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Online Services for Sunday March 29

Sunday Morning Service with The Venerable Mavis Brownlee & Acolyte Martha Cameron will be posted to our YouTube Channel. Please subscribe to keep up to date. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_zl15_qikAdbxrWj6zYfZQ

Sacred Singing Circle with Song Leader Caitlin Reilley Beck, and members of her household, will be through Facebook Live on our Facebook Page at 11:00 am. Please see the event page for more info. https://www.facebook.com/events/839119823224450/

Children’s Church with Godly Play Facilitator Elizabeth Laman from our co-parish at The Church On The Hill, Shiloh-5th Ave United, will be hosted on Zoom at 1:30 p.m.

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A National Call to Prayer on Lent 5

BY LINDA NICHOLLS ON MARCH 19, 2020

All around us, while many are in quarantine or self-isolation, the church is blossoming with prayer. We are digging deep into the heart of our faith to lift our voices in the sure and certain knowledge that the Holy Spirit hears our intercessions, thanksgivings and even our groans.

Please join me in a national day of prayer on Sunday, March 29 (Lent 5), as we join the Anglican Communion in a day of prayer for repentance—to pray for the whole Communion and for the whole world engulfed in COVID-19.

Tune in live to join me in prayer on Sunday, March 29 at 4pm (PDT) on the Anglican Church of Canada Facebook page*, or whenever is best for you (following the broadcast).

Light a candle of hope in the window of your home or on the porch—and join me as we pray:

  • for repentance as we look at ourselves and ask how we have shared in the divisions and pain of difficult conversations across the Communion in recent years (see resources);
  • for the whole Anglican Communion as we seek to support and care for one another as siblings in Christ in the midst of this and other crises (see resources);
  • for the whole world as we share in the effects of COVID19 – for health care workers; researchers, those who are ill, those are quarantined or in isolation and those who are abandoned and alone in this time; and
  • for our hope in the gospel—that God is with us now and always.
+Linda Nicholls


The Most Rev. Linda Nicholls
Archbishop and Primate
Anglican Church of Canada

*Note: You do not need a Facebook account to access the live stream. Just go to the Facebook page on March 29 at 4pm PDT and find the video on the page.

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IMPORTANT NEWS REGARDING SUSPENSION OF SERVICES & MINISTRIES AT ST. BARNABAS

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We find ourselves in strange times as we are all grappling with the new reality in the Covid-19 pandemic. I am urging all of us, to take heart, keep ourselves and others safe and that we continue to be the close and caring community we are, even in these difficult times.

Our Archbishop Melissa has directed us to suspend all person to person services, church services,food ministries an all meetings in our buildings. This will include our Wednesday and Sunday services, our Sacred Singing Circle, our Thursday Lunch and our Friday Emergency Food Cupboard and our Thrift Store, all recovery and other meetings in the hall or church until May 6.

Please read her directive: https://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/news/suspension-of-in-person-worship-and-parish-and-diocesan-activities

The wardens and leadership of the Parish will be exploring remote and virtual ways to hold church services, keep in touch, check up with everyone and respond in these challenging fast changing times.

We will be strategizing with other community groups, in the delivery of needed food to those most vulnerable in our community. Please check our website and Facebook page.Please continue in your giving by PAR or e- transfers or by mail or dropping your offering by the office mail box.

Thank you to the leadership, Wardens, Parish Council members, Terri in the kitchen, Donna in the Thrift Store and to Rev. Shannon Tennant and our United Church friends for your support and creativity this last week. You are all amazing.In Lent sometimes we use the metaphor and image of being in the desert or the wilderness to focus our devotions. This pandemic feels like the wilderness, Jesus taught us that even in his 40 days in the wilderness he was never alone… holy angels attended him and we have each other.

May Jesus and His Holy Angels attend to our small committed community,to bolster our hearts as we are called to attend to ourselves, each other and the wider community in new ways of being and and new ways of caring. Please stay safe, wash your hands, practice self isolation and take this opportunity to get out in nature and this wonderful sunshine.

Yours in Christ,

The Venerable Mavis Brownlee
(filling in for the Rev. Emilie Smith)
March 17, 2020

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Ash Wednesday

Join us this Wednesday, February 26, at 11:30 a.m. for our mid-week Eucharist service when we will observe Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. The service will include the ceremony of The Imposition of Ashes in which participants receive a mark of ashes on the forehead as a token of penitence and mortality. Stay afterwards for soup and fellowship.

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Sacred Singing Circle – Seeking Shelter

Sunday February 23rd at 2:00 p.m.

We gather once again to sing, share prayers, hold silence, and break bread together—to connect with our deepest selves, with our circles of community, and with the Divine. Everyone is welcome to join us and seek shelter in our sanctuary. Being a “good singer” is not required; your voice is beautiful just as it is and you are beautiful just as you are.