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Opening Our Doors!In-Person Services Resume September 6 & September 13 The long awaited day has finally arrived! In-person worship services at most churches in the Parish of the Valley will resume on Sunday, September 6th. Worship at St. Stephen's Micksburg and St. Paul's Cobden will resume on Sunday, September 13th. We ask you to please pray for our parish and for our diocese as a whole as we prepare to re-open our doors and welcome back the people of God. A full listing of our service times can be found by clicking here. All worship services throughout the parish will be conducted in accordance with the Amber Stage of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa's "In This Together" COVID-19 Plan. In preparation for our return to in-person worship please be sure to download and read our parish's re-opening brochure, "Getting Ready to Open our Doors." Should you have any questions about our re-opening procedures please contact a member of our clergy team or your local churchwardens. All of the parish's churchwardens are now familiar with the re-opening plan and are busy preparing our churches. We extend our heartfelt thanks to our wardens and many volunteers whose countless hours of labour have helped to make our re-opening possible! During the Amber Stage all other in-person activities in our church buildings, apart from worship and essential tasks, remain suspended. Please note that the Sunday 8am and Wednesday 10am services at Holy Trinity Pembroke will also not take place during the Amber Stage. The Holy Trinity Church Office remains closed to the public. Please call the office in advance and make an appointment should you have business to conduct at Holy Trinity: 613-732-4658.
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14th Sunday after PentecostSunday September 6, 2020 This week our return to in-person worship services brings a change to our online service format. Beginning next Sunday, September 13th, our weekly online service for the Parish of the Valley will be a video recording of an in-person service held in the parish on the preceding Sunday. So, on Sunday September 13th, you'll be able to watch a video of a service recorded by our clergy team on Sunday September 6th. Online worship services will continue in this pattern throughout the fall. Copies of the order of service and The Valley Bulletin will continue to be made available online so you can pray with us at home. The clergy team hopes to rotate our weekly recording location around the parish, so that you can once again see some of the beautiful interiors of our many sanctuaries. We'll try our best to ensure good sound and picture quality, but please bear with us as we transition to this new online format -- somehow we all managed to be absent on the day when they taught movie production at seminary! For this week's online service, we're pleased to share a service recorded for Sunday August 30th by Pastor Leena Jensen of St. Peter's Alice, Grace Church Rankin, and Bethlehem Church Woito, our full communion partners in The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. We thank Pastor Leena for graciously allowing us to rebroadcast her service, and we also extend our thanks to the Malcolm, Deavitt & Binhammer Funeral Home in Pembroke for their assistance with video taping and production. Please note: the service will be available to view on our parish website beginning Sunday at 12am. Click "Click to Pray" to join in! For more infomation visit:
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Registering to Worship at Holy Trinity PembrokeYou Must Now Reserve Your Seat in Advance During the Amber Stage of re-opening a maximum of 50 attendees (or 1/3 building capacity, whichever is less) are permitted to attend our worship services. At Holy Trinity Pembroke, this means only 50 worshippers may be present in-person on Sunday mornings at 10am. To help our volunteers who manage attendance, and to help avoid the disappointment of worshippers being turned away at the church doors on Sundays, Holy Trinity has now implemented a registration system for all its services. You can register to attend worship in one of two ways: by clicking "Register for Worship at Holy Trinity" below and registering online, or by calling the church office before Thursdays at 12pm: (613)-732-4658. If you are able to register online, please do so to help us better manage the volume of telephone calls coming to the Holy Trinity church office. Do remember to register separately for every Sunday service. Registration for services at Holy Trinity will be on a first come, first served basis; however we ask everyone to please be considerate of others and limit yourself to registering for only a few services at a time so that others may also have an opportunity to attend. For members of Holy Trinity, if you are unable to attend worship at Holy Trinity on a given week, consider attending at one of our other beautiful churches in the Parish of the Valley! We're all one big parish now, so let's share the love, and visit each other for Sunday worship as spaces allow. For more infomation visit:
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Parish Mugs Are Now On SaleThe Perfect Stocking Stuffer! Don't forget to purchase your very own parish coffee mug. Have one already? Why not buy another as a gift! Mugs are available from your local representatives. Please contact: Alexis Anderson for Holy Trinity Pembroke (613-633-7897); Josie Hopper for All Saints Petawawa (613-687-2634); Bernard Raglin for St. George's South Alice (613-732-7101); Marilyn Hill for St John's Eganville (613-628-9159); Jennie Mick for Stafford, Micksburg and Rankin; Canon Susan for Killaloe/Tramore (613-732-0313); and Bishop Michael for Barry's Bay, Whitney, and Cobden (613-401-8976). Each mug costs $10, and of that $5.85 is profit for your congregation. Don't delay, buy yours today! |
Revelations -- Call for SubmissionsNext Issue Date is October 4th The next issue of our parish newsletter, Revelations, will publish on Sunday October 4th. Have a local story idea from your congregation? Please send submissions to Jean Ostrom, Editor, at Ostrom@nrtco.net by Friday September 25th. Our thanks to Jean, Naomi de Repentigny and Alexis Anderson for their faithful ministry as our editorial team. You can read the summer issue of Revelations by clicking the button below.
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Please Continue to Send In Your OfferingsGive Online, by Mail or through P.A.R. During COVID-19 the vast majority of our church expenses continue. All members of the Parish of the Valley are encouraged to make regular offerings to their home churches by mail, online or through pre-authorized remittances to support our parish's ministries. Members of Holy Trinity Pembroke, St. John's Eganville, and Ascension Killaloe/St. John's Tramore can give to their churches online using credit card or PayPal through the website Canada Helps. Every donation matters, so please click "Support Your Church" below to find out more about how you can contribute. Thank you for your faithful support! For more infomation visit: https://www.valleyanglicans.ca/pages/supporting-our-churches
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Read This Week's Bulletin
Don't forget to download and read The Valley Bulletin from the Latest News section of our parish website. Click "Read The Valley Bulletin" below to access this week's issue, including our parish prayer list. For more infomation visit:
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