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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
E-ssentials: Advent Unwrapped, Giving Tuesday, and more!
The United Church of Canada E-ssentials - November 28, 2023
Every week from now until Christmas, Advent Unwrapped will be sharing a round-up of resources to help us all engage with the reason for the season. Be sure to sign up for the newsletter and join our Facebook group, where you can share links to resources, ideas, and inspirations that have inspired you.
[Image credit: The United Church of Canada]
Today Is Giving Tuesday!
If you haven’t had a chance to make your donation yet but are seriously considering it, please do it now.
Your gifts will be put to work providing aid as soon as it is needed in the areas where it is needed most. And the best part is that your support will be there to help rebuild through our partners long after their stories are no longer circulated in the news.
Thank you for your support, and I hope you will join in responding to our neighbours' needs this Giving Tuesday.
Tonight, please join the members of the “Then Let Us Sing!” Working Group for the final 40 Days live event. It will be a bilingual one, with English‒French interpretation!
Members of the team will explore how we continue to sing justly. The ways in which we learn, teach, share, and reproduce (copyright) songs help us express our commitment to justice. This gathering time will discuss Then Let Us Sing’s principles when it comes to justice in song, including its copyright policy and anti-racist/anti-oppression framework. We will ask questions about respecting and honouring other traditions and practise ways to learn and teach these songs. And, of course, we will sing together!
The theme of COP28 is Unite. Act. Deliver. You can take action right now by sending an email to urge Minister Guilbeault to ensure a Loss and Damage Fund with new funding centered on equity and climate justice is established.
[Image credit: COP28 UAE, Rev. Chali Mfuta, Sarah Gingles, and Shane Goldie]
Mission and Service Stories: Education in the Wake of Disaster
The start of the first school year in Aleppo, Syria, after the devastating February earthquake was a welcome return to normal for some students, thanks to Mission and Service partner The Middle East Council of Churches. MECC was able to rehabilitate five school buildings in Aleppo before September 2023, so children will have the opportunity to learn and grow safely.
[Photo credit: Middle East Council of Churches]
EDGEy Conversations
Scott Douglas, Program Director of the Centre for Christian Studies in Winnipeg, MB, and Marcie Gibson, Program Staff (with particular responsibility for the students in their final year), recently chatted with Sarah Levis about innovation’s role in the church and its influence, particularly on how CCS educates its diaconal ministry students. This thought-provoking discussion, touching on many different ideas about innovation in church contexts, is available on EDGE’s YouTube channel. Thank you, Scott and Marcie!
[Image credit: The United Church of Canada, Marcie Gibson, and Scott Douglas]
For those looking to do some holiday shopping, we have plenty of new arrivals for the book lovers on your list, plus our 2024 Canadian Church Calendar makes for a wonderful gift.
Worship Resources
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