News Letters (Page 10)
Earl Nixon turns 90!
On February 3, 2025, a very special person celebrated a very special birthday. Earl Nixon turned 90! I’d like to tell you a bit about this remarkable man and what he has meant to our church for so many years. Earl has been a fixture at Grace and Graceview church for a very long time. He is an elder and at one time was active on session. However, he didn’t like what he viewed as “the politics”, so he retired…
PCC Renewal: My Story – Rachel Chen
God draws people to Himself in many ways; for me, He used YouTube, among many other things. My parents immigrated to Canada from China in 1999, and I was born the year after. Being new immigrants with the desire to integrate better into Canadian society and seeing the United Church helping the poor, they decided to join. We moved frequently as my dad sought better employment, and we shifted to attending Chinese Baptist churches. I could tell church people were…
February 26, 2025 – Mission Team
From the Guatemalan Mission Team The Guatemala mission team will be serving around 1000 children across 4 schools and an orphanage in mid-March. We’re looking for donations of the following items:
Sing Etobicoke, Bravo! Returns For a Third Year
Another Round of Applause – Sing Etobicoke, Bravo! Returns For a Third Year Neilson Park Creative Centre (NPCC) is excited to announce funding from the Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility’s Seniors’ Provincial Grant. Through this grant, NPCC will be offering a third iteration of its highly successful Sing! Etobicoke program. This year’s program Sing Etobicoke, Bravo! will continue to offer free space for seniors to sing together, find community, and forge new connections. This free program will consist of twenty…
February 19, 2025 – Mission Team
The Guatemala mission team will be serving around 1000 children across 4 schools and an orphanage in mid-March. We’re looking for donations of the following items: 1. Summer clothing for orphan babies/toddlers (0-3 years), young children (3-12 years) and young moms (11-15 years) 2. Baby shoes, regular shoes, tennis shoes, socks and towels for children (1-10 years) 3. Diapers, blankets, bottles for newborns 4. Medicine and first aid items, such as Tylenol, Advil, Polysporin, bandages, alcohol swabs 5. Soft cover lightweight notebooks, crayons, watercolor paints,…
February 17, 2025
What a winter it has been! With the multiple snowstorms we’ve been gifted with lately, it’s hard not to marvel at the beauty and power of God’s creation. As we take in the wonder of nature, let us also turn our hearts to something even more wonderful – the Holy Scripture. Just as the snow blankets the earth, may God’s Word cover our lives with wisdom and truth. I want to share with you an epiphany I received from the…
February 12, 2025 – Mission Team
The Guatemala mission team will be serving around 1000 children across 4 schools and an orphanage in mid-March. We’re looking for donations of the following items: 1. Summer clothing for orphan babies/toddlers (0-3 years), young children (3-12 years) and young moms (11-15 years) 2. Baby shoes, regular shoes, tennis shoes, socks and towels for children (1-10 years) 3. Diapers, blankets, bottles for newborns 4. Medicine and first aid items, such as Tylenol, Advil, Polysporin, bandages, alcohol swabs 5. Soft cover lightweight notebooks, crayons, watercolor paints,…
From the Guatemalan Mission Team
The Guatemala mission team will be serving around 1000 children across 4 schools and an orphanage in mid March. We’re looking for donations of the following items: 1. Summer clothing for orphan babies/toddlers (0-3 years), young children (3-12 years) and young moms (11-15 years) 2. Baby shoes, regular shoes, tennis shoes, socks and towels for children (1-10 years) 3. Diapers, blankets, bottles for newborns 4. Medicine and first aid items, such as Tylenol, Advil, Polysporin, bandages, alcohol swabs 5. Soft…
Hymn Stories: This is My Father’s World
Hymn Stories: This is My Father’s World Adapted from 101 Hymn Stories – Kenneth W. Osbeck Author: Maltbie D. Babcock 1858-1901 Composer: Franklin L. Sheppard 1852-1930 This is my Father’s world, And to my list’ning ears All nature sings, and round me rings The music of the spheres. Maltbie D. Babcock was born in Syracuse, New York, on August 3, 1858, of a socially prominent family. Later he became recognized as one of the outstanding Presbyterian ministers of his generation. He…
Susan B. Anthony Paves the Way
Susan B. Anthony Paves the Way Adapted from an essay by Joanna Strong and Tom B. Leonard Kathy Twynam It has been rumoured that sometime within the next year, Ontarians will be facing an election – perhaps provincial, perhaps federal, perhaps both, if our politicians can ever get over themselves and decide what to do. And many of us followed the recent compelling US election with great interest, knowing that the repercussions were bound to spill over into Canada no matter who won. …
Choir Notes
The year was 1970, and Grace Church was struggling. Its minister, Rev. Bill Mitchell, retired on December 31 that year, leaving the pulpit vacant until the arrival in September 1971 of Rev. R. Campbell “Cam” Taylor. Cam served as Grace’s beloved minister for almost five years, until May 1976, and after retirement in 2001 returned with his wife Sandy to the newly amalgamated Graceview as Minister in Association and later Minister Emeritus. We tend to think of churches as thriving in those days fifty years ago,…
The Past Life of Maureen Screen
The Past Life of Maureen Screen by Parkland Resident Don Kerr Maureen Screen awoke on a morning in 1954 to find that Hurricane Hazel flooding had washed away fourteen homes on her street and killed thirty-two residents, including the five-year-old neighbour she walked to school every day. The first thing she heard that day was a voice on a loudspeaker from a helicopter whirring overhead. It was warning residents who had sought refuge on the roofs of their houses to remain there to be rescued…