New Vision Notes for Thursday May 8, 2025

Welcome to a new edition of New Vision Notes! We are grateful to be reaching you each week. This coming Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Easter and the Second Sunday of Asian Heritage Month. Worship will feature communion, and will be led by Rev. Dr. Miriam, Rev. Diane, and other fantastic folks from our New Vision community.

The current phase of New Vision’s repair project on the building exterior is complete! The fencing around our building will be removed tomorrow! As a reminder, please use our regular entrance on the MacNab side of the building (the accessible door between the two red pillars).

An enormous thank you goes out to Amr and his amazing team from Broom Sweet Broom for so generously giving their time and talent this week to perform the most intense kitchen revitalization project in this century… they are truly miracle workers!

A National Refugee Sponsorship Conference will be held on May 13, 2025, from 1-4pm, hosted by The United Church of Canada: “A Call to Revive: Renew Refugee Sponsorship and Rejuvenate the Community.” The conference will be about extending support to 2SLGBTQIA+ and other vulnerable refugees through partnerships and cost-sharing programs, as well as numerous other topics related to refugee sponsorship in the United Church. You can register through this link: https://bit.ly/acalltorevive

Kairos Palestine Easter Appeal 2025: During Easter, a time of renewal and resurrection, Palestinian Christians stand at a crossroad—one that will determine whether their presence in the land where Christ was born, crucified, and resurrected will endure or fade into history. The threats facing them and all Palestinians—land confiscation, forced displacement, physical assaults and violent arrests, targeted killings, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, and political marginalization—have reached a critical point. A PDF of the appeal document may be downloaded by clicking here.

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.