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Thursday December 19, 2024 Welcome to a new edition of New Vision Notes! We are grateful to be reaching your inbox each week. This coming Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Advent! Our worship will be led by Martine and other fantastic folks from our New Vision Community.
Please mark your calendar: Christmas Eve Service will be next Tuesday, December 24th at 4:00pm (with communion) and will be followed by Christmas Eve Dinner. (For those attending the service via Zoom, please use the regular Sunday worship link found at the bottom of this newsletter). You’re invited to save and share the flyer with your friends and family.
***Change in Entry Door Location !***  New Vision needs to do some repair work on the building exterior! For everyone’s safety, some parts of the sidewalk around our building are now closed. Please continue to use the accessible door on the corner of Main and MacNab (close to our illuminated sign).
This Advent, KAIROS is issuing a Call for Prayer for Palestine, inviting you to join in collective prayer every day at noon, wherever you are in the world. Together, let us lift our voices to God, seeking justice, peace, and hope for Palestine and Palestinians, especially in these extremely difficult times. Please click here to view and save the prayer. Please consider sharing it with your personal networks and community. Through the unity of our prayers, we affirm our faith in the transformative power of God’s love, standing in solidarity with those who yearn for freedom and justice. Christmas Eve 2024- Volunteers & Donations Needed!
This year, Christmas eve dinner will be held after our annual Christmas Eve worship service on Tuesday. Volunteers are needed in the following roles: shopping, food prep, cooking, clean-up crew. We are also looking for a few folks to bring in cooked & prepared dishes that can be reheated well on Christmas eve. Please contact Jen Hompoth on Sunday or on Whatsapp for more details.
An Important Update for Broadview Magazine Subscribers:
In response to the Canada Post Strike, Broadview want to ensure all subscribers can still enjoy the magazine they love. Over the next week or two they will be sending out a digital version of the January/February 2025 issue to active subscribers with an email on file and everyone who has completed the online contact update form ( tinyurl.com/broadviewconnect2024 ). Once postal service is fully restored they will mail out the printed issue(s). 2025 Subscriptions for the United Church’s Broadview Magazine are still available for purchase! For only $30, you can receive this excellent publication in your mail for a full year! To subscribe, please see Arlene or leave $30 in an envelope with your name/address and “Broadview Subscription” written on it and place it in the collection plate during the offering. (If you haven’t read an issue of Broadview, there are a limited number of copies available on the table at the back of our worship space each Sunday at no cost for our community to share).
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. Together, let’s celebrate the gifts and graces of all! |
2025 is a big year in The United Church of Canada. It’s the Centennial AND General Council 45. And we have a lot to be excited about! The Moderator, The Right Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne extends an invitation for you to join her on Monday, January 13 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET for a 
We have been invited to attend the 2025 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Ecumenical Service, which will be held at MacNeill Baptist Church, 1145 King St W, Hamilton, on Thursday January 23rd at 7pm. The guest speaker will be The Reverend Michael Blair, General Secretary of The United Church of Canada. Rev. Blair also serves as Chair for the Mission from the Margins working group of the World Council of Church’s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. For the year 2025, the prayers and reflections for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity were prepared by the brothers and sisters of the monastic community of Bose in northern Italy. The theme this year is “Do you believe this?” based on John 11:26. A Facebook event has been created, and we are encouraged to share it with our friends and families: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Dwk7jCZj2/
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