Water is Life – Truth and Reconciliation Day

Exodus 17: 1-7 & Matthew 21: 23-32 Last week we heard about the ancient Hebrews learning a new relationship with food. Today, we heard about their relationship with water. Water is life. Our bodies are 50-60% water by weight. We're pretty much water balloons over some bones. Water cushions our joints. Water allows our brains …

Benediction / Candle / Isaiah 12:4-6

Shout aloud and sing for joy, O Manitoulin, for great in your midst is the Holy One. Give thanks to God, O Whitefish Falls, make known God's deeds among the reservations, villages, and towns. Sing praises, O Birch Island, O Ontario - for God does glorious things! extinquish the candle Go out and let all …

“Why would we as a Church want to recognize Traditional Territory?” A dialogue for sharing in a UCC Congregation on Pentecost Sunday – By Maxine McVey

Pastor Maxine’s legacy of justice and healing was shown in her strong support of right relations with Indigenous people, both locally in the Sudbury Manitoulin area and in her work with the wider United Church of Canada. She was instrumental in the construction of the Apology Cairn at Laurentian University in Sudbury, marking the site …

So this is Christmas – Devotional

Published in the Manitoulin Expositor, December 2021 So This Is Christmas - 2021The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined. Isaiah 9:2 -NKJVIn the 1970s, John Lennon and Yoko Ono released a song that begins, …