All Saints’ Annual Plant/Bake/Book/Knit/Garden Rummage SALE is happening on Saturday, May 28th. 8:30 – 12:30.

Save the date! Tell your friends!

• PLANTS –  indoor and outdoor; please label
• BAKING –  mouth watering favourites of your best tempting treats; leave in the church Board Room the day before the sale.
• BOOKS –  of all types, especially current novels from the year 2000 onward; leave on the stage.
• KNITTED –  baby items or assorted wool.
• GARDEN –  tools and ornaments and plant pots; leave by the garden shed.

Questions? Contact Janet Finlay 905 666-8902, jfinlab209@nullrogers.com

SPREAD THE WORD TO NEIGHBOURS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!

Thursday, May 5

by the Rev. Jennifer Schick

Last Saturday a number of us gathered to learn how to pray with and for others. It was a wonderful workshop lead by The Rev. Jo Davis, the Chaplin from Sunnybrook and St. John’s Rehab. She read for us from one of her favourite books on prayer – “Learning to Pray” by James Martin, SJ. Which I quote from here:

“Praying for yourself all the time is like talking about yourself all the time. It not only demonstrates your selfishness, but also increases it. Others need your prayers as well.

In high school, I thought that I was the only one who had problems. My body was the only one that was imperfect. My emotional life was the only one that was unsteady. My family was the only one that was (mildly) dysfunctional. Intellectually, I understood that others suffered. But in high school my friends and I didn’t share too much of our lives with one another, except for the surface worries about tests, small conflicts with friends and confusion over which colleges to apply to. But in college, as I listened to friends speak more deeply about their lives, I saw how each person struggled with many things; family problems, health problems, psychological problems. It was a marvel to me, in fact an important life lesson: just scratch the surface and the problems would be revealed. How could I have not known that?

Everyone has problems. I love the old saying, “Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle”. Many of those you know have need of prayers.”

Everyone has problems and everyone needs prayer. This is a key truth of our faith and of our world. Prayer transforms us and when we lift up others to God in prayer it helps both us and the one we are praying for, softening both hearts for action and healing.

There is no right way to pray – and prayer does not always even need to be long. Even just a few intentional minutes a day set aside with God, can centre, guide and inspire us. Prayer is how we communicate with God and how God communicates with us – perhaps not always with words but with a sense of presence, peace, centredness or meaning.

Towards the end of the month from May 26th to June 5th – All Saints will be participating in the global ecumenical movement of prayer – known as “Thy Kingdom Come” which is a 10-day commitment to pray for others to come to know or be reacquainted with Jesus. This time period coincides with the Ascension of the Lord and the Coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

For these 10 days, we will be offering four online prayer rooms a day – at 8am, 12pm, 5pm and 9pm where you can join with others in a short communal prayer to pray for those who you know. The prayer time will be set prayers led by a leader, with space given for silent intercessions and follows the traditional monastic hours of prayer – morning, mid-day, evening and night. They are times set aside to focus on others in prayer and to also deepen our own prayer practices, praying for the Holy Spirit to touch us and those we love. With four times on offer we hope everyone can find a time that works well for them.

To compliment this – we also have prayer journals that can be picked up starting this week, to help you in your personal prayers, and daily reflections from the book of 1 Peter to help us pray with scripture during this time. This can be done personally at home.

If you are looking to kickstart your prayer life, if you know people who need prayer, if you have people on your heart that you would like to have faith in their lives, we invite you to pick up a prayer book and plan on joining us in one of the prayer rooms from May 26th to June 5th. If you would like a book and can’t make it to church to pick one up – please contact the office and we’ll ensure one gets to you.

We encourage you to set aside these ten days and come and join us in prayer for those you know.

Prayer:

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and renew the face of the earth.

O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit that those we love may also come to know your saving grace, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen

All Saints Anglican Church will be hiring a student this summer in the role of Community Worker as part of the Canada  Summer Jobs Program to assist in a number of areas around the church, including with our summer camp, community garden and groundskeeping ministry, and outreach ministry.

Tasks will include:

• Helping to develop and lead a children’s camp
• Assisting with research and as a member of a community task force to assist to make the church space more accessible, welcoming and energy efficient (green).
• Spending time assisting with data entry for our food bank operations.
• Assisting with the development and operations of our community garden which benefits our food bank client members
• Helping with landscaping duties as assigned in the community garden and on the wider church property.
• Some administrative duties

This job will combine both indoor and outdoor labour and will also be a mix of on-site supervised work with remote work from home.

The primary focus at the start of the job placement will be for the planning and implementation of a summer camp for children and then transitioning to working more outdoors with our community garden and foodbank ministry. Some research, administrative and data entry is also part of the job requirements.

Supervision will be done primarily by the incumbent of the parish but mentors will be provided from the clerical team, and key lay leaders in the parish.

Start date: June 13 – August 12th  (some flexibility may be provided)

Qualifications Required:

• Passion for working with children and youth
• Education/training or experience in child/youth supervision is an asset
• Exceptional communication skills and teaching skills
• Knowledge of Christian education an asset
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Ability to be a self-starter
• Data entry and research skills
• Dependable and trustworthy
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Willingness to work outdoors for some landscaping work and work within the
• community garden.

Additional Information:

•  Successful candidates will be required to undergo a Police Reference Check and participate in workplace health and safety training.
• You must be aged between 15 and 30 and be legally entitled to work in Canada. International students are not eligible.

To apply:

Please send your resume to allsaintswhitby@nullbellnet.ca

Salary: $17.00/hr

 

The Diocese of Toronto has postponed the moving to the Green Stage of Reopening of Our Church Buildings to Sunday June 5th.

Primarily for us this means that

• Masks will continue to be mandatory until June 5th.
• Outdoor coffee hour has been postponed until June 5th.

At All Saints we will continue to

• Offer hybrid services at 11am
• Ask that people self-screen and stay home if feeling ill or infectious,
• Serve communion in one kind only. We will not be resuming the common cup at this time but will revisit this in the future.
• Offer waves, smiles and peace signs to each other during the peace instead of handshakes or hugs.
• Respect each other’s desire for physical spacing as we are able, consulting with others before sitting directly beside them.

We thank you for your understanding and patience.  The full letter from the Bishops can be read here.