Nov 26, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
The Advent and Christmas season is full of activities. Invite yourself, your community of faith, and your neighbours to pause, to breathe deep, to pray, find some stillness, some calm, to offer spaciousness to bring your whole self, your true you to God, whether full...
Nov 20, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
Dear Communities of Faith in UCC-East, Strengthening Invitation to Hope, Renewal, and Belonging, Advent and Christmas call us to shine Christ’s light into our communities —beyond our building’s walls, through open doors, shared tables, and compassionate hearts. Advent...
Nov 19, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
Do you love getting Christmas cards? Perhaps, like me, you have been inclined to send digital greetings in recent years. This year I am intentionally doing print Christmas cards, hand deliveries for neighbours that I can and for family and friends too far, I’ll...
Nov 12, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
Days are ticking and it’s time to get inviting with urgency to act to share hope, peace, joy and love. We know about countdowns in Advent, but what about the countdown to Advent? “A single invite can do what 100 posts can’t….it’s not about reach. It’s about...
Nov 5, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
Have you ever visited a community of faith and still been part of the “who is missing?” even when you are present. How often has a brave visitor risked and attended only to be treated as if they are invisible. You may have experienced this when you visit another...
Oct 29, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
When neighbours really take time to share in coffee and conversation, people learn more about each other. In a commercial Tim Hortons offered a challenge, setting up a small table in a driveway and asking neighbours if they would be willing to meet with their...
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