Our Matinee and Munchies session focuses on the opportunities for new adventures despite loss, endings and grief. Join retired psychotherapist and grief counsellor Mary Helen Garvin and our minister, Rev. Joanne Lee, for a movie, desert and discussion.
Community support helps us share the warmth with our Little Winter Warmers Tree.
Little Winter Warmers Tree warms up people in damp, dark days downtown Barrie.
The big day in our culture is over: Christmas Day, the day for family, presents and a feast. Talk has already turned to shopping and getting bargains and storing up more to add to our comforts in these cold, dark days. But in God’s world, our journey is just beginning. We have celebrated the miracle […]
Today is the shortest day, the longest night. It has felt like a long slow decline into darkness. Even the days seemed darker and drearier. They are colder. Life feels that much more severe. The headlines and events in our world too remind us that love and kindness can sometimes be challenging to find, while […]
Today is St. Andrew’s Day. St. Andrew was one of the first two disciples Jesus called to help Him. And although we don’t generally celebrate “feasts of the saints”, we can reflect on the ministry of Andrew and our history as a community of God’s people in Barrie. Andrew was a fisherman and he followed […]
Nothing can be so discouraging as reading the headlines: inflation, a lack of housing that’s affordable, cutbacks at the grocery store and rising costs all around us. Add that to the ever-darkening days and it can be quite challenging to remain a person of hope, someone who helps bring God’s love and light into a […]
It only takes a spark to get a fire going. That’s the opening line of a song that inspires us to share God’s love. And two people who inspire and encourage us on our journey of sharing hope and love are our own minister, Rev. Joanne Lee, and the Presbyterian Church in Canada’s Malawi liaison, […]
For 39 years, the Presbyterian Church in Canada has been offering a helpful hand of love in Malawi. One of the church’s 73 people who have spent time in Malawi carrying out the commandment to love others is Mary Helen Garvin, a member of St. Andrew’s Barrie’s Women’s Missionary Society. She recalls one vivid memory […]
Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada. The skies are a bright blue, the trees robed in glorious colours and the prospect of sharing dinner with those we care about whets our appetite. In French, Thanksgiving is Le Jour d’action de grace. This is perhaps a more accurate description of what the day is, or should […]