Pentecost XIV – The Choral Eucharist Service for September 3, 2023

By Greg Finlayson | September 4, 2023

Bishop Peter Fenty is guest presider and preacher for our Choral Eucharist Service on this Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost, with Zacharia Dekker as organist and Music Director, Kirk Hearder (ODT) as crucifer and Susan Schuschu (ODT) as lay reader and intercessor. Our hymns this week: You Call Us, Lord, to Be (#450, Common Praise); In…

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Gardening Night of August 24, 2023

By Greg Finlayson | August 30, 2023

Video clips from August 24 play over a 6-minute off-camera interview of August 8, 2023 with an adult participant in the Am Braigh Farm program for newly-arrived Canadians. He describes both the challenges and hopes for the family’s life in this new home. No images could be used of members of this family–at their request–out…

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Pentecost XIII – The Choral Eucharist Service for August 27, 2023

By Greg Finlayson | August 29, 2023

Reverend David Bryant returns as guest Presider and Preacher for this Choral Eucharist Service on the Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost, August 27, 2023 (and one year after his first service as Interim Priest-in-Charge), with Zacharia Dekker as Music Director and Kirk Hearder, Lay Reader and Intercessor. Our readers are Jim Hodder and Mark Hauck. This…

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Pentecost XII – The Choral Eucharist Service for August 20, 2023

By Greg Finlayson | August 21, 2023

Congratulations, and a huge ‘Thank You!’ to our Music Director Zacharia Dekker (‘Zach’), who this week marks 15 years of dedication to St. John’s, East Orangeville. We welcome him back from two weeks’ vacation for this Choral Eucharist Service on the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, August 20, 2023. Our Guest Presider and Preacher is again…

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Pentecost XI – The Choral Eucharist Service for August 13, 2023

By Greg Finlayson | August 14, 2023

The Choral Eucharist Service for the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, August 13, 2023, with Guest Presider and Preacher The Venerable Elizabeth Hardy, a former incumbent, and Guest Organist John Charles. Our Lay Reader and Intercessor this week is Audi Geadah Ogley, with readers Chris Cox and Greg Finlayson. John Charles performs Brenda Portman’s ‘Meditation on…

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Gardening Night of August 8, 2023

By Greg Finlayson | August 10, 2023

The Gardening Night of August 8, 2023, with volunteers describing their role, and how they became involved in this program. Jamie Richards addresses the privacy concerns important to the lives of some of these new Canadians who have left countries embroiled in conflict. Recording and post-production by St. John’s, East Orangeville Anglican Church member Greg…

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The Transfiguration of the Lord – Video Recording for the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost, August 6, 2023

By Greg Finlayson | August 8, 2023

The Choral Eucharist Service for the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost, “The Transfiguration of the Lord”, August 6, 2023, with Guest Presider and Preacher The Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow, and Guest Organist John Charles. Canon Pellow is an Honorary Assistant at St. Mark’s, Orangeville, and will return to us to lead worship on August 20. We…

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Farming Night Four – Video from July 25, 2023

By Greg Finlayson | August 1, 2023

During the Fourth Gardening Evening volunteer Shirley talks about Jack’s and her involvement in this program, and Jamie shows the abundance of produce going home with the family that evening. At the request of the family they are not shown, out of their concern for potential repercussions against those left behind in their country of…

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