Pentecost XIV – The Choral Eucharist Service for September 3, 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…
Read MoreGod, Whose Giving Knows No Ending – Offertory Hymn with Text for August 27, 2023
Our Offertory Hymn with text for the Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost, August 27, 2023, with Zacharia Dekker, Organist and Music Director and our church choir and congregation. This is hymn # 601 in the Anglican Book of Common Praise, with Text by Robert L. Edwards (1915-2006), and Music by William Penfro Rowlands (1860-1937). The tune…
Read MoreGardening Night of August 24, 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…
Read MorePentecost XIII – The Choral Eucharist Service for August 27, 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…
Read MorePentecost XII – The Choral Eucharist Service for August 20, 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…
Read MorePentecost XI – The Choral Eucharist Service for August 13, 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…
Read MoreGardening Night of August 8, 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…
Read MoreThe Transfiguration of the Lord – Video Recording for the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost, August 6, 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…
Read MoreFarming Night Four – Video from July 25, 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…
Read MoreI Come with Joy – Audio Recording with Text of the Communion Hymn for July 30, 2023
Audio recording with text of the hymn sung by the choir and congregation during Communion on the Ninth Sunday After Pentecost, July 30, 2023, with Organist and Music Director Zacharia Dekker. This hymn is #60 in ‘Common Praise’, the current hymnal of the Anglican Church of Canada. The text is by Brian A. Wren (1936-…
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