness, their excessive calm, their fear of giving offense, their lack of speed and also for their secret fondness for macaroni and cheese. But nobody sings like them. If you were to ask an audience in Des Moines, a relatively Episcopalianless place, to sing along on the chorus of “Michael Row the Boat Ashore,” they will look daggers at you as if you had asked them to strip to their underwear. But if you do this among Episcopalians, they’d smile and row that boat ashore and up on the beach! … And down the road! Many Episcopalians are bred from childhood to sing in four-part harmony, a talent that comes from sitting on the lap of someone singing alto or tenor or bass and hearing the harmonic intervals by putting your little head against that person’s rib cage. It’s natural for Episcopalians to sing in harmony. We are too modest to be soloists, too worldly to sing in unison. When you’re singing in the key of C and you slide into the A7th and D7th chords, all two hundred of you, it’s an emotionally fulfilling moment. By our joining in harmony, we somehow promise that we will not forsake each other. I do believe this, people: Episcopalians, who love to sing in four-part harmony are the sort of people you could call up when you’re in deep distress. If you are dying, they will comfort you. If you are lonely, they’ll talk to you. And if you are hungry, they’ll give you tuna salad! Episcopalians believe in prayer, but would practically die if asked to pray out loud. Episcopalians like to sing, except when confronted with a new hymn or a hymn with more than four stanzas. Episcopalians believe their Rectors will visit them in the hospital, even if they don’t notify them that they are there. Episcopalians usually follow the official liturgy and will feel it is their way of suffering for their sins. Episcopalians believe in miracles and even expect miracles, especially during their stewardship visitation programs or when passing the plate. Episcopalians feel that applauding for their children’s choirs will not make the kids too proud and conceited. Episcopalians think that the Bible forbids them (NOTE: Garrison Keillor attends St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is an American author, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality.) Submitted by Ron Potts Bishop John Spong in Toronto On April 17 and 18, we will have an opportunity to hear this dynamic, world renowned speaker (and author) at College Street United Church. His topic - “The Gospel of John: not Literally True, but Profoundly True” promises to be an exciting and thought provoking opportunuty to open our minds to new understandings of John’s Gospel. With 6 or more people going from St Timothy’s, we would be eligible for the group rate of $75 each for 2 days, or $55 for 1 day. (both prices include the Friday evening keynote address) Please let Wendy F know by Feb 20 if you are interested in attending. 9 Plan to Join in St Timothy’s Activities on these Dates Family Fun Skating at Otter Creek......................................... Saturday February 7, 6:30 to 8:00 pm Truth and Reconciliation Service and Stone Soup ............... Sunday February 8 Mens’ Breakfast Club............................................................... Saturday February 14 at 8:00 am Book Club.................................................................................. Tuesday February 17 at 10:30 am Pancake Supper........................................................................ Tuesday February 17, 5:30 to 7:00 pm Ash Wednesday Imposition of Ashes & Holy Eucharist ....... Wednesday February 18, 10:30 am & 7:30 pm Annual Vestry Meeting ........................................................... Sunday February 22- Financials – 9:00 am Reports and motions after the 10:am service (Potluck snacks and child care available after church service.) Maggie Helwig’s Induction as Incumbent at St Stephen’s ... Sunday February 22, 4 pm Community Lunch................................................................... Monday February 23 at 11:30 am Mikado Outing with Old Orchard Blossoms Sunday March 1, 2:00 pm (See notice for other times) St Andrew’s Luncheon and Card Party.................................. Wed March 11 Book Club.................................................................................. Tuesday March 17 at 10:30 am Stone Soup Sunday................................................................... Sunday March 22 Community Lunch................................................................... Monday March 23 at 11:30 am Palm Sunday Services.............................................................. Sunday March 29, 8:00 and 10:00 am Maundy Thursday Holy Eucharist.......................................... Thursday April 2, 7:30 pm Good Friday Services: The Family at the Cross........................................................... Friday April 3, 9:30 am Meditation on the Cross.......................................................... Friday April 3, 11:00 am Family Fun Easter Egg Hunt ................................................... Saturday April 4, time tbd Easter Vigil................................................................................ Saturday April 4, 7:30 pm Easter Holy Eucharist............................................................... Sunday April 5, 8:00 am and 10:00 am Submission due date for next Timprint.................................. Sunday April 12 St Timothy’s Book Club We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 10.30 am in the Board Room. All are welcome to join us. Our next books are: February 17, 2015: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd March 17th, 2015: Us Conductors by Sean Michael Irina Cameron Men’s Breakfast Club want’s you to keep on tick’n… TIMPRINT Newsletter of the Church of St. Timothy, North Toronto 100 Old Orchard Grove, Toronto ON M5M 2E2 www.sttimothy.ca 416 488 0079 Clergy: The Reverend Canon Gregory Symmes Editors: Janet Gordon, Mary Kirton, Ron Potts, Chris Caswell Please send articles to: [email protected] The Men’s Breakfast Club has donated an automatic heart defibrillator. Members of the congregation are presently being trained in its use, and they will in turn be instructing others in how to use this potentially life saving device. Thanks to George G for quaterbacking the project. Please deliver to: 10
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