We will have our first ever float in the Sidney Days parade, and will showcase who we are to our neighbours!
We need volunteers to help with decorating our first ever Parish float entry. Marshalling begins at 10:15, and the parade starts at 11:30. For further information, click on the Peninsula Celebrations website.
We also need volunteers who would like to walk in the parade and either hand out fliers or (maybe) carry signs - or just walk for the fun of it!
The Parade for Brentwood Days on Saturday June 4 was a huge success. We want to build on that success for the Sidney Days parade.
Anyone interested in helping with this event can contact Rachel Moss (with "Parade" in the Subject field).
The Sidney Days Parade is on July 1 (Also Canada Day!).
The aim is to have an entry in the parade in order to:
- Increase community awareness of the parish, the churches and our ministries
- Advertise our service times and hopefully attract new parishioners and
- Advertise our upcoming Summer Events.
The proposal for the Parish Parade entry is to have the St. Stephen’s Praise Band, Psalm 98, on a flat-deck truck playing our best songs as an attention grabber. This also has the potential to attract people to attend services, as many people are attracted to services with good praise music. We’ll have to decorate the truck for entertainment value.
We will have a banner up either side of the truck with our Parish logo, information, website, the names of both churches, etc. Then we could also have some volunteers walking alongside with hand-held signs for our various ministries and events, like Soup’s On, our Refugee Initiative, the Wine Fest, the Animal Blessing Service, the Annual Hymn Sing, Youth group, Sunday School, GEMS, etc. Again, these signs are already printed.
Along with that we can have a few more volunteers handing out fliers.
One side these fliers have the names of the churches in the Parish and the service times, the bible studies, etc. and the reverse side list our Upcoming Events with dates. These parades offer us a great opportunity to attract new parishioners, raise awareness of our community involvement and for both churches to work together. Let's show Sidney how we help the community and Have Fun!
Rachel Moss.