This document provides announcements and events for Christ Church Deer Park in Toronto, including: - Worship service times and clergy for the coming weeks including Christmas and New Year services - Upcoming parish events like the Advent discussion group, confirmation program, and parish quiet day - Thanks to volunteers and an invitation to join rehearsals for the Christmas pageant

1. SERVICES THIS WEEK CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK
The 7:00 am Eucharist will not be celebrated this ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS
Wednesday, December 26, but will resume on PARISH CLERGY
Wednesday, January 2, 2013. 416-920-5211
The Rev. Kevin Robertson, Rector ext. 26
December 30 – The First Sunday after Christmas The Rev. Canon Douglas Graydon, Associate Priest ext. 27
8 am - Holy Eucharist The Rev. Julie Meakin, Assistant Curate ext. 31
Homilist: The Reverend Jo-Anne Billinger The Rev. Dr. Peter Slater, Honorary Assistant
The Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton, Ecumenical Partner
10:00 am – Meditation on the Nativity: Christmas (United Church of Canada)
Readings, Carols & Holy Eucharist The Rev. Jo-Anne Billinger, Honorary Assistant December 2 3 , 2 0 1 2
PARISH STAFF
Advent Discussion Group – Please join the members of the Eric Robertson, Organist & Director of Music ext. 25 Welcome to Christ Church Deer Park. We invite you to stay for
clergy over the four weeks of Advent for a dynamic engagement Hilary Keachie, Director of Children’s Education refreshments after the service at Holy Grounds Café in Elliott Hall
with the lectionary texts for each Sunday, and how they have Jean King, Parish Administrator ext. 22 through the Chapel upstairs.
been addressed in the homily. The final conversation will take Elisabeth Lunder, Part-time Bookkeeper ext. 32
place in the Arthur Smith Room from 11:30 am – 12:15 pm Denis Delisle, Custodian ext. 35 PromiseLand Kids are invited to stay in the Sanctuary with their
today. CHURCHWARDENS families for the Opening Hymn and Lighting of the Advent Candle
December 23: The Reverend Dr Peter Slater Walter Blackwell, Rector’s Warden 416 964-1462 and then we will go down to the Chapel of St. Nicholas together.
Robert Morrow, People’s Warden 416 421-7017 The Nest (certified childcare for infants to age 4) is open during
We welcome back to our parish the Reverend Jo-Anne Carolyn Kearns, Deputy Warden 416 488-7436 the Sunday 10 am service on the third floor.
Billinger. Jo-Anne was a theological student here a few years
ago, and was ordained a deacon in the Diocese of Toronto last CHRISTMAS SERVICE TIMES
May. While she waits for her next appointment, Jo-Anne will be Large print Orders of Service are available from the Sidespeople.
a part of our community. Please extend to her a warm CCDP December 24 7:00 p.m. Family Eucharist & Pageant
welcome. Name Tags - If you would like a nametag, we invite you to call the 10:30 p.m. Carol Sing
parish office and we would be happy to create one for you. Call 416- 11:00 p.m. Traditional ‘Midnight Mass’
2013 Offering Envelopes are available for pickup by the Bell 920-5211 x 22 or jking@thereslifehere.org
Tower door next to the font. If you would like envelopes please December 25 8:00 a.m. Said Eucharist
contact our Book Keeper Elisabeth Lunder in the Parish Office Free Sunday parking is available on Sunday mornings (up to 1:30 10:00 a.m. Sung Eucharist with Carols
at 416-920-5211 x32 or email her at: pm) at the public parking lot, just across from the church on Heath
bookkeeper@christchurchdeerpark.org Street. Stamp your parking ticket using the church address stamp December 30 8:00 a.m. Said Eucharist
found on the table at the Bell tower door. After Church go to the 10:00 a.m. Meditation on the Nativity:
Mark your calendars... a Parish Quiet Day is being planned for customer service office with your validated ticket where you will be Christmas Readings, Carols
Saturday, February 16 at St. John's Convent in Willowdale. For given an exit ticket. Park only in the lower levels.
more details, please speak with the Reverend Julie Meakin. and Holy Eucharist
The Parish Office will be closed on Christmas Day, and will operate
A Confirmation Program will be offered in the new year. If you
with limited hours on Thursday and Friday of this week.
are interested in being confirmed next April, please speak with
one of the clergy in order to register for the course.

2. “IN THE WORKS” A Christmas Musical Pageant: Rehearsals today and
tomorrow morning @ 10:30am
Thank you to all who have participated in our parish visioning
Join us in the Chapel of St. Nicholas as
exercise over the past two months. “In The Works” is the name
we put the final touches on our Christmas
we have given to this process, in which we are imagining new
Pageant! We will be sorting out costumes
initiatives that will help to transform and revitalize our
community. January 13 2013 at 4:30 pm today and then doing a full run-through in
the Sanctuary tomorrow morning at
Six working groups have convened to chart a course in priority Amanda Tosoff Trio 10:30am. See you there!
areas. If you were not able to be a part of the initial meetings,
we still welcome your full participation. The working groups are Please join us in the new year! We invite everyone in the congregation to
meeting throughout the fall and winter, so please contact the “Come on the Road to Bethlehem” with us
The Archbishop's Levee will take place on Tuesday, January on Christmas Eve at 7:00pm.
facilitators if you would like to join the conversation and move
1st from 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm at St. James' Cathedral. This is an
the initiatives forward: opportunity to greet the Bishops and Dean of our Diocese. All are
Welcoming Jill MacRae & William Jackson welcome. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year PromiseLand!
Discerning Gifts for Lay Ministry David Moore Kids are invited to stay in the Sanctuary with their families on
Opening Up Our Sacred Space & Grounds A Training Session for Subdeacons, Chalice-Bearers and Christmas Day and on Sunday, December 30th at 10am. We
Bob Hutchison & Henry Zaluski Servers will take place in the church on Sunday, January 13, from encourage you to read Christmas books and/or colour during
11:45 am-12:30 pm. If you are already a part of these ministries,
Developing Spiritual Practices Gavin Keachie the service. Please find a basket of supplies by the Belltower
or would like to be, please plan to attend this workshop.
Building Community Inside & Out Michael Overbury entrance. Thanks!
Raising Spiritual Kids Andrew van Nostrand & Chris Symonds The Annual Vestry Meeting will take place on Sunday,
February 24, 2013 beginning at 11:30 am. All heads of parish The Christmas Fair was a huge success this year and we would
Christmas Flowers groups and organizations are asked to submit their 2012 reports like to thank all the volunteers who worked so hard all year to
If you would like to contribute to the cost of decorating our church for electronically. Please email them to the parish office by Sunday, make this event happen. Donating, sorting, pricing, making and
Christmas, please use the small brown envelope that is January 27. baking, selling - - you’ve done it all!
enclosed with the Bulletin. If you would like to make As you know, a number of local businesses supported the raffle
the donation in memory of a loved one, print the name Churches on the Hill Food Bank
Our books and finances are in great shape but our Treasurer is by donating gifts for the raffle. We would also like to thank local
of the person(s) to be remembered on the envelope,
retiring. If you’re an accounting professional or businesses that supported the Fair:
place it on the offering plate and it will be included in the Christmas
Bulletin. have relevant experience please think about Ginger Flower Studios, 50 St. Clair Ave E
joining our group of dedicated volunteers as we Sheridan Nurseries, 2827 Yonge
Thank you to all those who supported the 4th Annual City feed the hungry of mid-town Toronto. For further Shoppers Drug Mart, 1507 Yonge
Carol Sing last Saturday. This past week, we presented a information please contact: Sobeys, 81 St. Clair Avenue East
cheque for over $16,000 to the Churches on-the-Hill Food Bank. Annette Dukszta – Volunteer Coordinator (416 964-2955) Starbucks, 1495 Yonge
This is a tremendous result, and represents the largest single dukszta@sympatico.ca Ziggy’s St. Clair Market, 12 St. Clair Ave E
donation that our area food bank has ever received! If you Paul McGrath – President (416 487-7081)
Together we made almost $10,000 to support the work of the
missed the live concert - which featured the CCDP choir, the jeanpaulmcgrath@gmail.com
parish and for local charities.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church Choir, and some very special Deb Wilkinson, Jayne Miles Simpson, Barbara Johnston
guests - you can catch a replay at various times over the next Stewardship – Thank you to all those who have responded to
week on City TV. our annual Stewardship appeal. If you have not received a letter
and commitment card for 2013, please contact the Parish Office.