-Church News- Sunday, Sept. 20th – 11:00 am – service will be held at McDowell United Church, Western Bay. Sunday, Sept. 20th – 7:00 pm – service will be held at Ocean View United, Broad Cove. Tuesday, Sept. 15th – 7:30 pm – the McDowell U.C.W. will hold their regular meeting. The Trustee Board of Ocean View United Church gratefully acknowledges a donation in loving memory of dear friends, Jack & Annie Slade from Murley & Shirley Bursey. The Ocean View United Church Trustee Board has a Special Fund set up to receive donations to tile the Church basement floor. Donations may also be made to this fund in honour of or in memory of. Please forward your donation to Mr. Eric Slade, Treasurer of the Ocean View United Church Trustee Board. Please indicate on the envelope “Tile the Floor Project” and if your donation is in honour of or in memory of. The McDowell United Church Trustee Board has a Special Fund set up to receive donations to replace the Church windows. Donations may also be made to this fund in honour of or in memory of. Please forward your donation to Mr. Berkley Sellars, Treasurer of the McDowell United Church Trustee Board. Please indicate on the envelope “Window Fund Project” and if your donation is in honour of or in memory of. The windows in the Church will cost approximately $1,000.00 each to purchase and install. We are continuing to raise money and look for your support to get these in place soon. For information concerning our Food Bank you may contact: Bonnie Crummey 598-2803 Sophie White 598-2595 Rev. Cole 598-2943. Please forward items for Church News to Darryl Butt by Thursday of each week. September 13, 2009A Penny Shared (for a young reader)The children at Ralph Connor United Church in Canmore, Alberta, are M&S Enthusiasts! It started when their leaders decided to teach the children about the United Church and about the Mission and Service Fund. They read M&S for Kids, Volumes 1 and 2. Each week they shared a Minute for Mission. They learned that M&S helps people all over the world. The children at Canmore learned that kids can make a difference and also wanted to help M&S help others. “Let’s have a penny drive in December!” they decided, “to raise money and teach people about M&S.” They decorated empty coffee cans with rainbow-coloured construction paper in the colours of the M&S logo. They liked the idea that cans would make a lot of noise when those coins dropped in. The last week in November they read a Minute for Mission in worship and told everyone about the penny drive. Together they read the “The M&S Hat” poem.* Every week until the end of December they collected coins for M&S and made a huge chart to show everyone how much they were collecting. It was very exciting on a special Sunday in January, which they called “Rolling in the New Year.” That’s the day everyone helped roll up the coins, some by hand and some with a machine. There were so many coins that they had to get help from the adults after church. Then they celebrated their special Sunday with Sunday school ice cream sundaes! Guess what? At the end of the penny drive, the children had collected $639.39 for M&S! They learned about sharing and helping others. They learned that kids can make a difference. And—best of all—they had fun! © 2008 The United Church of Canada/L’Église Unie du Canada. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca. Any copy must include this notice.
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