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On Oct. 2, St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Mission, B.C., celebrated their 75th anniversary with a wonderful sit-down dinner, the sharing of stories and a video montage.
Although Hurricane Fiona damaged the church building and fellowship hall of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Pictou Landing, N.S., the congregation still decorated the church to honour Orange Shirt Day—National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—on Sept. 30. The congregation had to miss one Sunday worship service due to the storm but was able to gather for a Harvest Sun- day worship service on Oct. 9. Following the storm, the parking lot at Bethel Church was used as a staging area for power line crews as they worked to restore electricity in the area. Members of the congregation donated to, and helped the Pictou Landing fire department host a barbecue lunch for the crews. (Notice the top of the bell tower missing.)
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Winnipeg Inner City Missions in Manitoba, supported by The Presbyterian Church in Canada through gifts to Pres- byterians Sharing, was awarded the Centennial Commu- nity Improvement Association’s Neighbourhood Beautifi- cation Award for the third year in a row for our gardens at A Place of Hope Indigenous Presbyterian Church! We are so proud of the hard work that our residents have
put into making our space a beautiful home.
Denyse Wozencroft, office coordinator at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Guelph, Ont., “socks it” to the Rev. John Borthwick during the Socktoberfest Campaign. For the month of October, St. Andrew’s was a drop-off location for new and gently used socks, which will in turn be handed out during the winter months by Your Downtown Guelph Friends, a grassroots community support group. The goal this year had been set at 10,000 socks and, by the looks of the Rev. John’s “nest,” they were well underway!