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Midweek Message – May 7, 2025

You folks made my heart so happy last Sunday. There was a visiting minister and his husband from Kamloops United Church in the congregation and he commented after the service on the hospitality they experienced! He said that they have rarely experienced that kind of welcome when they have been visiting a church, from theContinue reading “Midweek Message – May 7, 2025”

Midweek Message – April 30, 2025

I sometimes wonder if anyone reads these… but based on a few emails when I didn’t write one last week, I guess you do! 😉 Following Easter, I took a few comp days to recharge my energy banks; I’d been putting in a great deal of extra time, including a number of Saturday events. AndContinue reading “Midweek Message – April 30, 2025”

Midweek Message – April 16, 2025

Holy Week… my Facebook memories told me a couple of weeks ago that back in 2018, I had 6 services over 4 days! I was serving a 2 point charge, we had a Maundy Thursday Service, Good Friday, a funeral on Saturday, Easter Sunrise Service and then a service in each as well! I definitelyContinue reading “Midweek Message – April 16, 2025”

Midweek Message – April 9, 2025

It’s Palm Sunday, as Jesus heads to Jerusalem and ultimately his death. The choir has been working on an anthem called Breathe, Listen and Notice and I’ve written an interactive service in three movements around those themes: Breathe, Listen and Notice. Following worship we’ll enjoy a soup lunch and hear from the Property Committee aboutContinue reading “Midweek Message – April 9, 2025”

Midweek Message – April 3, 2025

It’s week 5 of our Lenten Series: Everything In Between. This week it’s Righteousness and Mercy; the story of Zacchaeus, the Tax Collector; it’s found in Luke 19: 1-10 As I’ve been pondering this story, I can’t help but wonder if this is a sudden conversion or is this something that has been stirring inContinue reading “Midweek Message – April 3, 2025”

Midweek Message – March 26

It’s the 4th week of our Lenten Series: Everything In Between and this week’s theme is Lost and Found. What is the space between those two? What is filled with? Waiting? Emptiness? Longing? Hope? God? So many possibilities in the space between. It’s also our Annual Congregational Meeting, which will be combined with worship; ifContinue reading “Midweek Message – March 26”

Unrevealed

My mother will attest to the fact that when I was a child, I hated that we often had a large vegetable garden. Not just the weeding, and the picking, but the thinning of carrots… and then we couldn’t just throw the thinned carrots away, we had to wash and eat them! Imagine, how manyContinue reading “Unrevealed”

Midweek Message – March 19

The sun is shining, the birds are singing, I’m resisting getting into my garden to clean it up… leaving all the beneficial insects in it who have overwintered in it. It’s a mess! We installed a new walkway last summer and didn’t get a chance to do the landscaping, so I was exploring a numberContinue reading “Midweek Message – March 19”

Midweek Message – March 12

Friday is PIE Day! We want to be Public, Intentional and Explicit about our support and affirmation of LGBTQ+ people. In a time when there is increasing polarization, it’s more important than ever to a visible presence in the community. On Friday a group of folks are taking pies out to LGBTQ+ friendly businesses inContinue reading “Midweek Message – March 12”