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Note from Karen. DINNER with MOVIE. Tuesday Night Jazz at the Church

James Bay United Church
Important and Time Sensitive -- thanks for reading

Note from Karen

For a few weeks now, we’ve been anticipating the opportunity for an important decision-making conversation THIS Sunday. 
 
The Board is recommending that we create a new part-time staff position focussed on helping us further our priority of deepening our relationship with people of the James Bay neighbourhood.   As a congregation, we’ve tested the idea through our 2 year pilot-project, and experienced the possibilities and benefits of dedicating staff time to supporting this ministry.  It seems, from our responses gathered up a few weeks ago, it is also the thrust of the Holy Spirit among us to propel us further in this direction.
 
Our denomination has a way of pressing us to ‘look before we leap,’ which turns out to be wise counsel!  The documents that the Board has prepared (available to you through the link provided) are an expression of that exercise of looking.  They detail a) the emerging purpose and direction of the congregation that point to the wisdom of creating the staff position; b) the position description; and c) our financial status. 
 
I encourage you to read the documents ahead of the conversation that we will have on Sunday as part of our service, enabling you to show up as an informed participant as we make a decision together.

Thank you for your part in caring about our work and witness in James Bay.
 

For more infomation visit:

https://www.jamesbayunited.com/pages/communication-neighbourhood-engagement-ministry-position

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DINNER with MOVIE

DINNER with MOVIE

Potluck Social - Saturday, June 29, 2019

See you tonight, June 29th in the church's lower hall. Our movie choices over this summer are taken from the 'remarkable true-stories' catalogue: in this case 'Frozen Time: the story of Dawson City'. Truly remarkable narrative portrayal, produced in 2016, using masses of photos & film found frozen in perma-frost under the city-hall.

For more infomation visit:

http://jamesbayunited.com/events/dinner-with-movie/2019-06-29

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Tuesday Night Jazz at the Church

Tuesday Night Jazz at the Church

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

It is impossible to say enough amazing things about Maureen Washington. Just come on Tuesday and be wrapped up in her song. 

For more infomation visit:

http://jamesbayunited.com/events/tuesday-night-jazz-at-the-church--367/2019-07-02

Maureen's Bio and Jazz Night info
PRIDE WEEK

PRIDE WEEK

The Victoria Pride Society who organizes Pride events year long holds up this as their vision and mission: “a world free of discrimination, violence, and ignorance, in which all people, through education, equality, and safety are empowered to lead full, authentic lives. Our main objective is to inspire full inclusion within the Pride Community and society at large through visibility, collaboration, ongoing conversation and celebration.”

For more infomation visit:

http://jamesbayunited.com/news/pride-week

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July offers us so much opportunity for beauty, joy, renewal and hope

July offers us so much opportunity for beauty, joy, renewal and hope

About our Worship in Irving Park

About our Worship in Irving Park

A musical note from Gordon

I often receive direction and wisdom from my parents and grandparents.  Every year they took us to Vincent Massey Park in Ottawa to celebrate and worship as a congregation of Westboro United Church in a public way at this very gazebo.  As a youth musician in the church, I remember working with Rev. Gordon Cann, to plan a service that included Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens.  I played guitar and thought we were very hip and groovy.  At 16, I was moving all the sound equipment and instruments to the park miles from my home - with the help of my grandmothers '63 Belair - and setting up in the early hours (for a teenager) to be ready for the congregation when they arrived.  At the time I didn't give any thought to what an inconvenience and how disquieting it might have been for some of the congregation to worship outside in a different location.  No alternative service was offered in our regular sanctuary and while we helped people with rides to drive across the city, I am sure there was grumbling, but I didn't hear it. For the most part we showed up.  And really, that is all Christ asks us to do.

Gordon Miller
Communication and Neighbourhood Engagement

This Hymn also comes to mind ... 

#522 from Voices United 
Author: Carol Rose Ikeler (b. 1920)

1 The Church is wherever God's people are praising,
knowing they're wanted and loved by their Lord.
The Church is wherever Christ's followers are trying
to live and to share out the good news of God.

2 The Church is wherever God's people are loving,
where all are forgiven and start once again,
where all are accepted, whatever their background,
whatever their past and whatever their pain.

3 The Church is wherever God's people are seeking
to reach out and touch folk wherever they are --
conveying the Gospel, its joy and its comfort,
to challenge, refresh, and excite and inspire.

For more infomation visit:

http://jamesbayunited.com/events/james-bay-picnic/2019-07-21

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JBUC’s sensing of the Spirit’s Call

a summary - June 2019

It is our God-given purpose
     to be a living expression
     of the Beloved Community
     in which the welcome is wide
     the receiving and giving of care is palpable
     and through which the Love
     that meets and deepens and enlivens us
     propels us outward
     in the service of Life
     in the sharing of life

This struck our funny bone

This struck our funny bone

The London Zoo is celebrating Pride month in honor of its gay penguins

For more infomation visit:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/europe/london-zoo-pride-gay-penguins-trnd/index.html

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