New Vision Notes for Thursday June 12, 2025

Welcome to a new edition of New Vision Notes! We are grateful to be reaching you each week. This Sunday, New Vision will gather for our annual Pride worship service! The theme of this year’s service is Perseverance & Hope. Expect a service full to the brim with uplifting song, words of faith and experience shared by a number of NV members, and the blessing of our new Pride flag! We will also celebrate communion. And then… there will be a multicultural lunch! Come, celebrate, and eat as part of our Beloved community.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Affirming Newcomers Group meeting after last Sunday’s service, and to the hard-working folks who pitched in to help set-up, take-down and clean up afterwards.

The United Church of Canada stands in solidarity, committed to justice, radical love, and creating a world where absolutely everyone is embraced and celebrated.

To learn more about this important message, read the full news story and download, watch, or share the Moderator’s 2025 Pride Message. Happy Pride!

Affirm United has begun a project to welcome members of the 2S-LLGBTQ+ community who have endured religious trauma. We invite you to participate in The Re-Affirm Project. You may learn more and participate by clicking on this link: https://affirmunited.ause.ca/the-re-affirm-project/

June is also Indigenous History Month, and June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This is a time to celebrate the outstanding achievements, history, cultures, and diversity of Indigenous peoples. This is also the time of summer solstice. The United Church Newsletter, “Living into Right Relations” may be viewed by clicking on this link: https://mailchi.mp/united-church/living-into-right-relations-4754355?e=46c07da584

A Song of Faith – A Song of Faith, adopted in 2006, seeks to provide a verbal picture of what The United Church of Canada understands its faith to be in the historical, political, social, and theological context of the early 21st century. It is also a means of ongoing reflection and an invitation for the church to live out its convictions in relation to the world in which we live. Please click here to view (and/or download) this important literature.

Would you like to try leading a worship service? Our worship team is looking for some folks to consider leading worship. It’s a fun and meaningful way to contribute to our faith community! Please reach out to Julie or Dan to learn more about putting a service together.

Enjoy Daily scripture readings from The Revised Common Lectionary: This three-year cycle of scripture readings is used by most churches in Canada and the US. Let the Word inspire you by visiting https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/daily.php?year=B#id79

You’re invited! Join us on Sunday mornings 10:30 am week to week either in person at 24 Main St. W. or on Zoom by clicking here. The link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/782292511. If you’re on Facebook, you may also want to consider joining our New Vision United Community Group , where we post updates and share with one another online.