Stone Outreach
Harvest Table – Stone UC Foodgrains Bank Project appreciates your continued support of our Harvest Table – sharing plants and fresh produce. Please take as you need and give as you are able ... exchanges are fine too!
From Rockwood Outreach
Pre-Thanksgiving Food Drive for EWCS Food Bank
Recently there has been a large increase in local families experiencing food insecurity, so at present there are 89 clients receiving help from EWCS food bank on a regular basis of whom 46 are children. This also includes a small number of adults who are currently homeless.
Although we have remained in close contact with the food bank over the summer and have recently donated $475 worth of food for their freezer from our fundraising earlier this year, their supply pantry of non-perishable food is quite bare.
To help them out until Thanksgiving when more churches, schools, etc. will be holding food drives, we are planning food drive starting this Sunday, September 8 until Sunday September 22.
Most needed items are:
Children’s snacks, pasta sauce (no dried pasta needed), peanut butter, canned soups, canned pasta, condiments like ketchup, mustard, relish and mayo, shampoo and conditioner. Always needed is milk, cheese and eggs which can be left in the fridge at either church.
How to Donate
Items can be dropped off at either church on Sundays, or at anytime left in the box on the front porch at 250 Mackenzie St Rockwood.
For people who prefer to make a financial donation this can be done by cash, cheque payable to Rockwood United Church with “Outreach” on the memo line or by e-transfer in the usual way, or grocery store gift cards. The food bank coordinator prefers us to purchase food as we shop for bargains and we are happy to do that.
If you have any questions please contact Marcia at 519 856 4968 or cmhawort@sentex.net or Kay at 519 853 2539 or kmathies@hotmail.com
This Week in Our Churches
Sunday, September 15 at 10 am join us for Worship at Stone or on Zoom. Zoom will open for conversation at 9:45 am.
After worship plan to stay for a soup lunch hosted by the Leffler family as Rev. Heather Leffler returns from her sabbatical.
Wednesday, September 18 at 7:30 pm join the Genesis Book Club at Stone or on Zoom for a discussion on The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black.
Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, his surrogate father lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke’s long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and isolated.
With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to know better than to let his curiosity get the best of him. Yet when an almost forgotten acquaintance comes to him about his beautiful young wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke’s “old itch to cut into the quick of things, to delve into the dark of what was hidden” is roused again. As he begins to probe further into the shadowy circumstances of Deirdre Hunt’s death, he discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those he loves.
Thursday, September 19 at 7 pm join us at Stone or Rockwood for Choir Practice. No experience necessary. The start of a new season is a great time to give choir a try!
Coming Up
Sunday, September 22 join Rev. Heather Leffler for Worship at Stone at 9:45 am. At Rockwood at 11:15 am.
Zoom will open for conversation before worship at Stone at 9:30 am and remain open until after Rockwood’s service.
Wednesday, September 25 enjoy a delicious meal from Stone’s Take-Out Dinner. Price will be $20.00 per person. We will serve turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, carrots and cinnamon apple coffee cake for dessert. Please contact Edie Ward at (519) 856-4765) or by e-mail to edieward45@gmail.com by September 20 to place your order(s). Payment by e-transfer to stoneuc.treasurer@gmail.com or by cheque or cash on delivery.
Thursday, September 26 at 10:30 am join the Men’s Coffee Group at The Breaded Barista for coffee and conversation.
Thursday, September 26 at 7 pm join us at Stone or Rockwood for Choir Practice.
Saturday, September 28 from 8 to 11 am plan to attend the Country Breakfast at Rockwood United. Bring your family, friends and neighbours for a delicious breakfast and lively conversation. Breakfast is $10 per person for scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, potato casserole, toast, juice, coffee or tea.
Church Booking: If you are interested in booking a room in one of the churches for a meeting or event, please contact Jack and Edie Ward jfward44@gmail.com at Stone and Sherol Steinberg sherol.steins@gmail.com at Rockwood.
Offering Praise – If you have a song, dance, art, poetry, pictures of your baking, needle work, woodworking or other creative expression for Offering Praise in worship, please contact Lisa Leffler at rockwoodstoneuc@gmail.com .
Updated Contact Information – If your contact information has changed, please email Karen Richardson krichard@uoguelph.ca for Stone or Lisa Leffler at rockwoodstoneuc@gmail.com for Rockwood. If you need a copy of the directory contact Karen or Lisa.
How can I continue to support our churches?
PAR: To sign up for monthly Pre-Authorized Remittances or to change your givings,
for Stone contact Bill Allen at stoneuc.treasurer@gmail.com or 519‑841-4170 or
for Rockwood contact Amanda Hunter-Anthony at rockwooduc.treasurer@gmail.com or 519‑856‑1129.
E-transfer to Stone at stoneuc.treasurer@gmail.com or
Rockwood at rockwooduc.treasurer@gmail.com.
In the memo, please designate whether your offering is for your church, M&S and/or Other and include your contact information.
Cheques can be sent to
Stone United Church, PO Box 57 Rockwood, ON N0B 2K0 or
Rockwood United Church, 119 Harris St., Rockwood, ON N0B 2K0.
Canada Helps is a Canadian registered charity that enables other charities to receive credit card donations.
Go to Stone https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/80455 Rockwood https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/48574
You can designate your offering in the message box.
Emails for the Pastoral Charge Treasurer can be sent to Bill Allen at rockwoodstoneuc.treasurer@gmail.com
