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Notes on the Notes – May 8, 2016
This week’s theme: Ascension Sunday “As one door closed…a new one opens.” This week’s scripture readings: Luke 24: 44-53 Acts 1: 1-10a This week’s music: “All Things Bright and Beautiful” (VU #291) Those who have recently seen the local production of The Vicar of Dibley will have new memories of this old classic! The text, […]
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Local Production of “The Vicar of Dibley”
May 6 @ 7:30 pm and May 7 @ 7:30 pm Crescent Fort Rouge United Church – 525 Wardlaw Avenue The hit BBC comedy comes to the stage May 6 & 7 starring United Church and Anglican clergy. Tickets: $15 – benefit for Manitoba Association of Playwrights and St Matthew’s-Maryland Community Ministry. The parish of […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – May 1, 2016
This Week’s Theme: “Healing old wounds… an unlikely woman can be ‘saved’… and play hostess.” This Week’s Scripture Readings: Acts 16:9-15 This Week’s Music: “O Christ, in Thee My Soul” (VU #630) “O Christ, in thee my soul hath found, and found in thee alone; The peace, the joy I sought so long, the […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 24, 2016
This Week’s Theme: Earth Day This Week’s Scripture Readings: Genesis 1:1-31 Psalm 148 This Week’s Music: “In the Dawn of the Ages” “In the dawn of the ages God created the earth. Every living creature found in God its birth, From the birds in the sky to the deer in the wood. She looked all […]
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WPUCs Women’s Heart Health Links
Complete audio from April 12, 2016 Women’s Heart Expo at Windsor Park United Church: Part 1 at: https://youtu.be/gWh6VU57BWw Part 2 at: https://youtu.be/3WEykYxyW80 Part 3 at: https://youtu.be/ZXdkvpRizbo Jennifer Hudson Fight the Lady Killer ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu2dSVHZk8 Dr. Noel Bairey Merz – TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl479V5I0bU Photos from the event – http://www.windsorparkunitedchurch.com/general-news/womens-heart-health-follow-up/
Continue ReadingPlease Pray for the People of Ecuador and Japan
Here is the link to information from the United Church of Canada’s webpage re Japan and Ecuador earthquakes. Donation information will be posted as it is received, likely within the next day or two. http://www.united-church.ca/news/ecuador-and-japan-rocked-powerful-earthquakes
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – April 17, 2016
This Week’s Theme: Peter Begins His Ministry This Week’s Scripture Reading: Acts 9:36-43 This Week’s Music: “In the Bulb There is a Flower” (VU #703) “In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; In cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be free! In the cold and snow of winter […]
Continue ReadingWomen’s Heart Health follow-up
Did you miss the Women’s Heart Health event held on April 12? A recording is available! We have audio copies of the presentations and can make them available to anyone who wants them. Just drop off a blank cassette tape , CD or USB stick, to the office and we will gladly copy them at […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 10, 2016
This week’s theme: This week’s scripture readings: Acts 9:1-20 & John 21:15-19 This week’s music: “Jesus, Stand Among Us” (VU #396) “Jesus, stand among us in your risen power; Let this time of worship be a hallowed hour. Breathe the Holy Spirit into every heart; Bid the fears and sorrows from each soul depart. Lead […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 3, 2016
This week’s theme: Why the Christian church exists at all This week’s scripture reading: Acts 5:27-32 This week’s music: “Now the Green Blade Rises” (VU #186) “Now the green blade rises from the buried grain, Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is […]
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Church Adopts UN Declaration as Framework for Reconciliation
You are invited to be part of an important moment in the church’s journey of reconciliation. On March 30 and 31, 2016, The United Church of Canada will participate in events marking our commitment—as a denomination and as part of the ecumenical community—to adopt the principles, norms, and standards of the United Nations Declaration on […]
Continue ReadingSymbols of our Lenten Journey
Ash Wednesday – “Hungering for a fresh start” What is the ‘emptiness’? Why can’t you buy what you need to fill the emptiness? Lent 1 – “Hungering and thirsting for the WORD” Imagine a world in which there was no Bible? Imagine not having the stories of faith that have given us a glimpse […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 25, 2016 – Good Friday
Hungering and Thirsting for Salvation “Beneath the Cross of Jesus” (VU #135) “Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand: the shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land, a home within the wilderness, a rest upon the way, from the burning of the noon-tide heat and the burden of the […]
Continue ReadingSyrian Refugee Families – How you can help!
We have been invited to help sponsor 8 Syrian refugees who already have family in Winnipeg. If you would like to be part of a team to help co-ordinate their sponsorship and settlement in Winnipeg, please call the church office at 204-256-8792.
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