PARISH PULSE

Parish Pulse – Thursday, June 26, 2025  

LEADERS FOR THIS COMING SUNDAY    

PowerPoint: Ekow Intsiful  

Greeters: Fatima Leitao  

Leader/Prayers: Shanti Jacobs 

Readers: Gregory Klym 

Band Leader: Stephen Mullin 

Info Desk: Fatima Leitao 

Audio: Andrew Jacob 

Video: Wentworth Brookes 

Refreshments: Roula Ajmo & Susi Cornett 

COMMUNION  

This Sunday will be communion. Communion Team: TBD 

READINGS THIS SUNDAY   

Romans 6:4-8; Psalm 87; John 21:15-19 

UPCOMING PREACHERS     

June 29, July 6 – Chris Barrigar 

FINANCIAL UPDATE 🙁  

Givings for the first five months of this year are $10,586 behind budget. This is a considerable amount! At our AGM we collectively approved a 9% increase in our budget, so we would be grateful if members could help us reverse this situation. Thanks very much! 

SAT JUNE 28 – “ACCOMPANYING THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING” 

This event is postponed until the Fall. 

SAT JULY 12 – ASTRONOMY EVENT 

Join us at the home of Joseph Vybihal for this event. Dr Yayaati Chachan will be with us to talk about his astronomical current research, and Joseph will give us a chance to look through his super-duper space telescope. Time TBA. For address, contact Joseph: jvybihal@hotmail.com. 

SUN JULY 20 – PARISH PICNIC 

Following the success of this event the last couple years, on this Sunday we will replace after-service refreshments with a parish picnic in the park behind St Laurent City Hall (a five-minute walk from CMP). Bring your own lunch (though hotdogs will also be provided), and bring activities if you wish (frisbee, whatever). Invite others if you wish, for this fun time of hanging out together on a sunny (hopefully!!) afternoon. 

SUMMER VIDEOS 

In September, Chris will release his writing on “Christian Ethics for a 21st Century Church,” especially in our context of the hyper-individualist values that underlie so much of Western culture today. Thinking Christianly about how to live in our society requires some deeper understanding of what this hyper-individualism looks like (especially through consumer choice and sexual choice), and how we got here historically. If you have not yet watched or listened to Chris’s six-part video series explaining all this, then this summer will be a good time to catch-up! (The six videos are 15-20 minutes each.) These will set the stage for Chris’s new writings this coming Fall. Then in the new year he will turn to themes associated with human sexuality. The videos are found at: https://stmarkstpeter.org/index.php/other-media/ 

CAN’T KEEP UP WITH YOUR KIDS’ CULTURE? 

Axis provides resources for Christian parents. It’s Culture Translator helps keep parents current on cultural trends in the lives of children and youth: 

https://axis.org/resource-category/culture-translator/ 

LAST SUNDAY’S WORSHIP SONGS  

June 22nd: 

Opening Hymn: # #384 Praise to the Lord The Almighty 

1. Remind Me Who I Am 

1. O Come To The Altar 

1. Lord, I Need You 

Closing Hymn: # Hymn 430 – The Summons 

RECENT SERMONS AVAILABLE ONLINE     

– June 22nd: Simplicity in Complexity – Rev. Trevor Potter. Click here. 

– June 15th – The Church as Holy – Rev. Chris Barrigar. Click here. 

– June 8: Christianity’s Contemplative and Social Justice Streams – Selene Lau. Click here. 

– June 1: One Church – Rev. Chris Barrigar. Click here. 

– May18: What’s Love Got to Do With It? – Jesse Zink. Click here. 

PRAYER REQUESTS & PRAYER CHAIN   

If you have a matter for which you would like others to be praying (petition or thanksgiving), please contact Christine Ball-Creighton (prayer@stmarkstpeter.org), and she will circulate it to members of the CMP prayer chain.