Barrie's downtown ministerial group -- Collier Street United Church, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Trinity Anglican Church and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church -- are joining together in worship to celebrate the Week of Christian Unity. St. Andrew's is overjoyed to host the special worship service on Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. Join us!
Beat the mid-February blahs with a bowl of home-made soup and bakery-fresh bread after church!
Join us at 5:30 p.m. for dinner - lasagne and salad. Along with fellowship, we will also serve up some creative fun - rock painting. Freewill offering to help cover costs.
As we begin the season of Lent, join in this candle-lit service of prayer, song, Scripture and silence.
In this first session of our Lenten study, we explore incredible love. Rather than focusing on Lent as a season of having to give something up, we consider it as a time to be intentional about preparing to receive joy and good things from God. One of the gifts of Easter is the *crown of […]
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In this second in our Lenten series, we contemplate the next gift of Easter: the nails. It wasn't the angry mob, the religious leaders, or the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus. It was Jesus himself who chose the nails. The nails in the cross show us the lengths to which God will go to cover […]
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As we continue our Lenten journey and explore the gifts of Easter, this week we consider the robe. In this third session of the series, we contemplate how in exchange for our garments of sin, Jesus gives us his robe of seamless perfection, a symbol of the righteousness that gives us access to God's presence. […]
Jacob Kearey-Moreland is a local farmer-educator in Orillia, who is passionate about regenerative food systems, growing community and sharing seeds. Jacob is completing his Masters of Education through Lakehead University and is researching garden-based learning and how to better support educators to sustain and scale gardening programs. Jacob’s article “The People’s Gardener” appeared in Now magazine Toronto.
Join us at 10 a.m. either in-person or online on our YouTube channel.
Often perceived as a symbol for capital punishment for those who broke the Roman law, the cross is a gift from God. It provides us with two kinds of sanctification: Positional sanctification is Christ's work for us. Progressive sanctification is Christ's work in us, making us more like Him. We can't be more saved than […]
