Antler River Watershed Regional Council

HF Congregational Support Commission
2025-01-14 10:00, 2025-02-13 10:00 (America/New_York)

ARW Discipleship & Justice Meeting
2025-01-14 10:00, 2025-02-11 10:00 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom

ARW Congregational Support Commission
2025-01-15 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-02-04 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)

WOW Pastoral Relations Commission Meeting
2025-01-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-02-18 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto)

ARW Online Clergy Gathering
2025-01-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
As we move deeper into this new year, you are invited to come for a time of conversation with colleagues in ministry and sharing of information about our various ministries.

ARWRC – January 21, 2-3pm
HFRC – January 22, 3-4pm
WOWRC – January 23, 2-3pm

Peace,
Kevin

HF Human Resources Commission Meeting
2025-01-22 13:00 (America/Toronto)

HF Online Clergy Gathering
2025-01-22 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom

HF Regional Council Executive Meeting
2025-01-22 16:00 (America/New_York)

Regional Council Staff Meeting
2025-01-23 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-06 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-20 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom

WOW Online Clergy Gathering
2025-01-23 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom

Liaisons Gathering
2025-01-28 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom
A time for connection, mutual support, and information sharing.
We are meeting on Tuesdays January 28th, March 25th, and May 27th at 7PM on Zoom.
For more information contact Micol Cottrell at mcottrell@united-church.ca
Register now here: https://regionalcouncil789.formstack.com/forms/liaisons_gathering

Worshiplude 2025
2025-01-31 - 2025-02-02
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Worshiplude 2025

Fri. Jan. 31st – Sun. Feb. 2nd Ottawa, Ontario Join us for a weekend in Ottawa for Winterlude activities, a museum experience and gather with us for Dinner and Worship Saturday night at Southminster United Church (15 Aylmer Ave, Ottawa)

$75 per participant (Registration fee) plus spending money and enough $ for 2 lunches and 1 supper extra.

Youth and youth groups will need to be accompanied by an adult. (At least one adult for every 7-9 youth)

Grades 7+

Bus will begin in Beamsville, ON and travel along the QEW to 401 and on to Ottawa. We can discuss pick up locations along the route, once we begin to get registrations.

We will be billeted at a church in Ottawa. Participants can bring sleeping needs (sleeping bags, pillows, mattresses etc)

Register Now (spots are limited):https://regionalcouncil789.formstack.com/forms/worshiplude

Preaching with an Ecological Lens
2025-02-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Online by Zoom link
Ministry Personnel and LLWLs,
Are you looking for ways to address the climate crisis from the pulpit?
Join us online Tuesday Feb 4th, 2025 7:00-8:30PM
Preaching with an Ecological Lens
A workshop offered by the Rev. Dr. HyeRan Kim Cragg,
Principal and Professor of Preaching at Emmanuel College.

The Rev. Dr. HyeRan Kim-Cragg is the 14th Principal and Professor of Preaching at Emmanuel College. She is the first racialized person holding both roles. Kim-Cragg received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2020, the highest honor granted to Emmanuel Alumni. She has been actively involved in the preaching life of the United Church of Canada, a denomination that has been aspiring to become an intercultural and anti-racist church for the last 25 years. As a leading postcolonial scholar, she has written or contributed to over 15 books including her monographs Interdependence: A Postcolonial Feminist Practical Theology (2018) Postcolonial Preaching: Creating a Ripple Effect (2021), both are claimed as original contributions in homiletics and practical theology. Her most recent book is Moments in Time: Sermons from the United Church of Canada 1910-2020 (UCPH, 2024). Currently, she is preparing a manuscript for preaching addressing the climate crisis and ecological justice with a tentative title, A Homiletic of the EARTH. She is grateful to share some of her current research in this workshop.
Workshop: Preaching with an Ecological Lens
In this workshop Rev. Dr. HyeRan Kim-Cragg will share her insights into challenges faced by those of us who wish to address the climate crisis from the pulpit. She proposes five homiletical strategies that may help preachers and congregations face these challenges and tackle this crisis. The five strategies can be remembered using the acronym of E.A.R.T.H. which stand for the Elements of Life, Animals in the Bible, Rhythm of Life, Tree of Life, and Hesed (God’s unconditional love). Once briefly reviewing these five, Kim-Cragg will note the Elements of Life as Water, Fire, Air, and Soil that are prevalent in the Bible and well used as theological metaphors. She will focus on air, Ruah in Hebrew. With the deepened appreciation of this sacred element of life, Kim-Cragg will offer how to proclaim the Gospel for the sake of the Planet Earth.
There is no registration fee. The costs of this workshop are fully covered by Antler River Watershed, Horseshoe Falls and Western Ontario Waterways Regional Councils.
For more information contact Thérèse Samuel (Minister, Right Relations and Social Justice) tsamuel@united-church.ca
Click to register for “Preaching with an Ecological Lens” online workshop.
The costs of this workshop are fully covered by Antler River Watershed, Horseshoe Falls and Western Ontario Waterways Regional Councils.

Lent & Easter Round Table - Children and Youth Ministry
2025-02-05 19:00 - 20:15, 2025-02-06 11:00 - 12:15 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom
Sharing ideas and challenges

Come prepared to share your ideas and/or listen to others

Contact Kathy Douglas for ZOOM link

kdouglas@united-church.ca

Ministry and Personnel The Basics Workshop
2025-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom
‘The Basics’: Ministry & Personnel Committee Workshops
Online by Zoom, Upcoming dates:
October 3rd, December 5th, February 6th, April 3rd
with Micol Cottrell, Minister, Pastoral Relations

Ordered ministers and designated lay ministers while in paid accountable ministry positions are office holders within The United Church of Canada. While there may be elements similar to employment, the essential nature of the relationship is a covenant.
~ Statement on Ministry in The United Church of Canada (2012)

New members are often elected to the vital Ministry & Personnel Committee near the start of the year, although M&P Committee membership can change for many other reasons throughout the year.
The Basics will help a new member learn the essentials of this crucial role. More experienced members of M&P Committees are invited to take this workshop as a refresher with their team, and keep up with changing United Church practices and policies. This workshop is open to members from Western Ontario Waterways, Antler River Watershed and Horseshoe Falls Regional Councils!
Please Note: each member of your M&P Committee attending this workshop is required to register.
In your Confirmation Email, you will receive the Zoom link and material in preparation for the meeting to make the most of our time together. If you have questions about the content, please email Micol Cottrell, Minister, Pastoral Relations, at MCottrell@united-church.ca, or better yet, write down the questions to bring with you.

ARW Pastoral Relations Commission Meeting
2025-02-11 09:00 (America/Toronto)

ARW Regional Council Executive Meeting
2025-02-12 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)

Black History Month Event
2025-02-14 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom

ARW Online Clergy Gathering
2025-02-18 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
As you continue your preparations for the Lenten season, you are invited to come and join with colleagues in ministry for a time of conversation, support and information sharing.

ARW gathering Feb. 18, 2025 – 2pm
HF gathering Feb. 19, 2025 – 3pm
WOW gathering Feb. 20, 2025 – 2pm

The meeting link will be sent the week of the gathering.

Peace,
Kevin

WOW Regional Council Executive Meeting
2025-02-19 09:30 (America/New_York)

HF Online Clergy Gathering
2025-02-19 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
As you continue your preparations for the Lenten season, you are invited to come and join with colleagues in ministry for a time of conversation, support and information sharing.

ARW gathering Feb. 18, 2025 – 2pm
HF gathering Feb. 19, 2025 – 3pm
WOW gathering Feb. 20, 2025 – 2pm

The meeting link will be sent the week of the gathering.

UCC 360 Anti-Racism Program
2025-02-19 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom
UCC 360 ANTI-RACISM:

Have you engaged in previous anti-racism or racial justice training?
Are you ready to take your antiracism education a bit deeper, within a United Church context?

If you answered yes to both questions, this is for you:

UCC 360 Anti-Racism Program
with antiracism educator Rev Alcris Limongi, and Minister for Social Justice Dr. John Egger.
An in-depth 4.5 hour course offered over three weeks,
sponsored by the tri-regional councils of Antler River Watershed (ARW), Horseshoe Falls (HF) and Western Ontario Waterways (WOW).

Please plan to attend all three Wednesdays: Feb 19, Feb 26, and March 12, 2025 @ 6:00-7:30 PM Eastern
(Note: we take a week break for Ash Wednesday)
Session topics will include:
– A 360 View of Yourself, and developing your Antiracist Personal Purpose (APP)
– A 360 View of your immediate context (your church or regional council context)
– A 360 View of the United Church of Canada
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(If you have to miss a session a recording of the session will be available, but will not include breakout discussions.)

This is not an introduction to anti-racism, but is intended for people who have engaged in some previous anti-racism training. If you are not sure if your previous anti-racism work has prepared you for this session, contact Thérèse Samuel tsamuel@united-church.ca

Advance registration required. Click to register now.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
There is no registration fee. The costs for this program are fully covered by Antler River Watershed, Horseshoe Falls and Western Ontario Waterways Regional Councils.
For information contact Thérèse Samuel tsamuel@united-church.ca

Bio: Rev. Alcris Limongi

The Rev. Alcris Limongi was born in Venezuela and has been a member of the United Church of Canada since 1996. She has served the Church in different capacities. She was a Th.D. candidate in NT at Emmanuel College and the Racial Justice, Gender Justice and Sexual Minorities Program Coordinator at the General Council Office. She also was the Liaison to the UCW National and to Affirm United. She was the staff lead for the GC40 Commitment to Inclusion, and has served as facilitator of the UC Racial Justice Mandatory training since 2009. As an Ordained Minister she served at Parkdale United Church in Ottawa for five years and currently is part of the Center for Christian Studies in Winnipeg staff team as Program/Educator.
She offers both experience and perspective from our national denomination structures a well from a local-congregational community and based ministries.
Rev. Alcris trained in Courageous Conversations about Race with the Pacific Educational Group. The focus has been identifying systemic racism and racial differential gaps, as well as facilitating Courageous Conversations.
Her own identity as a racialized woman in Canada, her life experience between marginality and privilege in different ways, combined with a sound theological education, and personal and theological commitment to justice, have helped her develop a particular lens, what she calls “the gift of her brown eyes” to the Church. Her passion is to encourage racial majority and minorities to engage together identifying, naming, interrogating, interrupting and dismantling racism. She is a teacher/preacher/facilitator with creativity, flexibility, and openness to respectfully listen and learn from cultural differences. She adds “English is not my native language, which is both strength and weakness. It is a strength because with language I also bring different perspectives of defining and understanding reality”.

This is not an introduction to anti-racism, but is intended for people who have engaged in some previous anti-racism training. If you are not sure if your previous anti-racism work has prepared you for this session, contact Thérèse Samuel tsamuel@united-church.ca

WOW Online Clergy Gathering
2025-02-20 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
