The Climate Express
The Climate Express leaves on it’s journey to GC45 on Wednesday July 30th, follow along here:
https://www.polarsteps.com/ClimateExpress/19256495-climate-express
Join Us for the Centennial Service
Don’t miss The United Church of Canada’s historic National Centennial Anniversary service – Sunday, June 8!
We invite you to join us in person or online, Sunday, June 8, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. NDT, at Gower Street United Church, 99 Queens Rd, St. John’s, NL for a special National Centennial worship service to mark the 100th Anniversary of The United Church of Canada.
Find the official 100th Anniversary Worship Service Bulletin HERE
The Centennial Service is a significant milestone for the people of The United Church of Canada, offering a chance to reflect on our journey and envision the path ahead. Please join us in person or on the livestream! https://www.youtube.com/live/bh4sW1kdpWo
More information here: https://united-church.ca/…/national-centennial-worship…
Registration Now Open for the ARWRC Spring Meeting
Dear Friends,
With joy and anticipation, we, The Regional Executive and Staff, invite you to join us for the Antler River Watershed Regional Spring Meeting on May 30th and 31st, 2025, hosted at Grace United Church in Sarnia.
Our theme this year is “A Time of Renewal: Revitalize,” inspired by Romans 12:2 – “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds…”
In this spirit, we gather as a community to reconnect, refresh, and rekindle our shared sense of purpose and call. It will be a time to worship together, engage in meaningful dialogue, hear from our commissions and explore the ways we are being invited to revitalize our ministries and our spirits.
We are thrilled to welcome Gail Barker, a gifted motivational speaker and workshop leader, as our guest. Gail will guide us with wisdom, energy, and encouragement as we reflect on how we continue to be transformed in faith and practice.
Whether you are lay or clergy, long-time attendee or first-time participant, your presence is a vital part of this gathering. We look forward to being together in community, grounded in hope, and open to the Spirit’s renewing power.
With blessings and gratitude,
Rev. Cheryl Bolton
Antler River Watershed Regional Council President
SPRING MEETING 2025
A Time of Renewal: Revitalize
Friday, May 30th to Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Friday May 30th, 2025: 2:00pm-6:00pm Hybrid and 7:30pm In-Person Community Building
Saturday May 31st, 2025: 9:00am – 3:30pm Hybrid
Celebration of Ministry: Grace United Church, Sarnia Saturday May 31st at 4:00pm In-Person and Live streamed to YouTube
Grace United Church, Sarnia
990 Cathcart Blvd, Sarnia, ON N7S 2H2 (Google Map)
Registration for In-person attendance closes: May 14th, 2024 at midnight
Register Now for ARWRC Spring Meeting 2025
Flourishing: Spend a day with the Moderator
Flourishing: Antler River, Western Ontario Waterways, and Horseshoe Falls Regional Councils
Spend a day with the Moderator, engaging in reflection and energizing activities towards dream-oriented actions for our churches and communities.
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (local time).
9:00am -9:30am Registration and coffee/tea
9:30am – Welcome and Introductions
In person
Avondale United Church, 194 Avondale Ave., Stratford, ON N5A 6N4
All around the world – from universities to the United Nations, from corporations to community organizations – people are talking about flourishing. Rooted in belonging, flourishing means living with purpose and joy, and bringing bold collaborative solutions to our world’s challenges.
The Moderator, the Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, wants to bring that conversation to The United Church of Canada. She invites us to connect to one another in hope, with a deep conviction by a belief that, despite all the challenges of church life in this day and age, we can move from despair to transformation – from languishing to flourishing.
Is your church flourishing?
(Perhaps that’s the wrong question.)
Is your church contributing to the flourishing of your community?
How might we truly be a flourishing church in the world? How might we live in deep spirituality, bold discipleship and daring justice, linked from coast to coast to coast in ministry that transforms us and the world around us?
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: Flourishing Workshop
Clarity on 100th anniversary package sent to communities of faith
Clarity on 100th anniversary package sent to communities of faith
Nov 20, 2024 | News, UCC Centenary
In October, many communities of faith or pastoral charges received communication from Brian Arthur Brown, chair of Friends of the United Church Foundation and author of two recent books that were widely distributed to communities of faith, Keys to the Kindom and The Untied Church.
The letter speaks about inviting specified Communities of Faith to come together and participate in events for the United Church’s 100th Anniversary, including special services raising funds for specific ministry initiatives within the church. The associated group calls itself “Friends of the (United Church) Foundation”.
The communication circulating is an invitation, not a directive or a request from any official body within the denomination. Communities of faith are free to engage the invitation or develop their own ways of commemorating this milestone in the history of our denomination. The choice is entirely yours.
Further clarity about Centennial worship services
The worship service referred to in the correspondence is not the worship for the Centennial. It is one of many such planned services, and communities of faith that appear in the lists were chosen somewhat randomly and/or for their association with the members of the Friends of the Foundation. The services Brian Arthur Brown is organizing will happen live on June 1st and be available online on June 10, ,2025. The official denominational national service will be held online and in person in St John’s NL on June 8th, 2025.
Antler River Watershed will likely hold its own Region-wide centennial service online, with materials available for all communities of faith, possibly alongside the Celebration of Ministries service. More information will be sent out through the weekly newsletter as plans develop.
In the meantime, please check the information on the General Council 100th anniversary page and the Regional Council anniversary page for more information about these events and services.
And remember, the Region and the national church want to help promote your plans! Have a look at the above links, and please let the Regional office and Keeper of the Archives know if we can support you in any way. We wish you creative and faithful planning as we commemorate this milestone, honour those who came before us, and look to the future.
