Full on Smiles

 Link to this week's live-streamed worship service is here

After so many weeks of trying to interpret an eyebrow waggle, it was a delight to see so many smiles at church Sunday morning. Let's hope the case numbers continue to subside and our hard-pressed health care system can cope, even as the mask requirements ease.

Notices:

Busy week at SPPC coming.

• On Wednesday Bible Study resumes at 10:00 am and 7:00 pm. Are you ready to talk 'fasting?' Are you ready to do it?
• Thursday, 10:00 am, Friendship Coffee. Come meet your old friends and make new ones. This is a great way to meet and mingle.
• Annual Congregational Meeting, Sunday, March 20 following the worship service. There will be a light lunch too. Actually, this is a double annual meeting as there was none in 2020.

Compassionate Resource Warehouse

For years SPPC has worked with the Compassionate Resource Warehouse, collecting and creating goods for distribution to those in need. For you knitters in the crowd, the Friendship Coffee time was often a time to knit cotton squares that could be disinfected by sunshine. Our congregation sent hundreds and hundreds of those items to hospitals in third world countries.

Then COVID came along and everything shut down.

Now, with the war in Ukraine, the CRW partnering with ICROSS Canada is packing a container for a field hospital on the border of Poland and Ukraine.  They are also setting up a house that medical or counselling teams can us as a home base.

Here's how SPPC is helping. We are receiving and delivering

donations of: 

• $$$ Monetary donations to assist with shipping costs and purchase of a 40' HC container. https://www.crwarehouse.ca/donate
• First aid supplies - bandages, tensors, gauze, gloves
• First aid; braces, supports, slings
• Baby items -- diaper cream, baby lotion, bowls, cups, spoons, diapers
• Toddler - diapers and pull-ups, bowls, plates, cups and cutlery
• Child and adult -- new shoes
• Receiving blankets, twin blankets
• Towels -- bath, hand and face cloths
• New tea towels and dish washing cloths
• Folding tables
• Team House dishes, utensils, cutlery, cups for 16, pots
• Thermos and hot carafes
• New drinking bottles and travel mugs
• Women menstrual pads
• Hygiene - toothpaste, toothbrushes, wrapped soap, lotion
• New combs and brushes
• Trauma counselling supplies - drawing paper, construction paper, beads, sidewalk chalk, crayons, pencils, sharpeners, hand puppets
• Small stuffed toys - beanie baby size
• Reading glasses all strengths
• While boards, bulletin boards, chalk boards
• Coloured 8x11 paper, 3 hole
• New cloth shopping bags for distribution
• Feeding Centres: large pots, cutlery, cups, large cooking utensils

No Clothing Donations at this time.

Please prepare a written list itemizing everything you are donating and attach it to the container, box or bag, and bring it to the church on:

Tues:   Mar 22 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Thurs: Mar 24 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

The images on the nightly news are so heartbreaking, praise God there is something we can do.