Parish Ministries

St. James' Ladies Guild (LaHave) - President - Ramona Himmelman

St. Michael and All Angels Guild (Petite Riviere) - President - Sharon Hilchie

St. Mark's Women's Auxiliary (Broad Cove) - President - Leone Conrad

Youth Ministry

Sunday School (St. James' in LaHave)

Confirmation preparation

Youth Group (not currently active)

Vacation Bible Schools for children in conjunction with local United & Presbyterian Churches.

One week in August - 2005, 2006, 2007 (but not summer of 2008)

Annual St. Michael's Youth Conference (for ages 12-18) - this summer (2008), August 18 to 23.

Some youth from parish attend and the Rector teaches and helps out at the Camp each year.

Outreach

Sponsorship of 7 children through World Vision.

The Bridgewater Food Bank (donations of food and money).

The Bishop McAllister College - financial support of this mission school in Uganda.

About 4% of Parish Income goes directly towards church and other missions in Canada &

overseas through Parish Allotment:

Nova Scotia and PEI Diocesan Missions (see Diocesan Budget):

- Within the Diocese (8% of our allotment)

- National/World Mission (1% of our allotment)

National Church Missions (see National Church Budget):

- Support of Council of the North Dioceses (about 6% of our allotment)

- Partnerships (about 7% of our allotment)

Support for the Prayer Book Society of Canada and the Nova Scotia Branch.

Stewardship

givings, property managers, treasurers, secretaries

Covenant in Ministry between the Parishes and the Rector

The Bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island requests that parishes who are calling a new minister develop and agree upon a Covenant in Ministry expressing the obligations of priest and people under certain categories. Click above to read our covenant.

Our Daily Work

O Lord our heavenly Father, by whose providence the duties of mankind are variously ordered: Grant us all the spirit to labour heartily to do our work in our several stations, in serving one Master and looking for one reward. Teach us to put to good account whatever talents thou hast lent to us, and enable us to redeem our time by patience and zeal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Sabbath Day of Rest

(one of God's ministries to our souls and bodies)

Remember that you keep holy the Sabbath-day. Six days shall you labour, and do all that you have to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shalt do no manner of work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maid-servant, your cattle, and the stranger that is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
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