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Our minister put the video from yesterday's service in our church YouTube group. She apologized for the technical issues. I asked if there had been any advance warning about the illness outbreak and she said only the cancelation of the choir event. She agreed advance notice would have been appropriate and said they would have to work on that.
 
Church today was the closing part of the Canadian Shield Regional Council's Annual meeting. It was beautiful. Our minister became ordained. I sang in a joint choir. The ballroom of a local hotel was PACKED. The moderator delivered the message, and we got to listen to her and converse with her several times throughout the weekend. She's pretty amazing! The whole weekend was so full of energy, enthusiasm, praise and hope. Now...to take that into the rest of my ordinary life, and my church life.
 
I decided to watch church on YouTube. It seems others did too because apparently it was a small group. I wanted to give the place more time to be clear of the covid outbreak. There was a retired pulpit supply yesterday. He's a well loved former minister for this congregation. He was great. He spoke of romantic love vs reality and about loving others in general. He had a dry wit at times and used it to make his point well.
 
No church for me, as per usual. However, this morning I received a photo on FB about the consecration of the new Bishop of Saskatchewan. I tried to send it here but was unsuccessful. Their webpage is easy to find, if you are interested. When I saw the photo I immediately thought "Now that is an interesting change in traditional roles. Women in pants at the altar rail being served food by men wearing dresses. More often the women prepare and serve the food"..
No - I didn't share my thought on FB.
 
We celebrated a regular church attender yesterday…She turned 100 years old! So…older than the United Church. She is still pretty sharp memory-wise too. A good news story.
 
Lovely service yesterday. I was reading. Sat in pew alone, as big guy and best friend had other plans, respectively. Wore a shalwar kameez in honour of Asian History month. On a bit of a sad note, it was a green silk one that I've never worn, that I had saved for my hoped for wedding with the hippie...
 
I was raised as a article of phonetic image ... in church last Sunday ... few believe in the prior Christians of Rome as Aramaic light ... engravings ...

Ever research the identity of Aramaic Alphabet? It is quite a tale ...
 
I went to church for the first time in about a month today. Our minister left and moved up north. We have a local minister who will be filling in for three months. She works 3/4 time at her church an hour away and this will be the other quarter. Today was her first day. She will be a good fit.
 
Our minister is on holidays for the month of July so we have guest worship leaders. Our congregation numbers dwindle considerable. Yesterday, I led worship and it was the smallest turnout of the entire year. I'm trying not to take it personally! But I enjoyed crafting a message on "The Compassion of Jesus", and a few people mentioned very specific things they got from the message. That always makes me happy...that I could inspire a thought, an idea, or maybe even an action (although I am not really the source of the inspiration!)
 
BetteTheRed said:
Our minister is now on holiday for six weeks. I enjoy the variety, and unpredictability of summer services.
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So does your church do lay supply or guest preachers? I've seen both and did lay supply myself for three summers in my family church. Dad was chairing worship during that period and was happy to accept the help. (That's UCCan. In UU, lay supply is the norm.)
 
JayneWonders said:
How did you summer camp go?
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Weekend at Camp Simpresca? So awful we will never do it again.

Vacation Bible Camp as snack person? Awesome if a bit exhausting. Only 17 kids or so but an additional 12-15 volunteers to feed and water. But I have the most awesome non-binary helper, who is better at sugar cookie decoration than dishes but they are a total sweetheart, And i begged off being in the play, because that adds a few hours to the week, so music lady and i were just responsible for backdrop (old christmas trees) and a cardboard boat...
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Mendalla said:
So does your church do lay supply or guest preachers? I've seen both and did lay supply myself for three summers in my family church. Dad was chairing worship during that period and was happy to accept the help. (That's UCCan. In UU, lay supply is the norm.)
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Pulpit supply, no lay supply, although we've done combos in the past.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Weekend at Camp Simpresca? So awful we will never do it again.
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Sorry your volunteering caused so much actual work and stress, What did all those other 'helpers' do?
We volunteered at a UC Camp for several years. We didn't have to deal with food or with activities beyond our roles (sailing instructors). I also took care of our very young kids but helped as able from the beach. We often have former campers telling us how much they enjoyed the camps.
 
KayTheCurler said:
Sorry your volunteering caused so much actual work and stress, What did all those other 'helpers' do?
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The camp is old and has been gradually falling into disrepair. My kids went to this camp. It's still not a bad kids' camp, but not the most suitable for a pile of mainly seniors. Whoever assigned cabins decided that it was appropriate to put the fat man with mobility issues and the woman with some visual impairment in the cabin farthest from the kitchen/dining room/deck building. There are steepish hills, rocks, and downed trees to navigate around. It was wet and rained all weekend. All the cabins leak, with water pouring into the ladies' washroom/shower. And the beds were single bunks of great uncomfortableness.

Lest you think I'm a princess or a glamper, which would both be sort of fair (I brought my 3 king-sized feather pillows in 400 thread count organic cotton pillow cases), I have spent at least one week a year of most of my life until my godfather got into his 90s, at my godparents' cabin in the woods with about 10 acres planted in white pine.. A little cabin, one room with curtain dividers (I helped raise the walls as a 12-13 year old),, deep in a woods near but not on Lake Huron, hydro, but no running water, and an outhouse. If you need a shower, there's a complicated homemade shower arrangement partway up the hill behind the "tool shed" that requires fueling with kettles of boiling water. There are two tool sheds - one with the tractor and the tools and the bird feeding supplies; the other with windows that serves as a private bedroom outside of the main cabin. Two single cots that can be bungee corded together. And it's more civilized than camp was... Probably the only two good outcomes were meeting a new youngish couple who have joined the church, with their five children, live very close to the big guy's house, and seem like they'd be fun to get to know, and they seem to like us; secondly, discovering that the big guy and I play euchre well as a couple.
 
I went toBerwick Camp last night for the evening service. The UCC moderator is their minister in residence this year and I was curious about indigenous views on scripture.
Can’t say I was impressed. The scripture was the story of the snake and Eve and Adam being kicked out of Eden. She was pointing out the differences in western scientific thinking and indigenous thinking, her train of thought was all over the place ( maybe that is the difference?) and I was glad that at the end she gave something like a summary, because she completely lost me wondering in between what she actually wanted to say and what that has to do with the text. I suppose I have to go again another night. Anybody hear heard her preaching? Your impression?
 
Another thing she said was about the angel guarding the Tree of Life”, that this wasn’t to be taken as a metaphor but as a spirit. I have a problem with people telling others that bible stories were reality. In that sense I don’t think that indigenous beliefs would improve our reality.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Another thing she said was about the angel guarding the Tree of Life”, that this wasn’t to be taken as a metaphor but as a spirit. I have a problem with people telling others that bible stories were reality. In that sense I don’t think that indigenous beliefs would improve our reality.
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Its only one perspective in an ultimate perspective of God from an objective beyond the comprehension f those dedicated to simple views ...

We tend to be indoctrinated to simple ... there are even court cases that can't be settled because of this conflicted virtue ... its said by some to be a duo or diabolical forcing an individual to look both ways ... Florida has its own "isolate the WOKE" legality! Gd is larger and more scattered than the box brute folk would like to put the uncontainable entity in ... thus understandably earth bound powers secretly hate the comprehension of a god that remains beyond and behind them concurrently! Imagine a leading and following ideal that accepts responsibility for consequence. That would drive one into a relief position ... and the unknown part might back-up ... as: "get out damned spot!" It may have been intended for ah muse 'n ... the ani Ma'!

They say the anima is within half of the populace and half is without ... allowing fr vast implications that cannot be nailed in a nihilistic manner! Some quantum movement may be expected when you observe it ...
 
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