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! ๐Ÿ˜‰ 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 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 – 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 – February 12, 2025

Worship – We continue with our Six Stone Jars series on the Abundance of Jesus by marking Black History Month with reflections from Black United Church people from across the church. The scripture reading is Luke 6: 17-26 – The ‘Sermon on the Plain’ Blessings and Woes. I will offer a few reflective words asContinue reading “Midweek Message – February 12, 2025”

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 – February 28

How can it be the end of February! Worship this week is combined Annual Meeting and Worship; all the elements of worship, prayers, scripture, some brief reflections and approval of reports. We will still stream the service/meeting to Facebook Live, but if you want to speak to a report, it would be best if youContinue reading “Midweek Message – February 28”

Midweek Message – January 24

I was struck by this sign above a doorway on Portland Street one day last week on my walk back from the library! Tucked between two storefronts, I would have never noticed it if I had been driving. There is no better way to be in a neighbourhood than on foot, in fact, along withContinue reading “Midweek Message – January 24”