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…
THURSDAY Conversation – June 10 at 9:00 am MONDAY Conversation – June 14 at 7:00 pm Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7538449219 From where do you get your news? There are so many sources from newspaper to TV, from Facebook to Twitter, or chit chat on the phone or in the lineup at the store, or….or….! Did you know…
Sunday School – June 6 at 9:30 am Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7538449219 Worship & Communion – June 6 at 10:00 am Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7538449219 There’s lots of news to share! Thanks to everyone for helping to make the Glenlea Greenhouse fundraiser such a success, the cheque arrived this week – over $2500! And, we have received a note…
THURSDAY Conversation – June 3 at 9:00 am MONDAY Conversation – June 7 at 7:00 pm Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7538449219 There are difficult days We continue to be in the midst of a global pandemic, and as bad as things are here, we know that there are parts of our world where the struggle is even greater….
I heard the geese before I saw them Carol has been on ‘holidays’ for part of this week, and I wanted to share this story with you: I was sitting on a bench in one of our neighbourhood parks, looking at the wind-brushed ripples on the water’s surface, noticing the geese who seemed to be…
THURSDAY Conversation – May 27 at 9:00 am MONDAY Conversation – May 31 at 7:00 pm Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7538449219 Dracula, Luther and May 26 ?? What do Dracula, Martin Luther and May 26 have in common? May 26th is a date prominent in the careers of both the fictional Dracula and the Reformation theologian Martin Luther….
We attended a festival this week! We attended a festival online, as did everyone else who ‘attended’ this festival. It was the annual Festival of Homiletics! ‘Homiletics’ is the art of preaching and sermon writing. We attended a preaching festival! We had a week of listening to sermons and to lectures about sermons! We were…
Thursday Conversation – May 20 at 9:00 am Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7538449219 Long weekends aren’t what they used to be! Canada approaches this year’s Victoria Day long weekend under continuing COVID-19 health regulations. Which means that we aren’t travelling, we aren’t visiting in-person with people outside our own households and the people without cottages are still not…
Thursday Conversation – May 13 at 9:00 am Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7538449219 Just Hum Along!! When someone mentions the name of a song and we can’t quite remember the piece, we might say, ‘just hum a few bars.’ Researchers are now discovering that humming a few bars, or humming along, or just humming, is good for us….
Happy Mother’s Day! It is still Mother’s Day weekend, even though current COVID health regulations in the province of Manitoba (and in other places throughout the world) mean that many people will not be able to visit their mother, or hug, or sit at a table to share a meal. Perhaps our gatherings are limited to…
