Pancakes! Pancakes!! Pancakes!!!

It's that time of year again.  Our Fifth Annual Pancake Breakfast will be held this Saturday, July 30th.  Our wonderful team of tent-setter-uppers, table movers, pancake flippers and egg scramblers (thank you all!) will be there early getting ready to host our neighbours from 9:00 until 11:00 a.m.  As always, the food is free.

Blessing The Flag

Today we blessed the Peace Flag that had been donated to us by Ottawa for our 100th anniversary. The flag arrived last year and turned out to be much larger than I had anticipated. I think that it is actually about as large as our church! Gill Pye graciously volunteered to put it in a frame for us, and she did a terrific job as you can see from the picture.

To me the flag is a great symbol for three reasons. First off it is a central Canadian symbol and it fitting because we are proud to be a part of the Canadian Anglican church. Second, it is a great symbol of peace which is an essential value of the Christian church. We continually work and pray for the time when there will be no more war. And third, it is an acknowledgement of the fact that we are 100 years old. It will truly be a pleasure to hang it in our church.

This Week at St. Michael's

July 11-17

Monday

7:00 Roots (gardening) If there is no rain or mosquitos!! :)

Tuesday

1:00-3:00 Craft group

Wednesday

10:30 Weekly service at Dickensfield Extended Care

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

10:00 Holy Communion

Sheila Hagan- Bloxham as guest preacher and celebrant

Time to get out your favourite recipe!

...And bring it to tomorrow's parish pot luck picnic.

Don't forget church starts at 10:00 a.m. beginning this week.

Help us kick off the summer season at St. Michael's!

Garage Sale

Today was the first day of the garage sale, and I think that it went really well. There were lot's of people and we seemed to move a lot of stuff. Thank you so much to everyone who donated items for us to sale as well as to all of the people who helped out with the selling. We really appreciate it!!!!

Doris Nelson

We are sorry to hear of the death of longtime parishioner Mrs. Doris Nelson early Sunday morning.  Her memorial service will be tomorrow, Thursday June 23, at 2:00 p.m. at St. Michael's.  Refreshments will follow the service at Emmaus Lutheran Church.  Please note that the date has changed since it was originally announced.

You can read the obituary online here: http://www.legacy.com/can-edmonton/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=152129073

This Week at St. Michael's

Blogspot isn't letting us edit this week's calendar for some reason, so I'm posting it here.


June 20-26

Monday

7:00 Roots (gardening)

Tuesday

1:00-3:00 Craft group

Wednesday

10:30 Weekly service at Dickensfield Extended Care

6-8 drop off priced garage sale items

Thursday

2:00 Memorial service for Doris Nelson
Reception follows at Emmaus Lutheran Church (one block south of St. Michael's)

Friday

2-8 Garage sale day 1

Saturday

10-4 Garage sale day 2 with BBQ lunch

Sunday

10:00 Holy Communion

Pot luck parish picnic -- bring your favourite dish to share!