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Heroes Wanted

Last updated: July 5, 2025 Gardener Once a week, give our landscaping some love by helping with water, weeding, deadheading, cutting a dead branch, etc.! Weed Whacker You own a lawn trimmer tool and love to cut nice horizontal and vertical lines to clean up the edge of a lawn or cut back the wild creeping towards the cultivated. Online Service Hosts If you see the potential to help those watching online feel loved and connected, we want you! The online service host serves in the following ways: 1) Welcoming viewers and introducing yourself; 2) Creating engagement and reacting to comments, etc.; 3) Troubleshooting tech issues; 4) Praying for those viewing and serving as an online “Welcome Desk” to help answer questions, etc. Sunday Kids Ministry Opportunities to assist in the Nursery, Mini Bears, and K-6 [...]

Heroes Wanted2025-07-05T10:36:56-07:00

This Fall

MONDAYS MOMS GROUP:  Starts Sept. 15th at 9:30am. Community, prayer, and discussion around the book “Flourishing Family”. Request to join at  parksidechurch.ca/sg. PRETEEN (GRADE 4-6):  Starts Sept. 15th at 6:30pm. A regular rotation of various activities. parksidechurch.ca/preteen. CARPENTER’S SONS (MEN):  A time of fellowship, praise, discussion and prayer. Connect with Ron Raible at rsraible@shaw.ca or 604-771-9493. Starts Sept 8 at 7pm. TUESDAYS YOUNG LIFE CLUB (GRADE 10-12):  Starts Sept. 16th at 6:57pm in the Youth Centre. Visit parksidechurch.ca/youth. ALPHA:  Come out for a free meal, childcare, a video presentation and safe discussion about Christianity. parksidechurch.ca/alpha. Starts Sept. 16 at 6:30pm. WEDNESDAYS CELEBRATE RECOVERY:  Every week at 7:00-9:00pm. Come any time to find freedom from hurts, habits and hangups. HEARTS & HANDS:  A crafting group for women! Join us at the church every other [...]

This Fall2025-10-03T11:12:28-07:00

Empower Ministers Retreat

Empower Ministers Retreat “...you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” ACTS 1:8B (NIV) Register Now! (November 22-23, 2024) The Empower Ministers Retreat is a two-day (Friday-Saturday) retreat where we get to explore the gifts of the Holy Spirit and how they can be used powerfully in our lives and the church! WHO CAN ATTEND? If you have attended a Set Free! Retreat and our Hearing God course, we invite you to join us at the next Empower! WHAT IS THE COST? The cost is $50 per person. Included in the cost are Friday's dinner and Saturday's lunch as well as a wide variety of snacks and [...]

Empower Ministers Retreat2024-10-08T12:09:32-07:00

Micro Campus at Parkside

Parkside is a micro campus of Pacific Life Bible College (www.pacificlife.edu) and will start with offering a Bible college course each semester at Parkside. SURVEY OF CHRISTIAN BELIEFS (Lectures by Dr. Ken Deeks) 12 weeks starting Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 7:00-9:00pm THS 101 - MC (3 credits): This course introduces students to the basic concept of world views and the importance of understanding a Christian worldview. It covers the basic Christian beliefs that form the basis of a Christian view of the world are then surveyed according to standard theological categories. Each course is a video lecture with class discussion throughout the night. You can audit the course ($50) plus textbook (optional) or take it for credit ($350) plus textbook. To take the course for credit, you must meet Pacific Life Bible College (PLBC) admission requirements and apply [...]

Micro Campus at Parkside2024-08-29T12:29:16-07:00

Life is Short

Pastoral Apprentice, Jason van Ek-Veenstra, shares on the brevity of life and the certainty of judgment as motivators for generosity. Listen to the Sermon audio: Register for upcoming events Give online to Parkside Get email updates from Parkside Like us on Facebook Previous Sermons

Life is Short2024-06-25T11:10:03-07:00

Offering for New Chairs

Our current burgundy chairs -- that make brides shudder -- are riddled with broken welds, mismatched fabrics, protruding screws, worn padding, rips, and 40 years of butt dust. They’ve served us well. But have you ever considered who paid for the chair that supports you each week? Odds are most of our chairs were paid for by men and women of faith who have since graduated to Heaven! With eyes of faith, they gave and invested in both their own discipleship and the discipleship of those who would follow. Each week our chairs are used by men and women to hear the Gospel and grow in faith and family -- through Sunday mornings, Celebrate Recovery, Set Free! Retreats, Christmas Dessert Nights, and more! Our Church Council has set this year as the year to retire our [...]

Offering for New Chairs2024-06-13T12:58:21-07:00
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