Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE PARISH SELECTION COMMITTEE

The Parish Selection Committee made a very exciting announcement at yesterday morning’s New Year’s Day services. For those of you who may have missed it, we have included it below.

First, we would like to recognize all of the members of our committee who have worked very hard over the last year and a half to get to this point. The members include Carol Bailey, Sharmini Arulanandam, Debbie Crossling-Barker, Christine Baxter, Mary Frances Cappuccitti, Suyen Doan, Allison Gray, Kevin Ball, Gary Spence, and Derek Patterson.

We would also like to thank you the parishioners, especially those that participated in our parish survey and townhall sessions. Thank you also for your patience as we worked through this process.

Well, all the patience has been worth it. We would like to announce on behalf of the Wardens and the Parish Selection Committee, that as of February 15^th, our new incumbent will be the Reverend Roshni Jayawardena.

Reverend Jayawardena is currently the Incumbent at Trinity-St. Paul, Port Credit. During her Incumbency, she has worked collaboratively with St. Peter’s on a number of initiatives, including the preaching of a few sermons for us in 2020. Prior to Trinity St. Paul’s, Reverend Roshni was the Assistant Curate at Church of the Redeemer.

Some of you may already be familiar with Reverend Roshni, as she grew up here at St. Peter’s. She was baptized and confirmed here, was an active member of the choir and many Christmas pageants, and was finally put forward for ordination by our Parish.

The Parish Selection Committee is truly excited about the many gifts that Reverend Jayawardena will bring to St. Peter’s, and pray that she will help guide us through the next stage of our faith journey.

Our Annual Vestry Meeting was held on September 25 at 2:00pm via Zoom.  At that meeting the 2022/23 Budget was approved, we thanked Carol Bailey as she retired from being the People’s Warden and we welcomed Natasha Bond who joins our other wardens: Ken Baxter, James Beckwith and Michael Davies. The Minutes of the meeting, 2022 Annual Report and Financial Statements are linked below. Please give them a read to find out what is happening at St. Peter’s.

Minutes of Vestry 25 September 2022
2022 Annual Report
Audited Financial Statements for Year Ending 30 June 2022

Our St. Peter’s Parish Profile is Here

The bishop has approved our Parish Profile document for publication.

The parish profile is a key part of the process of attracting a new priest to work with us as we seek to serve the needs of our church, community and the Gospel. The parish profile is the document on which a prospective applicant will base their decision to take the application further. (adapted from the Diocese of Chichester)

This document will be posted for two months, after which the bishop will suggest several candidates for the Parish Selection Committee to interview.

Our Winter 2023 SPAN is here.

Sidespeople Needed

With the introduction of hybrid services, we are looking for a few more volunteers to be sidespeople. The most pressing needs are in-person sidespeople for the 8:00 a.m and 11:15 a.m hybrid services and Zoom sidespeople for the 11:15 a.m service. If you are interested or have any questions, please contact Gary Spence at garyspence@rogers.com or speak to any of our friendly sidespeople. As per Diocesan policy, in person volunteers must be fully vaccinated.

Looking for Tech Help and Zoom Hosts

We are looking for people from youth on up who are interested in joining the hybrid services in-church production team and/or co-hosting the Zoom services. We will provide training. Roles include operating the webcams and sound in the church building, and Zoom hosting which can be done in the church building or online, so that we can have “hybrid” church services. Please contact kyoko.h.kobayashi@outlook.com to indicate your interest in being trained for this role.

Deacon’s Cupboard Food Bank

The Deacon’s Cupboard Food Pantry will be starting to give out bags with food items in them for the month of September. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could add some of the items listed below to your shopping list and drop them off at St. Peter’s any time that the church is open.

Cereal, tinned milk, tinned tomatoes, pasta sauce, dry pasta, tuna, tinned fruit, soup, tinned vegetables, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, rice, tea, sugar, soda crackers, pancake mix, syrup, oil (no bigger than 946mls), bottle of juice (no bigger than 1L), peanut butter (small jar)

Thank you so much for your support as we begin to restock our shelves.

At the moment we support an average of 150 families each month with President’s Choice gift cards. This is an expenditure of $7000-$8000 each month. If you cannot make a food donation, please consider making a cash donation to the Deacon’s Cupboard. Donations can be made by cheque (made payable to St. Peter’s Erindale with “Deacon’s Cupboard” in the memo line), via bank eTransfer to giving@stpeterserindale.org (put “Deacon’s Cupboard” in the Comments section) or through CanadaHelps. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.