Please pray for:

• Rev. Freeman's ministry today

This coming week please pray for:

• Our church family
• Scott Marshall and Linda Bishop
• Taylor, Liam, Lynne and Terry Massier
• Becky, Ashton, and Ava Massier
• The St. Andrew's Missions Committee
• Corrine Geherls
• Ken Dunk
• Marg McColl
• Carol Ferguson
• Henry Lammers recovering in a rehabilitation facility
• The Friendship Supper
• the family of Amos [coworker of Samson Javed] who died of heart complications this past January in Pakistan
• pray also for Amos's wife Meena

Praise and Thanksgiving

• Happy Birthday to Jessica Robinson (17)
• Happy Birthday to Carolien Murch (21)
• Happy Birthday to Keith Hamer (22)
• Happy Anniversary to Gary and Laura Robinson (19)
• Thanks for a good response to the praise and worship evening last Saturday

Take a minute each day this week and pray for the St. Andrew's Missions Committee.
Please pray for the Missions Committee members:

• Carolien Murch
• Wanda Mintz
• Andy Milne
• Rob Fisher
• Sharon Ranney
• Cheryl Palmer
• Dave Magee
• Shelley Cooney

Pray for them as they assist the Session and congregation in declaring the glory of God among the nations and His marvelous deeds among the peoples. Pray for them also as they attempt to keep the Session and congregation informed about the Presbyterian Church in Canada, foreign missions, Canadian missions and special projects. Pray also about becoming a member of this committee. They are always looking for people to become involved in this area of our ministry.

If you received your tax receipt for 2011 last Sunday, there was a mistake in the date. The amount & tax year are correct but the date of issue should be January 2012 & unfortunately it says January 2011. The Canada Revenue Agency advises to change by hand & initial so if you could bring your receipt to Karin Cowan in the Church Office or see her following the service, she'll make the change for you. Sorry for the inconvenience!

T he sympathy of the St. Andrew's family is extended to Joan West & family on the death of her husband Jerry this past Sunday. Jerry was the brother of Carol Pollard & Jack West. A celebration of Jerry's life will take place this summer. Please keep these families in your prayers during this difficult time.

Please Note: There are still offering envelopes that have not yet been picked up at the back of the sanctuary.

St. Andrew's receives offerings either through regular offering envelopes or PAR (Pre Authorized Remittance). Regardless of your method of giving your tithes & offerings, please be assured we appreciate your continuous support.

We would like to highlight the PAR method of giving. We are very grateful for those of you who are already on this system. With PAR your offering is deducted from your bank account once a month on the 20th (a pre-authorized deduction just like your mortgage, insurance or household bills). PAR helps St. Andrew's cut down on expenses. The cost of 126 boxes of envelopes (our 2012 order) was over $500.00, a sizeable expense. We are required by law to keep offering envelopes for 3 years thus requiring storage space. PAR helps us to cut down on the expense of the envelopes as well as storage.

If you are already on PAR & wish to change the amount you are donating, it's very simple! A change form is filled out, signed & submitted to Karin Cowan in the Church Office.

If you would like to sign-up for PAR, we require a void cheque & a form filled out. We ask that you consider this method if you have not already done so and if you would like to make a change to your givings, please fill out the Changes/ Information Sheet.

The sign-up forms & information sheets are available at the back of the sanctuary & also at the side entrance. Please give this information to Karin Cowan or Bonnie Ramsay or drop the sheets off at the Church Office. Please contact us if you have any questions (705) 746-9612.

Take a minute each day this week and pray for for The Pakistan Bible Correspondence Institute (PBCI).

March 23, 2012 marks 55 years of ministry for PBCI in this troubled part of the world. They continue educating around 5,000 students who study the Word of God regularly through five PBCI Regional Centres: Rawalpindi, Karachi, Hyderabad, Faisalabad and Peshawar. A good number of Camps are run throughout the year as well. Pray for God's blessing on the PBCI leaders. Specifically pray for Samson Javed who has visited our congregation on many occasions over the years and is hoping to come again this year in April along with his wife and children who have been granted a Visa to travel. Pray for the safety of Christians in that part of the world.

St Andrew's Outing

Baseball Game and Shopping

If there is the interest we will order tickets and reserve a bus to go to a Blue Jay Game (June 16th against Philadelphia Phillies) and make a stop at Yorkdale Mall for those wishing to shop. We need to have a good indication of those interested because when tickets are reserved for the game a non-refundable deposit is now required.

The cost will be

• $68.00 for the game
• $50 for shopping
• meals extra.

Please let Karin or Karl know ASAP! Call (705) 746-9612

Only 12 seats left!

Avoid disappointment and book now!

Sunday, March 4th, 2012.

Are you responsible for a report?

All reports must be into the office no later than 10:00 a. m, on Friday, February 10th. Thanks!

Feel free to email them to Karin Cowan

The following are possible reports:

• Missions Committee
• Christian Nurture:
  • Worship/Music
  • Greeters/Ushers
  • Fellowship Events
  • Library
• Discipleship and Outreach Committees:
  • Small Group Ministries
  • Prayer Ministries
  • Electronic Ministries and Communications,
  • Young Families and Youth Ministries
    • Sunday School
    • Nursery
    • CIA
    • Kids Klub
    • TECh.
  • Friendship Suppers
  • Women's Ministries
    • Ladies Fellowship
    • Friendship Tea
    • GNO
  • Men's Ministries (SAM)
• Property
  • Custodial and Maintenance
  • Physical Facilities
  • Kitchens
  • Decorating.

The meeting will commence immediately following a light luncheon in the Fellowship Hall. The congregation are asked to bring sandwiches or squares/cookies for the lunch. The format of the luncheon will be the same as our summer lunches. We do encourage each and everyone of you to stay and participate in this meeting. The Annual Meeting gives us the opportunity to give thanks to God for His blessings in 2011 and to look ahead to what He has planned for us in 2012.

St. Andrew's receives offerings either through regular offering envelopes or PAR (Pre Authorized Remittance). Regardless of your method of giving your tithes and offerings, please be assured we appreciate your continuous support.

We would like to highlight the PAR method of giving. We are very grateful for those of you who are already on this system. With PAR your offering is deducted from your bank account once a month on the 20th (a pre-authorized deduction just like your mortgage, insurance or household bills). PAR helps St. Andrew's cut down on expenses. The cost of 126 boxes of envelopes (our 2012 order) was over $500.00, a sizeable expense. We are required by law to keep offering envelopes for 3 years thus requiring storage space. PAR helps us to cut down on the expense of the envelopes as well as storage.

We ask that you consider this method if you have not already done so.

• If you would like to sign-up for PAR, we require a void cheque and a form filled out.
• If you are already on PAR and wish to change the amount you are donating just complete the change form.

The sign-up forms and information sheets are available

• at the back of the sanctuary
• at the side entrance.

• Please give this information to Karin Cowan or Bonnie Ramsay or drop the sheets off at the Church Office. Please contact us if you have any questions (705) 746-9612.

Save your used stamps! We would be glad to have your used postage stamps, in any quantity from any country. Selling your used stamps helps us with the cost of mailing Bible stories to the children in Africa, India, etc. who ask for them. Just remember to leave 1/4" margin around the stamp. A box is provided at the back of the Sanctuary. Further information, contact Jean Milne @ (705) 746-5578 Thank you!

• Thurs. 09 2:00 pm Small Group (Library)
• Thurs. 09 4:00 pm Georgian Jumpers
• Thurs. 09 6:30 pm Kids Klub
• Thurs. 16 2:00 pm Small Group (Library)
• Thurs. 16 4:00 pm Georgian Jumpers
• Thurs.16 6:30 pm Kids Klub
• Fri. 17 1:00 pm Community Mental Health (gym)
• Fri. 17 TECh. (Teens Encountering Christ)
• Fri. 17 CIA (Christians in Action)
• Sat. 18 8:00 am Men's Prayer Group (Trinity Anglican)
• Sat. 18 10:00 am Prayer Shawl Group (Library)
• Sun. 19 10:30 am Worship - Rev. Larry Freeman - "Living by Faith Series - Isaac"
• Monday 20 12 PM Noon Hour Alcoholics Anonymous (Library)
• Monday 20 4 PM Georgian Jumpers
• Monday 20 7 PM Parry Sound Singers
• Tuesday 21 10 AM Ladies Bible Study (library)
• Tuesday 215:30 PM Friendship Supper
• Tuesday 21 7:30 PM Alcoholics Anonymous (library)
• Wednesday 22 4 PM Georgian Jumpers
• Wednesday 22 6:40 PM Missions Committee Meeting
• Thursday 23 2 PM Small Group (library)
• Thursday 23 4 PM Georgian Jumpers
• Thursday 23 6:30 PM Kids Klub
• Friday 24 1 PM Community Mental Health (gym)
• Friday 24 TEch. (Teens Encountering Christ) and C I A (Christians In Action)
• Saturday 25 8 AM Men's Prayer Group (St. Andrew's)
• Sunday 26 10:30 AM Worship Service  - "Living by Faith Series" Mr. Tim Massarany of the Christian radio station Life 100.3 in Barrie

"Living 'By Faith'" series

• February 19 - Rev. Larry Freeman
• February 26 - Mr. Ben Davy, Life 100.3
• March 4 - Rev. George Anderson (Communion and Annual Meeting)
• March 11  - Rev. Larry Freeman
• March 18  -Rev. Larry Freeman

On Sunday, October 2nd, at a congregational meeting the following people were appointed to comprise the Search Committee for St. Andrews. You can send individual messages simply by clicking on their name.

To send a message click on the appropriate link below:

• Send a message to the Interim Moderator, Rev. George Anderson
• Send a message to the committee executive
• Send a message to the entire committee
• Christine Anderson - Member at large
• Rob Fisher - Missions
• John Hake - Elder and Co-chair
• Lisa Jennings - Member at Large
• Doug MacDonald - Member at large
• Laura Moon - Young families and Co-chair
• Joan Moore - Elder
• Karl Murch - Youth
• John Peters - Elder
• Bonnie Ramsay - Elder and Secretary
• George Ryder - Seniors (NO e-mail)

• The Chair for this committee is John Hake (705) 389-2748.
• The Co-chair is Laura Moon
• The Secretary is Bonnnie Ramsay
• The next full meeting of the Search Committee will be Saturday, December 3 at 10:30 a.m.

If you missed the congregational meeting last week, we received an outline of the process and timing of a call. There are additional copies of this outline at the back of the sanctuary so please feel free to take one.

We ask that you continually keep this committee in your prayers as they begin the search for our next pastor.

In going over the inventory for our Library, we noticed there are a number of books out (for a long time) with the pink cards still in them! When people take books from the Library and do not leave the pink card behind it makes us very difficult to track things.

For example, we're missing the following titles:

• "The Preacher's Daughter" by Beverly Lewis
• "The Englisher" by Beverly Lewis
• "Glorious Appearing" by Tim LaHaye.

We would greatly appreciate it if you have any of these titles or others from our Church Library that you return them as soon as possible. Thanks for your cooperation.

St. Andrew’s participates in the PAR program (Pre Authorized Remittance). If you are interested in having your your weekly tithes and offerings set up through PAR, please contact Karin Cowan or Bonnie Ramsay or call the Church Office (746-9612). By signing up for this program, your offering would be deducted from your bank account once each month on the 20th.

There are openings for the media projector and sound board operators.

Training will be supplied so no experience is necessary!

Students are especially welcome and the ministry will count towards the 40-hour volunteer requirement. Interested parties should see Cam Murch on the Sound Board before or after the worship service or give him a call at (705) 746-2448.

• Have you changed your email address?
• Do we have your email address?
• Do we have your current residential address?

We strive to keep our mailing list up to date. If you are not on our email list, if you've changed your home address, or are new to St. Andrew's we would welcome your email, address and phone number for our records.

Feel free to fill out the back of the bulletin with any changes and placethe sheet on the offering plate or call Karin Cowan in the office @ 746-9612.

Thanks for helping us stay current!

Our Ushers and Greeters ministry is always looking for men, women and youth of all ages who would love to become part of an exciting team at St. Andrew’s. If you enjoy meeting people and would like the opportunity to help out on Sunday mornings, please contact Karin in the Church Office (746-9612). This is a great way to meet new people and extend a warm welcome to all those who come through our doors.

"Volunteers needed to play the piano for Sunday worship services at Belvedere Heights. Our residents love the old favourite hymns and the time commitment is 1/2 hour on a rotation or as needed basis. Please call Carol Marshall (705) 774-7320 if interested or for more information".

Keith Hamer will soon move into his apartment at “The Friends” on Forest Street,  He is in need of  some lamps - a floor lamp & or end table lamp.  If you have any lamps that are no longer in use & would like to help out with this request, please speak to Karin Cowan or call the Church Office at (705) 746-9612.   Thanks so much!