Friday 30 October 2015

ANNOUNCEMENTS SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1ST 2015

Ministering through leadership in worship this morning are:

Organist: Al Fougere

Lay Reader (St. M.: Archie Noseworthy

(St. D.): Wanda Radford

Greeters & Collectors (St. M.): Earl West, Ingram Fowlie

Greeters (St. D.): The Timmons Family

Collectors (St. D.): Bob Downard, Alicia Vink

OFFICE HOURS:

Monday 9-12 noon, Nan at St. Mark’s

Tuesday 9-12 noon, Nan at St. Mark’s

Wednesday 9-12 noon, Nan at St. David’s, Jane at St. Mark’s

Thursday 9-12 noon, Jane at St. Mark’s

Friday Minister’s Day Off, 9-12 noon, Jane at St. Mark’s

Food Bank donations received on the last Sunday of the month. Suggested items: cereal, small juice packs, peanut butter.

We have a new email address!! Please make this change in your list of email contacts. The new address of the church office is stmarksuc@gmail.com

Deadline for information for the bulletin is Thursday at noon.

Prayer Shawl Knitting Circle: Knitters and crocheters gather to gether in the parlour of St. Mark’s on the 3^rd Monday of each month. Next time of gathering is November 16^th at 1:00 p.m.

AVAILABLE AT THE CHURCH OFFICE:

Canadian Church Calendar 2016

Cost: $6.00 (profit to go to the Mission and Service Fund, United Church of Canada)

A beautiful calendar showcasing our own traditions with inspired photographs of Anglican and United churches from across Canada.

St. David's United Church, Port Hastings is featured this year as the photo for April.

Copies of the “UPPER ROOM’ for Nov.-Dec. are available.

Everyone is invited to share in the Service of Covenanting this evening, at West Bay United Church at 7:00 p.m. A Service of Covenanting between the congregations of West Bay Pastoral Charge, Inverness Guysborough Presbytery, and the Reverend Donna Lovelace

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ST. MARK’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lay Readers:

November 8^th – Bill Charlton

November 15^th – Julia Mac Quarrie

November 22^nd – Dave Chapman

November 29^th – Malcolm Matheson

FundScrip Order Sundays will be November 1^st, 15^th and 29^th and Delivery Sundays will be November 8^th and 22^nd. Promotions for November are:

Petro-Canada 3% ( Regular 2% )

Wayspa 12% ( Regular 10% )

Sears 5% ( Regular 3% )

Please contact Patsy Brander at 902-625-1062 or Bonnie Dawson at 902-625-3838 if you have any questions or if you wish to join this program.

50^th Anniversary! In 2016, St. Mark’s will be celebrating their 50^th Anniversary. 50^thAnniversary weekend will be June 10^th to 12^th, 2016. Next meeting is November 30^th at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 17^th – St. Mark’s Congregational Board meets.

St. Mark’s Congregation wishes to remember those who are ill or bereaved by sending a card on behalf of the Church. If you are aware of someone who should be remembered please contact Annabel Butts 625-0741, Connie Fowlie 625-1417 or leave a message with the Church Secretary.

November 22^nd - St. Mark’s Men’s Group Breakfast Meeting.

Supervised After-School Parking Lot Hockey Wednesdays in November 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm. St. Mark's United Church parking lot. Hockey sticks available. Speak to Nan for details.

St Mark's annual tea and sale will be held on November 20th ,7-9 pm Bake table, knitting, crafts and new to you tables ...more detail later

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ST. DAVID’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lay Readers:

November 8^th- Kevin Pierce

November 15 th – Dave Pringle

November 22^nd – Arnold Mac Lean

November 29^th – Margie Mac Intyre

Cleaners for November are Claudette & Ashley Fox.

St. David’s Session will meet on November 12^th at 7:00 p.m.

St. David’s Official Board Meeting on November 15^th following Church Service.

A Roast Beef Dinner with Homemade Pies on Friday, Nov. 6^th from 4 to 6 pm. at the Port Hastings Fire Hall. Adults $14.00 Child $8.00 Sponsored by St. David’s Board of Stewards. Take outs available

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Pastoral Airs Concert, St, David's United Church, Sunday, November 29th, 7 p.m. Musicians to include: Kinnon and Betty Beaton, Stephanie MacDonald, Cape Breton Fiddler's Association, Rev. Alison Etter, Jessica MacLennan, Patrick Lamey and Heather Richards, Roy Mac Kinnon, John Donald Cameron, Gordon Mac Lean, Choirs of St. Mark's and St. David's and others. Lunch to follow. Free will offering in support of our local food bank.

Evergreen Seniors Club Christmas Bazaar Sat Dec 5 from 1 till 4 (doors open at 12:30 to view items for auction) Auction Tea Bake Table Crafts Gramma's Attic

Community Kitchen & Music Therapy sponsored by Mental Health Services & Public Health November 10th, December 8th, 2015 April 12th, May 10th, June 14th 2016. St. Mark's United Church, 504 Bernard St. Port Hawkesbury NS Community Kitchen from 10:30 to 1:00 Music Therapy 1:00 to 2:00 PM Come help prepare and enjoy a healthy, well balanced, budget friendly meal then listen to music therapist Tom Curry. To help us plan lunch be sure to phone (902) 867-4500 ext. 4345 OR leave a message at (902) 625-7200 to let us know you will be attending

Mind Your Health Concerned about your mental health? Wondering what you can do to start to feel better?
Join us for an informative 4-session health and wellness program.

We will discuss: Common mental health concerns & symptoms; Community resources & coping with crisis; Stress reduction & problem solving; Healthy thinking & coping strategies

St. Mark's United Church, 504 Bernard St. Port Hawkesbury NS

Wednesday November 4 1:00 to 3:00 pm. To register or for more information, please call: Mary at (902) 625-7200 or Adult Outpatient Mental Health at (902) 867-4500 ext. 4345
The sessions are open to the public-19 and older. No cost to attend.

LAMPLIGHT SERVICE at Calvin Presbyterian Church, Loch Lomond on Nov. 15,2015 at 6:00 p.m. Minister Rev. Corrie Stewart. Special Music. St. Peter’s Christian Church Choir. Social Hour to follow at Loch Community Hall. All are welcome to attend.

ORDER OF SERVICE-SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1ST 2015-ALL SAINTS DAY

The Congregations of St. Mark’s and St. David’s

United Church of Canada

Port Hawkesbury/Port Hastings, NS

Office: 625-2229, Fax 625-3597, e-mail: stmarksuc@gmail.com

Blog: http://ourcontactonline.blogspot.com/

Presbytery Website: inverguyunited.ca

Ministers: The Whole People of God

Minister: Nan Corrigan D. M.

Minister of Music: Al Fougere

November 1st, 2015-All Saints Day

* please stand as able

Announcements The Work of Church and Community

WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD

Greeting

One: The peace of Christ be with you. All: And with your spirit.

*Introit Come Build a Church

Come build a church with soul and spirit,

come build a church of flesh and bone.

We need no tower rising skyward;

no house of wood or glass or stone.

Come build a church with human frailty,

come build a church of flesh and blood.

Jesus shall be its sure foundation.

It shall be built by the hand of God.

Used by permission.

Call to Worship

One: Listen, O people, God is one: and you shall love your God with all your heart, and soul, and mind, and strength.

All: We have come to worship God!

One: Listen, O people, the second commandment is like the first: you should love your neighbour as you love yourself.

All: We have come to worship God!

One: Loving God, our neighbour, and ourselves is more important than anything else.

All: We have come to worship God!

Opening Prayer

We give you thanks loving God, for your presence in our lives wherever we go and for people in our community who bear your presence to us. In turning us toward you, O God, turn us toward one another. Amen.

*Hymn Help Us Accept Each Other Printed

Prayer for Wholeness

Response: One: …forgive us. All: Forgive us, loving God.

Assurance of Love

… So know that, whoever you are, and wherever you find yourself, God loves you and is with you always.

All: Thanks be to God! Amen.

WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD

Ruth 1:1–18 Ruth chooses to go with Naomi.

One: This is the witness of the Hebrew people. All: Thanks be to God.

Psalm 146 I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath. VU868

*Hymn O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing VU325

The Gospel Acclamation

Mark 12:28–34 Story-The Most Important Rules

Opening the Word & Rhythmic Chant

Love…Love the Lord your God

with all your heart

and with all your soul

and with all your mind

and with all your strength.

Love your neighbour as yourself…Love.

The Lord's Prayer

Opening the Word 2

WE RESPOND IN FAITH

*Hymn We Are Pilgrims VU595

Minute for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God

*Offering Prayer

With these gifts, O God, we express a small portion of our love for you, and for our neighbours. Take what we offer and use it to help fill the world to overflowing with your abundant goodness. Amen.

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Concern

One: Loving God, on this All Saints Day we are mindful of all those everyday, ordinary people who have chosen to live their lives a little differently, to set aside their agenda and ego and to find ways to serve you through their lives. We think today of all those who have been examples of what it means to love you and to love one another:

All: for those like Ruth and Naomi who modelled a loving relationship regardless of the risks and the costs, and for others who risk everything, in order to love others.

One: We honour those who recognize that all our rules and laws can be summed in the simple commandments to love you, O God, and to love one another, and to love ourselves.

All: We pray that we might be guided each day to do the same.

One: You, O God, are the one who made heaven and earth,

All: and we pray for all those who care for the earth.

One: You, O God, keep your promises forever,

All: and we pray for those who help keep faith alive in the midst of struggle.

One: You, O God, seek justice for the oppressed, and food for the hungry,

All: and we pray for those who take risks to fight to end injustice and poverty.

One: You, O God, set prisoners free, open the eyes of the blind, and lift up those who are bowed down,

All: and we pray for those who do all they can to enhance the lives of others.

One: You, O God, love the righteous, care for the stranger, and sustain the orphan and the widow,

All: and we pray for those who call us to be forever mindful of the ones that the world so easily forgets.

One: For all your saints, O God, and for all people, everywhere, who seek to do your will, we pray that your presence may be felt, realized, experienced, and shared. Amen.

WE GO TO SERVE GOD

* Hymn For All the Saints VU705

* Commissioning and Blessing

*Choral Amen

Saturday 24 October 2015

ANNOUNCEMENTS OCTOBER 25TH 2015

Ministering through leadership in worship this morning are:

Organist: Al Fougere

Lay Reader (St. M.: Larry Evans

(St. D.): Margaret Ashford

Greeters & Collectors (St. M.): Larry & Lucille Evans

Greeter (St. D.): Arnold Mac Lean

Collectors (St. D.): Susan Fox, Lisa Rhynold

OFFICE HOURS:

Monday 9-12 noon, Nan at St. Mark’s

Tuesday 9-12 noon, Nan at St. Mark’s

Wednesday 9-12 noon, Nan at St. David’s, Jane at St. Mark’s

Thursday 9-12 noon, Jane at St. Mark’s

Friday Minister’s Day Off, 9-12 noon, Jane at St. Mark’s

Food Bank donations received on the last Sunday of the month. Suggested items: cereal, small juice packs, peanut butter.

We have a new email address!! Please make this change in your list of email contacts. The new address of the church office is stmarksuc@gmail.com

Deadline for information for the bulletin is Thursday at noon.

Prayer Shawl Knitting Circle: Knitters and crocheters gather to gether in the parlour of St. Mark’s on the 3^rd Monday of each month. Next time of gathering is November 16^th at 1:00 p.m.

AVAILABLE AT THE CHURCH OFFICE:

Canadian Church Calendar 2016

Cost: $6.00 (profit to go to the Mission and Service Fund, United Church of Canada)

A beautiful calendar showcasing our own traditions with inspired photographs of Anglican and United churches from across Canada.

St. David's United Church, Port Hastings is featured this year as the photo for April.

WEDNESDAY, October 28^th – 10:30 a.m. – Service at the Port Hawkesbury Nursing Home. Everyone invited.

Copies of the “UPPER ROOM’ for Nov.-Dec. are available.

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ST. MARK’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lay Readers:

November 1^st – Julia Mac Quarrie

November 8^th – Bill Charlton

November 15^th – Archie Noseworthy

November 22^nd – Irene Mac Isaac

November 29^th – Malcolm Matheson

50th Anniversary of Laying of the Cornerstone and Children's bricks! Friday, October 30th at 4:30 p.m.

Did you "buy a brick" and place it in the wall 50 years ago? Attend this first of events leading up to St. Mark's 50th Anniversary weekend, June 10th to 12th, 2016. Everyone welcome--meet us at the cornerstone. Light soup and sandwich supper to follow in the church hall.

FundScrip Order Sundays will be November 1^st, 15^th and 29^th and Delivery Sundays will be November 8^th and 22^nd. Promotions for November are:

Petro-Canada 3% ( Regular 2% )

Wayspa 12% ( Regular 10% )

Sears 5% ( Regular 3% )

Please contact Patsy Brander at 902-625-1062 or Bonnie Dawson at 902-625-3838 if you have any questions or if you wish to join this program.

50^th Anniversary! In 2016, St. Mark’s will be celebrating their 50^th Anniversary. 50^thAnniversary weekend will be June 10^th to 12^th, 2016. Next meeting of Anniversary Planning Committee is October 26^th at 1:30 in St. Mark’s parlour.

Supervised After-School Parking Lot Hockey Wednesdays in October and November 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm. St. Mark's United Church parking lot. Hockey sticks available. Speak to Nan for

details.

St Mark's annual tea and sale will be held on November 20th ,7-9 pm Bake table, knitting, crafts and new to you tables ...more detail later

Please note: Due to lack of interest, we will be discontinuing refreshments following worship (except for on special occasions) Next after worship refreshments – Nov. 29 – Advent 1

Thank You to all the Volunteers at St. Marks who helped make the 10,000 Villages Festival Sales a huge success. Over $7,400. was raised to help make a difference in the lives of those so often “forgotten” in our world. Thanks Barb & Ruth

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ST. DAVID’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lay Readers:

November 1^st – Wanda Radford

November 8^th- Kevin Pierce

November 15 th – Dave Pringle

November 22^nd – Arnold Mac Lean

November 29^th – Margie Mac Intyre

Cleaners for October are Wanda Harb & Florence Timmons

St. David’s Session will meet on November 12^th at 7:00 p.m.

St. David’s Official Board Meeting on November 15^th following Church Service.

Flea Market and Bake Sale: Sat. Oct 31st from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. Come early for best items. Trinity United Church, Mulgrave

Evergreen Seniors Club Christmas Bazaar

Sat Dec 5 from 1 till 4 (doors open at 12:30 to view items for auction) Auction Tea Bake Table Crafts Gramma's Attic

Community Kitchen & Music Therapy

sponsored by Mental Health Services & Public Health

November 10th, December 8th, 2015 April 12th, May 10th, June 14th 2016.

St. Mark's United Church, 504 Bernard St. Port Hawkesbury NS

Community Kitchen from 10:30 to 1:00 Music Therapy 1:00 to 2:00 PM Come help prepare and enjoy a healthy, well balanced, budget friendly meal then listen to music therapist Tom Curry

To help us plan lunch be sure to phone (902) 867-4500 ext. 4345
OR leave a message at (902) 625-7200 to let us know you will be attending

Mind Your Health

Concerned about your mental health? Wondering what you can do to start to feel better?
Join us for an informative 4-session health and wellness program.

We will discuss:

Common mental health concerns & symptoms

Community resources & coping with crisis

Stress reduction & problem solving

Healthy thinking & coping strategies

St. Mark's United Church, 504 Bernard St. Port Hawkesbury NS

Wednesdays October 28 and November 4 1:00 to 3:00 pm

To register or for more information, please call:

Mary at (902) 625-7200 or Adult Outpatient Mental Health at (902) 867-4500 ext. 4345
The sessions are open to the public-19 and older. No cost to attend.

ORDER OF SERVICE-SUNDAY OCTOBER 25TH 2015

The Congregations of St. Mark’s and St. David’s

United Church of Canada

Port Hawkesbury/Port Hastings, NS

Office: 625-2229, Fax 625-3597, e-mail: stmarksuc@gmail.com

Blog: http://ourcontactonline.blogspot.com/

Presbytery Website: inverguyunited.ca

Ministers: The Whole People of God

Minister: Nan Corrigan D. M.

Minister of Music: Al Fougere

October 25^th 2015-22^nd Sunday after Pentecost

Thoughts around which to gather as we worship:

Bartimaeus throws off his beggar’s cloak and immediately follows Jesus “on the way.”

What do you need to throw aside in order to follow with eyes of faith wide open?

Announcements The Work of Church and Community

WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD

Greeting

One: The peace of Christ be with you. All: And with your spirit.

*Introit Come Build a Church

Come build a church with soul and spirit,

come build a church of flesh and bone.

We need no tower rising skyward;

no house of wood or glass or stone.

Come build a church with human frailty,

come build a church of flesh and blood.

Jesus shall be its sure foundation.

It shall be built by the hand of God.

Words and music: Ken Medema Copyright © Ken Medema Music/Brier Patch Music (ASCAP) 1995. Used by permission.

Call to Worship

One: Blind Bartimaeus sat by the roadside and cried out:

All: Jesus, oh Jesus, have mercy on me.

One: Others sit by life’s roadsides today, crying out:

All: Jesus, oh Jesus, have mercy on me.

One: Even though voices try to silence them, still they cry:

All: Jesus, oh Jesus, have mercy on me.

One: When other voices put us down, still we will cry:

All: Jesus, oh Jesus, have mercy on me.

One: Come, let us worship God!

Opening Prayer Blind Bart’s Leap
Open our eyes, O Holy Wisdom,
to what we cannot see,
despite our looking.

Open our eyes, Source of All Truth,
to what we refuse to see,
despite our need.

Open our eyes, Sacred Coincidence,
to the opportunities that pass right before us,
despite our protests of bad luck.

Open our eyes, Alluring Love,
to the future you call us to create,
despite our disbelief.

Show us the way,
that we might shed our sightless selves
like an old cloak
and leap, with blind Bartimaeus,
at the Christ’s invitation
to restore our vision. Amen. ~ If Darwin Prayed, by Bruce Sanguin

* Hymn Come, Let Us Sing VU 222

Prayer for Wholeness

Response: One: Jesus, Friend and Saviour All: have mercy on us.

Assurance of Love

…when we cry out to God – in praise, in confession, in anger, in wonder – God hears us. And God responds to us. And God loves us.

All: Thanks be to God! Amen.

WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD

Job 42:1–6, 10–17

Job acknowledges God’s power; Job’s fortunes are restored.

One: This is the witness of the Hebrew people. All: Thanks be to God.

Psalm 34:1–8 Taste and see that God is good. VU761

*Hymn In the Bulb, There Is a Flower VU703

Opening the Word/The Lord's Prayer

The Gospel Acclamation

Mark 10:46–52 The healing of blind Bartimaeus.

One: The gospel of Jesus Christ. All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Opening the Word 2

WE RESPOND IN FAITH

*Hymn Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound VU266

Blessing of Prayer Shawls, Chemo Caps and Comfort Cushions

Minute for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God

*Offering Prayer

We know that you hear us, Gracious God, and that in your love

you answer us. You call people to freedom, to justice, and to

new life. Take these gifts we offer; use them and us to further

your work in our world, that we might do what we can to

encourage freedom, and justice, and new life. Amen.

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Concern

WE GO TO SERVE GOD

* Hymn Will Your Anchor Hold VU675

* Commissioning and Blessing

One: Taste and see the goodness of our God!

Go out to seek God.

Hold your head high,

and know that God hears your cries

and is attuned to all your needs.

Know that God will be with you at every turning.

*Choral Amen

Wednesday 21 October 2015

50th Anniversary of the Laying of Cornerstone and Children's Bricks at St. Mark's

Arlene Langley Bussey lays her brick in the wall of the new St. Mark's United Church building on October 30th, 1965.

50th Anniversary of Laying of the Cornerstone and Children's Bricks!
Friday, October 30th at 4:30 p.m.
Did you "buy a brick" and place it in the wall 50 years ago? Attend this first of events leading up to St. Mark's 50th Anniversary weekend, June 10th to 12th, 2016. Everyone welcome--meet us at the cornerstone. Light soup and sandwich supper to follow in the church hall.

Saturday 17 October 2015

ANNOUNCEMENTS SUNDAY OCTOBER 18TH 2015

Ministering through leadership in worship this morning are:

Organist: Al Fougere

Lay Reader: Susan Langley

Greeter: Arnold Mac Lean

Collectors: Susan Fox, Lisa Rhynold

OFFICE HOURS:

Monday 9-12 noon, Nan at St. Mark’s

Tuesday 9-12 noon, Nan at St. Mark’s

Wednesday 9-12 noon, Nan at St. David’s, Jane at St. Mark’s

Thursday 9-12 noon, Jane at St. Mark’s

Friday Minister’s Day Off, 9-12 noon, Jane at St. Mark’s

Food Bank donations received on the last Sunday of the month. Suggested items: cereal, small juice packs, peanut butter.

We have a new email address!! Please make this change in your list of email contacts. The new address of the church office is stmarksuc@gmail.com

Deadline for information for the bulletin is Thursday at noon.

Prayer Shawl Knitting Circle: Knitters and crocheters gather to gether in the parlour of St. Mark’s on the 3^rd Monday of each month. Next time of gathering is October 19^th at 1:00 p.m. Because this is Election Day, please enter the church via the back office door and we will meet in the office.

Everyone is invited to share in the Service of Covenanting on October 18 at 7:30pm at Stewart United, Whycocomagh. A Service of Covenanting amongst the congregations of Whycocomagh East Lake Ainslie Pastoral Charge, Inverness Guysborough Presbytery, and the Reverend Rachel Campbell.

AVAILABLE AT THE CHURCH OFFICE:

Canadian Church Calendar 2016

Cost: $6.00 (profit to go to the Mission and Service Fund, United Church of Canada)

A beautiful calendar showcasing our own traditions with inspired photographs of Anglican and United churches from across Canada.

St. David's United Church, Port Hastings is featured this year as the photo for April.

October 28^th – 10:30 a.m. – Service at the Port Hawkesbury Nursing Home.

Copies of the “UPPER ROOM’ for November-December are available.

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ST. DAVID’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lay Readers:

October 25^th – Arnold Mac Lean

November 1^st – Wanda Radford

November 8^th- Kevin Pierce

November 15 th – Dave Pringle

November 22^nd – Margaret Ashford

November 29^th – Margie Mac Intyre

Cleaners for October are Wanda Harb & Florence Timmons

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ST. MARK’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lay Readers:

October 25^th – Larry Evans

November 1^st – Julia Mac Quarrie

November 8^th – Bill Charlton

November 15^th – Archie Noseworthy

November 22^nd – Irene Mac Isaac

November 29^th – Malcolm Matheson

October 20^th – St. Mark’s Congregational Board Meeting: 6:30 p.m. Executive; 7:00 p.m. Committees; 8:00 p.m. Combined Board

October 30^th – 4:30 p.m. Service marking the 50^th Anniversary of the Laying of the Cornerstone and Children’s Bricks to kick off the 50^th Anniversary celebrations at St. Mark’s!

FundScrip Order Sunday will be October 18^th, and Delivery Sunday October 25^th. Promotions for October are:

Shell 3% (Regular 2%)

La Vie en Rose 11% (Regular 8%)

Hudson’s Bay 5% (Regular 3%)

Please contact Patsy Brander at 902-625-1062 or Bonnie Dawson at 902-625-3838 if you have any questions or if you wish to join this program.

Supervised After-School Parking Lot Hockey Wednesdays in October and November 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm. St. Mark's United Church parking lot. Hockey sticks available. Speak to Nan for

details.

St Mark's annual tea and sale will be held on November 20th ,7-9 pm Bake table, knitting, crafts and new to you tables ...more detail later

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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Great Car Rally of 2015 October 23rd in support of Port Hawkesbury Food Bank. Entry forms available in church office.

Flea Market and Bake Sale: Sat. Oct 31st from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. Come early for best items. Trinity United Church, Mulgrave

Christmas Bazaar December 5^th at the Evergreen Senior’s Club.

Community Kitchen & Music Therapy sponsored by Mental Health Services & Public Health

October 13th, November 10th, December 8th, 2015 April 12th, May 10th, June 14th 2016.

St. Mark's United Church, 504 Bernard St. Port Hawkesbury NS

Community Kitchen from 10:30 to 1:00 Music Therapy 1:00 to 2:00 PM Come help prepare and enjoy a healthy, well balanced, budget friendly meal then listen to music therapist Tom Curry

To help us plan lunch be sure to phone (902) 867-4500 ext. 4345
OR leave a message at (902) 625-7200 to let us know you will be attending

Mind Your Health Concerned about your mental health? Wondering what you can do to start to feel better?
Join us for an informative 4-session health and wellness program.

We will discuss:

Common mental health concerns & symptoms

Community resources & coping with crisis

Stress reduction & problem solving

Healthy thinking & coping strategies

St. Mark's United Church, 504 Bernard St. Port Hawkesbury NS

Wednesdays October 14, 21 and 28 and November 4

1:00 to 3:00 pm

To register or for more information, please call:

Mary at (902) 625-7200 or Adult Outpatient Mental Health at (902) 867-4500 ext. 4345
The sessions are open to the public-19 and older. No cost to attend.

Are you a Senior 50+ or a community member who wants to help improve services, healthcare, and safety for seniors in our communities. Please join us, we need your input. Space is limited so register today. Registration is free. Early Bird prizes available to those who register before Oct. 7^th. A lunch and refreshments will be provided. When: Saturday, October 24^th, 2015. Where: Richmond Education Centre and Academy – 3238 Whiteside Road, Louisdale. Time: 8:30 a.m.-3:30 pm. *Donate a food item to support our local food banks and qualify to have your name entered for a special draw. Registration forms available at your nearest Seniors Club or by calling 902-587-2800 ext: 2. For transportation inquiries please call Tiffany at 902-587-2800 ext: 2