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Fundy St. Lawrence Dawning Waters (FSLDW) Committee Interest form.
Photos for Rev. Kendall Harrison’s Celebration of Life
In preparation for the Celebration of Rev. Kendall Harrison’s Life and Ministry that will take place on Friday, May 30th at 10am at the Mount Allison University Chapel, we are looking at putting together a slide show of photos. If you have photos of Kendall over the years, please submit them to info4RC14@united-church.ca by Friday, May 16th. Many thanks.
Remembering Rev. Kendall Harrison’s Ministry
We invite you to join us on Friday, May 30, at the Mount Allison University (MTA) Chapel at 10am to celebrate and remember Rev. Kendall Harrison. Please see the MTA map for the location of the Chapel (#19) and parking. We hope you can join us as we share gratitude for his life and ministry.
Shared 2025 Annual Celebration of Ministries Service
Please click here for a memo from Faith March-MacCuish, Executive Minister, with information regarding the Annual Celebration of Ministries Service being held in Sackville, NB, on June 1, 2025.
Forms Related to Retirees and Jubilarians
Please click here for a memo from Faith March-MacCuish, Executive Minister, with information regarding forms related to Retirees and Jubilarians.
Covenanting Service
The covenanting service between Rev. Gneid Lackey, Hampton United and Fundy St Lawrence Dawning Waters will be held on Sunday May 4, 2 pm at Hampton United, Hampton NB. Light reception to follow the service.
Eastertide Greetings from Regional President
Please click here to read the Eastertide greetings from the Regional President.
FSLDW Affirm Webinar- April 30th Getting Started!
If you have a few people talking about becoming an Affirming congregation, you have enough! Join a larger conversation on April 30th at 2:00. Kim Curlett, our Atlantic East Affirm United consultant, will take us through the process and answer the questions you have. It’s always good to chat with others who are on this path. Hope to see someone from your community of faith with us.
Please click here to register.
Seeking Full-Time Minister
The Saltsprings-Scotsburn-Lyons Brook Pastoral charge is seeking a full-time minister. This combined pastoral charge is rural in character, but minutes away from the towns of Pictou and New Glasgow, and short drives from Truro and Antigonish. The area is teaming with history. The congregation is supportive of ministerial, church, and community initiatives and hopes to attract a candidate that will bring combined appreciation of church teachings with guidance for modern times.
Please check us out at our community of faith profile at ChurhHub.ca or pass the word to your friends and contacts. Questions and expressions of interest can be emailed to us at search.sssblb@gmail.com
Worship 101
Worship is integral to the life of a church. The Faith Formation and Leadership Development committee of Bermuda-Nova Scotia Region offers educational opportunities to support lay persons who are interested in learning about the basics about worship in the United Church tradition. Whether you offer occasional worship leadership in your congregation or are looking to broaden your understanding of worship, we are presenting a series of webinars entitled Worship 101. Weekly web sessions will be provided by experienced worship leaders familiar in our Region on Mondays from April 28th to June 2nd inclusive except for Monday May 19th (Victoria Day). Each presentation will begin at 6:30 pm and run about 1 hour in length with an additional 30 minutes allowed for general discussion and questions. Registration is now open. Click here to register: the registration fee for the series will be $50. The five sessions, their leaders and topics are:
– The Person in the Pulpit – April 28th – Rev. Robyn Brown Hewitt
– Liturgy – May 5th – Rev. Dr. Andrew O’Neill
– Music as Worship – May 12th – Mr. Kevin Parks
– Bringing a Word – May 26th – Rev. Dr. Ross Bartlett
– Prayers of the People Workshop – June 2nd – Rev. Janice MacLean
Upon registration you will receive an automated email with additional information on how to pay your registration fee. A few days later you will receive a welcome email from the committee with the zoom link for the sessions and an outline of the course. You will also receive a reminder email before each session with the link and session outline.
Greetings Growth Seekers from Growth Animator Sharon
How is commemorating the one hundredth anniversary igniting your community of faith to share the message of the impact of God at work in our lives? Some reminders that the national worship service will be held June 8, 2025Join us in person and online
June 8, 2025, 7:00 PM Newfoundland Time
How will you join the Centennial worship? Will you watch the livestream on YouTube? Will you host a watch party and invite all the United Church communities of faith in your area to a potluck together? Will you hold a celebration with your family and watch the livestream together?
Or will you join the service in person at Gower St. United Church in St. John’s, Newfoundland?
Click here to add your own events to the map.
To locate events of interest near you or get ideas about what others are planning, please click here.
Let’s explore how to strengthen invitation and increase participation, reaching your neighbours to come join you. Remember to let me know what your plans are for your own commemoration of 100 years.
Let’s get growth animated together. Call Sharon at 506-306-0500 or by email at sballantyne@united-church.ca as together, we keep being bold, deep and daring!
55th Atlantic Seminar In Theological Education May 12th-15th, 2025
ASTE has been providing inspiring seminars for 55 years. If you are an ASTE alumni seeking more accessible learning or someone with striking stories of learning done differently since COVID, then your voice is needed during a discussion planned for Wednesday evening(May 14th) in Tatamagouche. Our focus will be ‘best practices’ for offering future ASTE learning events.
Looking forward to your creative suggestions during:
Coming Home to Earth:
Embracing Kinship, Creation, and Spirituality
with the Rev Dr. Allen Ewing-Merrill and the Rev. Hannah K. Sotak
Lecture 1: COMING HOME TO EARTH: From Dominion to Kinship
Lecture 2: REVERENCE FOR LIFE
Lecture 3: RECLAIMING OUR ROLE IN ECOSYSTEM
Lecture 4: COMING HOME TO EARTH: the Call of Creation
Lecture 5: COMING HOME TO EARTH: Life Together in Community
Lecture 6: THE MEETING OF WATERS: Transfiguration & Rewilding
Lecture 7: TAKING IT HOME AT A TIME SUCH AS THIS: Key Considerations.
Climate Change may not have captured priority status in the run-up to this year’s federal election, yet its impact still surrounds us. In the meantime Scientists continue to believe Faith Communities hold the greatest potential for countering Climate Change’s most significant environmental problems, the problems of selfishness, greed, and apathy. Addressing selfishness, greed, and apathy is not the domain of scientists, however, it is the domain of Churches! Is it really possible, that the future of the world now depends largely upon Churches and people of faith?
See you in Tatamagouche May 12-15, 2025 for further conversation and learning!
Attend one day ( Registration $80 plus meals) or attend al four days. Click here to register on the ASTE web page.
