Happy 96th Anniversary to The United Church of Canada!

And, Happy Pride Month!

With the leadership of Merging Waters Pastoral Charge in Beaconsfield QC, 70 Ministers in the United Church came together to record a special song to share with the church on this occasion.   The short video also contains a brief history of The United Church.

Even though Jeff and I are not singing on the video, we know the truth of this song as ministry is shared at TMUC.

Thank you for your gracious sharing of Christ’s ministry, Happy Anniversary!

As we share this week’s TMUC worship service, we are called again to listen to words of reconciliation:

We are gathered for worship and work in Treaty One territory, which is the traditional land of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dené peoples and the homeland of the Metis Nation. For thousands of years Indigenous Peoples walked this land and knew it to be the centre of their lives and their spirituality. We respect the Treaties that were made on these territories, we acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and we dedicate ourselves to move forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.

Worship for Sunday, June 13, 2021

Introit: “Come All You People”

Come, Holy Spirit!
Come to awaken our faith,
to inspire our hope
to embolden our love
and to let Christ live in us!
Come, Holy Spirit!

Our opening hymn is “Come You Thankful People Come”.

Esther and Emmett talk about Germinated Love

Printable Version:
Esther and Emmett and Germinated Love

Mark 4:26-34
He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,

and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.

The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.”

He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it?

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth;

yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it;  he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.

Carol offers a reflection:

Printable Version:
Reflection – June 13

Let us pray:

Loving and eternal God, hear our prayers,
We thank you for all the ways in which you touch our lives and remind us that you are with us.
We thank you for gifts of grace, reminders that we are your beloved children and that nothing can ever separate us from that love.
We thank you for your call to share ministry, to care for others, to seek justice, to resist evil, to live love.
We thank you for gifts of hope, reminders that we are a community, and that through caring for one another, and through caring for ourselves we can be the change we want to see in our world.
We thank you for the work of those who live so generously in this pandemic.  We pray especially for those working in health care – in a system that is so heavily burdened.
We pray for our leaders that they might act with wisdom, courage, and care.
We pray for those whose livelihoods are disrupted, teaching remotely, closed businesses, distanced family and friends that we might find ways to connect and heal.
We pray for an end to racism, especially this week we pray for an end to Islamophobia.
We pray for those who live in places of drought and famine.
We pray for those who live in places of violence and war.
Hear our prayers, O God.
We offer these prayers, and all the silent prayers of our hearts and minds, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Our closing hymn is “When Seed Falls on Good Soil”

May God bless you and keep you.
May God’s face shine upon you.
May God grant you peace and joy.
Be in the peace of Christ, this day and always. Amen

We keep you in our prayers,
Carol (and Jeff)