A Gift from a Neighbour is a Good Sign!

Generous Gift from the Woodstock Baptist

Our parish recently received a letter from the Woodstock Baptist church offering to donate their changeable letter sign, located at the front of their church, to our parish.

Our vestry is in support of accepting this gift and would like to place it in the same location where the digital sign stood, making use of the concrete forms and the electrical wiring already in place.  Unlike the digital sign, this will be a church-owned sign, used exclusively to advertise our own events! 

We have volunteers willing to move and paint the metal frame of the sign, and we are investigating the cost of replacing the interior with a sign that would have our parish name as well as room to place lettering to advertise events.

This sign is smaller and will sit lower than the previous digital sign.  It will be backlit as it is now but will be a one-sided sign, placed at a 45-degree angle facing towards the post office, so that it can be read by the public coming up the street or parked in front of the post office.

We invite feedback from you, members of our congregation, as to whether you are in support of placing the sign on our property to advertise church activites.  Also what name would you choose to place on the sign:  either “Anglican Parish of Woodstock”, or “St. Luke’s Anglican Church”?

The rest of the sign would have two or three lines for the changeable letters, so that we can advertise our special events or place a Scripture Quote to encourage our community with words of hope!

Please speak to one of our wardens, Richard Dennique or Nancy English, or a member of vestry, and they will bring your feedback to our next vestry meeting May 16.

We are grateful to our long-standing neighbours at the Woodstock Baptist Church for this act of kindness.  We wish them well and pray God’s blessing upon them as they move to their new church facility.