Welcome Rev. Reid Chudley

 The link for this week's live-streamed service is here.

This Sunday, while Rev. Irwin is recovering from his surgery, we welcomed Rev. Reid Chudley to the pulpit . He is a Victoria boy who grew up at Knox Presbyterian where his youth group leader was our own Rev. Irwin. Ordained in 2004, Rev. Chudley has served congregations in Hillsburgh, Ontario and Victoria, B.C. He has also been a prison chaplain at William Head Institution. He is currently working with Knox Church in Sooke as their Interim Moderator.

He is married to Mary Chudley, Director of Health at the Cool Aid Community Health Centre. They have two children, Clara and Simon, who will be attending Spectrum Community School this coming September. 

Some may remember that Rev. Reid's mother, Nan, attended our Bible Study sessions some time ago. He also took part in Rev. Barbara Young's funeral service, held at SPPC. So, although he was a guest in the pulpit on Sunday, Rev. Reid is no stranger to the congregation of SPPC.

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Sunday was the last service with the choir in attendance before they take their summer break. To celebrate the beginning of summer they went out to dinner at the Spitfire Grill on Friday night. There are only six in the choir pews on Sunday morning, but there were ten for dinner.

Even though the choir is on break for the summer months, expect individual singers to present special music on Sundays for the months of July and August. We hope to hear from some instrumentalists as well.

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Speaking of instrumentalists, our organist, has arranged a series of Saturday night concerts at SPPC over the summer. Although we've had the DieMahler String Quartet and others play at our church, this is the first time we've tried putting on a whole series of chamber music concerts. It's a bit of an experiment to see if  an audience exists on the peninsula  for regularly scheduled chamber musicconcerts  

The first concert is this coming Saturday, July 1, at 7:00 pm.  Admission by donation.                                                                   The program is String Quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven

This is the first of four quartet concerts that will draw on Haydn's set of six quartets, Opus 50, which he wrote in response to six quartets Mozart sent to him. 

Beethoven's Opus 18 quartets were his effort to establish himself against Mozart and Haydn as the heir to their chamber music dominance.

Maybe the audience can be divided into Team Haydn, Team Mozart and Team Beethoven, with cheering sections.

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One more thing, Friendship Coffee meets this Thursday in the rose garden in Sidney. Come along at 10:00 am and meet your friends and share a cuppa.