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Unfortunately, our plans to accommodate Bill Millar, our Sabbatical Supply minister, for the months of March and April have fallen through.  We need accommodation for Bill and his Bernese Mountain Dog, Finn for 7 weeks in March or April.  

If you can help for all or part of that period, please contact Ian Schofield,
Joy McMann or Donna Kennedy as soon as possible.  

THANK YOU to everyone that joined us to welcome Bill last Sunday. 

Children's Church and Toddler care for Sunday Services are key ways that we support the faith development of children, and hospitality to young families.

Children may go to Children's Church after the first hymn and return later in the service in time for the anthem.  We are making a couple of adjustments to the Sunday service to give a bit more time for the Children's Church lesson, and a bit less back-in-the service time.

Easy to lead lessons are ready for use, in the upstairs cupboard. 

Please sign up on the Sunday clipboard to help!

To book a session or inquire about this gentle healing ministry p lease contact: Sue Nichols at iamsue@telus.net  or call her at 403-678-4536

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Rehearses the second and fourth Monday of each month from 7:30 - 9:00 pm in the sanctuary. Threshold Choir singing is described as "kindness made audible". 

  

Join us in the Gordon Hall this  Friday, January 18 at 1:00 for a Shawl knitting circle. 

Everyone is welcome to come and knit. 

  

(an Outreach Ministry of RCMUC)

Jan 23 -  CYAN Yoga at the Opera House

 

Jan 28 -  CYAN Cross Country Ski Night

 

Jan 29 -  CYAN NIGHT - Canmore Eagles VS Brooks Bandits

Visit CYAN on Facebook or their website for more events, information or to sign up for their newsletter.   http://cyancanmore.ca/ 

 

Scott Brison, who resigned from cabinet on January 10, 2019, was the first federal politician to marry a same-sex partner.  Here is a link to this historic event. 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/brison-first-mp-to-wed-under-same-sex-marriage-law-1.675615

 

The couple welcomed twin girls on February 21, 2014.

 

Bill Millar, your gap minister while Greg is on study leave, has been doing research for the United Church on helping out church communities open themselves to the increasing cultural diversity of Canada. 

This process includes opening to newcomer populations, but also indigenous, LGBTQ+, youth and others. 

Bill is hoping that RCMUC will help shape that research and resource and is inviting everyone to share in a conversation following worship on Sunday February 3rd (Bill's first Sunday at RCMUC). You can also check out some of this research at enmeso.ca or on Facebook
[En Meso Intercultural Research]."

 

The new organizational structure of The United Church of Canada became official on January 1, 2019. Find out more about the new changes, including names of the regional councils, on the United Church website.

March 22-24, 2019 at 7:30 pm -  St. Laurence Calgary

   

From the 5th century, there has been a distinctive spirituality developed in the Celtic nations by leading figures in religious movements and by lay people. Though allied to and part of the catholic church, the Celts had a greater fondness for the incarnation which they regarded as the key to how we relate to God, to each other and to the physical earth. John Bell, a noted worship leader and hymn-writer from the Iona Community in Scotland, will be leading this Calgary event .