St George's South Alice invites all friends and families of the Parish of the Valley to join in an afternoon of fun at the Laurentian Valley Four Seasons Trail this Saturday March 4th. The members of your clergy team are looking forward to seeing you there!

The skating trail is open 10am-3pm and 6pm-9pm. The snowshoe trail is open from 10am-9pm.

St George's has rented the Laurentian Valley Lodge, located at the trail, from 3pm-7pm for cards and board games and a potluck dinner.

Dinner is served from 4pm-5:30pm.

Skate or snowshoe in the afternoon and stay for dinner or come for dinner and end with a night skate or snowshoe on the lit trail!

Donations are gratefully accepted to help cover the cost of the lodge rental. Bring board games to play and share!

*Event is weather dependant.

For more information, please contact Wanda Hilts from St George's: 613-735-4242 (text or call) or hiltsw@hotmail.com

We hope to see you on Saturday!

Our parish's Lenten Learning series on Zoom is now underway! This year, rather than studying a particular book or a portion of holy scripture, your clergy team has asked you, the members of the Parish of the Valley, to help us plan our parish's Lenten study together. 

Thank you for sending us your thought provoking questions and comments over the past few weeks. We have now grouped your questions into five overarching themes, one for each evening of the Lenten Study.

Week 1 (Last night): The Bible & Scriptural Authority (i.e. What is the Bible and how do we relate to it?)

Week 2: Anglican History & Identity (i.e. Who are we as Anglicans and what defines us as a tradition?)

Week 3: Anglican Theology (i.e. What do we believe as Anglicans: about God, about Jesus, about heaven, etc.) 

Week 4: Prayer (i.e. What is it, and what is our relationship to it?)

Week 5: Christianity & The World Today (i.e. Where are we now as the Church, and where are we going?)

We hope you will join us for these interactive 90 minute sessions. Each session will begin with a brief presentation, followed by questions and discussion moderated by members of our clergy team. We likely wont be able to offer answers to all of your questions, but we trust that the Holy Spirit will be working in us as we listen to each other, and search for answers together.

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St Timothy's Lutheran Church in Pembroke invites all members of the Parish of the Valley to join them for Holden Evening Prayer at 7pm on Wednesday evenings during the season of Lent. The first service was held this past Wednesday evening and was very well attended, including by many parishioners from across the Parish of the Valley.

Holden Evening Prayer is a musical setting of evening prayer written by Marty Haugan. You can watch an example by clicking here.

This lovely setting of vespers follows the traditional form while using contemporary and inclusive language. Rev. Matthew and Rev. Nick will be sharing in the leadership of these evening liturgies, together with Pastor Bruce Thompson from St Timothy's. We pray these short services will be an opportunity for many of us to stay centred in prayer as we make our annual Lenten pilgrimage.

St Timothy's can be found at 503 Alfred St, Pembroke.

World Day of Prayer Services are a ministry of the Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada. This year World Day of Prayer services in our parish will take place in:

Eganville - Wednesday March 1st - 1:30pm at St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church (78 Wellington Street)

Pembroke - Friday March 3rd - 2:00pm at St. Luke's Church - Anglican Network in Canada (307 Julien Street)

Petawawa - Friday March 3rd - 7:00pm at St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Chapel (9 Festubert Boulevard)

All members of the Parish of the Valley are encouraged to attend a World Day of Prayer service, as we join our prayers with fellow Christians across the globe.

Rev. Allan Studd is one of our parish's Honourary Assistant clergy. In addition to being a retired priest, Allan is a Psychotherapist with a specialty in couples and families and is also part of a short term missionary team called Impact Zambia. The project is part of International Teams Canada. The project partners with a Christian community in Itezhi-tezhi, central Zambia, and seeks to raise people out of poverty by teaching them marketable skills. The project has built the Life Impact Training Centre from which to teach these skills, and has also launched a four year diploma course in Marriage and Family Counselling. 

Unfortunately, International Teams Canada had to stop all travel to Zambia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the COVID situation now improving, Rev. Allan plans to travel back to Zambia this summer for the first time in a number of years. It takes about $6,000 to finance the cost of a three week long teaching trip, and Rev. Allan would be grateful for any support that might be offered by fellow members of the Parish of the Valley towards this very worthwhile outreach ministry.

In the coming weeks Rev. Allan will be sharing stories about his work with Impact Zambia as a guest preacher across the Parish of the Valley. His preaching visits will include:

February 26th - St. John's Eganville

March 5th - St. Anthony's Whitney & Epiphany Barry's Bay

March 12th - St. Patrick's Lower Stafford & St. Paul's Cobden

March 19th - Holy Trinity Pembroke

March 26th - St. George's South Alice & All Saints Petawawa

In the mean time, if you would like to support Rev. Allan's upcoming trip, you can do so by clicking on the blue donation button below. Please be sure to select Allan's name from the team-member menu. If you prefer to give by mail, cheques made out to "International Teams Canada" with "Impact Zambia - Rev. Allan Studd" marked clearly in the memo line may be mailed to: iTeams Canada, 1 Union Street, Elmira, Ontario, N3B 3J9.

International Teams Canada is a registered charity and all funds received are eligible for an income tax receipt. 

From March 20th to March 30th Rev. Claire, together with Lorna Sibley, Jennifer Cross, Mike Bashford and Jacky Bramma will be travelling to the land of the Holy One as part of a pilgrimage led by Bishop Shane. Please pray for our pilgrims as they prepare to travel this spring: that the Holy Spirit will guard and protect them, and open their hearts to the good news of the "fifth gospel" - the land where Jesus walked on this earth. 

Submissions are welcome for the Lent & Easter issue of our parish's quarterly newspaper, Revelations. Please submit proposed materials to Alexis Anderson, Editor, by emailing the newspaper's new email address: revelations@valleyanglicans.ca. News, updates, reflections and advertising inquires from across the Parish of the Valley are welcome. The submissions deadline for the Lent & Easter issue is Saturday March 18th. 

In addition to worship in person, we are pleased as a parish to be continuing to offer worship online and via television. This Sunday there are two options for online worship, and our weekly service continues to air on YourTV Ottawa Valley.

For online worship, you can watch the service that was filmed live at Holy Trinity Pembroke last Sunday. It will be available for watching anytime from midnight on Sunday onwards. Click the blue "Click to Pray" button below to be taken to our online service page. This service will also air on YourTV Ottawa Valley at 10am on Sunday.

You can also watch this week's service livestreamed from Holy Trinity Pembroke on Sunday at 10am. It will be able to be found on our YouTube Channel.

Thank you for joining us for prayer across the Valley and beyond!

Here you will find our parish prayer list, scripture readings according to the Sunday lectionary, and links to worship by the Parish of the Valley and other Anglican resources and services.

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