Website: saintdavids.ca In-Person: May be able to accommodate those who wish to attend. To join the Zoom service, send an email to [email protected] before 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning and we will send you the link and service script. The service will be recorded and available on YouTube the following Tuesday night at this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCipRgWoI93qkZvVBZTTdI0Q Guide for Guests: Enter by the main doors. The friendly greeter will social distance and not shake hands or hand you a bulletin. The bulletin will be on the table for you to pick up. Allow extra time to get seated as we practice social distancing and obtain your name and contact information. Masks are mandatory once you enter the sanctuary. Use the hand sanitizer when you enter. You will be directed to a seat. You are encouraged to greet one another by waving or bowing. There will no congregational singing, but you may hum along. Following the service you will be directed to leave by rows and we ask that you exit the building immediately, following the floor markings, Move away from the doors, so that those coming behind you may exit as well. Thank you for observing social distancing. Our History: Saint David’s is a family-centred Christian community known for its special ministry to children and youth no less than for its mighty ministry of word and music. It joyfully shares with all people its long tradition of evangelical preaching and the public worship of God in spirit and in truth. The Presbyterian Church of Saint David was born in 1925, when its parent, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, was in danger of disintegrating in the face of inter-denominational church union among Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists. None of the eight Presbyterian congregations in metropolitan Halifax voted to opt out of the new united Church of Canada, so those Presbyterians who did not wish to ebb and flow with the ecclesiastical tide found themselves within an emaciated Church and without a congregation or church building. Those who resisted union did so positively and constructively by first forming the Halifax chapter of the Presbyterian Church Association in 1924 and then establishing The Presbyterian Church, Halifax (incorporated, 1925). Soon afterwards, the Presbyterians leased and then purchased the former Grafton Street Methodist Church as a congregational home. Built in 1868-69, the building was designed by David Sterling, architect of Fort Massey United Church in Halifax, and is a registered municipal heritage property. It stands over and in the midst of the Old Methodist Burying Ground of Halifax, one of the most sacred sites of Maritime Methodism. In 1930 the Presbyterian Church, Halifax, was renamed in honour of the saintly King David I of Scotland, who reigned from 1124 to 1153. In 1975 the Church celebrated its centenary and the Congregation its golden jubilee.