One of the Parish of the Valley’s Licensed Lay Readers, Bev York, has recently started a Bible Study Group for residents of Caressant Care Retirement Home in Cobden. Thus far, the group have been using Bible reading print-outs, but our parish would like to supply the group with large-font Bibles to support them in their scripture studies.

Thanks to our friends at Liturgica Ottawa we have been able to obtain a discount rate on an order of 8 Large Print NRSV Bibles. If you would like to sponsor one of these Bibles for the benefit of the Caressant Care Bible Study group, the amount per Bible is $40. Donations can be made payable to “Holy Trinity Anglican Church” and submitted to Gail at our Aborn House office. You will receive a tax receipt for your donation. Thank you for supporting this new ministry!

Thank you to everyone across the parish who worked to fill a “Reverse Advent Box” this Advent and Christmas season. If you have not already dropped off your box either at church or at a local service provider, please feel free to bring it to church on Sunday or to the office at Aborn House during opening hours (Monday-Friday, 9am-Noon) and we will arrange to deliver all of the boxes to our local food banks and service providers.

Whether you completed the box as a part of Messy Church or through the list of ideas distributed at Sunday worship, we are grateful for your continuing support of our wider community and those who are in need amongst us.

The Eganville Ministerial invite all to join in the annual ecumenical prayer service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This year's service will be held on the closing Sunday of the week of prayer, January 25th, at 2pm at St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church, Eganville (78 Wellington Street). All members of our Parish of the Valley are warmly invited to join Rev. Nick and Rev. Christine at this wonderful annual service.

As we prepare for our Annual Vestry Meetings when we review and celebrate the past year and prepare for this coming year, we invite all churchwardens, treasurers, and leaders of other committees, groups and ministries in our congregations to draft your reports to vestry to be included in our annual vestry packages.

Please submit your reports to Gail at the office at Aborn House by no later than Friday, February 6th at 12pm. You can mail them to her at office@valleyanglicans.ca, drop them off between 9am-noon on weekdays, or mail or deliver them to 68 Renfrew Street, Pembroke, ON K8A 5R6.

If you have any questions, or aren't sure if you should be preparing a report, please feel free to be in touch with Gail at the email address above or by telephone at 613-732-4658.

The schedule for our annual vestries is being prepared and will be available in the coming weeks. Thank you for preparing these reports as we look forward to celebrating our collective ministry together and all that we have accomplished with God in 2025!

Join in for a special edition of the Church of the Epiphany, Barry's Bay Soup & Sandwich Lunch!

During the Barry's Bay Flannel Fest, come and enjoy delicious homemade soups, sandwiches, and pie for lunch at the Soup & Sandwich Lunch at Church of the Epiphany, Barry's Bay, located at 32 Dunn Street. Friday, February 13th from 11:30am - 1:30pm.

$10 for homemade soup, a sandwich, and pie. Eat in, or take out. For takeout please call in advance: 613-635-1600

The Episcopal Election for our Anglican Diocese of Ottawa will take place on Saturday, February 28th, at Christ Church Cathedral. Prior to the election, there will be a series of four public meetings across our diocese for everyone to have a chance to hear the candidates’ answers to a set of relevant questions and to get to know them in a more informal setting at a coffee hour style reception.

The Parish of the Valley will be hosting a public meeting on Friday, February 20th at 7pm at Holy Trinity Pembroke. This meeting, as well as the other three meetings in our diocese, will also be live-streamed. All are welcome and invited to attend the public meeting.

For further details, updates, and the livestream link, please check our diocesan website at the link below.

On Saturday, February 28th communities throughout the Ottawa Valley will be walking the streets of Pembroke in support of those facing homelessness and insecure housing, raising funds for The Grind as a part of the Coldest Night of the Year initiative.

St. Paul's Cobden has generously sponsored a rest-stop on behalf of our Parish of the Valley. Rest-stops will provide warming refreshments for walkers throughout the walk. Volunteers are now being requested to support the Coldest Night of the Year on the day. These positions include a variety of indoor and outdoor positions (greeters and cheerleaders, setup/teardown crew, etc.) You can learn more and register at https://cnoy.org/volunteer. In the drop-down location box, scroll down to find and select "Pembroke - The Grind Pembroke" and you will be shown volunteer opportunities for our local event.

You can also register to fundraise - with or without walking. If you would like to fundraise, you can click the link "register" at the link below. Please select "Anglican Parish of the Valley" as your team! If you would like to donate to the Anglican Parish of the Valley team, you can do so at our team page here.

Please consider lending your support to this initiative to care for our neighbours through these cold winter months.

The Holy Trinity Anglican Church Women are pleased to present a Quilt Raffle. Thanks to a generous donation, the queen* 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.

(*Previous newsletter erroneously listed it as a king sized quilt - the quilt in question is queen sized!)

Our weekly Wednesday Eucharist is a quiet pause in the middle of each week. All are welcome to join in this contemplative said worship service each Wednesday at 10am at Holy Trinity Pembroke.

Worship times and locations for Sunday, January 18th are:

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