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Summary of Leadership Team Meeting – January 15, 2025

A notice was received from Dartmouth Players that the group would be relocating to Stairs United Church in January.Motions:

When You Change the Way You Look at Things… The Things You Look at, Change…

These ‘jars’ were created by two groups of people, so thankful for creativity in the congregation.

Midweek Message – January 15

You ever wonder what a minister gets up to in the run of an ‘average’ week?

We have a special service this Sunday around hymns and music! Jackie Clark is leading worship while I take a Sunday off that I am owed from the summer. There will be reflections on three different hymns by Shirley O’Sullivan, Dianne Cleveland and Lynne Travers. You’ll also be singing them! We are ‘undecorating’ this week…Continue reading “Midweek Message – January 8”

The Season of Christmas

You Are a Blessing All through the weeks of Advent, we have been using quilt blocks as a way to look at the readings. We had to cancel our Christmas Eve service due to bad weather, so today, Rev. Catherine adapted what had been planned for Christmas Eve and added Epiphany The first one isContinue reading “The Season of Christmas”

Midweek Message – January 1

Happy New Year! 2025! I can hardly believe it. A quarter century since all the build up and hype of Y2K! New Year’s Eve found me in the seat of a combine! I’ve never been up close to one, so had NO idea they were so big. Christmas is a season. On Sunday, it willContinue reading “Midweek Message – January 1”

Hope Is Worth the Risk

What are you willing to risk hoping for this Christmas?

Midweek Message – December 18

The theme this week is Hope Is Worth the Risk; scripture is Matthew 1: 18-25 & Luke 1: 46-55. I’ve been thinking a lot about risking hope; hoping for something, voicing it, putting it out there into the community, universe, or whatever, is both an act of courage and of vulnerability. I am not sureContinue reading “Midweek Message – December 18”

Are You Ready?

A childhood friends wants to see John again.

Midweek Message – December 11

Scripture – Matthew 3: 1-12 Message – You will hear from a childhood friend of John’s… looking back on her life and reflecting on John’s message of repentance. Your one chance of the year to throw things at your minister is THIS Sunday! There is a LOT going on over the next two weeks. I’veContinue reading “Midweek Message – December 11”