Welcome to Denman Island’s United Church. All are welcome…
Note: the featured image is ” “Dorothy Day and the Holy Family of the Streets” by Kelly Latimore PREPARING FOR THE SOLSTICE FEAST AND THE BIRTH OF CHRIST Matthew 1:18-25 Common English Bible 18…
A Taste of God When I was with everyone in November, we used our senses to open ourselves to an encounter with the Divine. As that doesn’t translate well into a sermon for the…
ARRIVING HOME Amongst the graffiti in a Manhattan phone booth (remember them?), someone well-meaning if a bit overzealous had scrawled the words, “Jesus is the answer.” Below it, some wit or skeptic had added,…
SHEPHERDS AND KINGS Jeremiah 23:1-4 Common English Bible Watch out, you shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, declares the Lord. 2 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, proclaims about the shepherds…
A big thanks to Wendy Pope and Darren Schmidt for their TLC of the church building these last months! Helen Wilson often helps too. Gutter cleaning and repair, a bit of paint here and…
IMAGINE CANADA Our local church out here in Manitoba has an informal time set aside on Thursday mornings for “coffee and conversation” at a café on Stonewall’s Main Street. The conversations range from chit-chat…
Scripture: In the Bible, stories of Jesus’ life are in what are referred to as the Gospels – which just means good news – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Matthew Mark and Luke are…
WORLD FOOD SUNDAY Good News: Luke 18:1-8 Common English Bible 18 Jesus was telling them a parable about their need to pray continuously and not to be discouraged. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a…
I call my monthly offerings “Pilgrim Postcards”, echoing an ancient spiritual practice of journeying to thin places where the obvious and the mysterious meet and mingle, along paths that have been recognized by others…
gilakas’la / čɛčɛ haθɛč, I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, play, and pray on the unceded territory of the K’ómoks Nation Reflection What is God’s dream for the world? I think Desmond Tutu…
