Congregational Email Update June 19, 2020 Dear Congregants, On my study leave last week, I continued contacting the thriving United Church congregations I visited last year on my sabbatical. Shortly, I will share a followup report from this research. In the meantime, I recommend a series of four youtubes entitled Pandemic Practicums that many …Read more
Worship for June 14, 2014
Rev. Ray Cuthbert leads worship on June 14, 2020. Martin Robson offers another of his own compositions. If the above link does not work you can access the service here https://youtu.be/_-iFUT1zNZI
Congregational Email Update June 12, 2020
Congregational Email Update June 12, 2020 Dear Congregants, We will be starting our After Church Café this Sunday at 1:00 pm since this time seemed to work well for folks last Sunday. A question for us to discuss is, “How can I, as an individual, make a difference in the life of the church?” …Read more
Worship for June 7, 2020
Our worship service for Trinity Sunday includes a celebration of Holy Communion. Loraine talks about racial justice and Rockers United offers an original song by Martin Robson. If the embedded link does not work, you can access the service here https://youtu.be/u_Xog_tMKhw
Congregational Email Update June 5, 2020
Congregational Update June 5, 2020 Dear Congregants, This has been an incredibly difficult week as we have been deeply saddened and angered by the violence and racism displayed by some police officers and certain elected leaders. It is spilling into our own streets and I will be telling the stories of two African-Canadian Winnipeg …Read more
Congregational Email Update May 29, 2020
Congregational Update May 29, 2020 Dear Congregants, Last week on my study leave I began to virtually visit the 11 thriving United Churches I visited on my sabbatical last year. This pandemic shutdown is a great test of how the rubber is hitting the road. Predictably—all of the churches have online worship and have moved …Read more
Worship for Penetecost
Join us on Sunday, May 31 at 10:30 am to celebrate Pentecost. There will be an after church cafe on Zoom at 11:30 am. Details are in the congregational e-mail. If the link above does not work, you can access the service here: https://youtu.be/R07GJjmk7g0
Worship for May 24, 2020
Join us for online worship at 10:30 am on Sunday, May 24, 2020. Rev. Larry McPhail preaches and we celebrate the Blessing of the Wheels virutally. If the embedded link does not work, you can access the service here: https://youtu.be/_q-4UB44NuU
Congregational Email Update May 22, 2020
Congregational Update May 22, 2020 This past week, our immediate neighbourhood has experienced two creative, fun events. We recorded congregants from age 9 to 89 cycling past the church for a blessing, which will be shown during the online May 24 service. Yesterday, I happened on Ray’s physically-distanced brass quartet serenading the community on a …Read more
Congregational Email Update May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020 Congregational Update Dear Congregants, This week I am grateful. Thanks to the skilled facilitation of our Council Chair, Pat S., we had a good Leadership Team meeting last week via Zoom where we were able to talk about how to creatively continue our essential ministries at Westworth. The Team Leaders and …Read more
