This Week at St. Paul's

Sunday Worship:

Gluten free wafers are available

Everyone Welcome!

Please, if you are not feeling well on Sunday morning, stay home; respect our social distancing efforts and; sanitize frequently.

Bulletin for January 4, 2026

ORDER of Service for January 4, 2026

This Week at St. Paul's

The Parish Office is closed on Thursday and Friday but for pastoral concerns John can be reached at 902-569-8931.

Jan 2, Friday

– 9:00 am – noon, Office open

Jan 3, Saturday

– No Parish Breakfast

Jan 4, Epiphany of the Lord

– 8:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist

– 10:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist (Live Streamed)

– Afterwards: Coffee, cookies and Chatting

– Kitchen rental

Jan 7, Wednesday

– Choir Rehearsal

Jan 9, Thursday

– Hall Rental

Jan 10, Saturday

– Kitchen Rental

Jan 11, The Baptism of the Lord

– 8:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist

– 10:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist (Live Streamed)

– Afterwards: Coffee, cookies and Chatting

– Kitchen rental

As the Parish Wardens reminds us:

There are challenges that we all face with the rising cost of living which affect the parish as well. Your generosity helps us meet our Vision and Mission as a parish. We continue to provide many ways for people to make offerings to the Parish, and will explore other ways.

“We appreciate the dedication that members of the parish have made with their financial contributions, as well as offering time and talent in various ways to enhance the life of the parish and our commitment to showing God’s call to love and justice.”

Links:

You can make offering to the Parish in a variety of ways:

Mail to our Parish office:

or drop off through the mail slot

St. Paul’s Anglican Church

101 Prince Street

Charlottetown, PE

C1A 4R5

Pre-Authorized Remittance

If you would like to set up or change PAR for your contributions, please contact Amanda at the Parish email: stpauls@pei.aibn.com.

On-line

E-transfers to our email address.
CanadaHelps website. We are a registered charity with them: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13025

Should you have any questions, please contact any of the following:

Rector:

Archdeacon John Clarke (jwgc@pei.aibn.com)

The Wardens:

Jennifer Fernandes jdarby@intl-transport.com

Doug Meek dmeek1103@gmail.com

Treasurer:

David McLeod davidernestmcleod@gmail.com

FundScrip is a great way to support St. Paul’s Church. FundScrip is offering free direct shipping on individual orders between $200 and $500, with a maximum of 4 cards. This option can be used for online orders and, of course, e-cards and reloadable cards are always available for retailers offering those options. It is important to remember that using FundScrip cards to purchase items you would be buying anyway means no added costs to you and a great benefit to St. Paul’s Church. If you have any questions, please contact Anne McLeod by phone (902-659-2287),

e-mail (dave.phc@pei.sympatico.ca),

or in person. https://www.fundscrip.com/support-a-group/FLPP76

Educational Resources

St. Paul’s Parish has the joy of administering funds for people who are interested in religious education. Please let us know and apply for funding to the Parish Office. If we don’t use the money we have to give it back.

Prayer for People we Know

We are called upon to prayer for one another and to pray for others. We make it a regular part of our Sunday morning prayers to include prayers for people we know who are ill. IT seems only human to do so and frankly, it simply doesn’t matter how long the list gets. It really doesn’t matter. However, there is an expectation that the list is current. So, we are going to start dropping names off the list – if you’d like to keep a name on you must let us know every month – if you want to add a name, you are welcome to. Please be in touch with John to add a name jwgc@pei.aibn.com

Money is a Spiritual Matter

There are challenges that we all face with the rising cost of living. Your generosity helps the Parish meet the costs of our Vision and Mission as a parish and it’s appreciated and makes a difference in people’s lives. We continue to provide many ways for people to make offerings to the Parish and will explore other ways.

Perhaps it seems odd or even wrong to say that money is a spiritual matter, but the Bible spends a great deal of time addressing matters of wealth and money and the effect these things have on our general well-being.

St. Paul’s Parish has benefited from wise investment and frugal budgeting. However, we can all see that the numbers of people making financial offerings to the church has diminished over the years. This is a situation facing religious groups all over the world. It is not unique to St. Paul’s. What is unique is that we have an opportunity to do something about it. The Executive Committee and the Parish Council have worked hard to develop a realistic budget for 2026. We are working with the Bishop and others in the diocese to develop a plan. We hope to soon begin wider conversations in the Parish to see how best to utilize our property assets so that we can continue to carry out our Vision to show the transforming love and justice of God.

In the face of so much misinformation about God and misuse of the Gospel our Vision and Mission is all the more important. A voice speaking out for all people, for love, forgiveness, mercy and justice needs to be heard in this world.

Please continue to participate in the discussions as we make a plan for the future of St. Paul’s and the fulfilling of our Vision.

The Bible mentions money or related topics

(wealth, debt, giving, etc.)

in around 2,300 verses.

Home Communion

Please be in touch with the Parish Office if you are unable to attend worship but would like to receive home communion. (902) 892-1691

Contributions for 2025

If you would like to make a financial contribution to St. Paul’s that you want attributed to the 2025 tax year, please do so before January 4.

The Bible Study

Will continue in the new year. Stay tuned!

Afterwards:

Coffee Time is improved with COOKIES

Thankfully, many people generously provide cookies or other snacks to go with the coffee, tea and juice. It helps the conversation along. However, occasionally, we haven’t got any cookies. So, we ask people to contribute on the first Sunday of the month: things that can be kept in the freezer and brought out at our Sunday social time.

Transitions & Celebrations

We have slides scrolling before the worship service and this is a good place to acknowledge the transitions we should acknowledge. If you like your celebration acknowledged, just send the relevant information to Amanda (stpauls@pei.aibn.com). An accompanying photo would be great too. Please note, we cannot show transitions without the consent of the individual(s) involved.

Outside the Offering Envelope

Our Time and Talent matter too!

There are all sorts of things that we often do for others that we don’t think of as an offerings to God. But they are offerings and they help to create a wide community of love and mercy.
Please remember to write something on the outside of an offering envelope something you’ve done in the past week or so, or something that you plan to do in the next week of so that is a reflection of our non-financial offering to God.
To help inspire one another we will (when appropriate) share these offerings on our social media platforms. Everything you do out of love is a reflection of God’s Holy Spirit in your life.

Volunteers! -

We are looking for anyone who feels that they have some time and talent as event volunteers. They would be responsible for opening and closing the church and being present during the event in case they need a hand. It’s an easy way to help out AND see free concerts! Contact Amanda at 902-892-1691

How do people start attending Church?

(source churchgrowth.org)

A friend’s invitation 86%
Organized Visitation 6%
Invited by pastor 6%
Advertising 2%

Basic Income Guarantee

(No postage required!)

A special committee on poverty in PEI made a series of recommendations for Basic Income Guarantee which would aid in the eradication of poverty in this province. Please contact the Prime Minister, the PEI MPs and Senators and encourage them to proceed with this proposal.

The Prime Minister:

The Right Hon. Mark Carney

Office of the Prime Minister,

80 Wellington St., Ottawa, ON

K1A 0A2

Island MPs:

Sean Casey
Heath MacDonald
Kent MacDonald
Robert J. Morrisey

House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6

Island Senators:

Percy Down
Brian Francis
Jane MacAdam
Mary Robinson

The Senate of Canada

Ottawa, Ontario

Canada K1A 0A4

Primate writes to leaders about Universal Basic Income

The following message was sent to The Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, and The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue.

December 3, 2025

The Right Honourable Mark Carney, P.C., M.P.

Prime Minister of Canada

Office of the Prime Minister

80 Wellington Street

Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2

The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, P.C., M.P.

Minister of Finance and National Revenue

90 Elgin Street

Ottawa, ON K1A 0G5

Dear Prime Minister Carney and Minister Champagne,

I write on behalf of the Anglican Church of Canada to urge your government to implement a

Universal Basic Income (UBI) in alignment with the living wage for all Canadians.

As you know, considerable research and advocacy have already been done on a UBI in Canada and

in other countries, and you are aware of its potential economic and social value. In recent years,

Ontario’s brief pilot project showed positive initial outcomes for participants, including

improvements to physical and mental health alongside the many financial benefits.

Like other major faith and secular traditions, we respect the dignity of every human being and

seek justice for all people. Across Canada, members of the Anglican Church live out this calling by

offering support and services to people struggling with a growing affordability crisis, including

escalating housing insecurity and unprecedented increases in food bank usage.

We believe a UBI would be a valuable initiative that would increase financial security and promote

greater equity for all residents of Canada. It represents a positive nation-building policy for today

and tomorrow and is consistent with the transformational agenda of your government. It has

found support across party lines and in communities across this country. I pray you will make the

implementation of a UBI a high priority.

I would welcome the opportunity to meet with you at your convenience to discuss this important

issue.

Yours faithfully,

The Most Rev. Shane Parker

Archbishop and Primate

Your Parish - Looking Forward

Finance: The Treasurer heads this committee, and the committee obviously deals with financial issues as they arise, not to mention budgeting and investments. A sustainability report was written last year and it will be given some fuller consideration this year.

Parish Life: This committee looks after everything else (Belonging, Children/Youth/Families, and Worship). We want to find out what families are looking for and expecting from the Parish. We will put an effort into developing programing for people in search of a spiritual dimension for their lives. We will look at succession planning: making sure we have people in place to do everything, from live streaming to presiding (CAPP).

Outreach & Social Justice: The focus has been addressing the core issues that lead to poverty. A motion was carried at April’s meeting of Parish Council: “the Parish Council supports the efforts of the Outreach and Social Justice Committee and by extension the Parish to encourage government leaders and others to implement the Basic Income Guarantee policy.”

Property: Our facility (church, hall, rectory) is very old, so unplanned things naturally cropped up. It would be good for this committee to meet and evaluate the situation and make a multiyear plan for maintenance, repair and improvements. This kind of planning makes it much easier to budget.

If you are interested, you are welcome to join a committee. Please contact the Parish Office.

Community Events & Notice Board

Meals on Wheels

Charlottetown Meals on Wheels is looking for drivers to deliver meals in Charlottetown or Stratford area at noon one day a week or one day every 2nd week. If you are interested email executivedirector@vrcpei.org or phone 902-569-3802 or 902-368-7337. Thank you.

Volunteers Needed. The PEI Friendly Visitor Program matches mature (50+) adult volunteers with seniors in their community for brief weekly social visits. Only an hour of your time can make a huge difference in a senior’s life. For additional information, contact Rachael at 902-368-9008 or email peifvp@gmail.com. This program is administered by the PEI Senior Citizens’ Federation.

Parish Office

Hours

Tuesday - Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

appointments can be made by calling:

902-892-1691
or email: stpauls@pei.aibn.com

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE

Don't Miss Out!

If you’ve moved, or dropped your land-line, or have a new email address, PLEASE let you Church know! Call or email the parish office and update your contact information.

Wooden Box Collection

For January we are collecting "cans of flaked meat or fish" for the Food Bank. Thank you all so much for your continued generosity!

A percentage of cards you buy can be earned by St. Paul’s Church. If you are buying gas or groceries or going to a drugstore, hardware store, bookstore, the movies, a restaurant, retail chains.

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