Sunday, July 6th
KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
KINCARDINE, ONTARIO
Thanks to all who helped with the Pulled Pork lunch! A great success that wouldn’t have happened without the coordinator Wendy Cox and the wonderful volunteers who helped with cooking pork, baking cookies, setting up tables and chairs ahead of time. Also those who helped on the day with dishing up, clearing up and cleaning up. “It takes a village”!
The Card Writers meet on Tuesday, July 8 in the Activity Room. If you have a name for someone who needs a card, please contact Barb Stuart or Margaret Weir.
REDUCE! REUSE!! RECYCLE!!!
Do you, or does someone in your family have gently-used children’s clothes with no-one to pass them on to? Knox is again collecting children’s clothing – clean and in a good state of repair – for free distribution to our community. Items can be dropped at the church on Thursday evenings July 10 – August 7 from 6 – 8PM and on Saturdays July 12 – August 9 from 10AM-1PM. All collected items will be freely available on August 14, 6 – 8PM and August 15, 9AM – 2PM.
United Way backpacks will also be available on those dates / times for pickup by families who ordered through 211.
If the collection dates don’t work for you, or if you’d like to help on any of the dates above, please contact Wendy 519 396 7307 or [email protected]. Thank you!!
Prime Time September Event
At Huron Feathers on Sauble Beach
Knox Congregational Picnic
Saturday, September 13th, 2025
Come for the afternoon and enjoy the Beach.
Prime Time activities will begin at 4:00 pm as usual.
Hamburgers, hot dogs and potluck salads or desserts
Stay for campfire and S’mores
Carpooling can be arranged (limited free parking)
Everyone needs to register at [email protected]
The Walker House is having a Remembrance Day exhibit, where we need local submissions. We are accepting submissions until Tuesday, September 30th. Please contact The Walker House at 519-396-1850 for further information for submissions.
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UPCOMING KNOX EVENTS
Fish Fry on Friday, August 1 ~ 4:30PM to 7PM. Tickets are $25 per adult and $10 for children 12 and under. Tickets are available at the church office or at The Loop downtown.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Amish Community Fundraiser at the Kuepfer Farm on Thursday, August 28. Bake Sale @ 3PM followed by Supper 4-6PM includes BBQ chicken; dressing; mashed potatoes; mixed veggies; coleslaw; veggies & dip; pies for dessert. Quilt Auction at 6PM. Please contact Wendy with any questions, and directions and car-pooling details.
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Greeter and Elevator List
July 13
Liz (Greeter)
Leslie (Elevator)
July 20
Marlene (Greeter)
Barb (Elevator)
August 3
Margaret (Greeter)
Eric (Elevator)
August 17
Bev (Greeter)
Steve (Elevator)
August 31
Carole B (Greeter)
Bob (Elevator)
September 14
Bev (Greeter)
Steve (Elevator)
September 28
Kim (Greeter)
Mark (Elevator)
Thanks to all who volunteer every Sunday!
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Donation Sites:
E-transfers can be sent to [email protected]
Canada Helps website www.canadahelps.org/en/donate ~ Type in Knox Kincardine ~ click on “Knox Kincardine (Presbyterian)” to donate.
From the Organ Bench – Sunday, June 6th, 2025
This is it – my last FTOB! I want to begin by saying thank you to everyone for last week’s service – I felt well and truly appreciated. I want to thank Mike Chreptyk for his kind words and for lovely gifts given to me: the lamp to grace our new “villa”, the generous gift certificate to Georges and the bottle of libation! Thank you to Leslie Ray for the cake that we enjoyed downstairs after the service and for the cards that I received from various members of the congregation. It has been my honour and privilege to serve as your Music Team Leader for the past ten years.
Today is the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartans service that we hold every year when the town celebrates the Scottish Festival weekend! This service is a special one and I didn’t want my retirement to detract from it in any way. I did want to play it, however, and to celebrate one more service with Kathy is another treat! We did our last two services with you together and I want thank Session for this opportunity.
There is no prelude this morning … well there is no organ prelude. A few members of the Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band will be with us and the small group planning this service thought that the band marching while playing would be a suitable prelude to the service. This is followed by the processional of the colours (flags) and the singing of O Canada. We also felt that having a separate Gathering Song would be superfluous today. We don’t normally do a Gathering Song in the summer (when there is no formal choir) so you won’t hear one until September.
The anthem this morning is A Scottish Blessing by David Balckwell. We have been alternating Scottish Blessings in our services every year – last year was Gordon McCree’s, this year is the Blackwell. I would like to thank Miriam Barrie (piano) and Victoria Boucher (flute) for playing.
Be a light before to lead me;
Be a guiding star above;
Jesu, may I always know thee,
May I always know thy love.
There is no bird that soars the mountain,
There is no deer upon the hill,
There is no creature of the forest,
But shall sing thy praises still.
For my last official offertory with you, I am playing my arrangement of Lord Lovat’s Lament. This is an 18th-century tune for bagpipes associated with the executed Scottish revolutionary nobleman of Clan Fraser. The Lord Lovat of the title is Simon Fraser, the 11th Lord Lovat. Reportedly composed by Ewen MacGregor or his pupil David Fraser, the work is said to be “a pibroch composed by his own piper to mourn his passing, played at the slow pace of Lord Lovat’s final march of 300 paces from the Tower of London to Tower Hill”.
The last hymn this morning is the stirring Highland Cathedral. Pipe Major Jennifer Farrell will solo the first section and then I will join her on the organ for the “B” section. The choir and congregation will then sing the hymn with the entire pipe band joining in on the final B and A sections. The band will lead the recessional, and this will be the postlude for today’s service. I have enjoyed preparing these FTOBs over the last four years plus. From the organ bench, this is Andy … signing off.
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Contact Information
Minister of Word and Sacrament:
The Rev. Dan West
519-386-0962
[email protected]
Clerk of Session:
Wade Gibson
519-395-4124
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Board of Managers Chair:
M. J. (Jim) Prenger
519-389-1971
[email protected]
Music Team Leader:
Andy Fraser
226-222-9161
[email protected]
Card Writers Convener:
Margaret Weir
519-396-8749
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Prayer Chain Coordinator:
Caryl Scheel
519-396-2904
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Treasurer:
Christine Goodspeed
1-905-979-0034
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Custodial:
Nancy Pilcher
519-386-4315
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