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Colouring for Stress Relief

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Dear Members and Friends of Faith: Please find attached a printable order of worship for the service on Sunday, for those of you who find it helpful. Also attached is a second version of the image of the bulletin cover for this Sunday.  Many people are finding the uncertainty of everything connected with the pandemic […]

Holy Week

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Dear Members and Friends of Faith: Holy Week takes us along Jesus’ journey to the cross – especially Maundy Thursday when Jesus spends his last evening with his disciples, and Good Friday recalling Jesus’ trial and passion.  Compared to Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, they’re not joyful days, but they are necessary.  There is no […]

Palm Sunday and many other things

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Dear Members and Friends of Faith: Palm Sunday is upon us this week, and I’m so sad that we won’t be together to process with palms for a second year.  Still, we will try to enter Holy Week together with anticipation, wonder, and joy as well as we are able online.  Holy Week Services – […]

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

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Dear Members and Friends of Faith: On March 21, 1960 authorities in South Africa killed 69 people who were publicly protesting the apartheid pass laws of their government.  This continues to be remembered today as International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.  Our National Bishop, together with the national bishops of the Anglican Church […]

Covid-19 Anniversary

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Dear Members and Friends of Faith: Today, March 11, marks one year since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization.  Since that time, nearly 120 million people around the world have contracted the virus, and over 2.6 million people have died from it.  Additional stresses on the economy, our health care […]

Mid-Week Lenten Series

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Dear Members and Friends of Faith: Please find a printable order of worship for the service on Sunday attached. Also, here is a reminder about two options for Mid-Week Lenten Series that you can find online. The first option is entitled: “You’re Not Who You Think You Are: Lent and the New You,” featuring Pastor […]

Mid-Week Lenten Series Options

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Members and Friends of Faith: Many people use the season of Lent to pay extra-special attention to their spirituality.  Churches often help us to do this through mid-week gatherings of worship, prayer, or education. I would like to draw your attention to two possible mid-week activities taking place online on Wednesday evenings through Lent this […]

“You’re Not Who You Think You Are: Lent and the New You,”

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Also next week, I will send out information regarding a Lenten Series that will be available online entitled “You’re Not Who You Think You Are: Lent and the New You,” featuring Pastor David Maginley and made available to us by Peace Lutheran Church in Pickering.  Pastor Maginley, an ELCIC pastor, is a four-time cancer survivor […]

Ash Wednesday

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Ash Wednesday takes place this Wednesday, February 17.  The Eastern Synod is providing a livestream of Ash Wednesday to be shared with all the congregations of the synod.  It will take place online at 6:30 PM on Wednesday evening.  I will send out the link to that service early in the week.  I will also […]

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