Orchard Valley United Church

You are invited to attend our Zoom “Coffee Time” on Sunday, from 11:30 am to 12:00 pm. You may join us online or via phone. We hope you can join us!

Join the Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 834 7410 7986
Passcode:  019067

The next Church Council meeting is scheduled for 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 27th (i.e. the fourth Wednesday of the month) in person or via zoom depending on preference.

Mystery friends is an anonymous pen pal program where a member of the youth in the congregation is partnered with an adult in the congregation for five weeks. They write letters using their secret codenames for the first four weeks about hobbies, life, school, work. They either Email their letter by Saturday evening to youth.ovuc@gmail.com to be printed off on Sunday OR write a handwritten letter to be left on the table to be picked up. There will be two tables set up in the sanctuary, one to receive letters for the Jr. members and the other where letters for the Sr Mystery Friend may be dropped off. Following church the juniors check the Jr. Table to see if they got anything from their Sr. Mystery Friend, and the seniors check their table. Then the pairs all meet on the fifth week at our breakfast with Santa Clause held before the white gift service! You will be contacted the week before mystery friends with your codenames!

Sign up here! 

Fundscrip cards make excellent gifts and are a very convenient and easy way to shop. To place an order, please contact Ian Godfrey, Cecil White or Bruce Smith for an order form. Thank you for your continued support.

Be part of Katie’s exciting new ministry for children and youth! If you enjoy  working with children and/or youth, please consider applying to teach or help lead one of the following  programs. Police record check required. Contact Katie (902-681-6010; youth.ovuc@gmail.com) or Andy  (902-542-1545; andriel_p@yahoo.ca) if interested. 

Voyagers (aka Sunday School) for Preschool, Primary-Gr 3, and Junior Youth: teach one age  group once or twice a month; curriculum provided. 

Kids Hang Out: 3rd Saturday of each month for Primary to Grade 3 children, 1pm – 2:30pm.  (Note: for this month, only, Kids Hang Out will be changed from Oct 16th to Oct 23rd so it can be  combined with the Pumpkin People visit.) 

Junior Youth Group: 2nd and 4th Fridays each month, 6:30pm – 8:30pm; in the sanctuary and loft

Rev Don has prepared video recordings of our worship services, to be shared with our church family.

Please view our video recorded services by hovering over Worship Services on the ribbon above and then clicking on Video Recorded Messages OR by clicking on the following link:  Video Recorded Messages.

For those in the congregation who would like to continue supporting the church financially while we are experiencing our temporary closure, we have several ways you can donate:

• Mail your post-dated cheque(s) to the office (OVUC, 130 Cornwallis Ave, New Minas, NS B4N 3M7);
• Drop your offerings into our mail slot. It’s located on the outside of the OVUC building, on the left corner. This is a secure, internal mailbox;
• Click the DONATE button on our website;
• Transfer funds to us via bank e-transfer. Please contact the office for details; or
• Sign-up for PAR. Please contact the office for details.

Regardless of the method you choose, you will receive a tax receipt in 2021 for your donation(s). For more information or assistance, please contact the office (902-681-0366, ext 1, or AdminOVU@bellaliant.com).

Want to know when the latest “Fruit from the Orchard” video is released? One way is to subscribe to our YouTube Channel. Simply select the ‘Subscribe’ button the next time you are watching one of our videos or during the Live Streamed Worship Service. (Please note that you must have a Google account in order to subscribe.) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEW4VOpk_znrA5qevOqCr9Q