It is time for Annual Report 2024. Please have your Reports to Ruth no later than Friday, January 31st, 2025. There be NO extensions of the deadline.
Westlake Academy (249 Bruce Avenue, Kincardine) is having an open house this Saturday (January 18th) 10:30AM to Noon and would like to extend the invitation to everyone. Meet our faculty, enjoy refreshments, play games and win prizes. See you there!
The first event of Knox Church outreach to our community; is a “Coffee and Treats Morning”! Happening on Tuesday, January 21st – 9AM – 11:30AM. If you have any leftover Christmas treats in the freezer you want to put to good use, or if you could bake some muffins – your efforts would be greatly appreciated! C’mon out for a friendly morning of meet and greet. Contact Linda Stanley at 519-396-7414.
In January, Barb Stuart will be looking after the cards for us. If you have a deserving name, please contact Barb. The next Card Writers get together will be Tuesday, February 11th at 9:30AM in the Activity Room.
Knox Tiverton will be hosting a Soup Lunch – by donation – at noon on the third Monday of the month. This month’s Lunch is on Monday, January 20th.
Knox Tiverton is also hosting Euchre at 1PM on the third Saturday of each month.
“Communication and Dementia” is a session presented by Sandra Hong. It will be held on Tuesday, January 21st 1PM to 2PM by Zoom. Registration is required. Contact [email protected] or call 519-376-5895 ext. 2.
On Monday, January 27th at The Bridge (746 Queen Street, Kincardine) from 7PM to 8:30PM Bluewater Church is sponsoring a workshop entitled “A Conversation About Anxiety”. This workshop is presented by Pastor Steve Hall. Steve is a trained mental health support group facilitator, and is presently in the home stretch of a master’s degree in clinical counselling (Psychotherapy) at Tyndale University. Steve also speaks from his own lived experience.
The Walker House invites you to enjoy a charming Weekly Afternoon Tea. Indulge in a curated selection of locally sourced tea blends, paired with a variety of delectable treats — tea sandwiches, freshly baked scones with jam and clotted cream, and an array of homemade dainty desserts — all served in the historic ambiance of The Walker House.
Seating Times: Sundays | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Ticket Price: $20.00
Important Booking Information:
• Reservations are required 48 hours in advance and must be paid in full at the time of booking.
• Please communicate any dietary restrictions clearly. All special requests must be confirmed by The Walker House before your booking can be completed.
Booking is now open for January and February!
For more information or to book your experience online, visit our website: https://walkerhousekincardine.com/ or email: [email protected]. You can also call 519-396-1850.
Feeling stretched caring for a loved one? South West Self Management Program in partnership with the VON is offering a free 6-week workshop. The virtual program begins on Tuesdays – February 4th to March 11th. Preregistration is required. Call 1-885-463-5692 or use the website www.swselfmanagement.ca.
On Friday, February 14 (Valentine’s Day), Knox is hosting its second Hot Soup Lunch for our Kincardine area community. Last year well over 100 people were served and many compliments about the variety and delicious taste of our homemade soups were received. If you are able to provide a crock pot of your favourite soup and/or help with the serving and clean-up, please email Rosie Neilson at 519-395-0524 or [email protected]. Thanks!
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Greeter and Elevator List
January 5:
Barb (Greeter)
Leslie (Elevator)
January 12:
Carol B (Greeter)
Bob (Elevator)
January 19:
Bev (Greeter)
Steve (Elevator)
January 26:
Carol B. (Greeter)
Bob (Elevator)
February 2:
Bev (Greeter)
Leslie (Elevator)
February 9:
Pat (Greeter)
Carole E. (Elevator)
February 16:
Marlene (Greeter)
Barb (Elevator)
February 23:
Rosie (Greeter)
Barry (Elevator)
March 2:
Marlene (Greeter)
Leslie (Elevator)
March 9:
Margaret V. (Greeter)
Carole E. (Elevator)
March 16:
Margaret V. (Greeter)
Carole E. (Elevator)
March 23:
Rosie (Greeter)
Barry (Elevator)
March 30:
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Carole E. (Elevator)
We are in great need of a greeter for March 30th as most of our “regulars” are on holiday. No experience is necessary!
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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.
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Upcoming 2025 Events
Tuesday, January 21 – Community Coffee & Muffin Morning
Friday, February 14 – Valentine’s Day Hot Soup Lunch
Saturday, February 22 – Coldest Night – at the Legion
Friday, March 14 – St Patrick’s Hot Stew & Bun Lunch
Tuesday, April 15 – Community Coffee & Muffin Morning
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From the Organ Bench – Sunday, January 19, 2025
The prelude this morning is entitled “Melodie Sacra” by David Paxton. David Paxton was one of the pseudonyms used by American composer Lani Smith. Lani Smith (1934 – 2015) was an American organist best known for his church music compositions. He served as an editor, composer, and arranger on the Lorenz Publishing editorial staff between 1967 and 1982. During this time, he received composing and arranging credits for over 1000 works. Smith was such a prolific composer/arranger that he published under at least seven names: his own, plus the pseudonyms Tom Birchwood, Edward Broughton, Christopher Gale, David Paxton, Gerald Peterson, and Franklin Ritter.
The piece is written in ABA form. For the A section, I play both hands on the Great (lower keyboard) using only the 8’ Melodia stop. For the B section, I move both hands up to the Swell and use the three string stops, the 8’ Viola da Gamba, the 8’ Vox Celeste and the 8’ Aeoline. The pedal stops used are the 8’ Bass Flute and the 16’ Gedeckt and Bourdon. I put in an extra repeat of the B section so in this morning’s version, the piece is actually ABABA!
The anthem this morning is a hymn written by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette entitled “In Cana at a Wedding Feast”. She has written many hymns with words that following the scripture reading for the day. The tune she suggests is “Ellacombe” which is found three times in our Book of Praise # 218, 249 & 801.
For the offertory, I have chosen a hymn often sung at weddings, “The Call” (“Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life” – #565). The tune was written by Ralph Vaughn Williams.
The postlude this week is a John Stanley composition, his Voluntary in G+. I have introduced Stanley to you before, but in case you’ve forgotten, he was born in London on January 17, 1712. At about the age of two, he fell on a marble hearth with a china basin in his hand, an accident which left him almost blind. He began studying music at the age of seven, under the guidance of Maurice Greene, composer and organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral. At the age of nine he played the organ, probably as an occasional deputy, at All Hallows Bread Street. When he was eleven years old, Stanley was appointed organist to the church at a salary of £20 per annum. When he was fourteen “in preference to a great number of candidates”, he was chosen as organist at St Andrew’s, Holborn, and at the age of seventeen became the youngest person ever to obtain the Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Oxford. In 1734 he was appointed organist to the Society of the Inner Temple, a position which he held until his death in 1786. It was at the ancient Temple Church that his brilliant playing upon the organ and harpsichord attracted the attention of many fine musicians including George Frideric Handel, who regularly visited the church to hear him. Stanley was also an outstanding violinist. Though virtually blind, Stanley had a remarkable memory, which helped him direct many of Handel’s oratorios and to enjoy music-making and card games with his many friends. If he had to accompany a new oratorio he would ask his sister-in-law to play it through just once – enough to commit it to memory. He frequently played the organ at the Vauxhall Gardens and was first choice to play at charity events and at the launch of any newly built church organs.
The second half of his Voluntary, the Vivace, is actually another fugue. (I’m on a fugue kick, this being the second week in a row that you’re getting a fugue for the postlude!) Last week, Sorge’s fugue theme came in after two bars and Fischer’s fugal theme began after four bars. Stanley has his theme begin after six bars! I play this piece on the Great using the 8’ Open Diapason, Melodia and Dulciana stops with the Great to Great 4 and Swell to Great 4- and 8-foot couplings (this adds the sound of the Swell stops to the Great). The Swell stops used are the 8’ Stopped Diapason, Viola da Gamba and Aeoline plus the Swell to Swell 4 (adds an upper octave). The pedal stops used are the 8’ Bass Flute, and the 16’ Gedeckt and Bourdon plus the Great to Pedal 8 and the Swell to Pedal 4 and 8. At a crescendo level of 6, there is plenty of sound here. There is a middle section that I play on the Swell and you’ll hear that it’s quieter. I move my left hand down on to the Great after six bars, and then my right hand back down six bars after that. At the end of the piece when the fugal theme is started over, Stanley has the next voice come in not after six bars, but rather after six beats! I continue to marvel at the minds capable of creating such intricately interwoven melodies!
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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
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Music Team Leader:
Andy Fraser
226-222-9161
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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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