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Here's our livestreamed service from this a.m. I add because we tried a couple of new things this a.m. A dialogue instead of a message, which had some different requirements, and a blessing of the animals, which required some acknowledgment of critter behaviour. Also, if you're curious about "me", I am the other half of the dialogue.


Our dialogue starts at about 24 minutes if you'd like to do some fast-forwarding.
 
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BetteTheRed said:
Here's our livestreamed service from this a.m. I add because we tried a couple of new things this a.m. A dialogue instead of a message, which had some different requirements, and a blessing of the animals, which required some acknowledgment of critter behaviour. Also, if you're curious about "me", I am the other half of the dialogue.


Our dialogue starts at about 24 minutes if you'd like to do some fast-forwarding.
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Not something I would attend in person, so fun to watch online.
 
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@ BetteTheRed - Predicament - YES! Complexities differ from technical problems - solutions are generally not simple, linear, strategic. And YES to grasshoppers too! (and cool socks!)
 
My sister makes me the funkiest of socks. These particular ones were from a "reverse rainbow" skein, with a cable worked in.

My most recent socks were "relatively" tame; a beautiful mint green with a couple of lovely cables. She is uber talented.
 
And, for the favoured people who are "normal" sock recipients? She has a file of our foot prints, so they're always really nice fitting.

Also, because I wear about a size bigger than her (but she's little plump feet and I am slightly longer bony feet), I'm often the recipient of first-try patterns where the gauge was off...
 
Oh, shoot. I will have to figure out what went wrong, and edit my submission. I think you'd enjoy it, Nancy, in that it's another tool in the toolbox for a LWL, if you can find a candidate for a dialogue.
 
Our church is open, and about 20 to 30 people attend each week. We have people sitting 6 feet apart, wearing masks, and a distant choir singing, each member (only 3 at a time) sitting apart, and quite distant from the congregation. We had communion yesterday...done in a very different way, but I sure felt like it was wonderful, thoughtful, spiritual...all the things communion should be. Bread and juice were in little covered containers, and picked up by each person upon entry. Our minister did a superb job making it feel like we were acting as one unit. So much better than virtual communion.
 
We had a service in the sanctuary today. Not very many people. Very carefully done. But just so lovely to be in there. It was a bit weepy actually.

And communion was a bit hilarious...

So this is what our service looks like combining live-streaming with a bit of in-sanctuary worship: Thanksgiving?
 
I'm going to add a link to last Sunday's service, because it was our Anniversary service, 59 years, and we had a guest speaker (as we always do on Anniversary Sunday), the Rev Hye-Ran Kim-Cragg, who holds the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church Professorship in Preaching at Emmanuel College. It was a really inspiring message; I enjoyed it hugely.

Anniversary Service, part 1 of 2 It will lead you to part 2, good copy. Apparently it was a bit of a challenging week, live-streaming and recording-wise.
 
And if you're interested in just the message, it's Part 2, starting at about 22:30 . She does a really Jewish-feeling conversation about the text. It's quite amazing. Professor of Preaching for sure. @revjohn @revsdd @Redbaron@GeoFee
 
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We are starting our planning for Christmas and will probably have about a 20 minute outdoor service with a fire pit and candles in our parking lot and two indoor services with the Communion service at 10 pm. There will be almost 3 hours, or more, between the first indoor service and Communion which will provide time for sanitizing. For advent, our indoor services will be limited to about 45 minutes to be followed by singing carols in the driveway between the church and the CEC (Christian Education Centre, more like a community connection centre now). The driveway slopes down to the parking lot which will help acoustics and visibility. No new cases of Covid-19 since July in this part of the Ottawa Valley. Most people in town are wearing masks in an effort to keep it that way. We are increasing the variety in our services in November.
 
Our local UC is starting real life services this week. Most others have been gathering for quite sometime. Today SK has 82 new cases - the biggest increase in a day so far. This immediate area has 52 active cases.
 
Here's a "minister to follow". Jeffrey Dale, formerly our half-time youth minister, has accepted a position within the UCCan region. He's a really lovely, thoughtful, young man.

Here's this week remembrance service, quite carefully done.
 
Also, he regrets the "thumbnail" above, lol. It's YouTube chosen, he's currently learning how to "pick his thumbnail"...
 
Did a live service today....first since February! I spoke on the parable of the talents, and now I am listening to you-tube and Facebook services on the same scripture passage. Interesting how so many of us can see it in so many different ways. One message was very much a judgement day message; one was about using our talents and righteousness. I talked about expanding love, faith, God's golden opportunities, so that they spill over into the rest of our lives and into our world. I likened it to risk taking, but a necessary risk taking in order to expand God's positive influence in our world. To be miserly and to bury those opportunities is to be despised, as we see in the master's reaction. I don't think the master is meant to be God, but rather a character in a familiar scenario, delivering the reaction that became the 'twist' in the story. The twist that makes us think and pray for understanding. A God of mercy and grace cannot be as harsh as the master in the parable was. Just my take on it, and certainly not conclusive...Next time I read the parable, I might see it a different way.
 
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