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Coming Together Event – March 29, 2017

March 30, 2017
Photo Credit: Brooke Lark

COMING TOGETHER EVENT

Wednesday, March 29th from 6:00 to 9:00

We’ll gather at tables around a simple meal of homemade soup and artisan bread and butter with fruit and cookies for dessert. There will be lively discussion and laughter and an opportunity to enter into a Bible story in a way that invites “AHA” moments of insight.

Following our communal supper of soup, we’ll have an opportunity to engage in a Bibliodrama on the text (Mark 14:1-10). A Bibliodrama is a close reading of the Biblical text with searching, imaginative questions. It offers people of all ages and levels of knowledge a chance to experience a method of creative study that might change the way they will read the Bible. For more information, go to the Bibliodrama web site (http://www.bibliodrama.com/)

This event promises an enjoyable and memorable evening. Come! We are expecting you!

Be Blessed to be a Blessing, Reverend Rose Ann Vita

What is a Bibliodrama?

March 30, 2017

 

A Bibliodrama is the reenactment of biblical stories in small groups of (adult) participants, who are interested in understanding the biblical tradition in non-fundamentalist ways. It is a playful, spiritual, and dramatic approach to biblical stories.

In preparation of our special coming together event next week you can watch this short video explaining Bibliodramas:

 

Source: www.bibliodrama.com

COMING TOGETHER EVENT

Wednesday, March 29th from 6:00 to 9:00

We’ll gather at tables around a simple meal of homemade soup and artisan bread and butter with fruit and cookies for dessert.

Photo Credit: Brooke Lark

There will be lively discussion and laughter and an opportunity to enter into a Bible story in a way that invites “AHA” moments of insight.

Following our communal supper of soup, we’ll have an opportunity to engage in a Bibliodrama on the text (Mark 14:1-10). A Bibliodrama is a close reading of the Biblical text with searching, imaginative questions. It offers people of all ages and levels of knowledge a chance to experience a method of creative study that might change the way they will read the Bible. For more information, go to the Bibliodrama web site (http://www.bibliodrama.com/)

This event promises an enjoyable and memorable evening. Come! We are expecting you!

Be Blessed to be a Blessing, Reverend Rose Ann Vita

A View of the Windows at Leaside

February 22, 2017

Leaside United Church has magnificent stained glass windows. On Saturday, February 18, the Spirit Alive group undertook a tour of the windows, reflecting on the artistry of each window and its significance in the history of Leaside United Church. Most of the windows date from the 1950s and 1960s and were developed according to a plan prepared under the ministry of  Rev. Charles Murray, Leaside’s Minister from 1949 to 1964. These sixteen windows depict the life of Jesus in a clockwise arrangement around the sanctuary. Many of these windows are dedicated to parishioners who were active in the congregation at that time. More recent windows are dedicated to former Leaside United Church ministers, Orville Hossie and Norman Mackenzie and their wives Greta Hossie and Dorothy Mackenzie. The most recent window is dedicated to the memory of Patricia Fitzpatrick by her family.

 

Of particular note is the spectacular Memorial window overlooking the chancel. This window lists the names of nine very young men from Leaside United Church families who perished in World War II. This window was dedicated at Leaside on November 6, 1955 – the Remembrance Day service that took place ten years after the end of the Second World War. Also of note is the large window at the back of the church acquired from Eglinton United Church when that church building was closed following its merger with St. George’s United. The window depicts Christ as “The Light of the World” and replicates a famous 1854 painting by the British pre-Raphaelite artist Holman Hunt.

The tour by the Sprit Alive group gave us a greater appreciation for the beauty that surrounds us at Leaside United Church. For those who are interested, there is a very informative book in the church pews about the windows titled “Windows of Leaside”.

David Phillips

Spirit Alive meets to explore matters of spirituality, meditate, and reflect together. Save the second Saturday morning of the month to meet at 10:00 to noon. Spirit Alive begins with coffee, snacks and fellowship followed by a period of led meditation, music, quiet time and reflection to deepen the sense of the spiritual at the center of one’s life. For more information contact Bea Lawford.