Welcome to Summer at
St. Peter's

All our Sunday morning services through July and August will continue to begin at 10:00 am.  Like many of our volunteers, our choir takes a break during the Summer months, though our organist does continue to lead us in the musical portion of our worship. Additionally, during the Summer we will not be hosting our regular coffee hour after the service. We want  to give our many hard working volunteers some much deserved time off before we restart our coffee hour again when we relaunch our ministries in September!

Additionally, the livestream of our Sunday Services will continue throughout the summer on our YouTube page! To access our YouTube, click HERE

This Summer we will be making an effort to explore and learn more about the Psalms as a significant source for teaching about: who God is as described in biblical  poetry in contrast to biblical narrative, how the Psalms are a historic liturgy which forms our prayer life, and how they are encouraging our community. We hope that this learning over the summer will inform our worship life as a community of apprentices to Jesus of Nazareth. 

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We will also be continuing to live into practicing the spiritual discipline of simplicity during our Sunday Worship. This means our services will have a more stripped down atmosphere during the summer than at other times of the year. 

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It's back to the books... prayer books that is! This Summer we will once again be distilling our worship service down to its most basic and powerful elements. In contrast to how we do services during the rest of the year, we will not be using our projector and screen liturgically. We are encouraging people to pick up the books provided in our pews and follow along during worship! All services will be liturgically taken from the "Book of Alternative Services" with hymns from "Common Praise." With so much of our lives consumed by screens, this is a great opportunity for us to disconnect and get back to our prayer book roots!

With many people going on vacation throughout the Summer months, it can be difficult to properly staff our Children's Sunday School program. We take childcare seriously at St. Peter's and want to ensure that your children are properly cared for and protected while they spend time playing and learning more about God with us. For this reason, and to also allow our volunteers to have a break from ministry, our Sunday School program will be shut down  and not running through the Summer months (July - August). 
 

That being said, we still love when children join us in our regular service on Sunday mornings! Children are a beautiful addition to our Sunday worship and are never considered a nuisance no matter how much noise they make! All children are made in the image of God and we believe the noises they make are a joyful noise unto the Lord! Please feel free to bring your children into the service. We will have bags of toys and an activity booklet for young children as you enter into the church, or feel free to bring your own toys! Children are welcome to take up as much space as they need, even if its a whole pew!

During our regular worship life at St. Peter's we hold a Noon, spoken word, worship service taken from the liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer, which includes a brief homily highlighting various saints throughout the Church's history. However, during the Summer months we do not run this service.
Our Wednesday Noon services will return beginning September 10th.  

With the beautiful warm weather upon us and as part of our Summer ministry we want to enable and encourage people to engage in the discipline of fellowship and community. To help foster this discipline in our community (and to create opportunities for potential new people wanting to check out our community), we are going to be hosting Five Friday Night Fellowship Campfires in our side parking lot.  

Join us from 5:30 -7:30 pm at one or all of our campfires throughout the summer. We will be hosting the campfires on July 4th and 18th, and August 1st, 15th, and 29th. Whether you regularly attend St. Peter's, or are looking for an opportunity to check us out, this is a great opportunity for us to gather together for some good food and good times. We will be providing hotdogs and marshmallows for those interested in cooking over the fire, and we encourage you to bring camping chairs/lawn chairs, drinks, and any other snacks  that you  might like to enjoy!

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Should the weather not be favourable to gather outside, we will make a notification of any cancellation through email (if we have your contact information) and on Facebook (which you can access HERE).

Should the city issue a fire-ban due to dry weather, we will still gather outside, but will cook the hotdogs indoors, so as to comply with city by-laws.

We hope you can join us this summer!