Author Archive: Laura
It’s (Virtual) Homecoming Week – Throwback Thursday!
Enjoy this video of photos from our 60th Anniversary in November 2018!
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It’s (Virtual!) Homecoming Week!
Throughout this week we will be posting memories of the past 62 years of the life and work of the congregation of Windsor Park United Church! Feel free to share your favourite church photos or memories by sending them to laura.wpuc@gmail.com (Tech tip: click on the photo to see it full size)
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Worship Service – October 25, 2020
Link to bulletin Link to Notes on the Notes Leading worship today: Rev. Patrick Woodbeck, Laura Steidl, Gloria Saindon, Sarah Closen, Myrna Hagues, Heather Karavas
Continue ReadingUnited Church Supports M’ikmaq Treaty Rights
October 22, 2020 Grace and peace, in Jesus’ name.In the church, we are familiar with covenants as agreements we make with each other and with God to live together in harmony. We understand the importance of keeping covenants, and, when they are broken, seeking ways of healing the relationships that have been damaged. The Peace […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – October 25, 2020
To love, but only with God as our help? Deut. 34:1-12 Matthew 22:34-46 This week’s music: “Great is Thy Faithfulness” (VU #288) “Great is thy faithfulness, God our Creator; There is no shadow of turning with thee; Thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; As thou hast been thou forever wilt be. […]
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Worship Service – October 18, 2020
Link to the bulletin Link to Notes on the Notes Leading worship today are: Laura Steidl, Gloria Saindon, Sarah Closen, Heather Karavas, John Lwiwski, Myrna Hagues Time for All Ages & Sermon: Rev. Patrick Woodbeck Tech tip: Hover your cursor over the video and then click on the “cc” to access the closed captioning option!
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“Giving to God What is God’s” Exodus 33: 12 – 23 Matthew 22: 15 – 22 This Week’s Music: “Come and Find the Quiet Centre” (VU #374) “Come and find the quiet centre in the crowded life we lead, Find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: Clear the […]
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Worship Service – October 11, 2020
Link to the bulletin Link to Notes on the Notes Leading worship today are: Rev. Patrick Woodbeck, Laura Steidl, Myrna Hagues, Gloria Saindon, Sarah Closen, John Lwiwski and Heather Karavas
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Notes on the Notes – October 11, 2020
Creation 5 Thanksgiving Communion Offering Thanks in Today’s World Deuteronomy 8:7-18 This week’s music: “We Praise You, O God” (VU #218) The title for our hymn book, Voices United, comes from the third stanza of this hymn. The words were written by Julia Cory in 1902 at the request of the organist, for a Thanksgiving service […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 4, 2020
Creation 4 To Live as God’s People Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 This week’s music: “In Christ There is No East or West” (VU #606) “In Christ there is no east or west, in him no south or north, But one great family of love throughout the whole wide earth. In him shall true hearts everywhere […]
Continue ReadingA Prayer for Orange Shirt Day*
Today we wear orange to remember and honour all the Indigenous children who went to Residential Schools. Today we wear orange and we pray for the Residential School and intergenerational survivors who are still struggling. Today we wear orange and we are thankful for those who speak the truth, and who work to shine a […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 27, 2020
Creation 3 Life-giving Water Exodus 17:1–7 Phil. 2:1-13 This Week’s Music: “Crashing Waters at Creation” (VU #449) “Crashing waters at creation, ordered by the spirit’s breath, First to witness day’s beginning from the brightness of night’s death. Parting water stood and trembled as the captives passed on through, Washing off the chains of bondage – […]
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