Bermuda-Nova Scotia Regional Council Weekly Announcements – August 7, 2024

NEWS AND UPDATES FROM BERMUDA-NOVA SCOTIA REGIONAL COUNCIL

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To view upcoming programs at the Tatamagouche Centre please click here.
To view upcoming events at the Atlantic School of Theology please click here.
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Bermuda-Nova Scotia Regional Council Committee Volunteer form.

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Job Posting: Communications and Office Administrator (Full-time)-FSLDW/BNS

Fundy St. Lawrence Dawning Waters and Bermuda-Nova Scotia Regional Councils is seeking an individual to fill the role of Communications and Office Administrator on a permanent full-time basis, 35 hours per week. Please click here for the full job posting.

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Opera and Pop Community Concert – August 11 at 7 pm at Stairs Memorial, Dartmouth

Save the date of Sunday, August 11th for an amazing night of opera and pop! We would love to have you come and support Rita and Dunnery. If you are unable to come, please share this post for us! We greatly appreciate all the support! Stairs Memorial is offering this event to the community as we are so blessed to have Marharyta (Rita) Sharko, an opera student from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She has recently moved to Nova Scotia, but is from a small town in Ukraine, and her love for music started there. She has been studying music for almost 15 years and still continues. She loves performing and has participated in many concerts all over Ukraine, in the rest of Europe, and also in Alberta, where she had been living for 2 years. She hopes to continue sharing her love for opera and Ukrainian Folk Songs by performing here, in Halifax, as well as around Nova Scotia. Opening for Rita is local musician and singer, Dunnery Bond, who attended and graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. Calling Nova Scotia home, he continues to sing and play with a band and pursue other musical endeavors. We are so excited to have them both! Please click on the attached poster for details!

Please see the poster for details!

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United Church Bookstore

The United Church Bookstore is taking pre- orders for the following
2025 Abingdon Preaching Annual
2025 Abingdon Worship Annual

The cost of the books are $42.95 tax included.

To place an order contact Leona at llaundry@united-church.ca or 1.800-268-3781, ext. 6141

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Greetings Growth Seekers from Growth Animator Sharon

Are you working for your greener good in your growth planning? Environmental sustainability is part of our growing strategies. Consider carpooling to worship, to meeting, in planning errands, shopping and going to community events. It not only grows relationships; it grows health for creation. Share ways to decrease carbon impacts and increase sharing and caring for each other and creation.
“The United Church of Canada’s Faithful Footprints program offers inspiration, tools and grants to help its communities of faith reduce their energy and carbon footprint offering up to $30,000 in grants towards energy conservation and renewable energy projects (conditions apply).” Explore ideas with Stephen Collette and the Faithful Footprints team. Stephen Collette can be reached at scollette@faithcommongood.org 705-930-1011. Check out the information for Atlantic Canada at https://www.faithfulfootprints.org/atlantic-canada “Communities of faith in Atlantic Canada have access to various provincial and municipal incentive programs. These funding opportunities are a great way to secure matching funds to support your Faithful Footprints application”. Consider more efficient lighting options, retiring old appliances, heating and cooling improvements, retrofitting, solar and other efficient and cost saving possibilities. Explore energy audit opportunities. In June, the United Church surpassed its goal of working with five hundred engagements in the Faithful Footprints program, about twenty per cent of our communities of faith, and nationally, a reduction of nearly twenty-four per cent in Greenhouse Gas emissions. Help the United Church meet its goal of reducing by eighty per cent by 2030. You can reach me by email at sballantyne@united-church.ca or by phone 705 875-8837. Let’s grow together with deep spirituality, bold discipleship and daring justice.