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Children from the community were invited to Santa’s Workshop at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Thornbury, Ont., to do their Christmas shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Claus (a.k.a. members Jim and Lorraine Carne) welcomed the shoppers and helped them choose gifts for those on their lists. All gifts were 25 cents.
Worship time begins at Place of Hope Indigenous Presbyterian Church in Winnipeg with opening the Bible on the lectern and with a smudge. After the smudge, the eagle staff is accompanied into the church by one of the children. At the Sunday worship pictured above, several people young and old joined Place of Hope Presbyterian Church through baptism or by Profession of Faith.
Sundridge Knox Presbyterian Church in Sundridge, Ont., held a special “Cookie Walk” event organized by the Prayer Garden Committee to raise funds for the development of a walk- way and signage to the prayer gar- dens put in earlier this year so that the gardens may be accessible to all. It smelled wonderful!
The congregation also held a Wreath- Making Social. This was a community event put on by the Prayer Garden Committee and open to everyone and anyone to attend. There were 26 par- ticipants in total, which is great for a little church. Pictured to the right are Evie, Sarah, Dielle and Ruth.
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    At the end of November 2019, Caledonia Presbyterian Church in Caledonia, Ont., hosted their annual Santa Breakfast. Stuffed toys were given out to all the chil- dren who visited with Santa. The church elves worked tirelessly and fed over 125 people that morning, and no one left hungry! Pictured above are children who had their breakfast before Santa arrived that morning.
Christmas 2019 was the first year St. David’s Presbyterian Church in Scar- borough, Ont., participated in the Giving Tree. Pictured is our beautiful tree full of Gifts of Change ornaments. St. David’s PC are so happy to have directed just over $1,700 to a variety of life-changing pro- jects in Canada and around the world!
     






















































































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