Weekly E-mail – June 19, 2020

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June 21, 2020 – Worship Service

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June 14, 2020 – Worship Service

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June 7, 2020 – Worship Service

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May 31, 2020 – Worship Service

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May 24, 2020 – Worship Service

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May 17, 2020 – Worship Service

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Dear Friends of Christ! This Sunday would have been the Pride Parade. Many of us would have gone on the march in celebration, solidarity, and support of our LGBTQ+ family. Instead we are taking this Sunday as an opportunity to celebrate the anniversary of SMRUC being an Affirming Ministry of the UCC. affirmunited.ause.ca Although this year we don’t… Read more…

Weekly (Virtual) Fellowship

And I hope to see many of you connect again for our virtual fellowship time via zoom Phil Read is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting at 11 am every Sunday. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89017542624?pwd=empXOHZtTmtidldKTllRYWpQZVdpZz09 Meeting ID: 890 1754 2624 Password: 031612 Phone in option: +1 438 809 7799 (CANADA Number)

Thoughts for the day – May 26, 2020

Hello fellow isolationists, It has been an overcast couple of days and it has gotten me thinking a little bit deeper. Do you notice how when it is bright and sunny out our thoughts are much more buoyant, but when the clouds roll in we can enter into places of deep thought. Or is it… Read more…

Mid-Week Devotion – May 13, 2020

Scripture Proverbs 17: 17 – 24 17 A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. 18 It is senseless to give a pledge, to become surety for a neighbor. 19 One who loves transgression loves strife; one who builds a high threshold invites broken bones. 20 The crooked of mind do not prosper, and… Read more…

Weekly E-mail – May 29, 2020

Dear Friends of Christ! This Sunday is Pentecost, fiftieth day after Easter, yes it has been that long! Sometimes referred to as the birthday of the Church, this day retells the story of when the promise of the Holy Spirit anointed the disciples gathered in Jerusalem to be, as Jesus put it, “my witnesses of… Read more…

Weekly E-mail – May 22, 2020

Dear Friends of Christ! This Sunday is the end of Eastertide. In the church calendar, we remember and celebrate the ascension of Christ. The ascension of Jesus is alluded to in several passages of scripture, and foreshadowed in a few others. But only in the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles is it… Read more…

Weekly E-mail – May 15, 2020

The ‘sermon’ this week will focus on one of the most noteworthy novels of the 20th century. In ‘The Plague,’ French writer Albert Camus (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957) imagined a modern city afflicted by the terrible scourge of the bubonic plague. Some critics have read the novel as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of… Read more…

Weekly (Virtual) Fellowship

May 10, 2020 I hope to see many of you connect again for our virtual fellowship time via zoom Phil Read is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting at 11 am every Sunday. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89017542624?pwd=empXOHZtTmtidldKTllRYWpQZVdpZz09 Meeting ID: 890 1754 2624 Password: 031612 Phone in option: +1 438 809 7799 (CANADA Number)

May 10th – Service

Weekly Email – May 8, 2020

Dear Friends of Christ! Happy Mothers’ Day Weekend! “Every time we think of you, we thank God for you. Day and night you’re in our prayers as we call to mind your work of faith, your labor of love, and your patience of hope in following Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 1.2) The Sunday Service will… Read more…

May 3 – Worship Service

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April 19th Worship Service

Somehow this service didn’t get posted here (don’t worry, it went out in the weekly email and was uploaded to YouTube, we just forgot to put a link on here). Click here for the service

Weekly (virtual) Fellowship

Fellowship is central to many of us in our experience of faith. To that end we will be sharing what would normally be our Junction fellowship time via Zoom. Phil Read is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Every Sunday starting at 11 am. If you’ve never joined before, here’s a very quick guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkCmbvAHQQ… Read more…

Donations – CanadaHelps

Donations can now be made through CanadaHelps.org. Just click this link to go to our page. Thanks for your generosity!

Weekly Email – April 24, 2020

Dear Friends of the Risen One! “To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour “ ~ WILLIAM BLAKE, Auguries of Innocence This week marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Our online worship focuses… Read more…

April 26th Service – Earth Day

Our April 26th service is now available to watch. Click here.

Plant Sale

The garden group will once again hold its native prairie plant sale that will include safety measures for COVIV-19. We hope this will give you something beautiful to look forward to with an eye toward the hope that nature brings with new beginnings. Greenhouses have been allowed to do businesses in this time of COVID-19… Read more…

Easter Service

Our Easter service is available on YouTube. Click here to view it.

April 9, 2020 – Weekly Email

Dear Friends of Christ, Today is Maundy Thursday of Holy Week. It is the day that remembers Jesus washing the feet of the disciples. In a time of self-isolation and social distancing it is hard to imagine what ministry will look like going forward. This intimate offer, has down through the ages reminded us of… Read more…

Good Friday Service

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COVID-19 Update

Update: April 25, 2020 We still can’t meet in person but here are two wonderful things: Services We are now doing our weekly service in video format. The services are posted to YouTube Sunday morning (sometimes Saturday night) and a link is sent out in the weekly email and posted on the website. The services… Read more…