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Worship Service – March 27, 2022 – Lent 4

Fourth Sunday of Lent “Full to the Brim – Prodigal Grace”  *Tech tip: If you would like the spoken portions of the service to have closed captioning, click the play button and then click on the CC icon at the bottom of the video screen. Please click here for the Bulletin Click here for Notes on the Notes This […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 27, 2022

Lent 4 Prodigal Grace This week’s music:  “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy” (VU #271 v 1, 2, 5) “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea; There’s a kindness in God’s justice which is more than liberty. There is no place where earth’s sorrows are more felt than up in heaven; […]

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Worship Service – March 20, 2022 – Third Sunday of Lent

“Full to the Brim – You are Worthy” *Tech tip: If you would like the spoken portions of the service to have closed captioning, click the play button and then click on the CC icon at the bottom of the video screen. Please click here for the Bulletin Click here for Notes on the Notes This week’s worship is […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 20, 2022

Lent 3 You are Worthy  This week’s music:  “Come, Just As You Are” “Come just as you are, Hear the Spirit call. Come just as you are – Come and see, come receive, come and live forever. Life everlasting, And strength for today, Taste the Living Water and never thirst again.” Our opening song invites […]

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Worship Service – March 13, 2022 – Second Sunday of Lent

*Tech tip: If you would like the spoken portions of the service to have closed captioning, click the play button and then click on the CC icon at the bottom of the video screen. Please click here for the Bulletin Click here for Notes on the Notes This week’s worship is led by:  Rev. Patrick Woodbeck and Gloria […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 13, 2022

Lent 2 Full to the Brim – Under God’s Wings This Week’s Music:  “Let Us Build a House (All are Welcome)”  “Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive. Built of hopes and dreams and visions, rock of […]

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Mourning the death of The Very Reverend Bill Phipps

The United Church of Canada grieves the death of the Very Rev. Dr. William Phipps, the denomination’s 36th Moderator, who faithfully served in this role from 1997 to 2000.  Rev. Phipps died on March 4, 2022.  A fierce champion for economic and ecological justice, Rev. Phipps was originally trained as a lawyer before becoming an […]

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Bulletin – Wednesday, March 2, 2022 – Ash Wednesday

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Ash Wednesday Scripture Reading:           Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming, it is near— 2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and […]

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Sunflowers in Ukraine: Praying for a Miracle

(A Prayer by Moderator Richard Bott) God of all Creation, God of the heights and the depths, and everything in-between, God of this blue-green bauble, spinning in space, a place of such wonderous creatures, and abundant life… we are praying for a miracle, one of the smallest of changes, one that would have immense consequence. […]

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