In Person and Online Event: Living in Transformative Change
Join us for an exciting conversation on January 15, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST—online via Zoom or in person―about making institutional changes in times of rapid cultural change. Michael Blair (General Secretary, The United Church of Canada) and Mary Rowe (President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute) will speak from their experiences of success through partnering, piloting, and persevering. Questions can be submitted in advance.
Hosted by Adaptive Conversations at Bloor Street United Church and Emmanuel College’s Centre for Religion and Its Contexts. The event will be moderated by Rob Dalgleish.
For more details and to register visit our website.
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New It's Your Call Episode
It's Your Call podcast chats with Janet Gear, a theological educator and ordained minister in The United Church of Canada. She speaks about her call to ministry and her exciting work to help leaders and congregations discover their own calls across a banquet of lived faith: evangelical, ecclesial, missional, ecumenical, and spiritual. Listen to the conversation!
Janet Gear is the author of the book Undivided Love: Navigating Landscapes of Living Faith, available at the United Church Bookstore.
It's Your Call is a podcast from the Office of Vocation of The United Church of Canada, hosted by Karen Medland and Andrew Richardson.[Image credit: It's Your Call/Janet Gear]
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The Manual 2023 Is Now Available Online
The Manual, 2023, is now available online at the top of the Handbooks page. It is effective January 1, 2023.This edition includes a new Intercultural and Intentionally Anti-Racist declaration and the Model Trust Deed as an appendix, as well as additional changes approved by the 43rd General Council and the General Council Executive in 2022.
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2023 Annual Declaration Is Now Open!
We’d like to advise ministry personnel that the 2023 Annual Declaration is now open until May 19, 2023. It’s free and only takes a few minutes. Log into ChurchHub.ca to make your Annual Declaration about whether you’ve had criminal charges in the last year or not. If you make your Annual Declaration each year, you do not need to get a new police records check! (Remember that Chrome or Edge are the preferred browsers for ChurchHub; Safari is not optimal.)
Need help accessing ChurchHub? Please contact ministry@united-church.ca
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Your Generosity Matters: Food and Hygiene Kits for Ukraine |
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For January, we asked five staff members to select a Mission & Service story that is meaningful to them and tell us a bit about why:
"War continues to rage in Ukraine. Fortunately, Canada has not seen war on its shores. Others are not so lucky. I can’t imagine what these folks are living through. As Christians, we are taught the golden rule: treat others as we would wish to be treated. Believing that we had an opportunity to help those who now have next to nothing and don’t have the means to access goods, why wouldn’t we, who have so much, help those who at this time aren’t as blessed? Therefore, sponsoring hygiene and food basket packages for those less fortunate than ourselves helps my family live up to one of the tenets by which we live."
— Selected by Susan Jackson of General Council Statistics
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The United Church Bookstore: Inspire Growth in Your Community of Faith! |
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Inspire growth in your community of faith with Turning Ourselves Inside Out by Rob Fennell and Russell Daye, the newest arrival at the United Church Bookstore.
Emerging from the Thriving Christian Communities Project started by the authors in 2015, Turning Ourselves Inside Out seeks to answer the question: How do we learn about what is exciting and what the Holy Spirit is doing? How do we broaden the conversation beyond how sad, afraid, and grumpy we often are as church people? This book invites us to dig deep and get down to the business of dreaming God's dream and making it a reality!
Shop all of our latest titles, including our new Lenten devotional Good Courage. Don't forget to take advantage of our free shipping on orders of $100 or more with the promotion code FREESHIPPING.
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