In Beautiful Pakenham, Ontario, Canada
Sunday Service at 11 a.m. with Pastor Bill Checkley
You are welcome here
At St. Andrew's we are a caring, spirit-filled community of faith. We foster Christian development and engage all people on their unique journey of faith. Our ministry has a small town, family feel and we welcome one and all.
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Building Our Best Future
You are invited to a meeting to talk about our future.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.
We are looking for your ideas about supporting you, staying connected and relevant to you, your children and grandchildren.
We’d love you to think about this before the meeting and come with some ideas about your vision for all of us in the future. To help you think about things here is some interesting information derived over the last couple of years during development of the Pastoral Charge Strategic Plan and St. Andrew’s Every Family Visit.
Data: There is a continuum of people associated with our Pastoral Charge. All of the families along this continuum support the church financially. At opposite ends of the continuum however families have much different perspectives and expectations about what they want and need from the church. This continuum is depicted in the figure below.
You are invited to a meeting to talk about our future.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.
We are looking for your ideas about supporting you, staying connected and relevant to you, your children and grandchildren.
We’d love you to think about this before the meeting and come with some ideas about your vision for all of us in the future. To help you think about things here is some interesting information derived over the last couple of years during development of the Pastoral Charge Strategic Plan and St. Andrew’s Every Family Visit.
Data: There is a continuum of people associated with our Pastoral Charge. All of the families along this continuum support the church financially. At opposite ends of the continuum however families have much different perspectives and expectations about what they want and need from the church. This continuum is depicted in the figure below.
In summary, people want:
- the church and building to be here for the long run;
- the building to be used more extensively for our own purposes as well as for the community;
- information about our finances to help them understand where our money comes from and what it is used for; and
- a focus on children and young people.
- Our top givers provide a disproportional amount of our overall revenue.
- As few as 10 contributors provide as much as 40% of our annual givings.
- In most cases these are elderly contributors and their gifts will not easily be replaced.
- Capital and operating costs are increasing; at times significantly.
- Now, more people do not attend yet contribute, than do attend and contribute.
- Retirees, (our primary volunteers and financial supporters), especially after 80 leave our community (through residential moves or death).
- Church participation has declined and the increasing ages of participants suggest an accelerated decline.
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Book Store
The Book Store in Stewart Hall has lots of books if you are looking for a good read. Thanks for donating your old books so others can enjoy them while supporting the Sunday school Food Grains Project.
If you have children's books please bring them in - they go really quickly!
The Book Store in Stewart Hall has lots of books if you are looking for a good read. Thanks for donating your old books so others can enjoy them while supporting the Sunday school Food Grains Project.
If you have children's books please bring them in - they go really quickly!
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Our Origins
In 1840, the first congregation of St. Andrew’s United Church of Pakenham gathered together in worship. The people in that first congregation, made up of predominantly pioneering families from Ireland and Scotland, had sailed across the Atlantic, then up the St. Lawrence by steamer to Brockville, then by foot to Perth and finally through rough forest trails to their parcels of land in Pakenham. For the 175 years since that first gathering, subsequent generations have continued the tradition of worship with determination, faith, love and a strong sense of community. To this day outreach remains the heart and soul of our faith family.
Whether you're already part of our community or just visiting we hope our website will help tell the story of who we are.
You are welcome at St. Andrew's for worship, musical and special events and of course for our famous country church suppers.
For our full history click here.
Whether you're already part of our community or just visiting we hope our website will help tell the story of who we are.
You are welcome at St. Andrew's for worship, musical and special events and of course for our famous country church suppers.
For our full history click here.
Our recent history in photos.
