Highlights June 14, 2015

Highlands United Church 3255 Edgemont Blvd. North Vancouver, BC V7R 2P1

604-980-6071 www.highlandsunited.org churchoffice@highlandsunited.org

Oromo Fundraising Lunch Today!

Meet Hasna and enjoy a taste of Ethopian food!

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Highlands Upcoming Events and Programs This list does not include rooms booked for outside rentals (Guides, AA, Alanon etc).

Highlands Event Calendar can be viewed on our web site at: www.highlandsunited.org To book a room, contact the church office at: churchoffice@highlandsunited.org

Sunday, June 14 9:30 am Welcome Café in the Foyer 10:00 am Sunday Worship Service 11:15 am Oromo Fundraising Lunch, Gym 11:15 am Birthday Celebrations, Fireside Room

Monday, June 15 9:00 am Highlands Quilters, Choir Room Quilters: Highlands Quilters will continue to meet through June but will not meet in July or August. We hope to resume in September if we have enough bodies! 1:00 pm Prayer Shawl Ministry, Choir Room 7:00 pm Guitar for Fun, Fireside Room 7:30 pm Badminton, Gym

Tuesday, June 16 9:00 am Flea Market Sorting, Lower Hall 9:30 am ELL Beginner Class, Faith Room 9:30 am ELL Class, Room 201

Wednesday, June 17 7:30 am Men’s Breakfast, Eighties Restaurant 4:00 pm Tai Chi, Gym

Thursday, June 18 9:30 am ELL Social, Lower Hall 9:30 am Healing Hands, Chapel and Choir Room

Friday, June 19

Saturday, June 20 8:45 am Tai Chi, Gym 1:00 pm Saturday Lunch, North Shore Neighbourhood House

Sunday, June 21 9:30 am Welcome Café in the Foyer 10:00 am Sunday Worship Service 10:45 am Celebration of Ministry, Sanctuary 11:30 am Celebration Lunch, Gym Construction Notice: The Narthex area will be under construction for the next two weeks as Godspace II continues —there will be no access from the sanctuary to / through the Narthex and the 200 Wing. Although this might be a bit inconvenient—the end result will be awesome! Thank you for your patience during this time—please don’t hesitate to call the Church Office if you need help accessing certain areas or are wondering where to park and how to get to your meeting room…

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Celebration of Ministry

On June 21 2015 we will be celebrating Cheryl Black's time at Highlands United Church.

Worship at 10:00am, followed by a celebration of Cheryl's ministry here; music! speeches! surprises!

Luncheon in the gym afterwards.

All are welcome.

Let us know if you are coming to the lunch by signing up on-line at www.highlandsunited.org or at the Action Table.

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Helping Hasna to Highlands

Hasna Mohamed, our 27 year old Oromo refugee has been here for over 2 weeks! She now has a home to live in and has completed English language testing. She is on a waiting list for English classes at Mosaic, has attended ESL classes at HUC and has helped the Flea Market sorters. Hasna has travelled on buses, Seabus and Sky Train. She is warm, engaged and engaging! Your generous donation will help cover Hasna’s living costs for the first year. Please donate on Sunday at the Oromo Lunch. You will receive a receipt for any donation beyond the basic lunch cost.

Oromo Fundraising Lunch!

Sunday, June14th in the Gym Please Come and Welcome Hasna to Highlands!

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Elliott Best has attended Highlands for his

entire life. In his younger years he was a regular youth group and summer camp attendee while more recently he has been a summer staffer and a Sunday School teacher. He is graduating from Handsworth Secondary School and plans to attend Capilano University to study Motion Picture Arts.

Matthew Anderson has been part of the

church community since he was three years old! Matt participated in summer camps from the age of 5, was in the Genesis II Youth choir for three years and has been a Highlands Summer Staff member for the past 2 years. Matt is graduating from Handsworth Secondary and plans to continue his education at UBC where he will also be playing rugby.

2015 Grads!

Lizzie Bomford Lizzie Bomford has been an out of town participant in Highland's Musical Theatre Camp for four years and is considered to be part of our Highlands Church Youth Family. If she is within 45 km. of Highlands, she'll find a way to attend our church on Sundays. She is one of the Tri-Prime Ministers of Mr. Doug High School in Victoria, is a formidable contender in the Canadian hammer throw and was one of thirty B.C. Youth Leaders selected to attend the Democracy in Action Conference sponsored by the Rotary Club. Lizzie has political ambitions and will be attending the University of Victoria next year.

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Rachel Buttress was on summer staff for 4 years at Highlands. Rachel graduated from Mount Allison University with a bachelors of music majoring in vocal performance. Her current plans are to spend the summer reconnecting with everyone and everything 'North Van' and working guest services at Grouse Mountain. In September she’ll be teaching preschool music classes at St. Catherine's and singing with the Laudate singers!

Hannah Julian is graduating from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Aspirant Program. Hannah will be returning to Vancouver and will be considering future options over the summer; maybe continuing to dance, maybe in pursuit of another field? The arts world is very tough!!

Colleen Chambers In September 2013, after moving back to Canada after living in Wales for a year, Colleen began teaching Sunday School at Highlands and loves it! Colleen will be graduating from Handsworth Secondary this year and is planning to go to UBC in the Fall after spending the summer working with HUC Summer Staff.

Charlotte Julian is graduating with BA in International Development Studies/ Political Science from University of Kings College and Dalhousie University. After working on staff at Naramata, Charlotte joined the Highlands Summer Staff in the summer of 2014. She is spending this summer in Halifax, working in tourism.

After that she will be pursuing work in her field with her ultimate goal being to work with humanitarian NGO. (Grads continue on next page)

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Jeff Wilson completed his Red Seal

apprenticeship as a professional cook/chef through his work at Earls Restaurants, course study at Vancouver Community College, and passion for the trade. Jeff has been a part of Highlands for all of his 24 years. Currently he sings with the Spirit Singers and is a founding member of the Eight Deadly Sins a capella group. He plans to travel in Europe this Fall, with Kalina, and continue in the restaurant business upon his return.

2015 Grads! (continued)

Chantelle van Wiltenburg has graduated from McGill with an honours degree in English. Next year she will attend Law School at the University of Toronto.

At Highlands, Chantelle attended Sunday School, attended (as well as helped out with) Summer Musical Theatre/Bible camp and was a member of Gods Free Spirits, Youth Group and Genesis II.

Roger Soderling has attended Highlands since 2005 attending with his brother Michael and mother Liz. He has sung in GII and the Spirit Singers, as well as the Eight Deadly Sins. He always enjoys playing in the Family Band, especially at Christmas time and helps out at the flea market when mid term exams allow. He has graduated this year from UBC, receiving a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering. He has now moved and started a job with the Government of Canada in Ottawa..

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Godspace II—the work continues!

A crew of enthusiastic volunteers came into the church this week to strip down the Narthex—getting it ready for a new look. The coat racks were removed, the carpeting lifted, windows cut into the interior stairwells and the back wall removed. It was hot and sweaty but they got the job done. Now it’s up to our contractor, Brian, to make it pretty!

For the next two weeks or so, there will be limited access through the Narthex during the renovation. Please watch for the no-entry signs and be careful in and around the Narthex.

Thanks everyone for the sweat and the smiles!

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Birthday Celebrations—June!

Sunday, June 14 Fireside Room 11:15 am Are you celebrating a birthday this month? Join us for cake (or fruit option) and fellowship after the worship service in the Fireside Room. For more information contact Debbie Sigsworth at (604) 987-4507 or dsigsworth@shaw.ca

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Northern BC Youth Discovery Trip Fundraising

Plans are well under way for the discovery trip to Terrae, Prince Rupert, Nass Valley and Hazelton this August. We are working hard to raise 50% of our funds through fundraising efforts, so there will be plenty of opportunities throughout the summer to contribute! Here are some ways you can help support the 7 youth and 4 young (and not-so-young) adults who will be travelling. We have tried to choose fundraising activities that raise us money while saving you time and money and providing great value!

• Help yourself on some Sunday mornings before church to a fresh home baked muffin or treat for a donation (suggested minimum donation 1.00!) Each week different participants will provide some baking for your enjoyment.

• Bring your empty bottles and refundable containers (rinsed if possible) to the lower hall/courtyard on or by Sunday July 5 and we will return them for you. For a donation of $5.00 or more we will also recycle your inconvenient-to-recycle small items (paint cans, batteries, small electronics etc) We will make sure they get to the right place. Sorry – no fridges, stoves or furniture!!

• For a list of items that can be recycled go to: http://www.northshorerecycling.ca/recycling/recycle-this

• Purchase some home baking at the carnival on June 28 (proceeds split between the summer program and the discovery trip)

• Watch for the date of a parent night/day out event where you can drop your kids off to be cared for by our very talented and kid friendly group! Date(s) to be announced.

• And of course we accept your cash donations (mark your donor number and ‘discovery trip’ on the cheque or envelope.) Your donation is tax receiptable.

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Northern BC Youth Discovery Trip Fundraising continued…

For more information about the trip please speak to any of the participants or email sandi.parker@highlandsunited.org Grace Owens, Jacob Spieker, Chris Madill, Chris Hunt, Chris Bochon, Sibyl Martinez, Mila Martinez, Fiona Whyte, Mark Steffens, Lisa Madill or Sandi Parker

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Community Events

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