Welcome Abby to Spring

April 4th, 2021 at 10am Join us this Easter Sunday at 10am online at www.springgardenchurch.ca as we celebrate together Jesus' resurrection from the dead!

Call to Artists: We invite artists of all ages and art mediums to create something on the theme of Joy to be incorporated into our Easter Sunday worship. If you are creating something, please let us know, and email a high quality image/file by Tuesday March 30th to office@springgardenchurch.ca

We are very excited to have Abby Davidson join us as the new Pastor of Missional Discipleship. Please join us in welcoming her and her family to our community. We are looking forward to getting to know her and her family better and to support her as we seek to live out our faith in the community that God has placed us in.

March 7th - On the first Sunday of each month we’re encouraging children to join their families to participate in our morning livestream and worship together. We have an activity page for kids available on our website should anyone like. March 14th, 21st, 28th - Our kids worship gathering will meet on zoom these Sundays following the children’s blessing. Here is the overall flow:

**Children’s Blessing Ends** • Kids Log in to Zoom (Contact Jeremy if you don’t have this information) • Big Group Teaching (Led by one of our big group leaders) • Split into small groups (Our Zoom Moderator will sort people into their groups) • Small-Group Time (Small Group Leaders talk with kids about what was said during Big Group time) • Finished - Kids and leaders sign off and enjoy the rest of their Sunday

In order to ensure online safety, we previously emailed the information needed to join our online meetings. If you received the email, please do not share it with others. If you know of any families who would like this information to join us on Sundays, please direct them to contact Jeremy (jeremy@springgardenchurch.ca).

Here is an overview of what we will be talking about on Sundays for Spring Kids.

Lesson Ponder Point Bible Passage Remember Verse

March 14 God's Plan Is Best (Peter) Luke 5:1–11 Psalm 139:23–24

March 21 God Knows Everything (Woman at the Well) March 28 Jesus Seeks and Saves (Zacchaeus) John 4:1–42 Psalm 139:23–24

Luke 19:1–10 Psalm 139:23–24

Each month we will be putting together some fun things for your family. If you’d like to receive March’s care pack, you can register through this link: https://forms.gle/FZ1BM9VLdJ1zBwvh8 March’s Care’s Pack, will focus on Easter, and we are providing you with an at home egg hunt for Easter morning (April 4th). Inside, you will find a container with 20 plastic eggs, as well as Easter themed mad libs. If you'd like us to prepare a pack for your family, please register below! These care packs will be available for pick up from our building (112 Spring Garden Ave, North York, Ontario, M2M 3G3) by March 24th 2021. To arrange a time to pick these up, please contact Sam Lee (Samlee@springgardenchurch.ca)

March, 14th, 21st, 28th, - Our Sunday morning gatherings will shift while Jeremy is away on Parental Leave. We are encouraging our youth to participate in the Livestream worship gathering on our church website (https://www.springgardenchurch.ca/) for the main teaching. At 12pm following the Livestream, our youth will meet online for small groups lead by our Youth Leaders, using our http://tiny.cc/SGCYouth link.

Life Groups this month will happen on March 17th for Jr High Girls (Gr 6-8) and March 19th, for the Guy’s Life Group (gr 6-12).

March 12th: Jackbox Night - We will be meeting online to catch up and play a few jackbox games together. Youth wanting to participate can join following this link http://tiny.cc/SGCYouth.

March 26th: Spy Night - We will be meeting online to play some spy-inspired games: codenames, spyfall, mafia etc. Youth wanting to participate can join following this link http://tiny.cc/SGCYouth.

To stay up to date on what is happening for your youth, please visit our google calendar which has all of our planned events. http://tiny.cc/YouthCal

If there is anything you’d like more clarification on, please email me (jeremy@springgardenchurch.ca)