Announcements
~ANNOUNCEMENTS & INVITATIONS as of June 22, 2018~
• June 24 @ 10:30 a.m. ~ Camp Sunday Worship, Brunch & Open House @ Bar Harbour Camp
(IF you can’t attend worship @ camp, please know you’re welcome to worship at St. George’s Anglican @ 10:00 a.m.) Bar Harbour Camp is about 25 km northwest of Stettler, access via Hwy 56 north and then west on Range Road 202 (gravel), north again on Township Road 405.
***Please note that a free-will offering will be receive for Bar Harbour Camp. So, if you’d like to share an offering for Stettler United Church on June 24th, please clearly mark your cheque or envelope as such.
o Shared Summer Worship Services begin Sunday, July 1st (wear red & white, eh!?!) The congregation of St. George’s Anglican are welcome to worship with us @ 10:30 a.m. during the month of July. In August -- at 10:00 a.m.-- St. George’s Anglican will host both congregations. ***Please remember to identify your offerings by clearly marking the cheque or envelope which church you’re supporting.
o Do you have a pick-up truck? Are you taking it to Edmonton prior to June 30th? With the church conference office in Edmonton closing, they held a “garage sale”. Stettler United Church has purchased a table for our Board room and it needs to be out of the office in Edmonton by month’s end. Please help, asap! Call the church office to coordinate (403-742-3387)
• Kids' Summer Day Camp @ Stettler United Church , July 23-27, 9:00 – noon… Registrations have been coming in! Please help us get the word out!!
Darielle Rairdan (an experienced leader from Bar Harbour Camp) will
be joining us as coordinator! Please register your children (entering ECS – Grade 5/6) asap! Teen and adult helpers for one or more days are also appreciated. There is no registration fee, freewill offerings are gratefully received. (We took the lawn sign down because it's too expensive, so please, please, spread the word in all kinds of other ways... i.e. sharing this poster electronically or in print).
***If you can put posters up around town, please let Michele know and she will print some out for you to deliver. Thank you***
o Website Update ~ ~ WE ARE LIVE!!! If you have not taken a tour of the updated website, please do, it is easy to navigate, & you now have the option of online giving, the address is www.stettlerunitedchruch.org. It is an easy and secure way to “give on the go”.
o Mobile Giving – Just in time for holiday giving!! ~ One of the functions available with the online giving program is the ability to donate from your mobile device (phone or tablet). Which is perfect for holiday time, or anytime!!
The app can be found on “google play store” for Android, and the “app store” for iphone. Type Tithe.ly in the search bar to bring up and install the program. It is simple and fast to set an account up, and information is submitted securely using SSL with a 256-bit encryption. This is the icon you are looking for in your play store apps.
o Devotional & Information Magazines ~ Our most recent edition of the church's mission magazine -- Mandate -- has arrived and is available in the literature rack near Michele's office. Please pick-up read and share this and any of the other devotional and informational magazines that are available through our church.
~ WIDER CHURCH ~
• Alberta & Northwest Conference ~ latest news: https://albertanorthwestconference.ca/news/
• Summer Camps @ Bar Harbour are filling fast. There’s still time to register on-line for the 2018 Camping Season (including Silver Camp, ages 50+!) www.barharbourcamp.com
• Keeping families together in USA and in Canada ~ https://www.united-church.ca/news/keeping-families-together-us-and-canada
• World Refugee Day ~ Turning toward refugees makes a difference https://www.united-church.ca/blogs/round-table/turning-toward-refugees
o Gifts with Vision ~ Aid for displaced persons https://www.giftswithvision.ca/project/aid-displaced-persons
o A prayer for National Indigenous Peoples Day... https://www.united-church.ca/prayers/we-praise-you-sacred-fires
• Videos of recent webinars, in preparation for the changes proposed by General Council https://www.united-in-learning.com/index.php/webinars/the-road-to-gc43/gc43-recordings
• Summer @ Naramata Centre 2018 ~ This July and August, we bring together something for everyone, with age specific (children, youth, adult) and intergenerational (all ages) programs.
https://www.naramatacentresociety.org/summer-2018#/events