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Welcome to St. Andrew's United Church Website. | ||
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ST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH MISSION STATEMENT
St. Andrew's United Church is a Christian family called together through God's love. We seek to share our belief in the ways of Jesus Christ and to be nourished and strengthened by faith. We strive to develop, enhance, and enrich our faith as a congregation. We will continue to be a caring and sharing church community through: - meaningful worship - outreach in the world around us in a spirit of equality and respect. - love and acceptance of God's creation.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The British and European colonists came to the Yorkton area as far back as 1880. They saw the need to meet in their homes with their small Bible.
In 1893 these Presbyterians and Methodists each erected a wooden church structure for formal worship. Their theistic spirit called each denomination to raise a large stone and brick worship edifice. The Fourth Avenue Methodist Church opened in 1899; St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church opened in 1910. In 1925, with the move to national church union, they became two United Church of Canada congregations two blocks apart. By 1928 they had amalgamated into one body using St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church building.
Forward, the combined congregations moved with a continuous religious life within and without. Forward, they always provided a Sunday School and midweek youth program. The women and men organized themselves to carry out ministry in mission, outreach, witness and administration. Always, the weekly worship was dressed with a traditional format of inherited classical music and the Word read and preached. We note here the church over the years was opened to the community for musical events, funerals, weddings and more. Always the congregation kept workers called to the Ordered Ministry. In historical perspective there were eighty years of life as the United Church of Canada (1925 - 2005), 95 years of life in the present building (1910 - 2005) and 125 years of life as Christians in witness in the Yorkton area.
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