A Sign Gifted to St. Luke’s from the Woodstock Baptist

We are inviting feedback from members of our congregation!

This notice was placed in our bulletin several weeks in a row and also on our parish website. To date we have received only positive feedback. Thank you to those who have responded.

In April our parish 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 met on April 18th and 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.

Our next vestry meeting is Sunday, May 23, 2021. For members of our congregation who have not yet responded and wish to do so, please speak to one of our wardens, Richard Dennique or Nancy English, and they will bring all feedback to our meeting.

Please let us know whether you are in support of placing the sign on our property to advertise church activities.

Also what name would you choose to place on the sign: either “Anglican Parish of Woodstock”, or “St. Luke’s Anglican Church, or some other variation?”

The bottom portion of the sign would have two 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!

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 in their new church facility.

The photos show the Woodstock Baptist church sign and the site of the intended new location on St. Luke's church property adjacent to the post office. Photos submitted by Richard Dennique.