Meet U @ The Zoom Room will continue on Wednesday mornings through the summer. You are welcome to come with your morning beverage at 10:45am to listen to one of our featured speakers and a time for conversation.
See you soon and check your emails for the Zoom links. Not signed up … no problem, just sign up to receive our weekly emails here on the website or call Alison Jane our Church Administrator to sign you up.
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Your presence is a blessing.
Today we celebrate Pride Sunday.
Our service on YouTube includes the hymn “Our Love Colours Outside the Lines,” Psalm 13, and the Pride Parade video from our congregation.
On Zoom, our service will also include the poem “Who Said It Was Simple” by Audre Lorde and “For the Great Diversity: a prayer for Pride 2020” and a conversational reflection.
Join us on Zoom any time after 10 for our 10:30 service, or gather between 9:45 and 10 for our children’s program. If you watch the service on YouTube, join us on Zoom at 11:15 for our Conversation Time.
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Pride Parade and UCC Party
The Toronto Pride Parade is happening today from 12-1:30 and can be viewed here.
The United Church pride party (including our pride greetings video) will be happening tomorrow at 6pm, and you will be able to join here.
Worship Team, Rev. Emily Gordon, Natalie Jahn and Matthew Boutda
In the week following the death of George Floyd and the beginning of the Black Lives Matter protests, we discussed sharing the message “Black Lives Matter” on social media. We did not do so, feeling that this could become a token action rather than reflecting a congregational commitment to anti-racism work.
Instead, on social media we tried to lift up Black voices, particularly ones in the United Church. Since then, racism has been discussed in conversation time and at the June church council meeting. Council made a commitment to continue this conversation at the council level at the next meeting as well. Two weeks ago I organized a viewing of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s talk “The Danger of a Single Story,” which five people attended. Last week we shared a mid-week reflection written by a member of our congregation discussing white privilege, and actions we can take. On Sunday, I invited people to stay following the service and a short conversation time to watch a video shared by the UCC Black Clergy Network. Thirty people stayed, listened together, and shared in discussion. I can now say that we are beginning this work as a congregation.
Your presence is a blessing.
Today is both the Indigenous Day of Prayer and Father’s Day. The service will include a visit from Robbie, prayer written for the Indigenous Day of Prayer, and the hymn “This is God’s Wondrous World.”
On Zoom, we will also share a time of lighting candles together, share a Psalm, and hear more about Treaties in our area. As is our new usual, you can watch the service on YouTube, or connect through Zoom or by phoning in.
Join us on Zoom any time after 10 for our 10:30 service, or gather between 9:45 and 10 for our children’s program. If you watch the service on YouTube, join us on Zoom at 11:10 for our Conversation Time.
Then, at 11:15, you will have the option to join another break out room to watch a 9 minute video shared by the UCC Black Clergy Network.
Your worship team, Rev. Emily Gordon, Matthew Boutda and Natalie Jahn
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