Mardi Tindal, Moderator, United Church of Canada, 2010 Lent Message

Some Christians observe Lent by fasting or giving up something to remind them of Christ’s sacrifice. In her Lenten message, Moderator Mardi Tindal invites you to consider a carbon fast for Lent.

http://www.united-church.ca/communications/news/moderator/100217

Greening Sacred Spaces

As peoples of differing faiths and cultures, we affirm common values of justice, peace, participation, human rights, ecological inter-relationship, and compassion as cornerstones of a healthy society.

Truth and Reconciliation requires Listening

The United Church has committed itself to finding ways to reconcile its relationship with Canada’s First Nations peoples.   

The United Church is building congregational strategies for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and living into right relations.

40th General Council, 2009, Kelowna British Columbia

Watch GC40 Live at http://gc40.united-church.ca/site/watch

 At General Council is Rev. Wendy Milliken; best wishes from your congregation here in Springfield.

Emerging Spirit News

Emerging Spirit is an exciting initiative of The United Church of Canada focused on establishing and nurturing a relationship between the United Church and Canadians who don't attend church, with a focus on those between the ages of 30 and 45.   http://www.emergingspirit.ca/

See the United Church in Action on the United Church YouTube Channel

See the United Church in Action on the United Church YouTube Channel

The channel includes videos of some of our church’s hundreds of community projects, both in Canada and overseas, as well as video messages from our current spiritual leader, Moderator David Giuliano.

Do we build our house upon the rock? Do we let the house sit upon the sand?

"The house on the rock will stand firm...we must build our life on the Lord Jesus Christ...the blessings will come down as the prayers go up...so build your life on the Rock."

Celebrate! St. John's United Church 129 years of ministry - Because we bear the name of Christ...

A Centre for worship and education

  • Celebrating God's prsence in praise and prayer music and word;
  • Exploring life's questions:  big, little and medium size
  • Sunday morning worship
  • Celebrations of Communion and Baptism
  • Worship services for Christmas Eve and Good Friday
  • Sunday School
  • Bible studies
  • Faith conversation groups
  • Marriage preparation

Providing a home for...

"Will the road you're on get you to my place?"....God

Worship at St. John's United Church Sunday's 10:30 a.m.

Count your blessings!  Recounts are OK---

Blogging on Bottled Water

All right so here it is, I get a lot of e-mails asking me about it so I'm going to just lay it out here. What reasons do I have to hate bottled water?

People will say to me "I understand the pollution makes it bad but why not go after soft drinks or something like that?" Well my response to that is always the same. I can't just go drink from a fountain of Sprite.

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