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Notices for the Week of September Oct 6th – 13th  

Confirmation Programme – We are soon starting our confirmation programme that will see confirmation take place around Easter.  Anyone who is interested should speak with our rector, Steve very soon.  

*Thanksgiving Sunday is next Sunday, October 13th.  We will give thanks to God for all the blessings of life and community, protection and challenges.  

The ACW Annual Dorcas Shower will take place at our meeting on Oct 16th. to receive layette items for The Bales (sent to Northern Parishes in BC & the Yukon) and other community organizations. Suggested items include: sleepers (6 – 24 months, blue, pink & yellow/green), onesies, hooded towels, receiving blankets, t-shirts and long pants). We appreciate your wonderful support.  If you are unable to shop, we will gladly accept financial donations.  For further details, please speak to Judy Nicholson or give her a call at 604-594-8562.  

World Food Day is October 16th  For the next two Sundays (Oct 6 and Oct 13) there will be a focus on World Food Day and the work of PWRDF to help alleviate hunger in the midst of food crisis.  These means that our worship services will have aspects of prayer and liturgy, hymns and conversations to help us all understand what we might do to help others here at home and far away.  Here is an excerpt for PWRDF’s brochure: World Food Day theme: “achieving food security in times of crisis”  This year, World Food Day, comes with a sobering statistic: for the first time, the number of people going to bed hungry has crossed the one billion mark. Even accounting for population growth, the proportion of poor in the world is higher than it has ever been, up from about 850 million just two years ago.  Because of the recent global recession, food prices continue to rise, making it even more difficult for the world’s poor to be properly nourished, explains Naba Gurung, Humanitarian Response coordinator for The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF).
Here are just two Small Part things we do on a regular basis to help feed people where we are but will have a stronger focus now.  
Food Bank and Surrey Urban Mission – October 16th is World Food Day and each year at this time we try to emphasize the fact that there are many who go hungry right here close to home.  Suffering from hunger goes on in many places around the world. Please remember both the Surrey Food Bank and the Surrey Urban Mission as we move into a new season of gathering and sharing.   
For the Surrey Food Bank – you are welcome to bring non-perishable, long-dated, food items to the church which we will ensure gets to the food bank or, and perhaps even better, cash donations may be made directly to the food bank.  Cash donations bring a buying power can make their dollars go further than any of us can.  There are a few people of St. Helen’s who make a monthly cash donation.  
For the Surrey Urban Mission, there are always opportunities to help in voluntary ways.  Do be in touch with them to find out more.  Their phone number is 604-581-5172 and their website is www.sumsplace.com  All of us can made a difference and that means that you too can make a difference by being a blessing to others. You will certainly be blessed yourself.  

Saints Days and Holy Days October 10 - Paulinus, First Bishop of York, Missionary, 644 Com

Readings for Next Sunday, October 13th  – Thanksgiving Sunday
Deuteronomy 26 :1-11;
Psalm 100;
Philippians 4 :4-9;
John 6:25-35