Worship Services at the Senior Homes
Dr. FW Green Home 2nd Sunday of the Month – 2 pm
Joseph Creek 1st Thursday of the Month – 3 pm
These services to begin again in the fall.
Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club
Matthew 25:40
And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’
This group is an outreach project of the Cranbrook United Church to help feed the homeless and underprivileged of Cranbrook.
It consists of members of Cranbrook United Church, Mt Zion Lutheran Church, Christ Church Anglican, and First Baptist Church, all of Cranbrook. We each volunteer to cook breakfast on a rotational basis once a month at Cranbrook United Church. Because we are located downtown, this works well and we host the club.
Each church is responsible for their own funding of their particular menus, and in the past we have been assisted by a generous grant from the Cranbrook Community foundation and some other businesses. Nutter’s donates pancake flour on a regular basis.
In the beginning we served less than a dozen people. Now we average 65 to 75 men, women and children.
There is also another weekly service for our Breakfast Club members, Jim and Keitha Pascuzzo, of our church, have been, from the beginning, the driving force behind providing free good used clothing to many of the people. Each week they faithfully set up a small clothing store in the narthex, where people can choose what they need and what is seasonally appropriate. They and Colleen are here faithfully each week it greet and help everyone. They also provide toiletry items and the little extras that are needed. There is no money exchanged, just friendship and smiles.
Joan Ogloff, our coordinator would like to thank everyone who contributes to this project. She says, “ The volunteers who spend time cooking, shopping, cleaning, putting up tables and chairs and taking them down again, washing dishes, donating money…are greatly appreciated.”
“By working together in this way, we have learned that people of different denominations can work together. Our association has become a very strong group and we have grown in our knowledge of one another. We are all doing God’s work. Glory be to God.”
Prayer Shawl Ministry
The Prayer Shawl Ministry at Cranbrook United officially began in June of this past year. The first meeting proved to be a great success with 14 ladies interested and eager to begin this wonderful and rewarding ministry. The meeting began with a prayer. Wool and needles were given out to those wanting some and the work began.
As the shawls are being knitted, they are being bring up with our offering to be dedicated and sometimes given to specific people. Other are delivered by members of the group. Shawls are given not just to people in need of healing or in times of distress but also to people at landmark times of their life, a special birthday, an anniversary or the birth of a new baby.
More dedications have happened since the beginning of this ministry with many shawls being dedicated. The shawls have gone as far as Saskatchewan and Vancouver Island.
We have been very fortunate in receiving a large donation of wool from the Prayer Shawl Group at Christ the Servant Church, along with cash donations from individuals.
If you know of anyone who would appreciate receiving a shawl or would like to join this special ministry, please contact Bea Marchand at 250 417 0900 or any of the group members. New knitters and crocheters are always welcome. Watch the calendar for the date of the next meeting.
