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Ralph Connor Memorial United Church Weekly
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Greetings!
We hope to see you at Church on
Third Sunday of Advent, December 15, 2019 - the Sunday of 'Water'
CONTRIBUTING TO SUNDAY WORSHIP:
Greeters: Jayden & Cam McMann
(this is Jayden's final Sunday here... please stay for cake after worship!)
Worship Leader: Marilese MacDonell
Advent Candle Lighters/Readers: Joy, Jayden & Cam McMann
Children's Church: Joan Von Engelbrechten & Joy McMann
Fellowship: Anne & Rick Hester
Pianist: Dave Somerville
Choir Director: Cathy Robinson
Music Director: Tanya Sullivan
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Scripture:
Luke 1:46b-55
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"PAR New Applications or Revisions"
To maintain our database, please update contact information with Trish at
office@ralphconnor.ca
subject line "contact information update". Contact information includes name/address/phone/email information.
And...we're always happy to receive New/revised PAR forms! These must be submitted by 10th of current month to The United Church of Canada to be applied the current month.
Thanks for your generous response!
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NEWS & COMING EVENTS
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Morley Christmas Community Feast Donations
Last chance THIS SUNDAY Dec 15 to donate as goods will be delivered to Morley early this week so that hampers may be packed & distributed. Much of the sorting has already happened but we are still happy to receive your final donations.
Kids' mittens and scarves
PJs for children and adults (slightly used AOK)
Toiletries including toilet paper
Tinned ham, chicken, tuna, salmon
Canned fruit and vegetables
Cereal
Also accepting clean gently used clothing for all ages.
A huge Thank You to Sim for donating generously from GeoGems sales fare - enough for the turkeys for the Morley Feast. Banff Rundle United Thrift Shop is partnering with us to provide additional clothing, and we appreciate the opportunity to work with them on this.
WHAT WE NEED MOST in this coming week:
Cookie baking
- sign up for 1 of 2 baking bees at Origin on Wed Dec 18 - 1:30-4:30 pm & Thu Dec 19 - 1:30-4:30 pm. Thank you for the many independent bakers who have frozen a great start. Sign up via Trish,
office@ralphconnor.ca or at fellowship time on Sunday.
December 21st Stoney Christmas volunteers
- many hands are needed to help for 3-4 hours (or whatever time you can spare) between 11:30 AM -7:30 PM, at the Morley School (look for the vehicles!). Sign up at Fellowship or email Donna at
dmkennedy11@gmail.com . We will also need help transporting tables from/to Ralph Connor before and after the event.
Thank You to each and everyone of you for your contributions - donations and service - for the Morley Food Bank & Stoney Christmas Community Feast.
Please note that RCMUC will also be able to make a significant financial contribution to the Canmore Christmas Spirit campaign this year!
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THE LONGEST NIGHT - this Wednesday at 7:30 PM
Wednesday, December 18 at 7:30 PM
The Longest Night
A night of special music
Presented by Evensong
As the darkness deepens, gather in the warmth
and beauty of the sanctuary
for poetry, carols,
and special music by Cathy Harrop,
Heather MacFadyen,
Cathy Robinson,
and Breanna Temple Smolicz.
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CHRISTMAS with Ralph Connor
Two Christmas Eve Services
Tuesday, December 24th
5:00 PM
Community Family Service & Pageant
at Creekside Hall - Seniors Centre
600 9th Street, Canmore
8:00 PM
Traditional Carols & Scripture Readings
at Ralph Connor Church
617 Main Street, Canmore
PLEASE NOTE:
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!
Many hands are needed to help with both services on December 24th.
We welcome some 400 worshippers on Christmas Eve
and your participation is needed and appreciated!
Sign up via clipboard on Sunday.
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UKULELE CLASSES
Thursdays @ RCMUC Sanctuary
Thu Dec 19, 2019
- 5:30-6:30 Christmas sing a long altogether Sanctuary
- then 6:30-7:30 party in Gordon Hall
- no classes after Dec 19 until Jan 16th
Contact Donna or Marsh Kennedy for more information at
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HEALING PATHWAY
This gentle healing ministry is available by appointment.
Healing Pathway treatments are now available on Friday afternoons only, either 1:00-2:30 PM or 2:30-4:00 PM.
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CHOIR REHEARSAL
Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. in the Church Sanctuary
New members welcome!
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ALPINE VOICES THRESHOLD CHOIR
Rehearses on the 2nd & 4th Mondays of each month in the RCMUC Sanctuary
Contact jan.tissandier@gmail.com
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Every Wednesday at 7:30p.m.
Join us for a mid-week time of contemplation, word, silence and song.
December 18 is "The Longest Night" (7:30 p.m.);
No Evensong on December 25 or January 1;
January 8, 2020 will be Epiphany Evensong, with Communion.
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CHILDREN'S CHURCH
Children's Church and Toddler care is available during Sunday Services.
Each Sunday in Advent - Children's Church will feature a Christmas Ornament Craft! Please share the word with friends and neighbours.
"Christmas Wreaths"......This week (Dec. 15) children are invited to create wreath decorations for their Christmas Tree at home.
The Wreath is on the Door
The wreath is on the door
And the snow is on the tree
God has laid His holy hands
On all that we can see.
Be quick to raise your voice
And praise what He has brought.
Keep now is love in every choice
And Christmas in every thought.
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MISSION & SERVICE FUNDRAISER!
Remember the old "Penny/Coin Drive"? We're not doing that this year but we'd like you to bring your coins to Church to make an M&S Donation at Fellowship time.
In exchange for your donation, you may bring home a reusable vegetable bag, to help reduce single-use plastics! Thanks to our Children's Church for starting this initiative.
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Prayer Shawl meeting at RCMUC- today!
Fri Dec 13 @ 1 p.m. - all are welcome (note meeting 2nd Friday of each month)
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CYAN: Canmore Young Adult Network
INTERCULTURAL POT LUCK Tuesday, Dec 17 at the Miner's Hall!
YOGA Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:00 P.M. - Dec 11 and 18
at Spring Creek Opera House
click here for more information.
(no Yoga on Dec 25 or Jan 1)
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Affirming Ministry
As part of our efforts to be a more broadly inclusive Community of Faith, we need to know about special events happening in and around the Bow Valley. Many thanks to Robin Slater for offering "Robin's Web" as a feature in our Newsletter!!
ROBIN'S WEB
CONNECTING DIVERSITY
...events you don't want to miss...
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Dec 14, 2019 5:00 PM Baitun Nur Mosque 4353- 54 Avenue NE Calgary DINE WITH YOUR MUSLIM NEIGHBOURS Dinner and Open house at Calgary Mosque This holiday season, Get to know Muslims in the Calgary area and enjoy a complimentary dinner. 5:00 PM - Doors Open - 6:00 PM - Guided Mosque Tours, Exhibition and Socializing 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM - Welcome Remarks and Presentation 6:30 PM - Dinner
I've reserved 5 spots under "Robin Slater" for the dinner at the mosque for anyone who wants to go. The sign-in table is usually a zoo and mostly everyone is welcome. But you can refer to my name if there are questions. It is always a great event.
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Dec 22, 2019 7 PM Scarboro United Church Chapel Blue Christmas Calgary Queer Church community For whom the holidays are not an easy time. A service and sermon curated by and for the LGBTQ2S+ community. You are invited to bring holiday baking of your choice to share with the community over tea after the service
- Dec 23 5:30 PM 31st Annual Community Menorah Lighting Calgary City Hall - A Calgary Tradition! Featuring, dignitaries, community leaders, live music, Chanukah gelt, latkes, holiday food and more!
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ARAB CANADIAN THEATRE
invites you to ask hard questions
December 10-15, 2019 7:30 pm
December 14 - 2:00 pm The Opposite
707 6 St SW (the former location of Masters Pub)
Between November 4, 2015 and February 29, 2016, Canada resettled more than 25,000 Syrian refugees, following the outbreak of civil war. But what if war arrived much closer to home? What if Calgary became a warzone, and we were all forced to flee our homes and become refugees?
Kawalease ACT (Arab Canadian Theatre) invites audiences to ask these hard questions, and see the world as a refugee. بالعكس / The Opposite, by Sleman Aldib, aims to help Canadians feel what it means to be a refugee, what it means to leave your country in a hard situation, to leave everything behind and start anew
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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
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NEW HOME FOR AHS PROGRAM
For close to 15 years Alberta Health Services
has rented space at Ralph Connor to operate their Adult Day Support Program.
They will have their final gatherings at RCMUC this coming week.
Starting January 13, 2020 they resume their programming at the Bow River Lodge. The ADSP staff and participants hosted a lovely thank-you tea for RCMUC this past Monday.
We wish them continued blessings in their new surroundings.
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COMMUNITY FOOD AND FRIENDS
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Monday dinner at St. Michael's Anglican, 709-7th St
It's Ralph Connor's turn to provide volunteers
this Monday, December 16!
Thanks everyone for volunteering for Food and Friends throughout 2019 and I (Judy) hope that you will continue to volunteer in the New Year. When I receive the new schedule, I will be sure to forward it on to you.
Thanks to the many who have already signed up for Food and Friends on Monday, December 16 and I am hoping that we will have more volunteers sign up in the next few days. Please remember to bring a commercial dessert to give to Pat at the dessert table. Also, would you please let me know if you would help with washing dishes or putting them away in the kitchen.
Shift #1 4:15 - 6:15
Faye Forbes
Marshall Ouellet
Sandy McCaig
Duncan McCaig
Pat Ryan
Sue Nichols
John Thorburn
Ann Thorburn
Joan Vanenglbrechten
Linda Bolen
(2 or 3 more required please)
Shift #2 6:00 to 8:00
Bill Rowe
Carole Rowe
Joan Lawton
Faye Forbes
Dave Rencz
MJ Hammond
Donna Scott
Robin Scott
(4 or 5 more required please)
To volunteer, contact Judy Vincent
(home) 403-678-6440 or (cell) 403-493-0408
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THANK YOU
DESSERT-MAKERS FOR FOOD & FRIENDS
Thank you Dessertmakers Dec 1st
Barb Profitt
Dora Blitt
Isabelle Ramsay
Jean Slaght
Marshall Oulette
Mary Cranston
Deb Mayberry
Faye Forbes-Anderson
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ECUMENICAL SENIORS' SERVICE & LUNCH
This Wednesday, December 18, the annual Christmas service & luncheon is being held at St. Michael's Anglican Church and Hall, worship starting at 11:00 AM.
All Seniors are invited to join for this time of worship and fellowship. Thank you in advance to our Pastoral Care committee, who join with others to prepare and serve the luncheon.
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HAVE YOU VOLUNTEERED AS A SUNDAY HELPER?
Help us weekly and contribute to our Sunday Service, it is easy!
Just sign up on the clipboard during Sunday Worship or after at Coffee time, then go to our website at
http://ralphconnor.ca/volunteering/ and
view or download the duty sheetfor the position you have selected for instructions.
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