Sunday School opens this Sunday - please register your children at the table in the Narthex. Please be sure to fill in the form, no matter the frequency your child will attend. Rudo Mgodi, our new Sunday School coordinator, will be here at the church to answer all of your questions.

Teaching in our Sunday School is a very rewarding experience. It gives you the wonderful opportunity of discovering what a terrific group of kids we have in our church. We're pleased that some of you have reached out with interest in teaching/helping the Sunday School and recognize that you have questions about the level of commitment involved. Hopefully, this will provide you with some answers.

As Terry told us last Sunday, Safe Church requires that two adults be present in each class: one Teacher and an Assistant.

Teaching – Our new Sunday School co-ordinator, Rudo Mgodi, will email the curriculum weekly to the teachers who are scheduled to teach that upcoming Sunday. The curriculum will include the theme, guidance for Storytime, an activity or craft suggestions, etc.  

Assistant – The Assistant’s main role is to be present in the class as a helper for the kids and teacher. No advance prep-work is necessary. The Assistant would help with the crafts and encourage the children to engage with the curriculum. If the child requires assistance with visiting the facilities, or wants to return to mom or dad, the Assistant will escort them safely there.  

We would like to ideally have 4 Teachers and 4 Assistants on a rotation, so that everyone would be responsible for only one Sunday per month. The classes run for about 30 to 45 minutes in length. We have a well stocked cupboard of supplies for all sorts of crafts.

The only additional commitment to the regular Sunday teaching times is the Christmas Pageant (December) and the Sunday School Wind-Up Party (end of May). The teachers plan and work together to facilitate these two events. There are no classes during the summer.

If you are interested and/or have more questions, please speak with the office, Sr. Ingrid, or with Rudo Mgodi after the 10 AM service (or email her at rudodmgodi@gmail.com).

The Ladies Guild will be serving their homemade soup after church during coffee hour this Sunday.  Donations are requested.  

If anyone would like to help with serving and cleaning up, please let Mary know.

Every now and again, our prayer and hymn books need some TLC. 
Dayle Robertson will be organising a team who will get together for a few hours to repair our worship books.

Done this before? Have a few hours to lend a hand?
Please speak to Dayle or the office admin@colwoodanglican.ca to volunteer.

Date and time to be set at the convenience of the group.

We are thrilled to welcome back Broke and Blue - pianist Kathryn Le Gros and flutist Diane Berry for our next Jazz Vespers service!

This is NOT TO BE MISSED!

Broke and Blue came together when Kathryn and Diane first discovered their mutual love of the music of French jazz pianist, Claude Bolling (1930-2020).  With two suites for flute and jazz piano, as well as a number of other pieces, there is a rich choice available.  Bolling’s fusion of classical and jazz elements in his work is a wonderful vehicle for these two classically trained, versatile musicians. Both are experienced performers, connected to a number of ensembles in and around Victoria, embracing a number of different genres and styles.   

In the years since forming Broke and Blue, they have performed at Hermann’s Jazz Club, for jazz vespers in a number of local churches, created videos for Vancouver Symphony’s Day of Music, performed Unsworth Winery, corporate functions, and live-streamed a concert for Augmented Trio Promotions.

Sunday 21st September at 7 PM.

Suggested donation at the door: $20.

Our much-anticipated annual book sale is fast approaching (October 4^th) and we’re now inviting volunteers to sign up for Book Sale Prep Week, starting Monday, September 29^th and extending to the dates of the pre-sale and day of sale (including clean-up after the sale). Sign-up sheets are in the Narthex. We appreciate all the help and support you can give. Please see Jose if you have any questions.

Donations of used books are being accepted now and through the month of September.

Join us to celebrate Sr. Ingrid's 60th birthday with a Pot-Luck Party on Friday, October 10^th at 6:30 pm.
Theme: 1980s dress, dinner and dance.

Sign up in the Narthex - and request your favourite song!

The theme of this year’s Season of Creation is “Peace in Creation.” This week’s Top Shelf focuses on issues of peace and justice, since only when these prevail will the Earth have a chance to recover.

I Dream of Peace: Images of War by Children of Former Yugoslavia.

   Written accounts and paintings of the Bosnian war by the children who experienced it.

Mary Robinson, Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future. 
   A description of what climate justice is, and stories of grassroots action around the world, by the former President of Ireland, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Stephen Lewis. Race Against Time.
   The 2005 Massey Lectures, which discuss the world’s failure, even then, to meet the targets of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, were delivered and written by the founder of the Stephen Lewis Foundation and former Canadian Ambassador to the U.N. and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF.

Karen Armstrong, Sacred Nature: Restoring our Ancient Bond with the Natural World.
    This generation’s foremost writer on comparative religion makes a case for renewing our perception of Nature as sacred, as a prerequisite for giving environmental damage the serious attention and action it needs. A bestseller and New Yorker Book of the Year.

Chad Myers, editor. Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice.

   A book of essays on Christian environmental theory and practice by younger writers. Rated 4.4 on Goodreads and 4.8 on Amazon.ca.

THE CHILDREN’S SECTION

On display on the small table in the narthex:

Peace Dancer, by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd.

   A beautifully-illustrated local storybook about the importance of treating all of Creation with respect.

To borrow any book, fill out a green loan slip from the small bookcase in the narthex, and put it in the pink box labelled “Library.” If you are returning a book, fill out a yellow return slip, put it in the Library box, and leave your book beside or under the box; please do not reshelve it. Thank you.

All are welcome to join us on Thursdays for our relaxed, lively and interesting Zoom online Bible Study, to discuss the readings for the upcoming Sunday. The readings are posted in this newsletter.

No experience or prior knowledge is needed.

Time: 6 PM - 7 PM.

Zoom Link:  

https://bc-anglican-ca.zoom.us/j/88378461340?pwd=cU9wSUNEZG02M3h3bGVrUmpyMjRNZz09

Meeting ID: 883 7846 1340
Passcode: 4743031

Readings for this Sunday's services:

NUMBERS 21:4b-9

PSALM 98:1-6

1 CORINTHIANS 1:18-24

JOHN 3:13-17

Read Sunday's readings online:
1. Go to https://lectionary.anglican.ca/  
2. Select next Sunday's date in the space at the bottom.
3. Click "Link to full text for this day".

Sept 14 Welcome Back Sunday

Sept 15-17 Provincial School for Congregational Development

Sept 16 Parish Council Mtg, 7 pm

Sept 21 Safe Church Training (after 10 AM service)  
              Jazz Vespers, 7 pm

Sept 23 Intersections Course Session 2 (Zoom)

Sept 24 Ladies Guild Lunch, 12 pm

Sept 27 Spanish Service & potluck, 6 pm

Sept 28 Parish Welcome Coffee
              8:30 Breakfast
             Truth & Reconciliation Service, 7 PM

Sept 29 Book Sale Prep Week starts

Oct 3 Book Pre-Sale, 6-8 PM

Oct 4 BOOK SALE DAY, 9 AM - 3 PM
           Taize Service, 5 pm

Oct 5 Blessing of the Animals, 2 pm, church lawn

Oct 7 Intersections Course Session 3 (Zoom)

Oct 10 Sr Ingrid's 60th Birthday Celebration 6.30 (sign up in Narthex)

Oct 14 Intersections Course Session 4 (Zoom)

Oct 21 Intersections Course Session 5 (Zoom)

Oct 25 Order of the Diocese of B.C.
             Visit of Bishop Anna & confirmations -Spanish Service 6 pm

Oct 28 Intersections Course Session 6 (Zoom)

Nov 4 Intersections Course Session 7 (In Person, Gordon United Church)

September 7, 2025

To the good people of Christ Church Cathedral,

I write today with the happy news of The Rev. Anna Rossi’s appointment as Vicar of Christ Church Cathedral. Anna will be coming to us from Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and plans to begin her ministry here with us in mid-December. We were very pleased with the quality of candidates that applied for the position and were unanimous in our decision that Anna had the most to offer the Cathedral at this juncture. 

Anna’s extensive experience as a priest, liturgist, hymn writer and inter-faith advocate will be a blessing to the life and worship of the Cathedral here in Victoria.  I am very pleased that we have been able to attract a person with Anna’s experience and credentials to this position and know that with both a strong Dean and Vicar in place the Cathedral will continue to grow in strength and vitality.

Thank you to everyone who was involved in this search.

In gratitude for our shared life in Christ,

The Right Rev Anna Greenwood-Lee
bishop

We Together is our regular (once every other year) diocesan conference to remind us of the ways we are connected; we are stronger together. We are bound in countless ways, in our structures, in our prayers, and through the stories we tell. We are each other's concern, and we are each other's gift.

This year is God is not Elsewhere. The God of our scriptures and stories, the God of our traditions and rites, the God who whispers through music and poetry, is the God moving here and now. Not just in times and places long ago and far away, but within our places, our communities and our people. This year's We-Together will highlight the gifts of a selection of people from our diocese, as we reflect together on some of the ways that the God who is in our midst is stirring and calling us on our journey together. We will eat and laugh, we will learn and be challenged, and together we will be nourished for our journey. 

The conference will begin on Friday evening November 14th with an evening banquet at St Pauls in Nanaimo followed by an opening address. On Saturday we will gather at St. Pauls for a full day of workshops featuring our speakers John Thatamanil, Jonathan Thomas, Jenny Replogle, Christine Conkin, Gordon Smith, Brendon Neilson and Denise Doerksen.

The 2025 Investiture service will take place on Saturday, October 25, 2025, at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria. 

The purpose of the Order is to honour and give special recognition to members of the diocese (and in the case of honourary awards, those not part of the diocese) who have given outstanding service over a significant period of time in their baptismal ministry. 

Faith Tides is the online, faith-based publication of the Anglican Diocese of Islands and Inlets (BC). Through news stories, reflections and feature articles Faith Tides aims to showcase the work God is doing through our churches. It is a space where people of faith and doubt can walk alongside one another, share their stories and grow together.

Read the September 2025 issue of Faith Tides.

Sunday
 8:30 AM - Traditional Eucharist, Book of Common Prayer
(no choir) Chapel

10:00 AM - Contemporary Eucharist, Book of Alternative Services,
with choir 

First Saturday of the Month
5:00 PM - Taize service with singing  Chapel (except August and January)

Fourth Saturday of the Month
6 PM - Spanish Language Anglican Eucharist Service  

Office hours are Mondays  - Thursdays
from 9 am until noon.