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Fellowship
Those who worship with us often remark that
Westminster-St. Paul’s is a friendly community with lots of opportunities for
fellowship – especially fellowship involving food! There is tea and coffee (or a cold drink in summer) following the
service each week and on the first Sunday of the month a full-scale luncheon is
provided through the food-donations of congregation.
During November’s fellowship luncheon the congregation enjoyed a slide
presentation from two members of the congregation, Nick and June Kaethler, who
have recently returned from a couple of years of teaching English in China with
China Education Exchange, a ministry of the Mennonite Central Committee.
During December’s we welcomed Ted Seres of the
Canadian Bible Society and Peter Giesbrecht of the
Christian Salvage Mission, who told us about their
work of distributing Bibles and Christian literature
in Canada and overseas.
There is no fellowship luncheon in January, and
February’s will be followed by the Annual
congregational meeting, but it is hoped that in
March we shall be joined by someone who can tell us
about the HIV-AIDS pandemic in Africa, and our
church’s work Toward a World Without AIDS.
There are three groups in the congregation
providing fellowship for women: the McGillivary Circle, which has an historic
connection with the Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in
Canada; this year they are studying the problem of HIV-AIDS in Africa, the
Victoria Circle, who act in a sort of women’s auxiliary capacity, raising funds
for special projects in the church through the fall bazaar and the sale of beef
and turkey pies, and the Westminster Belles, whose purpose is more purely
fellowship-related.
Special Days is a ministry
of Westminster-St. Paul’s aimed at our immediate community, which occupies the
border-land between fellowship and outreach.
It runs on the third Wednesday of every month and provides a meal, a
short Christian message, and a time of fellowship for many – mostly seniors –
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