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Welcome!
We are a faith-community of everyday
people, exploring, experiencing and sharing God's love within the
vibrant traditions of
The United
Church of Canada. We are led by our Minister, Rev. Joëlle Leduc,
and an active Congregation, the "Ministers of Action". Several of our
people have lead in worship on days that Rev. Joëlle Leduc was away.
We have weekly in-person worship
services on Sunday morning, starting at 10:30. These services are also
live-streamed on Zoom, and
recordings
are made available on our facebook page. Worship is for everyone. We
have a special time for Children and Youth, the WoW Zone (Worship Our
Way). We also have a VIP Family Spot at the front of the Sanctuary,
shown
here, where children can play
under the watchful eye of a parent. We serve communion once a month. We
have been blessed to have had several baptisms recently and are looking
forward to the next ones. On June 11, and following Wednesdays, we have
a 10:30 am mid-week worship service. During July and August 2025 we will
again take part in joint worship services with the
West-Island
and Beyond United Churches Cluster. We will host the Cluster on
July 27 and return to our regular Sunday worship services on August 31.
In 2023 and 2024, in months that had
five Sundays, we took part in joint worship services on the fifth Sunday
at one of the other churches in our area, the
West-Island
and Riverside Cluster. We have also taken part in similar joint
worship services in summer 2022 (see
here)
and 2023 (see
here).
Throughout summer 2024 we had worship services at Ste-Genny's, with lay
people or a guest minister leading in worship when Rev. Joëlle Leduc is
on holidays.
In October 2022 Rev. Joëlle Leduc
started Imagineers. Worship imagineers are a group of people coming
together to brainstorm ideas for worship for a season. This is not a
committee with permanent members, but an ad hoc group that does not have
to have the same members each time they meet. In October 2022 the
Imagineers looked at
Advent. In
February 2023 the Imagineers looked at
Lent.
In September 2023 the Imagineers again looked at
Advent.
Advent and Christmas are always
special times. We usually get together the Saturday before the first
of Advent starting off sharing a meal, then decorating the Christmas
tree, the sanctuary and the narthex. We end the evening singing
Christmas carols. We don't have a Worship Service on Christmas Day.
Instead, we meet on Christmas Eve, starting off with a 30 min carol
sing followed by the actual Christmas Eve Worship Service. Easter is a
special time as well. On Good Friday we have a joint worship service
with
Roxboro United
and alternate hosting that service.
Our pulpit is inscribed with the
letters VDMA. Have you noticed that, and have you wondered what that
means? It is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase: Verbum domini manet
in aeternum, which means: The word of the Lord remains forever.
Recent History
Rev. Joëlle Leduc started with us on September 1, 2020. On September 13,
2020 she started offering an
online Sunday
worship service at 1:00 pm, followed by zoom fellowship, in
addition to the regular 10:30 am in person Sunday worship, which was
open to a limited number of people due to COVID-19 restrictions. When
the Government of Quebec tightened the restrictions even more the
beginning of February 2021, we could no longer hold in person worship
and had 10:30 am Sunday
worship online. We
resumed in person worship, respecting the restrictions, the end of March
2021, and simultaneously broadcast this worship service
live
on zoom. March 2021 was also the time that Rev. Joëlle Leduc
started her maternity leave. We are blessed to have strong lay
leadership and several of our members took turns leading in worship,
while we also had a number of guest preachers, students from The United
Theological College, a Licensed Lay Worship Leader and retired
ministers.
During the summer period, July 4 -
September 5, 2021, we took part in
joint
online worship services with other West-Island churches.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions the church
was closed from January 2 until February 6, 2022. Live, on-site, in
person worship services resumed February 13, 2022, while respecting the
latest restrictions in place at that time. These services were broadcast
Live Online on zoom starting at 10:30 am,
followed by fellowship.
We welcomed Gordon Simms as our new Music Director on November 20, 2022.
Gordon has been sharing his musical talents and leadership, and we are
eager to find out what surprises he has for us.
