One More Step Along the Return

 The link to this week's worship service is here.

Raven Baroque concert at SPPC Thursday, August 5 at 7:30 pm. 

This week we took another step in our return to normal Sunday mornings. We had coffee hour after service.

After so many months of "keeping our distance," it was a joy to sit down with church friends and catch up on the little things of life. 

I heard about the first visit with a grandchild.

The turn out in the pews is increasing week by week and more than half those present stayed for a cuppa and a chat. 

Many thanks to Janet and her family for setting up and hosting our first coffee hour since March of 2020.

I think this smile says it all.

Earlier in the month, some of the Friendship Coffee regulars got together in the rose garden by the library in Sidney.

Step four of B.C.'s recovery is supposed to begin on 4 September. I look forward to having Friendship Coffee at the church again, along with other activities like choir and Bible Study. 

And here's one more picture, just to prove you can't keep a good gardener out of the dirt. 

Inez lives in the Extended Care at Saanich Peninsula Hospital, where residents have been encouraged to plant a garden in these waist-high cabinets. You can see how the flowers have rewarded her for all the care she has lavished on her plot. What a way to cheer the soul.

The closing hymn in Sunday's service was "For the Fruit of All Creation, Thanks be to God." A perfect poem for a gardener, but buried in the last verse are words for us all, "For the good we all inherit, Thanks be to God...Most of all that love has found us, Thanks be to God."