A congregation of the United Church of Canada
Noticings – March 13, 2024
PIE Day”I wonder how we might do it on our sleeves?” If you attended church at Faith on Sunday (in-person, livestreamed, or tuning in later) you heard me talk at Kids Time about this Thursday (tomorrow) being National Affirming / PIE Day. PIE is an acronym for Public, Intentional, and Explicit. March 14th has been…
Noticings – March 6, 2024
El Salvador”A rich and spirit-filled experience.” Back in 2018, my wife Cynthia and I had the sincere privilege of being part of that year’s mission awareness trip to El Salvador. The trip is organized through the East Central Ontario Regional Council (our wider church body – formerly known as Bay of Quinte Conference). The roots…
Noticings – February 28, 2024
Sweaty Evangelism”Oh, it wasn’t for church…” Last weekend we visited our son in Ottawa to celebrate his 30th birthday. It was a great weekend featuring an art gallery, skating at city hall, and a couple of lovely dinners out. Our weekend concluded with a brunch with some of our wonderful old Ottawa friends that we…
Noticings – February 14, 2024
Syrup to Ashes”You are marked in love.” What a joy it was to have to scramble to set up additional tables to accommodate the diners who arrived to partake in our annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper last night. As always, the Men’s group did a fantastic job, and a delightful time was had by all….
Noticings – February 7, 2024
Essentials”Something is more important than music!” This coming Sunday February 11th we’ll be having another ‘all praise and worship music’ service. We had one back in November, and we’ll have a couple more before June. If I had my druthers (see last week’s sermon!) I think I might actually reverse this pattern. If I was…
Noticings – January 31, 2024
Connections”How’s that for a small world?!” Recently my spouse and I had the director of the community choir we sing in and their spouse over for dinner. We are just one year into the choir, so we are still getting to know these new friends. As our dinner conversation flowed on we discovered a remarkable…