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  • Sunday Worship – February 13, 2022

    Gathering We come from scattered lives to this time of community, seeking unity in the Spirit, seeking the grace of the Christ of all people, seeking the peace of the God of All. God’s people have gathered, in our glorious diversity and difference, as God created and intended. Let us worship God together. Hymn Confession…

  • Kids Korner: Sermon on the Plain (February 13th)

    Read Luke 6:17-26 with your family. Luke’s gospel is the Social Justice gospel. About a hundred years ago Christians focused on asking “what would Jesus do”? when seeing all the problems in their communities, the churches looked to Luke’s gospel and read about these promises. They read how people needed to be fed, so the…

  • Sunday Worship – February 6, 2022

    Gathering Lift us up as we gather in God’s presence to celebrate God’s saving love. God shows us the path to a bright new dawn. We gather in the name of the resurrected Saviour who is Jesus the Christ. Hymn Confession & Words of Assurance Sometimes faith is really hard, O God, forgive us when…

  • Kids Korner: Fishers of People (February 6th)

    Read Luke 5:1-11 with your family. In Galilee everyone knew how important fish was. There were villages named after the act of fishing (one of the Greek names for the place the Bible calls Magdala was “town where they process fish”). However, people didn’t just go to fish and feed their families, selling some along…

  • Sunday Worship – January 30, 2022

    Gathering We have come to worship God, the living God, who calls prophets and teachers to bear witness. We have come to praise God, the almighty God, who answers the forces of hatred and hurt with the power of grace. We have come to worship God, all-gracious God, who chooses you and me and everyone…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus rejected in his home town (January 30th)

    Read Luke 4:14-30 with your family. Jesus grew up in a small village called Nazareth, in the northern area known as Galilee. In those days Galilee was one of the provinces of the Hebrew territories, and Judea was another (that is where Jerusalem and Bethlehem were located). Jesus travelled all over Galilee and Judea, as…

  • Sunday Worship – January 23, 2022

    Gathering Christ calls us together, with our different backgrounds, our different identities, our different gifts, our different ideas, and our different tastes.  Christ calls us together, to share what makes our community special, to build each other up, to serve each other in love.  Christ calls us together, knowing that we need all parts of the body if we are…

  • Kids Korner: The Body of Christ (January 23rd)

    Read 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 with your family. A very important person in the early church named Paul, wrote a letter to his friends in the city of Corinth in Greece. They were arguing about something and Paul was trying to explain to them how the Christian family was supposed to get along. He used the…

  • Sunday Worship – January 16, 2022

    Gathering We come to celebrate the feast You offer from the abundance of Your house, the delights we share with others as we share the gifts You give so freely. We celebrate the story of the first miracle of Jesus, as he brought overflowing hospitality to the wedding feast in Cana, demonstrating You loving presence…

  • Kids Korner: A wedding at Cana (January 16th)

    Read John 2:1-12 with your family. Weddings were a very big deal in Jesus’ time. They weren’t just about the bride and groom, they were also agreements between the families to support each other in good times and bad times. Usually the wedding was for the whole village and only special people travelled from outside…