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 …
60th Annual Maple Grove United Church Fertilizer Sale! Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dear Friends,We hope you are keeping healthy and safe. As we continue to live this new normal, we remain committed to serving all those who need us. We are distributing food six times per week to those that need it, and we are seeing an influx of new families that are in need of our …
An Invitation to TalkIn March 2017 United Church Moderator Jordan Cantwell wrote:“We need to name and examine our fears, prejudices, and assumptions. The privilege that many of us are born with may desensitize us to the injustice, exclusion, and hate that some in our community experience on a daily basis.” Only in that way can …
The request of the Outreach Committee to make window signs supporting Black Lives Matter is a call for us as Christians to bear witness to institutionalized racism against black people. It is not just a slogan, it is a baby step that we hope will encourage us to examine our own hearts and initiate conversations …
“Love your neighbour as you love yourself” I am fairly confident that most of us make some effort, even go beyond our normal limits, to implement the first half of this Second Great Law of Jesus. It’s on the second half that we often fall short, or almost neglect altogether. This prolonged period …
