Current Announcements

Pastor Cooper is scheduled to speak at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital, Bracebridge, during their chapel time for long-term residents. Healthy visitors are also welcomed.

Communion will be celebrated at the close of the morning service.

Mrs. Jeanne Tucker, who was a VISA missionary 8 years ago with her husband, Rev. Craig Tucker, plans to share with us what her experience was like this spring when she returned to Malawi for the first time in 8 years. (When she left the last time, it was to come home to bury her husband, who had died suddenly from cerebal malaria.) We are also planning a Pot Luck Lunch after the service.

There will be a church service held in the old Free Methodist Church at Cooper's Falls. This is to help raise funds for the upkeep of the cemetery.

This is the first Sunday of the 2008 Family Camp. Bishop Keith Elford will be speaking, so there will not be any Sunday School or church service here. Camp starts at 7:00p.m., July 18 and ends July 27 with a 2:30p.m. service. We encourage all who can to attend this year's camp. There are events for children through adults, from early morning prayer time and Bible studies to games and other events in the afternoons. Meals are available on the grounds, as well as camping areas. Please call 705-458-4541 to reserve a site, for other information, or to inquire about the custodain position. (The camp custodian position is a paid position plus living quarters.)

Donations Appreciated

Free Methodist International Childcare Ministries:

Our denomination sponsors needy children in almost all of the 77 countries where we have a mission established. If you are having a difficult time getting a gift for someone who "has everything," why not sponsor a child, or give a donation towards literacy in India, the food programs in Burundi or Haiti, or helping the Philippine street children of Davao, Philippines? These funds help someone who would otherwise have a very much more difficult life. Please contact iccm@fmc-canada.org or www.childcareministries.net for more information.

Sanctuary Carpet Fund

Our current wall-to-wall carpet is 30 years old, and needs replacing. Funds have started coming in. If you would like to help us with this, please write "Ryde Centennial FM Church" on the "pay to" line, and "carpet fund" on the memo line of your cheque. A carpet committee has offered 4 selections to the Trustees to choose from. Actual installation won't happen until August as we'll need to move the pews and other furniture out of the sanctuary. "Guestimated" cost will be around $5000 - $7000, hopefully a bit less. Thank you for helping us with this project.

Aluminum Can Pull Tabs

Please save your aluminum can pull tabs for Mrs. Bert Parke.  She gives them to a company who melts them down and makes them into wheelchairs.

If you have empty aluminum cans, please empty, bag and give to Mrs. Gary Donaldson. She will see that the Habitat for Humanity gets them. These will be used to get funding for their housing builds.

Christian Salvage Mission

If you have good, gently used, Christian literature (hymnals, magazines, Sunday school papers, books, Bibles, etc.), please give them to Mrs. Carl Break.  She will pass them on to someone else for use in other organizations.

Other:

A couple of people have expressed interest in donating stained glass windows in memory of someone or a family.  The Official Board and this Society have decided on the following guidelines:

(a) all such windows are to go in the triangle-shaped tops of the current windows, on the inside of the glass now there (there are 10 such areas)

(b) design and colours must reflect the purpose of the building

(c) a coloured drawing must be submitted to the Official Board for approval before work is done, and

(d) these windows must be installed in such a way to continue the symmetry of the building's decor.

(Note:  Our first stained glass window has been installed, and it is beautiful.)