Summer Worship
Beginning Sunday, July 4 and continuing until Sunday, September 5 (Labour Day weekend)
we will hold one service of worship at 10:00 a.m.
Summer Vacation & Office Hours
Carole Bennett, Stewardship & Church Administrator, will be on vacation from August 3 to 20 (inclusive).
Beginning on Friday, July 2 until Friday, September 3 the Church Office will close at noon every Friday.
Please note: On August 13 and 20 the Church Office will be closed all day.
Called to be God's Lighthouse
Thanks to those who let their light shine!
Closing the Gap
Thank you to everyone who made an extra gift to help “close the gap” in our financial plan for FY10 (July 2009 to June 2010). During the final three months of the fiscal year – April, May and June – we received $55,591 towards our projected deficit!
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Social Justice News
Islington’s Social Justice Team continues to be busy. Here’s an update.
In June, at the request of the Social Justice Team, Church Council sent a letter to Mayor David Miller requesting that holiday shopping not be extended to statutory holidays such as Christmas, Good Friday and Easter.
The team is also looking into the possibility of starting or supporting a community garden. Meanwhile, those who wish to buy local produce can shop at the farmers’ markets at Sherway Gardens (The Queensway between Hwy 427 and The West Mall) on Fridays and the Etobicoke Civic Centre (Burnhamthorpe and The West Mall) on Saturdays. A third market will be available at Montgomery’s Inn (southeast corner of Dundas and Islington) on Wednesdays from 3 to 7 pm until October.
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.
DOUBLE YOUR SUPPORT
Purchase a grocery card (IUC gets a percentage) and use it to buy food for the monthly Mabelle Food Program (see below). OR, make a financial donation, we'll buy the food, and you'll get a Tax Receipt. Discuss with John Wevers.
Shoppers!
Cards from popular retailers like The Gap, Old Navy, HMV, Toys R Us, and others make great gifts. Grocery cards are available for:
Loblaws Group stores (Fortinos, Loblaws, No Frills, Valu-Mart, Zehrs)
Longo’s
Metro Group stores (A&P, Food Basics, Metro)
Safeway
Sobey’s Group stores (Foodland, Price Choppers, Sobey’s)
And don’t forget to buy enough cards for your own food shopping, too. Three percent of the value of your purchase is returned to Islington to support our ministries and programs – at no cost to you!
Never ordered the cards before? Talk to John about how they can provide an easy way for you to shop for essentials, groceries or gifts and support your church at the same time – at no cost to you!
Place your order with John Wevers at coffee hour or contact him at 416.767.3691 or
.
Thank you! Your purchases of shopping and gift cards have raised over $1,300 for Islington’s ministries and programs so far this fiscal year (since July 1, 2009).
Follow this link for more information and a sampling of retailers in this program.
Church Parking
information
and maps to alternate parking areas
Videos
Selected Worship services are
now available on-line in video format.
Follow
this link to view the videos.
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.
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
Islington United is now on facebook
Vacation Bible Camp
Teaming with the Spirit
Register Now!
August 16 – 20
9:00 am to 12:00 noon
Children ages 5 – 12 $10 per child
Explore stories of the Bible while participating in Olympic activities
that will get you teaming and teeming with the Spirit!
Games – Stories
Drama – Music
Crafts – Outdoor activities
Daily snacks provided
and more!
Islington United Church Church
25 Burnhamthorpe Road
www.islingtonunited.org
For information or to register, please contact
Melanie Kirk at 416.239.1131 ext 25
or email
More Than a Rummage Sale!
Mission and Service. Community outreach. Housecleaning. Shopping. How do these connect? Again this year Islington United Church will host a giant “rummage sale” in support of our repayment of our M&S commitment. Our goal is $10,000.
Friday, October 22 5−8
Saturday, October 23 9−1
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Islington United Church
Invites you to
A Women's Day Retreat
A Journey in Spirit
Trident Banquet Hall and Conference Centre
145 Evans Avenue, Etobicoke
October 30, 2010
9:00am to 3:00pm
Tickets $40.00 (includes breakfast and liunch)
Registration & Breakfast - 8:30am
Guest Speaker - Sue Kenney
Pilgrim, Speaker, Author
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
