The James Bay Children's Chorus welcomes new singers for their Fall/Winter Season!

Directed by Sandra Fletcher, this non-auditioned community choir offers two age-related groups:
INSPIRE, for singers aged 6 -12: 3:45pm to 4:45pm on Thursdays.
EMERGE, for singers aged 12 - 16: 5pm to 6pm on Thursday evenings.

Both groups start on September 22nd!

All rehearsals at James Bay United Church.

Details & online registration here. 

Sunday morning next week our service will be an integral part of the Art Walk. As one of the exhibiting places for the walk, not only will we be surrounded by works of art in the sanctuary and lower hall but our worship that day will find us celebrating the sacred through creative expression. ~ Rev. Karen Dickey

The James Bay Art Walk returns for 2022! Twenty four artists who live and work in this historic neighborhood will open their studios and gather at various locations, to display and sell their art.

The largest gathering will be at the historic James Bay United Church. Thirteen artists including Anne Hansen, Jessie Beauvilliers, David Roberts, Holly Vivian and Teresa Waclawik will offer a variety of media, including clay sculpture, pebble and sea glass art, pastels and pointillism, oils and murals, recycled material collages and line drawings. In total, 11 locations across this eclectic neighborhood will be open on Saturday and Sunday, September 24 and 25 from 10am to 4pm to visitors from across the region. The complete artist listing, art walk map and special events can be found at their website.

Our Resilient Heart - caring for ourselves in troubling times starting Sunday October 2nd from 2:30 - 4pm.

Four 90 minute Zoom sessions (October 2, 16, 23 and 30) offering a combination of mindfulness and compassion practices. No meditation experience necessary.

Leadership: Kam McKim, Meditation and Mindful Movement teacher, student of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.

To register for this free course, or for more information, contact Kam.

an offering of the Life Long Learning Ministry of James Bay United Church

Are you facing the uncharted post-career years, wondering what’s next?

Many of us approaching the third chapter of life feel unsettled, restless, and adrift. We sense the years 55 – 80+ can be some of our best, but we don’t know how to navigate the changes that come with aging.

Sage-ing, also called spiritual eldering or conscious aging, offers an inner roadmap that approaches this chapter of life as a time of rich spiritual and personal growth – a time that can bring gifts not available in earlier decades.

This live, online gathering happens three Wednesdays: October 19 - November 2, 2022 at 1:30-3:30pm pacific time. 

The United Church of Canada is a community of hope, a vibrant and vital church with both purpose and vision. We live in a time of rapid change in religious life, great inequities between peoples, and collective harm to our earth community. As church, we have been complicit in injustice. And yet we have this hope. We believe we continue to be called to witness in love and justice to the liberating, healing Christ risen in this place and time. Together, we strive towards repentance, repair, and right relations with all peoples and the planet. Our call and vision statement speaks to how we boldly embody the Christian story in this time, filled with the certainty of resurrection and hope for new life.

The full Call and Vision can be found here.

I would love to put together a choir for Thanksgiving Sunday. Seeing as this is my first time leading a choir at JBU, I would like to keep things fun and simple for this service with the goal of discovering who is interested and what the possibilities might be for the future. As such, we will sing a well-known Thanksgiving hymn and one pre-service selection. We will aim to incorporate harmony where we can. If this appeals to you, please email me. 

Timeline:  

1. Music chosen and ready for pick-up by Sunday Sept. 25
2. Rehearsal Sunday Oct. 2 from 12 - 1pm in the JBU Sanctuary
3. Pre-service rehearsal Sunday October 9th at 9:30am.

All abilities are welcome!

Jennifer Turner

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

Once upon a time . . . 

James Bay United has learned a lot about storytelling over the last five years. Under Gordon’s leadership we’ve learned how to share our stories around the neighbourhood and further afield. When the Communications and Neighbourhood Engagement portfolio was created, little was known about the church outside of its doors. Today your neighbours know that something important is happening around our little church, and it isn’t only about Sunday morning.