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Highlands United Church Fall Program Guide Sept-Dec 2016 Page 2 2016 Fall Program Guide Fall Program Guide Index Men’s Breakfast Caring and Wellness Nativity Exhibit and Craft Fair Caring Ministry Scottish Dance Fundraising Hospital Visits Sunday Lunches Care Facility Visitors Thursday Community Meals Highlands “At Home” Ministry Women’s Breakfast Caring Packages Music Ministry Healing Hands Ministry Eight Deadly Sins Prayer Shawls Ministry Genesis Too Choir Children, Youth & Young Adults God’s Free Spirits Choir Sunday Morning Children and Youth Program Hand Bell Ringers All Hallows Eve Family Party and Potluck Dinner IGNITE worship CHOPS Praise Band Fun Live-Giving Youth (FLY) Spirit Singers Choir IGNITE worship Reaching Out…Building Community Senior Yo uth Group Dress A Girl Around the World Young Adults Edgemont Village Christmas Day Community Meal Financial Stewardship Global Connections Annual Stewardship Connection Prayer Shawl Ministry Planned Giving / Enduring Giving Sandwiches for First United Saturday Lunch Grow and Learn Shelter to Home Book Circle Developmental Disabilities Climate Action Committee Community Partners (including First United, WISH, DruYoga for Adults CCSS, Lookout and Camp Fircom) ESL/ELL English as a Second Language Walk and Talk Seniors Ministry Yoga Chapel Seniors Connection Life Events Worship Baptism Sunday Morning 10:00am Worship Weddings Sunday Morning Coffee Time Memorials Greeters and Welcome Hosts for Sunday Audio Visual / Technical Team Meeting Others Christmas Season Badminton Christmas Eve Services Birthday Celebrations Bridge Club Highlands Staff Flea Market Volunteer Opportunities Guitar for Fun Highlands Quilters Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver, BC V7R 2P1 Ph: 604-980-6071 www.highlandsunited.org 2016 Fall Program Guide Page 3 Welcome to Highlands United Church Welcome to the Highlands United Church Fall Program Guide. Whether you are a newcomer at Highlands or a long time member, this is the place to find the information you need to get involved in the community. There is an amazing array of small groups, choirs, outreach opportunities, study groups, programs for children, youth, families and seniors along with a wide range of seasonal and special events. Highlands has a place for everyone. Some people come to Highlands looking for a community of friendship. Check out the section entitled “Meeting Others.” Some come here with a longing to grow in faith and spirit or to untangle some knot that has developed in their life. Take a look at the “Grow and Learn” section. Sometimes life events, births, deaths, marriages bring people to Highlands. The “Caring and Healing” and “Life Events” sections will guide you to the ways we share these parts of life. Lots of people come here to worship and to sing. If that is you, check out one of the opportunities in Music and Worship. You may be here looking for a way to make a difference in the world. You are not alone. “Reach Out” and “Volunteer” is where you will find these opportunities. Whatever stage of life you are in, there are programs for “Children, Youth, Young Adults” and “Seniors”. Here at Highlands we have a vision of people gathering not only on Sundays but all through the week out of a desire to form beloved community. We know the difference it can make for our lives to be woven into a greater life lived in community. I hope that as you read through this guide you will be able to see yourself connecting in some way, and that you and we will be blessed by God in the process. Rev. Will Sparks Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver, BC V7R 2P1 Ph: 604-980-6071 www.highlandsunited.org Page 4 2016 Fall Program Guide Caring and Wellness month” bringing news of church friends and ongoing activities at the Caring Ministry church, and offering We are building a lay-led ministry that will ensure some caring faith support is given in the difficult patches of our life’s resources. If you would journey. There are currently four components and like to be part of a caring volunteers are invited to offer skills in these compassionate team ministries: who visit folks in one of these facilities OR be on the sub/alternate visitor list, please call Jacqueline Scott through the Church Hospital Visits Office. Tanis van Drimmelen is a trained visitor with a Contact: Jacqueline Scott, 604-980-6071 compassionate heart and is a designated Hospital, Palliative and Hospice Visitor. Highlands “At Home” Ministry As people live longer and remain in their own homes, we have discovered that there can be some acute loneliness in that decision. Visits and friends are more important than ever. Doree Piercy is the contact person for Highlands At Home Caring Ministry and tries to ensure that people living alone get caring phone calls. Would you like to be a caring contact for the At-Home people? Contact Doree Piercy through the Church Office. There is a screening process to ensure everyone’s safety. Contact: Doree Piercy, 604-980-6071 How can you help? If you or someone you know is in need of a hospital visit, please call the Church Caring Packages Office and Tanis will be alerted immediately. It Twice a year the invitation goes out via Highlights takes all of us being aware to ensure that and e-mail for people to bake cookies and make everyone in the congregation receives a caring goodies so we can deliver care packages to people visit. in care facilities and in the “At Home” Ministry, as Contact: Tanis van Drimmelen, 604-980-6071 well as a few with special circumstances. This ministry requires bakers and volunteers who will deliver the packages and have a caring visit. The Visiting Ministry for Care Facilities & packages usually go out for Christmas and Independent Living Easter. You can volunteer through the Church When people move into care facilities it is a big Office or respond to the invitation when it comes. adjustment and they often lose touch with their Contact: Tanis van Drimmelen, 604-980-6071 former faith community. Highlands Caring Ministry has appointed a visitor for each North Shore Senior Care Facility which is home to a Highlands person. These visitors connect at least “once a Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver, BC V7R 2P1 Ph: 604-980-6071 www.highlandsunited.org 2016 Fall Program Guide Page 5 Healing Hands Ministry Healing Hands is a major outreach and caring ministry. The Healing Hands Children, Youth & Young Ministry within the Christian Adults community follows the example given by Jesus. It is an energy- We exist to explore, inspire, question and discover based approach to healing, the role of God in our lives. working with and restoring At Highlands United Church we exist to love and balance to the energy fields that surround you. be loved, to know and be known, to serve and be Changes may be experienced on a physical, served, to learn, pray and grow together. We mental, emotional and/or spiritual level. The goal of believe that the future of our church lies in the faith a Healing Hands session is to awaken your body's of our children and youth, and we support this innate healing powers, restoring harmony and journey in every way we see possible. We play balance to your whole being. together. We adventure together. We laugh Volunteer practitioners who have taken courses together. We worship together. We burn with a offered by the Healing Pathway based at Naramata desire to live the life Christ wanted for us — freely, Centre offer healing sessions to members of the with compassion and with great joy. congregation and to persons in the wider For further information on Children and Youth community. Appointments are available on programming please contact coordinators Allie Keir Wednesday afternoons and Monday evenings or Andria Irwin at [email protected] or (alternates weekly), and can be made for home, a visit our children and youth website at care facility, hospital or hospice. www.highlandsunite.ca Contact for info: Sharon Yetman, 604-988-5827 For an appointment: Lorraine Elliott, 604-985-4502 Tentative bookings made for first and third Sunday Morning Children & Youth Programs Wednesdays to match Seniors Connection, 12:30 – Registration is now open for all, ages 0 through 2:30 Sept to Dec. Grade 12. Please visit our website (www.highlandsunited.org) to register or visit us in the church’s new Welcome Space before church Prayer Shawl Ministry on Sundays. The Prayer Shawl Prayer Shawls Please re-register group meets on your son or Mondays at 1pm in daughter even if the Choir Room. Our you have been shawls have been registered in the lovingly donated to past. Regular those who are ill or in Sunday School need of comfort, and classes begin Sept have been received 18th. with much gratitude. We welcome anyone who enjoys knitting or crocheting, as well as beginners and would like to learn to knit. Contact: Joy Dancey, 604-924-1065, [email protected] Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver, BC V7R 2P1 Ph: 604-980-6071 www.highlandsunited.org Page 6 2016 Fall Program Guide Sunday Morning Classes & Teachers PJs and Pancakes Nursery (0 to age 3): Alexa Villalpando Families and youth are invited to join us (by Age 3 to Kindergarten: Rachel Robertson, donation) for breakfast starting at 8:30 am before Maddy Keir and Chris Madill the service on Sunday, October 2nd. Grades 1-3 (4): Colin Madill, Grace Owens, Emily Anderson Grades 4-6 (7): Lianna Rushworth, IGNITE Worship Bella Kershaw and Matt Anderson Come and join us for our Grade 7 & up: Chris Bochon, Andria Irwin new all-ages, and Sandi Parker contemporary worship experience held once per All Hallow’s Eve / All Saints Day Family month in the Sanctuary.