A few thoughts about “volunteering” Terry, John and Pam at the Ministry Fair in February In 2024, it’s not news that many churches in Canada are dealing with demographic challenges. Church attendance is no longer a social expectation; congregations are greying and shrinking. A huge cohort of women who, in the mid-twentieth century, mostly stayed home and filled their free… View Post
Report to the Parish Meeting, April 2024
Incumbent’s Report, April 28, 2024 The Maundy Thursday dinner The last six weeks at All Saints’ by the Lake have been extraordinarily rich and full. The second half of March was, of course, pretty much entirely devoted to preparations for Holy Week and then Holy Week itself. Palm Saturday, held amid heavy snow on the morning of March 23, was… View Post
Abiding together
All Saints’, Dorval Easter V, Year B April 28, 2024 The people of St. Porphyrios’ Orthodox Church in Gaza, working on their palms last week Last week at the “You are Leaven” conference in Mississauga, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch kept popping up. In the first workshop I attended, on “embodied Bible study,” I found myself… View Post
Change – wonderful and challenging
All Saints’, Dorval Easter III, Year B April 14, 2024 Approximately one-tenth of the Messy Church crowd from Friday. Today’s reading from Acts is really just the second part of the story. It’s the apostle Peter’s sermon to the crowds that gather at the entrance of the Jerusalem Temple, in the aftermath of Peter’s healing of a man who had… View Post
THE WOUNDED SAVIOUR
A sermon guest preached by Gretchen Wolff Pritchard, April 7, 2024 (Easter II, Year B) The Pritchard family coming out of church on Easter Sunday, 1983. Today’s story is commonly known as “Doubting Thomas.” And oh how easily we identify with Thomas. He missed the party. He didn’t see the angel at the empty tomb. He wasn’t there when Jesus… View Post
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