Please join us for a service of Evening Prayer held live on Zoom on Sundays at 4pm. Our hope is that these short Evening Prayer services will offer us an opportunty to pray together in real time with members of our parish who are worshipping from home, and also help us better connect with each other and enjoy fellowship. We hope you will join us! You can download the order of service for Evening Prayer here. 

To connect to Zoom Evening Prayer please click the blue "Click to Pray" button below on Sunday afternoons from 3:50pm onwards. You will be prompted to join the Zoom call. You can also join our Evening Prayer services via telephone by using the following dial-in information (and if you dial 10-10-710 before one of these numbers, it only costs one dollar for the long distance charge for one hour): 

+1 647 374 4685 Canada
+1 647 558 0588 Canada
+1 438 809 7799 Canada

Meeting ID: 851 5211 7776
Passcode: 559086

We are saddened this week to share news of the passing of Mike Sibley, former Rector's Warden of Holy Trinity Pembroke and Lay Member of Diocesan Synod. Mike was a well known and beloved member of our Valley Anglican community for many years and will be dearly missed by all who knew him. Due to COVID-19 a private funeral service with a limited number of guests is being organized at Holy Trinity Pembroke. Serving and retired military members attending the funeral are invited to please wear your medals. Rev. Matthew will preside at the service and the Venerable Rob Davis will preach. A video of the liturgy will be made available after the service so that everyone might have a chance to celebrate Mike's ministry and say goodbye. We ask you to please keep Mike's wife Lorna, one of our parish's Lay Readers in Training, in your thoughts and prayers.

One of the ministries that Mike Sibley proudly gave leadership to at Holy Trinity Pembroke was regular support for local foodbanks. The Parish of the Valley will be holding our next Food Bank Sunday on Sunday, November 22nd as we celebrate the Reign of Christ. Please bring gifts of non-perishable food items as well as cash donations with you to worship on that day. These will be donated by our parish to support the work of food banks in each of our local communities. You can learn more about our parish's commitment to supporting food security throughout the valley by clicking on the blue button below.

The story of Private Archie Roy Graham, who was killed in action in France near the end of the First World War and who is memorialized at St. George's South Alice, was featured this week in the Remembrance Day service for Algonquin College's Pembroke Waterfront Campus. Our sincere thanks to Jamie Bramburger, Manager of Student and Community Affairs at Algonquin, for sharing this important part of our parish's history with members of our wider community, and especially with students at Algonquin College. Private Graham's story was also featured this week in the Pembroke Observer & News. You can watch a video of the Remembrance Day service from Algonquin College's Pembroke Waterfront Campus by clicking below.

Having just marked Remembrance Day we are all mindful of the innumerable sacrifices made for us by members of the Canadian Armed Forces and their loved ones. Captain the Reverend Michel Gagné, one of our parish's former Assistant Curates, recently brought to our attention a program being offered in collaboration with the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service. The HOPE program offers online workshops for military families, past and present, who are coping with grief and loss. The next worshop is on Thursday, December 10th at 7pm via Zoom and will focus on "Coping with the Holidays." For more information or to register please call 1-800-883-6094 or email HOPE-ESPOIR@forces.gc.ca. The registration deadline is November 26th.

Congratulations to the Church of the Epiphany in Barry's Bay on the repainting of the church's main doors. The new look entrance was recently profiled in The Valley Gazette. The headline read "A Splash of colour for Dunn Street." Well done and thank you to everyone involved! 

It's never too early to start planning for Christmas! This year St. George's South Alice is pleased to offer Christmas Goodie Trays filled with cookies, squares, chocolate treats and all kinds of wonderful deliciousness! You can order a goodie tray by calling 613-732-7101 or 613-735-4295 before December 1st. Trays will be available for contact free pick up at St. George's on Friday December 11th (6pm to 7:30pm) or Saturday December 12th (11am to 1:30pm). Limited supplies are available so please order your tray early. A very Merry "Christmas in the Valley" to all from everyone at St. George's!

Thank you to everyone from across the parish for your wonderful support of the Holy Trinity Pembroke Virtual Holly Bazaar. Since launching last week the virtual bazaar has raised close to $1,800 thanks to your many purchases and generous donations. Our heartfelt thanks go out to Doris Collins and the Holly Bazaar Committee for leading this wonderful holiday ministry! Contact free deliveries of purchases will be made during the week of November 23, 2020.

Services from Holy Trinity Pembroke are now being broadcast on Sunday mornings at 10am on YourTV Ottawa Valley (Cogeco Cable Channel 12; Cogeco HD Cable Channel 700). YourTV is a service exclusively available to Cogeco customers and broadcasts along the Highway 17 corridor between Arprior and Deep River.

Holy Trinity worship services will be broadcast on YourTV with a one week delay. We will also be continuing to post video recordings of sermons and special services from across our parish on our Parish of the Valley YouTube channel as upload speeds allow. Please click on the blue button below to see our full catalogue of past services and sermon recordings, and help us spread the word that worship from the Parish of the Valley is now available on cable TV!

A reminder to all churchwardens across the parish of our next meeting via Zoom: Thursday November 26th from 7pm to 9pm. A draft agenda from Bishop Michael is available below. The Zoom link and telephone log-in details will be sent out via separate email once we get closer to the date. The purpose of the meeting will be to check-in with each other about how things are going during COVID-19 Amber, and also to receive feedback and advice on two initiatives the clergy team would like to propose as we look to 2021. Those who are unable to attend are asked to please send regrets to Bishop Michael via email. 

Join us via Zoom each Friday morning at 10am for a virtual Bible Study for our parish.  Each week we'll explore the coming Sunday's readings together and share in fellowship and conversation. All are welcome! If you need any further information please call Canon Susan at 613-732-0313 or email: eganvilleparish@gmail.com

To join the Zoom meeting click "Come to Bible Study" below.

To join the Zoom meeting by telephone, call one of the telephone numbers below and be prepared to punch in the Meeting ID number and the Passcode when prompted.

Meeting ID: 863 6933 3800
Passcode: 381963

Dial by your location
+1 647 374 4685 Canada
+1 647 558 0588 Canada
+1 438 809 7799 Canada
If you dial 10-10-710 before one of these numbers, it only costs a dollar for the long distance charge for 1 hour.

The next issue of our parish newsletter, Revelations, will publish on Sunday December 13th. Have a "Good News" story, update or message to share like the ones above? Please send submissions to Jean Ostrom, Editor, at Ostrom@nrtco.net by Friday December 4th. Our thanks to Jean, Naomi de Repentigny and Alexis Anderson for their faithful ministry as our editorial team. You can read the fall issue of Revelations by clicking the button below. 

Please continue to register your seat in advance prior to worshiping in-person at Holy Trinity Pembroke. Pre-registration is a big help in speeding up the COVID-19 check-in procedures at the door, and also helps us to ensure that there are always enough seats for everyone who wishes to attend. Any member of the Parish of the Valley wishing to worship at Holy Trinity can register online by clicking on the blue button below; registration is now open for services through to the middle of December. You can also register by telephoning the Holy Trinity church office before Thursdays at noon: 613-732-4658.

During COVID-19 the vast majority of our church expenses continue. All members of the Parish of the Valley are encouraged to make regular offerings to their home churches by mail, online or through pre-authorized remittances to support our parish's ministries. Members of Holy Trinity Pembroke, St. John's Eganville, and Ascension Killaloe/St. John's Tramore can give to their churches online using credit card or PayPal through the website Canada Helps.

Every donation matters, so please click "Support Your Church" below to find out more about how you can contribute. Thank you for your faithful support!

Don't forget to download and read The Valley Bulletin from the Latest News section of our parish website. Click "Read The Valley Bulletin" below to access this week's issue, including our parish prayer list.