"You have become a mature person when keeping a secret gives
you more satisfaction than passing it along."
author unknown

Ministry Schedules
(click the links below to view the current Ministry Schedule)
(April - August 2008)
are ready to be picked up from your mailbox in the Narthex

READING & INGESTING AHEAD OF TIME

Readings for Sunday, May 4
Acts 1:1-11 Psalm 47
Ephesians 1:15-23 Luke 24:44-53

Readings for Sunday, May 11
Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 John 20:19-23

Readings for Sunday, May 18
Genesis 1:1-2:4a Psalm 8
2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Matthew 28:16-20

Readings for Sunday, May 25
Asaiah 49:8-16a Psalm 131
1 Corinthians 4:1-5 Matthew 6:24-34

If you do not have a bible but would like one, please call the office (905) 985-7278

Welcome Bev!
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Bev Foster is our incoming Director of Worship Music!  Bev has been an active member of our parish for 6 years.  Her band leadership at Evening Song, music direction of countless children’s musicals here at Ascension, the release of many of her own music CDs (Room 217) and etc, etc, etc, leave her fully qualified to move into this role.  We welcome Bev and look forward to the experience she brings to us! 

Brent Stiller is on Sabbath Leave Every six years the diocese allows clergy, with the support of the bishop and church wardens, to engage in a three month sabbath of study, rest and travel. Brent Stiller is on sabbath leave and then vacation until September. Please pray for a time of refreshment and renewal for Brent, and his family, as they travel to Roatan, Honduras for six weeks in June/July to engage in ministry with the Anglican church there.

Then Jesus turned to the Jews who had claimed to believe in Him.  "If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure.  Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you." 
John 8:31-32 (The Message)

CHILDREN AT COMMUNION If you are parents of baptized children over the age of five, and wanting them to receive communion on Sundays, please speak to Brent about attending communion preparation classes.

YOU'RE ALL INVITED TO COFFEE HOUR after the 10:00 am services Coffee, tea, uice and cookies are provided.  This Christian fellowship is made possible due to our dedicated group of coffee hour volunteers.  Thanks to each of you for your time and effort.  If anyone wishes to join our team on a permanent or back-up basis, please contact Susan Crowe at (905) 985-1444.

A Prayer From Thomas Merton 
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think that I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost
and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and will never leave me to face my perils alone.