This coming Sunday is Food Bank Sunday across the Parish. This is an opportunity for us to intentionally come together as a parish community to collect food for all of our local food banks. It is especially appreciated by our food banks in these days leading up to Christmas.

Please remember to bring a gift of non-perishable food items with you to worship this Sunday, December 14th.

For a list of our local food banks, please click on the link below.

Our December 2025 issue of Revelations is now available! You can read the newspaper online by clicking on the blue button below, and hard copies will be available in church beginning this Sunday, December 14th.

Thank you to all who contributed to this wonderful issue, both with writing and with taking the many photographs that share the joy that is present in our parish family!

In 2015 the congregation of St. Paul's Cobden was blessed to receive a generous bequest in the amount of $1.5 million from the estates of Mr. and Mrs. Basil and Greta Yates. In response to this wonderful act of Christian stewardship, in 2016 the Vestry of St. Paul's Cobden established a bequest committee. The committee meets on an annual basis each November and is mandated by the St. Paul's Vestry to prayerfully disburse dividends generated by St. Paul's holdings in the Consolidated Trust Fund of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa that are in excess of the annual financial needs of the congregation.

For 2025 the St. Paul's bequest committee has been pleased to disburse $13,650 in financial support to various charities and social service agencies across Renfrew County and beyond. These groups include:

• The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #550 (Cobden)

• Cobden District Public School

• Renfrew County District School Board Student Support Fund

• Cobden & District Food Bank

• Recovery Road

• The Bishop's Discretionary Fund

• Caressant Care Cobden

• Marianhill Hospice - Pembroke

• Hospice Renfrew

• The Canadian Bible Society

• The Grind - Coldest Night of the Year

• Teen Challenge - Eastern Ontario

• Bernadette McCann House

• The Robbie Dean Centre

• Our Daily Bread

• The Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County

• Impact Zambia

• The Big Give Cobden

In addition, the bequest committee is very pleased to contribute $9,000 to Holy Trinity Pembroke to help support the cost of shared administrative assistance for the Parish of the Valley in 2025. Similar gifts have generously been made by St. Paul's to Holy Trinity in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024, and the bequest committee remains committed to maintaining funding at this level on an annual basis (dividends permitting) in the years to come. 

The Parish of the Valley is incredibly proud of St. Paul's Cobden's continuing generosity towards the needs of our area parish and towards the needs of our Renfrew County community as a whole. Thank you St. Paul's! 

The Parish of the Valley has been proud to support the work of Impact Zambia, partnering in prayer and supporting financially the work in rural Zambian communities. We were pleased to welcome Daniel and Florence from Zambia for a visit to the Valley in April of this year.

For those who wish to support Impact Zambia through Christmas gifts this year, the Impact Zambia Christmas Gift guide can be accessed at the link below, and the website for donations is located here.

This Advent, step out of the hustle and bustle and into a quiet space for a time of evening prayer, Taizé music and candlelit worship.

The final service of this quiet service of Advent Taizé will be on December 17 at 4pm in person at Holy Trinity Pembroke, or through joining in the simultaneous live-stream from home. The services will also remain available online afterwards for those who would like to enjoy them at a different time of day. You'll find the live-stream by clicking here. All are welcome!

The YoYo Mamas are back with their annual Christmas Concert featuring toe-tapping seasonal fiddle music!

Due to overwhelming response in previous years, this year, there are two performances, both held at the Church of the Epiphany Barry's Bay:

Matinee: Wednesday, December 17th at 3pm
Evening: Wednesday, December 17th at 7pm

We are excited to share in the re-telling of the Christmas Story with "pick-up pageants" at Holy Trinity Pembroke and All Saints Petawawa.

Children and young people and parishioners of all ages are invited to join in the fun!

All Saints: Sunday, December 21st at 11:15am

The Holy Trinity Pembroke pageant took place last Sunday, you can see some photos on Facebook, here.

The Holy Trinity Anglican Church Women are pleased to present a Quilt Raffle. Thanks to a generous donation, the king size quilt "Falling Leaves" (value $1000) is available to win by raffle. Full pictures of the quilt are available at the link below.

Tickets are $5 per ticket, or 3 tickets for $10, and are available on Sundays at Holy Trinity in the church hall or by email from ACW Executive Members: Maggie Jacques (email), Karen Irvine (email), or Nancy Clarke (email). 

The draw will be held at the Holy Trinity Shrove Tuesday Pancake Luncheon on Tuesday, February 17th at 1pm. The winner will be contacted and listed at the link below and on the church bulletin board.

Join the Parish of the Valley for worship in the season of Christmas:

Christmas Eve

2:00pm
St. Anthony’s Whitney

4:00pm
All Saints Petawawa (Children’s Service)
Epiphany Barry’s Bay
St. Augustine’s Beachburg
St. Paul’s Cobden

7:00pm
Ascension Killaloe
Holy Trinity Pembroke
St. George’s South Alice
St. John’s Eganville
St. Stephen’s Micksburg

Christmas Day

10:00am – Holy Trinity Pembroke
11:00am – St. John’s Eganville

First Sunday of Christmas, December 28

8:00am – Holy Trinity Pembroke
9:00am – Ascension Killaloe (Lessons & Carols)
10:00am – Holy Trinity Pembroke
11:00am – St. John’s Eganville (Lessons & Carols)

Members of the Anglican Parish of the Valley are invited to join together with members of Ottawa Valley Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada congregations for an Anglican-Lutheran Epiphany Celebration: Starry, Starry Night! Sunday, January 4, 2026 at 4pm at Zion Lutheran Church Pembroke (454 Miller Street). Come for beautiful music and a delightful service of shared worship with our full communion siblings in Christ. All are welcome!

The Parish of the Valley's Advent Appeal is our annual Parish-wide stewardship initiative to support our local congregations and the various ministries they graciously provide. The Parish of the Valley’s Advent Appeal is now entering its sixth year. Together over these last five years we have raised $85,000 to support the many and varied ministries of our local congregations right across the Valley. 

By now, you should have received your Advent Appeal letter in the mail. Please prayerfully consider how you might be able to support the ministry of your local Anglican Church this holiday season, as together we continue in the work of living out God's mission on earth. Whether it be in Messy Church, in the making and serving of food, in offering pastoral care to one another, in keeping the lights lit in our churches and their doors open for worship -- our local churches and our Parish are stronger when we come together in God’s presence to magnify God’s love and joy in our lives. 

You can download this year's Advent Appeal package electronically, or give to the Advent Appeal online, by clicking on the link below.

Thank you for your generous and faithful support of the Parish of the Valley Advent Appeal.

Worship times and locations for Sunday, December 14th are:

8am & 10am  - Holy Trinity Pembroke 
9am - St. Stephen's Micksburg
9am - Ascension Killaloe
9:30am - St. George’s South Alice 
11am - St. John’s Eganville 
11am - Epiphany Barry’s Bay (Morning Prayer)
11am - St. Paul's Cobden 
11:15am - All Saints Petawawa

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.

Please download from the link below.