Farewell to Nadine

We had a little get together for Nadine and her husband to be, down at our park by the pond.

While we are sorry to see Nadine leave Kelowna area and our little church, it is wonderful for her to be moving to Saskatchewan and begin her new home with Charles there.

Here are a few pictures from our farewell.

A very beautiful poem written by a good friend is lovely to hear.

Nadine and Charles

Friends

Beverly brings the Aloha with her - they will be greeted this way in Hawaii perhaps, too.

A little farewell gift.

Sabbath of Love ~ February 13th, 2016

Orchard City SDA Church was full of people as we started our Sabbath School time.

Lori S. welcomed each one and opened our meeting together with prayer.
She chose the hymn "Blest Be the Tie that Binds" to sing together.
Then she had a few thoughts about love and friendship and led us into a sharing time for our friend, Sylvia.

It was so wonderful to have Sylvia in church with us and many people talked about how she has meant a lot to them personally and also how we have appreciated her work in our church.

It was a very emotional and special time.

Sylvia's friend sharing her thoughts.

Another great friend has her turn to share.

Smiles and tears are all part of the morning.

Sylvia took the mic and thanked us and told us what was on her heart, too.

We stood and held hands and sang "Family" together.

Downstairs in the Older Kid's Corner, some children were enjoying sharing cookies with their friends in the Younger Kid's Corner. Cherri G. and her crew of Lorah and a friend and Brooklyn and her friend decorated the cookies before taking them over. Check in next week to see what will happen next in the Older Kid's Corner. Might be something springy!!

Heart cookies to share their love. (Photo credit to Cherri G.)

Pink tulips that show us His great love.

We had a wonderful guest speaker to enjoy for our church service. Pastor Robertson and his wife joined us and we enjoyed having them.

Rina made the bright bulletin and Lori passed out the cards.

Making sure they all know what they are doing.

Pastor Robertson told us that you can never win a game if you are playing with Sylvia.

After the service we enjoyed a delicious fellowship meal and then hurried off to Sunshine Bands.

Gay did such a beautiful job of the decorations.

Lovely array of food.

Prayer for beginning of our meal.

Dessert table.

Spider Mum pretties.

Sabbath, January 9th, 2016 at OCC

You are most welcome to join us at Orchard City SDA church each Sabbath morning starting at 9:15 a.m. for our Praise Time before Sabbath School.

This week Lori had our Sabbath School for the adult group and brought us interesting ways to learn Bible verses.

One thing she suggested and showed us how it worked was the Bible game of saying a verse and having a friend find a certain word in it to link another Bible verse too and pass that verse back to the first person.  It keeps on going by finding one word in the first verse and then the second person finds a second Bible verse with that word in it, too.

We took a try at it and it was sure something to get us to open our Bibles and use our concordances and think. Thanks, Lori.
Please share your ideas on here if you know of some interesting ways to keep Bible verses in our minds.

Alex had the upstairs lesson while the group downstairs had Lori lead.

Alex uses the white board to help the visual people see the lesson.

I took a little walk out to the Children's Sabbath School room and on the way stopped at the Kid's Corner #2 Sabbath School for the older children.

Cherri had it all set up nicely with a big new black board she painted. It is all ready for children to enjoy the activities she has planned.

Thank you for what you plan and do for the older children, Cherri.

Just a little way away is the Kid's Corner #1 for the smaller ones. This Sabbath it was full of happy, singing children and smiling parents and grandparents.

The new theme ~ sign outdoors.

I was so happy to see the boat being used this time for a slide for the otters.

Happy Birthday to you!!!

Handsome, dressed up little lad.

Lovely children enjoy Sabbath School.

There were 8 cousins together this week.  So glad they came to OCC.

Dropping in a 'bubble'.

Bible story time at the other end of the room.

Pretty jelly fish by the background Loretta painted.

Back inside the church it was time for Praise Time singing and the children's song. And then story time with Jolanta. She was so nice with the children and her story was about losing her car key and finding it again.

Don't forget to look at the bulletin board. This week there was a nice letter from Quinton and Marguarite Covey.

To go with the ocean theme ~ "Deep and Wide".

The key that was lost and found.

I must get better at the video taking but the words and music were beautiful for Heidi's special music song. Thank you so much for sharing!

Doug L. had the sermon ~ A Fresh Start.
The Bible text was Colossians 2:16. Don read it from the NKJV and Glenda read it from the International Children's Bible.

After the service was over we enjoyed a fellowship lunch together. The theme was Greek foods and there was plenty of it. It was a nice relaxed time together.

Tabouli salad

Vegan lasagna

Bowtie salad

Greek salad on a happy person's plate.

Spanakopita tastiness.

Going to enjoy her Greek meal.

Once Rich and Naomi finished up the dishes and Edith and Bonnie and others had cleaned up the tablecloths, recycling, and other things, it was time to leave our little church.

It was soon time for Sunshine Bands at Sutherland Hills. Beverly led out and we had a surprise piano player take part.

The song leader group.

Our helpful piano player.

Friend helping friend with the hymnal.

A quick consult.

Alex read a poem about the New Year.

Glenda also shared two stories about a girl from many years ago who was a Pathfinder in Kelowna. They were very interesting stories.

Have a lovely week and please remember to pray for one another as it seems many of us have desires to share with God.