This week we have returned to a ONE PER WEEK format for our ENews. This is it. We will email extra notes from time to time depending upon the urgency and nature of the message required. BUT for the most part, Friday is when your James Bay United Church Events, Updates and inspiration can be found in your inbox.

Please continue to use our amazing website for anything else you are looking for:
- Past sermons
- Arts Ministry Events
- Weekly spiritual on-line and in-person gatherings
- News of all kinds
- Updates from our various ministries and teams

And the all important HOME PAGE

this do ye, as oft as you think of it

Karen doesn't like titling her Sunday Morning messages, so often we just name them by the date or the day of the season -- like 'Easter 4' for example. But from time to time a title jumps out if we are there to listen -- like last week for example -- 'meeting Jesus will likely mess up your life'. Now SEE how much MORE FUN that is for our website and youtube channel?

So if you are inclined and a good listener, perhaps you could send along your suggestions for Karen's sermon titles. I will receive them on Mondays and pick one for when I update the website on Wednesday. It will be a fun surprise for Karen.

This week, we will meet IN PERSON AND ONLINE,

If you are tuning in at home, perhaps you could have a candle ready and a comfortable place to settle into the worship experience together.”

There are all kinds of ways we can experience paralysis that holds us back from entering more fully into life.  What might be come to light for us and be released through our gathering around the story from John’s Gospel this Sunday?  John 5: 1-9 

Sunday Bulletin

Train 58 - A celebration of the music of John Coltrane
featuring special guest Alan McLean (Montreal)

Saxophonist, composer and jazz pioneer John Coltrane created a sound and philosophy of music that shifted the whole of jazz, not once but arguably 3 times in his life.

Celebrating Coltrane's sound, music and legacy are the award-winning, Montreal saxophonist Alan McLean, and Victoria's own Tony Genge, Brock Medes & Kelby MacNayr!

Note: this is Saturday evening NOT Tuesday and it will not be live-streamed ~ in-person only.

On the domed ceiling God
is thinking:
I made them my joy,
and everything else I created
I made to bless them.
But see what they do!

"I remember you," says the salesperson at the Hallmark store.

My brother collects Hallmark ornaments. He pours over the Hallmark Dream Book the way I used to scrutinize Eaton's Christmas catalogue. After a couple of weeks, he makes his selections. We note the items on the appropriate form and carry it to Victoria's last remaining Hallmark store.

The expedition always resembles an adventure. The rituals that come from his obsessive-compulsive disorder can introduce an element of unpredictability to his movements. Delicate figures perch in glass display cases. My brother walks with eyes down, head bent over, shoulders caved, the result of years of trying to avoid the stares and comments that began when he was five years old.

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