Ralph Connor Memorial United Church
Weekly
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Friday, June 11, 2021
by Thursday at 11:00 AM
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Please send all Office emails to office@ralphconnor.ca. The old canmoreu@telusplanet.net and canmoreu@telus.net addresses are now defunct.
Please also note: if you are sending letter mail to RCMUC, please include “Box 8901” in the address to make things easier for the folks at Canada Post.
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Sunday, June 13, 2021
As usual, there will be online worship on YouTube at 10:00 AM Sunday, posted at the Ralph Connor Canmore YouTube channel,
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EVENSONG NEWS
Wednesday Night Worship
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Evensong, our “mid-week contemplative oasis”, is a worship service held on Zoom each Wednesday night at 7:15 PM. The weekly Evensong email invitation will include the Zoom link for this week's Evensong. If you are not on the Evensong email list, and would like to be, please email request to jan.tissandier@gmail.com.
The final service in this 20th season of Evensong will be THIS COMING WEDNESDAY, June 16th. We look forward to resuming Evensong's next season in September!
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The BVRP are pleased to announce that Sevan Gower (nee Kahkejian) was received as a Canadian Citizen on June 8th!
Congratulations!!
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Alberta Education has released a curriculum draft for Kindergarten to Grade 6, to be piloted in the next school year. A motion passed by our Chinook Winds Region agrees with our earlier assertion that this curriculum is in direct violation of a promise the Alberta Government made at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event in Edmonton. That promise included Indigenous Curriculum in all grades including teacher training and materials. Learning about the Canadian Residential School experience is a key part of any Curriculum.
Individuals and congregations in our Region are being urged to contact the Alberta Government. It is through age-appropriate curriculum that students are given the tools and knowledge to understand our collective history and current identity. Many School Boards have refused to pilot the new curriculum. For a sample letter, contact addresses, and additional resources, link here~.
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We have two prayer groups at RCMUC: The Healing Pathway Prayer which meets on Wednesdays and Fridays, and Tuesday's “Morning Prayer” group.
We request that the person gives consent to have their name mentioned in prayer as privacy/confidentiality is of utmost importance. We also would appreciate knowing when the situation changes and we can release them from our prayers or update the prayer to a changing need.
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Rundle & Ralph Connor
Update
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Here is the seventh installment of our update regarding the ongoing process being followed by Ralph Connor Memorial UC, Canmore and Rundle Memorial UC, Banff, as we consider the various aspects of a shared journey together...
Mark your calendars! As mentioned in last week's Newsletter, there will be a "Rundle & Ralph Connor Information and Accountability" Zoom session - on Friday, June 25 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 PM. Bring your questions and we will do our best to provide answers.
The Zoom link will be shared in next week's Newsletter & repeated one week after.
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The next “season” of Faith@Home children’s resources have arrived, focusing on Pentecost (May 23) and following Sundays.
If you would like one of these for children or grandchildren in your circle of care, and have not yet received one, please contact the Church Office and we will get one to you.
The Faith@Home kits are produced by the “First Third” (children-youth-young adults) initiative, a joint United Church of Canada initiative between BC’s Pacific Mountain Region, and Southern Alberta’s Chinook Winds Region. The kits have been well-received as a way to support families in the faith development of their children. As a local note: Chris Mah-Poy’s position with the UC is now directly involved with this “First Third” initiative.
Let us know if we should order kits for the 2021 Fall and Advent seasons, even if we resume meeting in person.
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Ongoing Ministries
& Community Programs
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Alpine Voices Threshold Choir
Alpine Voices offer their voices in service, singing at bedside as a gift to those at life's thresholds. Rehearsals, on the 2 nd and 4 th Mondays of the month, are continuing on Zoom. Contact jan.tissandier@gmail.com for more information.
Bow Valley Refugee Project
Canmore Young Adult Network - CYAN
CYAN is hiring a Program Coordinator for a 13-week summer contract thanks to a grant we received from the Federal Government. Please help us share the word with any people you know who are under 30 and looking for a meaningful job for the summer. Details on the job as well as how to apply can be found here: link here~.
For recent news see http://cyancanmore.ca/ or contact Caylee LaBranche, CYAN Executive Director, at canmoreyaya@gmail.com.
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Missing hugs? If you'd like a woollen hug, i.e. prayer shawl,
please contact:
Rundle United Thrift Shop
Located in Banff at 104 Banff Avenue, in the lower level of Rundle Memorial UC, Rundle United Thrift Shop expresses mission by making affordable clothing and household items available to members of the community, which they otherwise could not afford. The shop follows a sliding scale pricing philosophy. At present, it is staffed by volunteers, open on Wednesday nights from 5:00-8:00 PM. For more info and/or to volunteer: http://rundleunited.ca/rundle-united-thrift-banff/. |
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Bow Valley Affordability Guide
A good resource to reference services available in the community. Link here~.
Food Security
Many organizations in the Bow Valley help to provide healthy, affordable food and meals. For a listing of these, go to
This includes Community Food & Friends, Food Recovery, Bow Valley Good Food Box, Food Banks, and the Bow Valley Root Cellar. If there are other programs that should be added, please let us know!
Three Communities...One Valley
Friends and neighbours in the Bow Valley are still needing support during these times of COVID-related restrictions. If you would like to help others as a volunteer, or if you need support, please email bowvalleyisolations@gmail.com or text 403-679-3340 and we will get you signed up and do what we can to get you what you need. |
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Chinook Winds has a wide range of events throughout the month of June, both online and in-person.
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The Canmore Museum presents: These Mountains are our Sacred Places - a four part online learning series on the Stoney Nakoda. June 3, 10, 18 (not 17) and 24 from 4:00 to 5:30 PM.
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Our gratitude to Robin Slater for offering the following feature in our weekly Newsletter, as part of our efforts to be a more broadly inclusive, and affirming, Community of Faith.
ROBIN'S WEB
CONNECTING DIVERSITY
We are not born with biases; children learn good and bad, acceptable or feared, from their surroundings. Biases enculturated as children become wired into our psyches as adults. The reinforcement due to confirmation bias, when we search out ideas which support our predetermined mindsets, further leads us down the: you don’t know what you don’t know rabbit-hole. Biases can be neutral, like my favourite colour is red. They become negative and dangerous when we carry, and act on, assumptions about other people. The term “red-skin”, by comparison, is hurtful and demeaning. We can relearn our damaging mind-chatter and this quasi-Covid summer will be just the time to start!
The website Books to Build On: Indigenous Literatures for Learning provides detail on more than 250 books, poems, songs, art collections and websites by Indigenous creators from Treaty 7 territory. Click here~.
The Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection brings together over 200 stories by Indigenous authors and writings about Indigenous culture from publishers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Click here~.
The Way We Make Reparations: a Wordfest, Storytelling event, 2021. Click here~.
The Importance of Story, a podcast where Indigenous storyteller Margaret Brigham, discusses the power of story and the current age of apology. Click here~.
People's own biases could be influencing their children, and so reinforcing stereotypes in society. Substitute Indigenous, LGBTQ, Homeless, BIPOC for “Gender”, the labels all act the same…. Click here~.
Understand poverty as an important driver in food insecurity, and the solutions needed at national, regional and local levels. Join Tamarack for: What would it take to end food insecurity? June 16, 11 am MST. Click here~.
Chinook Winds Region is invited to participate with Pacific Mountain Region in a Town Hall on Guaranteed Liveable Income. June 16, 2 pm MST. Presenters: Former United Church Moderator Lois Wilson, Policy Analyst Harvey Stevens, Jody Dean who lived the Ontario Pilot Project, Senator Kim Pate. Click here~.
We Exit COVID: Toward what matters most. This pandemic has brought trouble and brokenness. Yet everywhere we see opportunity for what is truly of value. Cardus brings special guests from across Canada for this hope-filled, two-night session. Register today--free. Jun 22-23, 5:30 -7:0o pm MST Register here~.
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Ralph Connor Memorial
United Church (RCMUC)
CONTACTS
Note 1: The church offices are closed in compliance with Alberta Covid mandatory office workers Work At Home restriction. The mail, email and phone messages will be picked up regularly between Tuesday to Thursdays.
Note 2: For RCMUC business please contact at the following phone or email designated for business purposes. Please respect that questions often may not be answered afterhours without access to business resources. Access to personal mobile phone and personal email devices are intended for emergency purposes.
Administration: Trish Campney
Minister: Rev. Greg Wooley
Music Director: Tanya Sullivan
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Rundle Memorial
United Church (RMUC) Contacts
The mail, email and phone messages will be picked up regularly.
Administration: Nancy Murray
Mailing address: P.O. Box 1086
Street address: 102 Banff Ave
Banff, Alberta, Canada T1L 1B1
RMUC Website: http://rundleunited.ca/
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Ralph Connor Memorial United Church
Mailing address: P.O. Box 8901
Street Address: 617 Main Street
Canmore, Alberta, T1W 2B1
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