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You are invited to Quiet Prayer every Thursday morning at 11:00 a.m. All are welcome!

Sunday Service – 11 a.m.
Sunday School – 11 a.m in the Church; children will be escorted to the Church hall after the children’s story for age appropriate worship and teaching

Children participate in worship with their parents until shortly after the children’s story. At that time they are invited next door to the Church Hall for childcare and age appropriate worship activities.

After every service, we would love to meet you and your family! This is a great time to find out more about St. Andrew’s. The reception is next door in the Church Hall. An escalator is available for anyone who need that accommodation.

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Rev. Bernie Skelding
Dear Friends

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the website of St. Andrew’s Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

God bless you,

Rev Bernie Skelding

our mission

Friendly Community

Our prayer for you is that within this sanctuary you will find the quiet of the presence of God, the blessing of a warm fellowship and the abiding truth of the sacred scripture.

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church exists to serve Christ. As we strive to show God’s love in this community, we offer you whatever help and support we can. At the same time we unite those who wish to share in the worship of God and live in a Christian life to join the nourishing and serving community of the Christian church.

Rooted in the Presbyterian Heritage, we welcome everyone to share in the fellowship and challenges of our congregation.

Our Community

St. Andrews is a warm and joyful Christian congregation, worshiping in abeautiful and historic sanctuary dating back to 1794. Our Sunday service istraditional, with an inspiring music programme and Sunday School foryounger children. Opportunities for spiritual growth, fellowship and outreachto our local community are frequent and varied. We are home to NOTL’sannual Strawberry Festival and host many uplifting events including Gateauand Grace gatherings in the summer. All are welcome.

Charity Causes

Outreach Ministries of St. Andrew’s Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake
Denominational Outreach -As part of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, St. Andrew’s contributes annually to Presbyterians Sharing, a national church fund which supports a host of missions and ministries at home and abroad.Additionally, through Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D), we assist churches in developing nations, funding educational, medical, and agricultural programs, and respond to global crises like famine and natural disasters.
Congregational Outreach -St. Andrew’s engages in local, national, and global outreach that seeks to make Jesus known in word and deed.-- Locally, we hold a Vacation Bible School, support Newark Neighbours inassisting struggling families, participate in the Caribbean Workers OutreachProgram, and provide hospitality through Second Chance Movies. We arehome to the town’s annual Strawberry Festival and host many upliftingmusic events including our summer Gateau and Grace Gatherings.-- Nationally we partner with the Kenora Fellowship Centre, a Christianministry aiding vulnerable and unhoused individuals, many of themIndigenous.-- Internationally we work with Langham Partnership, an interdenominational,mission agency that provides theological resources, training, andscholarships for church leaders in the Global South.Finally, the St. Andrew’s Charitable Fund, established decades ago, helps tofinance the ministries mentioned above, supports children attending Camp Kintail,as well as various other charitable causes.

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Niagara on the Lake
323 Simcoe St, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0

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St. Andrew’s is a relatively small congregation, but one with a purposeful life. Apart from Sunday worship, details of which are available on the website under VISIT, we would like you to know about other aspects of our community

We celebrate two sacraments at St. Andrews, Baptism and Holy Communion, both of which express in acted out, visual tangible ways the good news of Jesus that is preached from the pulpit.

The sacrament of Baptism, which in the Presbyterian Church is applied to new believers and the children of believers, involves water – water symbolizing the life-giving, cleansing power of Jesus to make us into new people. It is a most joyful sacrament in which new believers publicly profess their faith in Jesus and have water poured upon their head as they take on the name of Christian. When the children of believers are baptized, they do so after at least one of the parents, who must be a member of the St. Andrew’s community, reaffirms their faith publicly and promises to nurture their child in the Christian faith. Baptism is thus not only a biological family occasion, but a church family occasion, when the whole congregation promises to nurture the faith of its members of whatever age.

The sacrament of Holy Communion or the Lord’s Supper is celebrated at St. Andrew’s multiple times throughout the course of the Christian Year. The Supper involves two key points; first is the breaking of bread and the pouring of wine, action that Jesus used shortly before his death to point to his imminent death, when his body would be broken, and his blood poured out for sinners. The second key point is that the broken bread and poured out wine are then offered to worshipers, giving us the opportunity to take and receive them as a highly symbolic way to taking and receiving Christ into our lives. Though Communion is always related to the death of Christ for us, it also points beyond his death to his resurrection and living power available to us now.

Twice each year, St. Andrew’s has two Festival services – the Festival of Carols in December and the Festival of Praise in May. At both services, we pull out ‘all the stops’, literally. Details appear on this website announcing the festivals at appropriate times.