Wasn't That a Party?

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What a party! 

The organizers worried all week about the weather, but the rain stopped and the clouds lifted mid-morning so we set up outside. 

Then at 3:00 pm just as we were getting underway, the English weather rolled in and we had to move the food and the musicians inside. still, many hardy souls chose to stay outside under our liquid sunshine.

Very hard to estimate the numbers who attended when we were so scattered about but we think maybe 150. 

We had folk visiting from England and from the USA. 

Members of the Commonwealth Society came by. An enthusiastic  monarchist from Colwood, brought her daughter to enjoy the fun and food. And there was lots and lots of food!

We even had a stand-in royal corgi!

The cut-out image of Her Majesty got nearly as many photos as the real thing.

The party ran from 3:00 - 5:00 but the work began weeks ago and when the guests went home the clean up crew went into action.

Note the morning working outfit and the fancy dress for the clean-up!

I think is is fair to say, a good time was had by all. God Save the Queen!

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 Sunday morning we bid farewell to one of our brothers-in-Christ. Archie is moving to Calgary where his family eagerly await his arrival. We will miss Archie's big smile and twinkling eyes, but we all wish him well in this new phase of his life. 

The teddy bear is to give and receive hugs -- just like Archie.

Fare thee well, Archie, and may the Lord watch between me and thee, while we are absent one from the other. Gn: 31:49

May Happenings at SPPC

 

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Remember all those supplies we gathered in March for the Compassionate Resource Warehouse, bound for Ukraine? Thanks to Brian and Vivien we've received this report.

CRW UPDATE

Our POLAND-UKRAINE load was finished shortly before 6 pm today.
Over the last few days, some of the building supplies were loaded as they were delivered. This helped to have space inside the warehouse, and greatly reduced our loading time today. An amazing load of supplies-- plywood, sinks, doors, windows, crates of tools, plus so much more.

The back boxes of diapers were all collected and stored at Soap for Hope. They gathered these during our drive a few weeks ago. They still have more to share with future loads but they do make a colourful back door opening! Thank you Soap for Hope.

To all who have worked so hard, I hope you sleep well tonight, and tomorrow night and the next. This has been a heavy go and some very heavy days.

I am looking forward to seeing just how much this container weighs!

The consignee is already thrilled and excited to receive the load.
Thank you everyone.

This is good news indeed. However, they do not indicate they they are ready yet to receive further donations.  So we will keep checking to find out when this happens. -- Brian and Vivien

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The big wind on Wednesday did a little pruning on our the big cedar tree in the parking lot! Luckily no one was standing nearby when it happened, sometime between 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm. 

It's all cleaned up now and turned into a pile wood. 

Thursday was Friendship Coffee. Good to see so many people out enjoying a visit and some goodies. I was especially pleased to see Kathy out and about and sounding like herself again. She hopes to come to service on Sunday.

      During Bible Study on Wed. morning we talked about worship as gathering together in "holy expectation." While we have all been glad of the opportunity to "attend" worship through the on-line streaming, we have missed the gathering together. 

 

Don't forget to mark your calendars for June 4, when SPPC hosts a Platinum Jubilee "street party" in the parking lot in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's seventy years on the throne. Check out the Peninsula News Review story.  We are on page A-4.