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Announcements – Sunday, March 8, 2020
OUR MISSION Windsor Park United Church seeks to be a welcoming community. Based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, we nurture our faith and spiritual life by: worshipping and learning together, caring for each other, embracing our diversity, reaching out to those who live around us and working together in service to Creation. […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, March 8, 2020
Sunday, March 8, 2020 Second Sunday in Lent Approach Gathering Song – VU #634 – “To Abraham and Sarah” Welcome, lighting the candle and announcements Lighting the Lenten Candle Response One: In our call to be a blessing May we be a blessing true: May we live and die confessing Christ as Lord of all […]
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2019 Annual Congregational Meeting and Annual Report
The 2019 Annual General Congregational Meeting will be held on Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 12:00 noon. Attached is the Annual Report. The link to the report is posted below and a limited number of paper copies will be available starting Sunday, March 8, 2020. Annual Report 2019 Windsor Park United Church
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – March 1, 2020
Lent 1 The Edge of Our Temptation Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 Matthew 4:1-11 This week’s music: “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (VU #664) “What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer! O what […]
Continue ReadingAnnouncements – Sunday, March 1, 2020
OUR MISSION Windsor Park United Church seeks to be a welcoming community. Based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, we nurture our faith and spiritual life by: worshipping and learning together, caring for each other, embracing our diversity, reaching out to those who live around us and working together in service to Creation. […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, March 1, 2020
Sunday, March 1, 2020 First Sunday in Lent / Communion Approach Gathering Song – VU #664 – “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” Welcome, lighting the candle and announcements Lighting the Lenten Candle Response One: From the dawning of creation, You have loved us as your own; Stay with us through all temptation, Make […]
Continue ReadingLenten Message from the Moderator
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Notes on the Notes – February 26, 2020 at 5 p.m.
Ash Wednesday Scripture Readings: Psalm 104:24-28 Proverbs 2:1-5, 3:5-6 John 15:12-17 Luke 23:32-38 Service Music: “Light of Life Beyond Conceiving” (VU #121) “Light of life beyond conceiving, Mighty Spirit of our Lord; Give new strength to our believing, Give us faith to live your word, Give us faith to live your word.” As we enter […]
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A Time Called…LENT
Some of us may have grown up thinking that Lent was a time to keep personal enjoyment in check and to focus on personal guilt. That emphasis was to ensure we appreciated what Jesus suffered and accomplished in Holy Week. But Lent can also reveal the great blessings of being a Christian. Historical Roots of […]
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A Time Called…Transfiguration
Words occupy the mind, but images haunt the soul. Scripture records that, after a ministry of sermons, stories, and conversations, Jesus was transfigured on a mountain before his disciples. He appeared in dazzling whiteness with two heavenly figures – Moses and Elijah. Historical Roots of the Transfiguration Widely adopted in the Eastern Church before 1,000 […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – February 23, 2020
Transfiguration Sunday Exodus 24:12-18 Matthew 17:1-9 This week is the final Sunday of the season of Epiphany – Transfiguration Sunday. On this Sunday, all three of the synoptic gospels tell a story of Peter, James, and John accompanying Jesus to the top of a holy mountain. There, before their eyes, Jesus is transfigured or transformed […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, February 23, 2020
Sunday, February 23, 2020 Transfiguration Approach Gathering Song – VU #585 – “Jesus Bids Us Shine” Welcome, lighting the candle and announcements Call to Worship One: The mountain top, the shining face, the glowing clothes, the voice of God speaking from the cloud, the commandments etched in stone. All: Sometimes God shows up in ways […]
Continue ReadingAnnouncements – Sunday, February 23, 2020
OUR MISSION Windsor Park United Church seeks to be a welcoming community. Based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, we nurture our faith and spiritual life by: worshipping and learning together, caring for each other, embracing our diversity, reaching out to those who live around us and working together in service to Creation. […]
Continue ReadingIn Support of Wet’suwet’en
Letter to the church from the Moderator and the National Indigenous Elders Council Last modified on February 14, 2020 In late 2018, conflict over who has the right to make decisions about energy projects on traditional Indigenous territories reverberated across the country from the locus point of Wet’suwet’en territory in northern British Columbia. A […]
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Join the Worship Choir for Lent & Easter!
Singers Needed! This year, add another dimension to your Lenten worship by singing with the Worship Choir! We are starting to prepare the music for the Sundays in Lent to support our Lenten theme of “Encounters at the Edge” In addition to the Sundays in Lent, the Worship Choir will also be singing on Good […]
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