Bishop Peter Fenty
2023-12-17 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Leading worship on Advent III for this Live-streamed Choral Eucharist Service.

Bishop Peter Fenty
2023-12-24 16:00 - 17:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Joining us to lead our Choral Eucharist Service at 4 PM on December 24.

Live-Stream of the Choral Eucharist Service for the First Mass of Christmas, December 24
2023-12-24 16:00 - 17:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Bishop Peter Fenty returns as Guest Presider and Preacher for this 4 PM Choral Eucharist Service of the First Mass of Christmas, with our Music Director Zacharia Dekker and Lay Reader and Intercessor Audi Geadah. Greg Finlayson reads the Old Testament lesson from the Book of Isaiah 9:2-7, and Carol McLean the reading from Titus 2:11-14. Zach sings the verses for Psalm 98 while the congregation joins for the refrain, “All the ends of the Earth have seen the salvation of our God”. The Gospel is from Luke 2:11-14. Our hymns for this service: O Come, All Ye Faithful; The First Nowell; Away in a Manger; and, Joy to the World. The choir Anthem, sung towards the end of Communion, “On a Night in Bethlehem”, is composed by Sandra T. Ford. St. John’s, East Orangeville is located in Caledon, Ontario Canada, and is a parish within the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. Please Note: This service is in place of the usual Sunday 10 AM worship.
https://youtube.com/live/5oznGpyGn2A?feature=share

Live-Stream of the Service of Lessons and Carols for Christmas Morning
2023-12-25 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
This Service is led by one of our Lay Readers, Kirk Hearder (Order of the Diocese of Toronto), and Music Director Zacharia Dekker. Eight lessons read by members of the congregation are interspersed with: Once in Royal David’s City; The People That in Darkness Sat; Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming; ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime; Angels from the Realms of Glory; Stay, My Child, My Body Sharing; Away in a Manger; While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night; and, See Amid the Winter’s Snow. St. John’s, East Orangeville is located in Caledon, Ontario Canada, and is a parish within the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.
https://youtube.com/live/W5lCNCZaUOY?feature=share

Link to the Live-Stream of the Choral Eucharist Service for The Epiphany, December 31, 2023
2023-12-31 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow returns as Guest Presider and Preacher this coming Sunday, with Zacharia Dekker, Music Director, and Kirk Hearder as Lay Reader and Intercessor. The lesson from Isaiah 60:1-6 will be read by Hugh Thompson, and from Ephesians 3:1-12 by Kamma Thompson. Coffee Hour and fellowship in the Hall following the service. The link to the live-stream is below.
https://youtube.com/live/xrCDV3SIBXw?feature=share

Accessing the Live-Stream Funeral Liturgy for John Fancett Saturday, January 6
2024-01-06 14:00 - 16:30 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
John’s funeral will occur at St. John’s at 2:00 PM this coming Saturday, January 6, with Reverend David Bryant officiating. There will be a reception following in the church hall. Arrangements are being made to live-stream this service at Gill’s request.
The quickest and easiest way to access the service while it is occurring is by left-clicking on the YouTube logo in the top right corner of the Home page, below our telephone number (the middle of three small symbols). This will take you directly to the service, which will show a green St. John’s title screen with a red ‘Live’ button. Left-click on that, then click on the white arrow ‘go’ button in the middle of the screen. If, however, you are not taken directly to the service, left click on the ‘Live’ heading (third across after ‘Home’ and ‘Videos’), and you will then see the service.
You can also access the service–but with one additional step–by going to youtube.com, then typing stjohnseastorangeville into the search bar; left-click on the blue Search button to go to the site, then click on the service that has the red ‘Live’ button in the corner.
After the service has ended, in order to access the recording at any time go again to our YouTube channel by either of the methods described above. When there, select the ‘Live’ heading (rather than ‘Home’ or ‘Videos’), and then the service recording with the title, “Funeral Liturgy for John Fancett”. In a day or so it will also appear in the Recent Recordings column on this Home page.

Live-Streamed Funeral Service for Charles Weller, January 13, 2024
2024-01-13 14:00 - 16:30 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
This Choral Eucharist Service in honour of Charles Weller, long-serving member of our choir and contributor to and supporter of St. John’s, will occur at 2 PM this coming Saturday, January 13 with Reverend David Bryant presiding, and with Music Director Zacharia Dekker.
Members of the Achill Choral Society, in which Charles was a long-time member, and for which he served on the Board as Librarian for many years, will perform John Rutter’s For the Beauty of the Earth, a favourite of Charles, under the direction of Nancy Dettbarn, Collaborative Pianist, in tribute to Charles’ many years of service.
A reception will follow in the hall.

The Third Sunday After the Epiphany, January 21, 2024
2024-01-21 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
The Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow returns this week as Guest Presider and Preacher to lead worship in our live-streamed Choral Eucharist Service at 10 AM on Sunday, January 21, 2024, with our Music Director Zacharia Dekker at the organ, and Lay Reader and Intercessor Kirk Hearder. We are so pleased to have Stephanie with us once again. Thank you, Canon Pellow! All attendees are invited to enjoy fellowship and refreshments in our church hall following the service.

Bishop Fenty: Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany, January 28, 2024
2024-01-28 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Bishop Peter Fenty will be Guest Presider and Preacher for this Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany, January 28, with our Music Director Zacharia Dekker. This service will be live-streamed, with instructions how to access it in that item in the News/Announcements column next to this. Join us for fellowship and refreshments in the hall following the service.

Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow: The Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany
2024-02-04 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Join us in person or online this Sunday at 10 AM with The Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow and our Music Director Zacharia Dekker for the Choral Eucharist Service for the Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany. Fellowship and refreshments following the service.

Advisory Board Meeting
2024-02-07 14:30 - 16:30 | St. Paul’s Room
The Advisory Board will meet this Wednesday, February 7, in the St. Paul’s Room. Please advise Kirk Hearder of any items you wish to have added to the agenda.

Pancake Supper and Pie Auction
2024-02-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Church Hall
Our Annual sweet lead-in to Lent, 5 to 7 PM on Shrove Tuesday, February 13. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for those 12 and under (sorry…it doesn’t count if an adult is acting like a child 🤣…no one in particular in mind), and families $25. Reservations through calling the office at 519-941-1950, or the sign-up sheet in the hall. We’d love you to get into the bidding on one (or more) of the pies.

Ash Wednesday Service
2024-02-14 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
The Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow will preside and preach. This service will be live-streamed.

Lent I and Annual Vestry Meeting
2024-02-18 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Reverend William Willis, former incumbent at St. Paul’s, Shelburne, leads our Choral Eucharist worship on this First Sunday of Lent, February 18, 2024. Our Music Director is Zacharia Dekker. This week’s Lay Reader and Intercessor is Audi Geadah Ogley, and the lessons are read by Audi and Todd Hillhouse.
Vestry: There will be a brief Coffee Hour following the service, before a pizza lunch is served, by which time our Priest-in-Charge, Canon Darrell Wright, will have arrived from his own church to chair our annual Vestry Meeting.

Vestry Sunday February 18, 2024
2024-02-18 12:45 - 14:30
This year’s Vestry will be held at 12:45 PM on Sunday, February 18. A brief luncheon will be offered after our usual 10 AM Choral Eucharist Service before Vestry begins. The meeting will be chaired by our Priest-in-Charge, the Reverend Canon Darrell Wright.
All those reporting to Vestry are requested to submit their reports to Denyse by January 31–and ideally before–to allow sufficient time for her to assemble the Vestry Book.

Wednesday Lenten Morning Prayer Services at 11 AM
2024-02-21 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
This lay-led service from The Book of Common Prayer will occur in our sanctuary at 11 AM each Wednesday from February 21 to March 20. Please bring a copy of the BCP if you have one. Some will be available. Then, on Wednesday, March 27 at 7 PM, we will observe the Stations of the Cross.

Lent II with Canon Stephanie Pellow, February 25
2024-02-25 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
We are pleased to welcome the Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow as Guest Presider and Preacher to close out our February Sunday services. We understand this will most likely be Canon Pellow’s last service with us for some time, as she returns to her duties as one of the Honorary Assistants at St. Mark’s in Orangeville, the Diocese of Niagara. Thank you, Stephanie, for the many services in which you have led worship.

Our Next Mid-Week Lenten Morning Prayer, February 28
2024-02-28 11:00 - 12:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
The second of our Lay-led informal Lenten Morning Prayer services from The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) will be held in the sanctuary at 11 AM on Wednesday, February 28.

Lent III with Reverend David Bryant
2024-03-03 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary

The Next Lenten Morning Prayer - March 6 at 11 AM
2024-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
This is a lay-led service of Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), and will occur in the sanctuary of the church at 11 AM on March 6, 13, and 20, with the final one a Taizé Stations of the Cross service at 7 PM on Wednesday, March 27.

Lent IV with Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow
2024-03-10 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Join us in person if you are able—or online—for this Sunday’s Choral Eucharist Service at 10 AM, with Music Director Zacharia Dekker at the organ. All are invited to the hall following the service for fellowship and refreshments.

Lenten Morning Prayer at 9:30
2024-03-13 09:30 - 10:30 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
This week’s lay-led Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) will be held at 9:30 Wednesday morning, March 13, instead of the usual 11 AM time.

Lent V with Bishop Peter Fenty
2024-03-17 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Bishop Fenty returns to lead our Choral Eucharist service and preach at 10 AM this coming Sunday, March 17, with Music Director Zacharia Dekker working his magic at the organ. Bishop Fenty will also be with us for Palm Sunday and our Maundy Thursday service at 7 PM on March 28.

Lenten Morning Prayer
2024-03-20 11:00 - 12:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Our lay-led Lenten Morning Prayer Service from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) returns to its 11 AM time this Wednesday, March 20. Our final one, on Wednesday, March 27, will be at 7 PM, and see a return of Taizé worship to St. John’s with the ‘Stations of the Cross’. Short, cantored Taizé pieces sung by the participants will be interspersed among the stations as we move around the church.

Taizé 'Stations of the Cross' on March 27
2024-03-27 19:00 - 20:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
On Wednesday, March 27 at 7 PM St. John’s is pleased to resume lay-led Taizé services following our last one in January 2020. During Holy Week this is combined with readings and prayers marking the 14 Stations of the Cross depicted on the plaques on the walls of our sanctuary marking Christ’s journey to the cross and tomb. Six short, contemplative pieces from the Taizé Community in France are cantored and then sung together as we proceed through the stations. This service does not lend itself to live-streaming.

Maundy Thursday with Bishop Fenty
2024-03-28 19:00 - 20:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
This service at 7 PM on Thursday, March 28 will include ritual foot-washing for those who wish, and traditional stripping of the altar. The choir will sing the anthem, ‘Into the Woods My Master Went’, by Sidney Lanier and Gilbert M. Martin. The service will be recorded rather than live-streamed, then posted following editing.

Good Friday with Reverend David Bryant
2024-03-29 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Join us in person if possible or online for this service at 10 AM with Reverend David Bryant leading our worship and preaching. This service will include a seven-person reading of the Gospel. The choir anthem is, “Into the Woods My Master Went”, by Sidney Lanier and Gilbert M. Martin.

Easter Sunday with Reverend Bryant
2024-03-31 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Join us in person if possible or online for this 10 AM Choral Eucharist service of joy and music.

Easter II this Sunday with Reverend Bryant
2024-04-07 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
Join us in person if possible or online at 10 this Sunday morning for our Choral Eucharist service with Reverend David Bryant and Music Director Zacharia Dekker at the organ. A light lunch will be served in the hall afterward. Being the first Sunday of the month the service will include the Litany of Healing.

Easter III with Bishop Peter Fenty April 14 at 10 AM
2024-04-14 10:00 - 11:00 | St. John’s Church Sanctuary
We are pleased to welcome our Retired Suffragan Bishop Peter Fenty to lead our Choral Eucharist Service for Easter III at 10 AM this coming Sunday morning.
