News and events from around the diocese
Summer hours
In the months of July and August the Church House office will be open 9am to noon and 1pm to 5pm Monday to Thursday and closed every Friday afternoon.
Please note the office will be closed for vacation the week of August 4th-8th
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Visiting the area and looking for a church in the Eastern Townships?
Special events in the Deanery of St Francis scheduled for the next few months are:
July 12, 9:00 a.m. – 2 p.m. Annual Lawn Sale at St. George's , Ayer's Cliff .
July 12 , 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Strawberry Social and light lunch at All Saints, Hereford
July 16 , 2:30 – 4:00 Bazaar and afternoon tea held by St. George’s, Georgeville in the Murray Memorial Hall
July 16 , 6 – 8:30 p.m. The ACW of Holy Trinity Church, Kirkdale together with the UCW of United Church in Ulverton will be having their joint annual Strawberry and Ice Cream Social at the Ulverton Community Centre 155 Rue 143, Ulverton.
July 28 – August 1 - The Richmond and Area Community Vacation Bible School is being hosted at St. Anne's Church 171 Main Street Richmond, Québec from 9:00 am to noon. The closing Service is at 9:30 am August 3 rd at St. Anne's Church. For more information or to register please call 819 848 2091
August 18-22 , Vacation Bible School at St. George’s in Sherbrooke (Lennoxville Borough) from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Call 819-346-5564
September 5-6 St-George's Parish Guild and Evening A.C.W. invites everyone to drop by the Quilt Show here at St. George’s in Sherbrooke (Lennoxville Borough) to enjoy coffee and muffins in the mornings and tea/coffee and cookies in the afternoons
September 12 4:30 – 7 p.m. Chicken Pie Supper, All Saints, Hereford
Third Wednesday of each month – Hot Casserole Luncheon at St. James, Hatley beginning at 11:30 a.m.
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Recent Ordinations at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
On May 25th the Archbishop, assisted by Bishop Drainville, ordained Cheryl Ann Barker as a priest. The Rev. Barker is currently serving as the incumbent in the Magdalen Islands parish. At the same service Jason Pollick was ordained as a transitional deacon. The Rev. Pollick will serve as a hospital visitor in Quebec City and have responsibilities for our churches in Trois Rivieres and La Tuque.
On June 24th Christian Schreiner, who is already an ordained pastor in the Lutheran Church of Bavaria, was ordained a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada. At the service the Archbishop stated “Respectful of the fruitfulness of his ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria, we look forward to his exercising the gifts with which God has graced him in our Church. Since our Churches are not yet in full communion, our canon law requires us to proceed with a formal act of ordination so that we too may receive his ministry: we do so, not questioning the grace imparted already to Christian in his ministry as a Lutheran pastor, but extending that ministry so that we too may celebrate and receive it.” On July 1st Christian assumes the positions of Rector of Quebec and Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.
We give thanks and pray for these three as they begin these next steps in their ministry within our diocese.
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The Diocesan Cycle of Prayer for the period May 25th to November 23rd is now in the download section
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The June Quebec Diocesan Gazette is now available online.Click anywhere in this note to see it
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New deadline-July 31, 2008- for diocesan applications to the Anglican Foundation more details
