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The news drop-down menu item above contains links to the bulletin and an archive of recorded services.
The bulletin for Sunday October 4, 2026 includes info on the following: welcome Youth Group This Week (Oct. 9)
Bring a Harvest Offering to God this Thanksgiving Sunday! Lunch and Learn (oct. 19)
Pastoral Care Communion Drivers (Oct. 20)
New Photocopier - click on bulletin image to go to bulletin
Parkwood Men (& Ladies): The next men's breakfast will take place on Saturday, October 3 @ 8am, and again for this meeting the ladies are invited.
Please join us for a time of fellowship & sharing in the
Fellowship Hall at the church. Coffee & muffins will be served. Our theme, continuing from May, is 1970s-era Jesus Music and some of the pioneer musicians
of that time whose songs we use in worship to this day. We'll be viewing the 2nd half of a 2-part documentary on the subject.
Please let us know you're coming so we don't run out of muffins - add your name to the sign-up sheet on the kiosk in the Gathering Place, or let the office or Gord Walford
know you're coming.
This Sunday, October 4, we welcome Sue Matthews as our guest speaker. Sue is a former Youth Pastor who worked in the Salvation Army for 10 years. She left this work when her second child was born, but still enjoys sharing God's Word. As her kids grew she went back to school and began a second
career as a school librarian which she does today in the Ottawa Carleton District School Board. She loves her family but if given a chance will talk endlessly about her Chihuahua, Gilbert. Welcome, Sue!
Website revamp... Parkwood has had a presence on the World Wide Web since April 1996.
Over it's 30 plus years the website has gone through two major redesigns, and is due for another, as well as a "passing of the torch" to a new generation of web designers and
maintainers. A team consisting of Luis Cortorreal and Chen Chen, under the direction of Jim MacDonald has been at work on a new site design since last fall.
At some point soon the plan is to run the two sites - new and legacy - in parallel and once the kinks are ironed out, it will be "out with the old, in with the new".
Mission Team Special Appeal 2026 #3:
The Mission Team's third special appeal for 2026, commencing September 13, is for Operation Come Home, an organization providing programs supporting homeless and at-risk youth between the ages of 16 and 29, helping them to pursue goals and with personal growth.
More info from the Mission Team here.
More info is available on the OCH website, here.
Parkwood Pulse news... Good news: at it's regular meeting on September 28, Parkwood session agreed to continue the Pulse newsletter, and have appointed a
new editor, our Admin Assistant, Elizabeth Mabie. Thanks for your willingness to undertake this important task, Elizabeth! Now, team leaders and other Parkwood folk - we need articles, advertisements of upcoming events, reviews of past events. It may take a while to get the first fall edition up, so stay tuned...
Click on the photo album icon to check out our photo gallery featuring a new photo from the the September 2025.ordination & admission of new elders.
A Stewardship Letter dated May 8, 2026 was sent out to Parkwood folk inviting them/you/us to "share in a season of stewardship" in an era of increasing costs and financial challenges. You can read the letter here.
To help us keep track of this campaign, please mark donations for this purpose using
the term "Personal pledge". To the end of August, $7,515.00 has been donated in response to this need. In addition, the June Thrift Sale raised $2,763.60
Church School Classes 2026 - 2027(pdf)
(registration form)
Babies & children are welcome in our worship service. After the children's story, the children are welcome to go downstairs to the Fellowship Hall where we will spend time learning children's hymns. The children will then split up into age appropriate classes,
If the parent wishes, a nursery room is provided for children 2 and under. It is located on the upper level next to the library. A sound system is available to hear the worship service. Pre-school (age 2) to Junior Kindergarten meet downstairs in the Fellowship Hall (Pamela Pestaluky, Olivia Meyia-Takoukam) Senior Kindergarten to Grade 3 children meet downstairs in the Garden Room (Lorrie McEwen and one other) Grades 4 through 6 meet downstairs in the Meeting Room (Joanne & Thom Meredith, Happiness Otokhine) Grade 7 through high school meet downstairs in the Youth Room (Vicky Henry)
Events
October 2026 @ Parkwood
Facility Management on call... This month, if there are any issues with the property or
building please call Alta MacFie or Jim MacFie (613-723 7865/613-410-7865).
Parkwood Men (& Ladies): The next men's breakfast will take place on Saturday, October 3 @ 8am, and again for this meeting the ladies are invited.
Please join us for a time of fellowship & sharing in the
Fellowship Hall at the church. Coffee & muffins will be served. Our theme, continuing from May, is 1970s-era Jesus Music and some of the pioneer musicians
of that time whose songs we use in worship to this day. We'll be viewing the 2nd half of a 2-part documentary on the subject.
Please let us know you're coming so we don't run out of muffins - let the office or Gord Walford
know you're coming.
The English as a Second Language (ESL) conversation group continues to meet on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. in the church library. This is a great opportunity to practice speaking English or starting to learn.
Please contact the church office if you have any questions or wish to join the group.
Parkwood Youth...
Here's what's happening this month, including start time...
the regular in-house monthly events will take place Friday, Oct. 9 @ 7 PM. and Friday, Oct. 23 @ 7 PM.
Check the calendar for activities, or watch for an e-mail from Vicky.
Lunch and Learn... Monday, October 19 (lunch @ noon, talk @ 1pm):
This month Susan and Mel Finlay will be our guests, and they'll introduce us to their ministry, Nation at Prayer.
Pastoral Care Communion... The next Pastoral Care Communion will take place on Tuesday, October 20 @ 2:00pm in the sanctuary,
followed by refreshments in the Fellowship Hall.
Mark your calendars for Friday October 30 @ 7 PM, for an evening of piano, singing and stories.
More info to come.
The Sunday afternoon Bible Study which takes place Sundays @ 1:00 PM via Zoom.
resumes September 20.
contact:
Dora Brown:
phone 613-224-9110
·
email .
Barrhaven Bible Study: takes place Wednesdays from 7:30 - 8:30 PM via Zoom.
Fall term starts Oct. 21 and runs through Dec. 15; consult online calendar.
contact:
John Fair:
phone 613-823-9970
·
email .
Next month & beyond @ Parkwood
Please check the weekly bulletin and/or
monthly calendar for other upcoming events. Both can be found in the "news" drop-down menu.
Media
Library
Did you know that you can
search the catalogue of Parkwood's library books online? We now offer a visual tutorial to get you started - click on the image to go to our library
page. Also, check out a couple of new library books - info on page 8 of the May 2021 Pulse.
Photo gallery
Click on the photo album icon to check out our photo gallery featuring some happenings during 2025: reception of new members and the 60th Anniversary Team's
photo collection on display in the lower corridor.
Recordings
recordings of services are made each week and are available at reasonable cost. Since we began
livestreaming, you can watch past services on our YouTube channel.
If you or someone that you know is having difficulty or simply
does not have the equipment, please let us know and we will try to help in whatever way that we can -- call the church office (613-225-6648 ext. 114) or contact
one of the members of the Pastoral Care Team (see list)
or an elder (see list).
RightNow Media (RNM) is a video resource library material for Bible study for adults, youth and childen. It has been described as "the Netflix of video Bible Studies". We have a subscription, so access is free for anyone at Parkwood. More info including
how to sign up on page 1 of the
Dec. 19/20 e-letter. Check it out!
Click on the RNM logo to go to their homepage.
Register for your own account (under Parkwood's license) here.
RNM can also be accessed on your smartphone or tablet via a downloadable app.
The RightNow app can be found here,
Parkwood's YouTube channel is where our weekly livestreamed worship services are broadcast from, and where past services are stored for viewing after they
have been livestreamed; the channel also occasionally features videos of other events in the life of the congregation. We invite you to visit
"Parkwood Ottawa" on YouTube - click on the YouTube logo to go there; please consider subscribing to our channel. To do that you'll need a separate
YouTube account, but there's a benefit: whenever a livestreamed service is about to take place, you'll receive notification by email with a link to the service.
Also, videos are archived from time to time and removed from the channel. There's a complete list of archived services, both audio and video,
here, If there's a service in that list you'd like to see again, please contact the webservant.
Miscellaneous
Like history? Having marked the 60th anniversary of Parkwood's first service of worship, which took place
on Sunday, September 20, 1964 in Parkwood Hills Public School, we thought you might like to read some of our history. The first several pages of our Book of Thanksgiving,
covering the period July 9, 1964 through June 7, 1965 are available for your reading pleasure [HERE].
And speaking of Parkwood's history, did you know we've created an archive of Parkwood's Annual Reports updated to cover the years 1964 through 2024.
This was undertaken as a school project by Cheyenne Copeland in the spring of 2023, and is available [HERE].
2025 Annual Report:
The Annual Congregational Meeting was held @ 7pm Saturday February 28, 2026 in the Fellowship Hall.
The 2025 annual report is available here:
print version (with vertical funds statement)
read version (with horizontal funds statement)
(both 63 p, 6.8 MB, 27-mar-2026) incl errata sheet Membership of Ministry Teams, 2026-27(as prepared for the Annual Congregationl Meeting) Annual Report project: Parkwood annual reports from 1965 through 2024, by decade, fully indexed
Parkwood and the PCC...
Many in the Presbyterian Church in Canada have been concerned since the 2021 General Assembly adopted remits on
human sexuality. More info on the subject is available on the Session Resources page.
Documents outlining Parkwood's position can be found here.
welcome
Parkwood Men (& Ladies): The next men's breakfast will take place on Saturday, October 3 @ 8am, and again for this meeting the ladies are invited.
Please join us for a time of fellowship & sharing in the
Fellowship Hall at the church. Coffee & muffins will be served. Our theme, continuing from May, is 1970s-era Jesus Music and some of the pioneer musicians
of that time whose songs we use in worship to this day. We'll be viewing the 2nd half of a 2-part documentary on the subject.
Please let us know you're coming so we don't run out of muffins - add your name to the sign-up sheet on the kiosk in the Gathering Place, or let the office or Gord Walford
know you're coming.
This Sunday, October 4, we welcome Sue Matthews as our guest speaker. Sue is a former Youth Pastor who worked in the Salvation Army for 10 years. She left this work when her second child was born, but still enjoys sharing God's Word. As her kids grew she went back to school and began a second
career as a school librarian which she does today in the Ottawa Carleton District School Board. She loves her family but if given a chance will talk endlessly about her Chihuahua, Gilbert. Welcome, Sue!
Mission Team Special Appeal 2026 #3:
The Mission Team's third special appeal for 2026, commencing September 13, is for Operation Come Home, an organization providing programs supporting homeless and at-risk youth between the ages of 16 and 29, helping them to pursue goals and with personal growth.
More info from the Mission Team 
Facility Management on call... This month, if there are any issues with the property or
building please call Alta MacFie or Jim MacFie (613-723 7865/613-410-7865).
Pastoral Care Communion... The next Pastoral Care Communion will take place on Tuesday, October 20 @ 2:00pm in the sanctuary,
followed by refreshments in the Fellowship Hall.
The Sunday afternoon Bible Study which takes place Sundays @ 1:00 PM via Zoom. 
recordings of services are made each week and are available at reasonable cost. Since we began
livestreaming, you can watch past services on our 
People associated with Parkwood who have passed away within the past year include:
