Ministry at Don Heights

As of August 2010, Don Heights will begin a period in our evolution  without the services of a full-time professional minister. 
 
The lay leadership teams at Don Heights will do our very best to recruit Sunday Speakers and lifespan learning leaders who will inform and inspire us to live our lives with reverence for the planet, with kindness for our fellow humans and with respect for the web of life of which we are a part. 
 
We are fortunate to have been able to contract with Carly Gaylor as our monthly speaker for the coming church year.  She grew up in Unitarian congregations in the Toronto area and is completing her final year of her Master of Social Work and Master of Divinity at Wilfrid Laurier University.  She has completed placements at the First Unitarian Congregation of Hamilton, First Unitarian Congregation of Waterloo, and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, and her internship at Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Durham.
On one additional Sunday each month we will arrange for guest Unitarian speakers who will offer us talks that will deepen and widen our understanding of our chosen faith.
 
On the two or three other Sundays of each month our Sunday Services team will arrange for interesting speakers on social action, environmental, sociological, historical and theological topics that will stimulate our minds and our spirits.
 
Sign-up sheets for our Lifespan Learning Programs for the Fall, Winter and Spring will be posted at church and on the website. 
 
The Choir will continue to practice on Tuesday nights and will provide our music twice a month with guest musicians coming on the other Sundays. 
 
Exciting plans for the Sunday morning children’s play time are in the works.  Further information will soon be forthcoming. 
 
Don Heights has always been a caring community and we will continue to work hard to strengthen our caring skills and procedures in order to provide the cards, telephone calls, visits, and the occasional casserole when members and friends of our community are ill or in any kind of need.   As we take the time to share the little kindnesses that we all long for in this life we help to grow our ‘beloved community’.