Sunday, July 6, 2025
This Sunday is Pride Sunday, so our colourful doors will be marching to show that we are opening doors to God's love. The service will be shorter than usual to give folks the chance to get to the parade.
Our reading is Matthew’s account of Jesus raising a girl from the dead, but en route to that miracle, he heals a woman who has been bleeding for a long time. We are all in need of healing of some kind: physical ailments, wounds associated with emotional trauma, fear that embeds itself in the gut and won't go away, division foisted upon us because of our identity. We see that, in God, we can be healed.
Welcome: Rev. Greg Powell
Tech Team: Nathan McDormand, Jamie Waters, Alan Thurston
Scripture Reading: Matthew 9:18-26
Read by: Karen Halliday
Reflection: Rev. Greg Powell
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Update on Masking for Sunday Morning Worship
As we continue to discern what is the best masking practice at any given moment, for this next stretch of time we are lifting our requirement for masking during Sunday morning worship. However, if you are feeling more comfortable to continue wearing a mask, you are most welcome to do so. And as always, if you are feeling unwell, please enjoy worshipping from home via our very fine streamed services.
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Sunday service is also live-streamed from the sanctuary at 10:15am Sunday morning. Please participate, live on YouTube. The platform has the option for you to add your comments, prayers and concerns in the live chat window. You may also choose to write your prayers down, speak them aloud during the service, or send your prayer requests to us via email. Arrive at 10:15am to greet each other, then the service will begin right at 10:30am.
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Our worship each Sunday is intended to be a collective experience, a communal practice.
We might step into whatever is our sanctuary, each one of us as individuals, and yet as we assemble, from wherever we are, we become a people, drawn together through song and prayer, through word and ritual, and through the Spirit who breathes through it all, through us all.
One and the same Spirit uniting us breathing us into life!
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