News and Events

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Announcements:

Join us for Holy Week Services
beginning with Palm/Passion Sunday, March 28

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Music at Islington
If you enjoy wonderful music in a beautiful space, made by exceptionally talented people, you’ll be interested in the Music at Islington Concert Series.
See the Music at Islington concert schedule...
View the concert brochure and ticket order form...

Help Wanted – Music at Islington
Music at Islington would like several volunteers to help throughout the year as we prepare for and host each of five concerts. Available jobs include:

• Selling tickets on Sundays or at the door
• Photocopying concert programs
• Greeting guests
• Delivering flyers
• Preparing and serving refreshments
  

If you would like to help on an ongoing or individual concert basis, please contact Val Greenfield at val.greenfield@rogers.com or 416.621.3656.

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SHOPPING & GIFT CARDS

An easy way to support your Church
Book Club Members!
Buy shopping or gift cards for Chapters/Indigo/Coles to purchase your reading selections for your club while helping Islington United’s fundraising needs at the same time – no extra cost to you. See John Wevers at coffee hour to learn more.

Christmas Shoppers!
Start planning for your Christmas shopping and gift card giving now. Cards from popular retailers like The Gap, Old Navy, HMV, Toys R Us, and others make great gifts and a portion of the retailers profit comes to Islington United at no cost to you. Ask John Wevers, Doug Watson, Carole Bennett or Steve Tower how they like the program!
Place your order with John Wevers at coffee hour or contact him at 416.767.3691 or .

Follow this link for a sampling of retailers in this program.

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Church Parking
information and maps to alternate parking areas

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Videos
Selected Worship services are now available on-line in video format.
Follow this link to view the videos.

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PUT YOUR CANADIAN TIRE MONEY
TO WORK FOR A GOOD CAUSE!
We’re collecting Canadian Tire money to help purchase sports and other equipment and supplies for our children’s and youth programs.
If you’d like to participate, put your Canadian Tire money in the box on the counter in the Church Office or drop it in the secure mail slot on the office door.

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Library News

What are Your Reading Favourites?
We would like to create a bulletin board with summer reading suggestions for all ages. If you have read a book or books from our Church Library that you especially enjoyed, we would appreciate your help. Please provide the title and, if possible, the author, and a short review (two or three sentences). You may email this along with an optional photo of yourself to lynn.morrison@rogers.com or place the review and photo in the Library Committee folder in the Church Office.
And catch up on some summer reading suggestions.
Happy reading, everyone!

New Books in the Church Library

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Seekers Youth News!

Every Thursday for Grades 7 – 12

4:00 pm Hangout time
5:00 pm– Youth and Friends Dinner
6:00 pm– Youth Choir & Youth Hangout
7:00 – 8:30 pm Seekers Youth Group

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Islington United is now on facebook

Events:

Good Company’s March Event
Afternoon at the Movies
Saturday, March 6
Afternoon movie at Cine Starz Cinema
Central Parkway Mall
(377 Burnhamthorpe Road, Mississauga)
Followed by dinner at The Pickle Barrel
Sherway Gardens, Etobicoke
You can sign up after worship in the Stewart East Hall
Sunday February 21 and 28.

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Greening our Faith Communities:
Annual Leaders Forum
Sunday, March 7 – 12:45 to 7:00 pm
Eastminster United Church
310 Danforth Avenue, Toronto
[Read more...]

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Tax Saving
Are You Prepared? - Tips for 50 Plus
Wednesday, March 17, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Islington’s Stewardship Ministry is hosting an event to help you avoid some of the major impacts of HST when it comes into effect on July 1, 2010 as well as learn about other legal and tax factors that affect your current financial position and your future estate.

Representatives from a law firm, an accounting firm, and Turner & Porter Funeral Directors will be here to give you helpful information and answer your questions.
To register, please contact staff or volunteers in the Church Office at 416.239.1131 ext. 21 or email

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Financial Sanity™ 101
Attention: Parents and Youth
You’re invited to a fun two-evening seminar.
Tuesdays March 23 & April 6 at 7:00 pm
$10 per person for the participant guide & workbook
The goal of this learning experience is to help you understand the relationship of money, values and habits in today’s hyper-consumer culture. Achieving and maintaining financial sanity is not easy!
We live in a society that overwhelms us with messages to spend. No matter our age, we are deluged with advertising messages designed to shape our lifelong spending habits. When our habits are formed by advertisements, fashions and fads rather than the values we strive to embody as people of faith, we can wind up living the financial life that advertisers want us to live, not the one we had in mind.
This simple, straightforward and fun workshop offers ideas for those of us who are searching for new ways to “do money.” Youth will learn and discuss with other youth, parents with other adults then you can share what you’ve discovered!
For more information and to register, please contact Carole Bennett at 416.239.1131 ext. 33 or email or Michael Shewburg at 416.239.1131 ext. 31 or

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Above & Beyond
You are invited to the eighth annual
Mother and Daughter
Victorian Luncheon
Saturday, April 10
12:00 – 2:30 pm

Ruth Coghill
A Mother’s Heart
As a mother and grandmother, Ruth will share her
personal discovery of faith, hope and love
and share her musical gifts with us.
This is a celebration of the various relationships among women. Please bring a daughter, relative or friend.
To register by April 7
please RSVP to Eileen Christie at 416.233.7897.

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Good Company’s
Progressive Dinner
Saturday, April 10 - 6:15 pm
$17 per person
A great night of fellowship and good eating. Bring an appetizer to the first stop – then on to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 286 on Irwin Road for a three-course dinner, with fun and games to follow. Tickets are available in the Stewart East Hall after worship. Maps and full information will be provided with your tickets or call Hugh or Sally Goodwillie at 416.244.2233.

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Week of Guided Prayer 2010
Sunday, April 25 – Saturday, May 1
Theme: We Are Not Alone

In today’s world we are bombarded daily with decisions to be made, dilemmas to be faced. The good news of scripture is that we need not be alone at these times – God is with us! Join us as we prayerfully explore God’s presence in our lives.
If you have been a Retreatant in the past and would consider becoming a Companion, a training session will be offered on Saturday, March 20 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
During this season of Lent, take time to pray about this opportunity to serve God in a new and dynamic way.
For more information or to register for the Companions’ course, please contact one of the following:
Doris Fulton defulton@rogers.com
Dale Kucharczyk dkucharczyk@rogers.com 416.233.9313
Dorothea Vickers dorothea.Vickers@gmail.com 416.231.1797
Linda Wheler 416.239.1131 x24

Food Program Donations
Over the next few months, you will be hearing lots about the shortage of food in our world and in our own community. With unemployment high, financial positions tight, and homelessness at a record high, the need for food programs, food subsidies, and food banks continues to grow.

Here at Islington United Church we support a church-based food pantry as well as the Mabelle Food Program located across Dundas at 49 Mabelle Avenue. Both of these food programs are busy and always in need of donations. Here are the non-perishable food items we need the most:

All donations may be left in the Food Bank Box in the hallway outside the Church Office. And cash donations are always welcome and allow us to take advantage of grocery store “specials.” Thank you for your generosity

Church Parking

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Page Revised: March 8, 2010