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 …

Land Acknowledgement – Sacred Stories

We gather this morning on land in Little Current. Before we spoke English on this land, we spoke French and called here Le Petit Courant. Before we spoke French here, we spoke Ojibwe, also known as Anishinaabemowin, and called here Waebijewung. Many names. Many peoples. Many generations. One place. In honour of all who have …

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 …

Ecumenicalism is like God’s Bouquet

See this video here WHO: I am Rev. Whitney Bruno, of Little Current and Sheguiandah United Church of Canada congregations who are on Treaty 94 of the Mnidoo Mnising peoples’ lands.I am Rev. Jaimie Greenwood, of Spring Bay Pentecostal. WHAT: We are introducing these series of ecumenical videos made by Manitoulin island churches. WHEN: There …

Who May Access God? An Orange Shirt Day Service

Watch or listen to this service hereFull service write up along with sermon is provided. Jump to sermon by clicking here Orange Shirt Sunday WELCOME: To all who join us in all places, at all times, in all media formats. Please say hi to one another. Like each other’s posts. Send letters or telephone. Be …