July 19 – Worship Service
You can greet people you know and leave a message saying “hello!” or say something about the service to Rev. Harry or the music people in the Comment space below.
60th Annual Maple Grove United Church Fertilizer Sale!
On Friday, July 10th Corina from Green Horizons delivered a cheque for $6,360.00 raised via our Fertilizer Sale partnership with Green Horizons. Each time a customer quoted our Loyalty Code when ordering a Big Yellow Bag of Dirt or Mulch, Green Horizons made a contribution to Maple Grove United Church. In addition to the early-order …
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News from the Grove
Although we have not been congregated at the church for service and other events, behind the scenes there has been busy bees keeping up with our outreach and looking after the needs of the church as they emerge. Congregational support This YTD Last YTD Brian Simpson and Gord Penley are working on the year …
Daycare Open with Restrictions
The daycare is now opened. There are restrictions to space availability for the church visitors and the daycare. Please read carefully: We have installed sanitation stations throughout the church please use them. Please sanitize before and after you have signed in. Please stop at the membership desk as you will be required to sign in …
Midweek Meditation 16
Coping with Covid-19; and, hopefully, not feeling crushed or exceedingly cramped. This week pretty much marks the four-month mark since the virus showed up in Canada. By and large, our nation has responded rather well. All provinces except Ontario and Quebec have managed to exercise a good deal of containment and control. In Ontario, only …
July 12 – Worship Service
Learn more about Maple Grove’s new minister – https://maplegroveunitedchurch.mydev.ca/rev-kerry-stover-our-new-minister/ You can greet people you know and leave a message saying “hello!” or say something about the service to Rev. Harry or the music people in the Comment space below.
Rev. Kerry Stover – Our New Minister
On behalf of the Maple Grove Search Committee, I am excited to announce that Reverend Kerry Stover, M.Div has been called to be the next spiritual leader of our community of faith. Kerry comes to us with a wealth of experience both in ministry and in the private sector. A lifelong member of the United …
Michael Coren on Slavery
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-christianity-is-complicit-in-slavery-but-its-spirit-still-offers-a/ Author and columnist Michael Coren is ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada. In the midst of the laudable reaction to racial injustice and police brutality, incidents of spontaneous iconoclasm have occurred. Statues of notorious slavers and Confederate leaders have been toppled and, in all honesty, the damned things should never have been there …
Midweek Meditation 15
Some of my colleagues have been bemoaning the fact that “news” from our United Church General Council office has been all about protocols and pragmatics during this time of pandemic lockdown (and now limited re-openings). What they are not hearing and missing is some theology for such times and circumstances. The Anglican bishops of Canada did …