Welcome to the Ecumenical Shared Ministry of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian and St. Paul’s United Churches in Bowmanville.
Upcoming Services: July 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2025.
All services start at 10:30 a.m.
Location: St. Paul’s United Church, 178 Church St., Bowmanville, ON. Worship happens in an air-conditioned auditorium, which is wheel-chair assessible via a lift.
A Sunday Morning Program is available during service in the lower Sunday School hall for children, Grades JK to High School. Youth leaders follow Theme Time for activities that encourage exploration of today’s scripture.
Video by the Moderator of the 2025 General Assembly, marking 150 Years of The Presbyterian Church in Canada
The Rev. Jeffrey Murray, Moderator of the 2025 General Assembly, marks the denomination’s 150 years in this worship resource. Reflecting on the history of the PCC from St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Sackville, New Brunswick, Jeff reminds of the two covenantal banners that are foundational to the union of the PCC: For Christ’s Crown and Covenant and That They All May Be One. Jeff draws the arc from the past to new ways of engaging in ministry in the contemporary church.
FOOTNOTE to the video: The Covenanter Banner at St. Andrew’s, Sackville, made by Jean Scobie, was commissioned by the late The Rev. Dr. Eldon Hay whose published articles and books made a significant contribution in telling the history of Covenanters in Canada and in particular the Chignecto Covenanters in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The banner commemorates St. Andrew’s Covenanter heritage. The Presbyterians in Sackville did not join the newly formed Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1875, but later in 1884. It was during that summer that Samuel Crothers Murray, a ministry student from Princeton and graduate of Mount Allison University in Sackville, was doing a summer stint at a St. James’ Presbyterian Church in the neighbouring community of Dorchester, New Brunswick. Before leaving that summer, he visited the holdout Covenanters in Sackville, being a former Covenanter himself, and he preached there for three Sundays. Crothers writes, “from that time forward, the Sackville Presbyterians cast in their lot with the Presbyterian Church in Canada,” becoming a Mission Station with the Dorchester congregation.
