Sunday Services

July 4th at 10:30 am
Life Lessons Learned While Canoeing
Presenters: Audrey Chin & Sharyn Devine
Life can be like the best of all canoe trips… where you know generally where you are going but not everything is mapped… where side trips and new discoveries lay waiting around the next bend. And just like rounding the corner and finding moose, otters or loons, you may have the good fortune to find the beauty of the unexpected and wonderful… often in the places you can only get to by slogging through a lot of mud. So these canoe lessons are the bright feathers found along the way. Audrey will bring in her tent, backpack and canoe. We will set the room up around the “Campfire” with canoe and tent on the campsite. We will tell stories and feature a play about helping other travelers.

July 11th at 10:30 am
If I Were Twenty Again, What Would I Do?
Presenters: Germaine Kovary & Jeanne Lovell
Excerpts and thoughts on a Sermon given by Rev. R.T. Sunderland at First Unitarian during 1906.

July 18th at 10:30 am
First to Dream
Presenters: Lorna Weigand & other dreamers
“Nothing Happens Unless First a Dream” Quote by Carl Sandburg, 1878 – 1967, American poet, biographer and journalist This will be an interactive alternative service exploring how everything is created twice – first in the head and then with the hands. We will have opportunities to share realized dreams and those dreams that are yet to come. Contributions of dreamy music welcome.

July 25th at 10:30 am
Horizon Interfaith
Presenter: Germaine Kovary
What is Horizon Interfaith’s mission and who belongs to it? Germaine Kovary will tell you about our Unitarian involvement and how we use it to promote our liberal faith.
August 1st at 10:30 am How Shall We Care? Presenter: Sharyn Devine & Margo Holland The Caring Committee would like your input and ideas re: how we can care for one another in the absence of paid ministry.

August 8th at 10:30 am
Squats, Street Theatre and Radical Marching Bands
Presenter: Lesley J. Wood
While most recent discussion of social movements either portrays them as rational interest groups pursuing a demand or violent thugs, this presentation will look at the creative ways that contemporary social movements attempt to provoke critical thinking by their audiences, interrupt the functioning of authorities and build more democratic and holistic ways of interacting.

August 15th at 10:30 am
Books in Our Lives
Presenter: Arlene Kelland
Arlene Kelland, who is a member at Northwest Fellowship in Toronto, will be joining us this morning to share her love of books. She will delve into our first memories of books and the effect they had on us and look at the importance of books in our lives, from parents recording dates of births and deaths in holy books to the sharing of books with friends. How will technology change the way we use books? Will it be beneficial or will something be lost?

August 22th at 10:30 am
Shaping Connection
Presenter: Trisha Bowers
Making connections with others allows us to create a deeper spiritual life that can in turn strengthen our connection to ourselves. Creative force, counselor, mother, sister, social worker and friend, Trisha Bower, brings us a meditation on Connecting and Creating."

August 29th at 10:30 am
Intergenerational Play Day for Grandparents
Presenter: TBA
Intergenerational Play Day for Grandparents, grandchildren and everyone who likes to play. The service today will be a hands on playday based on the the great book by Stuart Brown M.D. "PLAY - How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul". Everyone welcome, with or without a child.

September 5th at 10:30 am
Music of Our Lives
Presenter: The Congregation
We all have music that is meaningful to us. So bring your favourite pieces, or something by your favourite artist, and share with us why this music is important to you. If you wish, bring also a reading about music, or one that ties in with your special music.

Sunday Services Co-chairs are
Sharyn Devine and Phyllis Eleazar.