St. Timothy’s first annual Pasta Night and Silent Auctionfeaturing: Italian-inspired food; music; drinks; tiramisu Saturday, October 5th, 2019 6-9pm. $30/adults, $10/kids under 10 Contact office@sainttimothy.ca or call 604.299.6816 for details or to order your tickets today!
The Parish of St. Timothy announces the appointment of Rev. James Duckett as our new priest. James will be starting on December 1st. James was raised in Powell River, BC with two younger sisters. Following graduation, he pursued studies at UBC, and he earned a BA in English Lit followed by a BEd in Secondary English and ESL. Shortly after graduation, he moved to Montreal, where his time teaching in a Christian private school led him to consider seminary. He took a break from teaching to return to school and after McGill’s Bachelor of Theology, he was granted a Master of Divinity from the Montreal School of Theology, a consortium of Anglican, Presbyterian, and United Churches. Returning to teaching, it wasn’t long before he left the evangelical church he had been attending for some years and began the process of discernment within the Anglican church. In the midst of discernment he also met (and married) his wife Sacha. Their daughter Eleanor was born shortly after James was ordained a deacon, and she processed in his arms with him when he was priested a year later. One year after that, Sacha got a job in Vancouver, bringing the whole family back to James’s home turf, where he served as interim priest-in-charge at St. Paul’s in Vancouver’s West End before accepting the call to St. Timothy’s.
The Diocese of New Westminster has readvertised the position of Rector of St. Timothy’s. The closing date is September 6, 2018. For details, please go to http://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/jobs/rector-st-timothy-burnaby. All enquiries about this position should go to the diocese. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE PARISH DIRECTLY ABOUT THIS VACANCY.
The Parish of St. Timothy has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for our new signage. The campaign is at https://www.gofundme.com/a-new-sign-for-st-timothy039s/. If you are able, please make a donation. Please also publicise this as widely as possible.
The Diocese of New Westminster has advertised the position of Rector of St. Timothy’s. The closing date is May 17, 2018. For details, please go to http://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/jobs/rector-st-timothy-burnaby. All enquiries about this position should go to the diocese. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE PARISH DIRECTLY ABOUT THIS VACANCY.
We are delighted to announce that the new interim priest at St. Timothy’s will be Father Ayoob Adwar (pictured here with Bishop Melissa Skelton), after the departure of the Rev. Ruth Monette on April 15 to become the rector of St. Stephen the Marytr, Burquitlam. Ayoob’s official start date will be May 1, which means his first Sunday will be May 6. Welcome, Ayoob.
One of the important tasks of interim ministry is to ensure that the on-going life of the parish doesn’t stop. Here at St Timothy’s, that has included that we not lose momentum and energy for projects you have already started, such as the kitchen renovation and the food-based ministries for which you built it. So, some of the work the clergy and leaders have been focused on this spring has been ensuring that the ongoing life of the parish and the kitchen renovation completion has been happening. Another important task of interim ministry is getting a “pulse” of the parish and responding to what needs to be addressed before a canonical process can begin. In some parishes, that means addressing underlying issues such as unresolved conflicts or very messy administrative practices. Here at St Timothy’s, the “pulse” that became immediately clear was tiredness. For a number of reasons, many in the parish had that late winter/early spring exhaustion thing going on. And so, we decided to do our best to allow for rest through the Spring; to scale up food-based ministry slowly; to try not to add too many activities into our lives; and to make worship feel as renewing as possible. We’ll continue in this pattern through the summer; although we’ll begin getting ready for a slightly busier Fall. One of the big tasks for this fall will be some parish conversations in preparation for the Canonical Committee to be called together to write the Parish Profile. We’re anticipating scheduling at least some of them after church on Sunday morning and enjoying using the kitchen to gather around a meal while we talk.
Our weekday Communion service will resume on May 10 and will move to 10:00 am on Wednesdays.
The new kitchen has passed its final inspection and is now in service.. Thanks to Sasen Renovations. See the full photo gallery here.
Starting March 8, we will have a weekday Communion service at 9:30 am on Wednesdays. This will initially run as a trial through Lent, but it may continue afterwards.