New Vision Notes

Thursday September 29, 2022

While Rev. Ian is on vacation and sabbatical leave, here is what’s going on at New Vision:

1. Tomorrow is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation  (Orange Shirt Day) in which we recognize the legacy of the Canadian Indian Residential School System and the impact it has had on Indigenous communities for over a century.
2. This coming Sunday, October 2nd, is World Communion Sunday. We look forward to celebrating communion with Rev. Diane and Rev. Miriam.
3. During Rev. Ian’s vacation and study/sabbatical leave, pastoral care will be available through members of our Pastoral Care Team by contacting Albert Jagt or Erin Poole.
4. New Vision church council will provide an important information update on our financial situation after worship on October 16. Please plan to attend.
5. The United Church of Canada will be hosting a free virtual panel called “Building a Strong Foundation: Anti-Racist Works in Action” on Wed. October 5th at 7pm. For more information and to register, please click here.
6. Exciting News! Loreena McKennitt will be performing at The Music Hall on Friday December 9th, as she tours her new album “Under A Winter’s Moon”. Here’s a link to learn more: https://www.underawintersmoon.com/
7. The Music Hall social enterprise project is moving ahead now with an invitation to the Hamilton community and its leaders to pick up the music venue project with us. For more information, have a look at this page on our website.
8. Olive Oil and Zatoun (Mediterranean Thyme/Herb Mix) are available for purchase from the church office for $25.
9. Do you have a favourite worship song that lifts you up and makes your spirit soar? We invite you to email your worship song requests to David at dkmotherwell@gmail.com  We will let you know if your song is picked and you’ll get a shout-out in the credits at the end of the service.
10. With a very contagious new COVID sub-variant spreading in Hamilton, we encourage you to get the fourth vaccination now available to all adults. We will continue our current in-person gathering approach: i) we will form the circle again in the lower hall, distancing the seats by a meter for the time being. ii) people may join the circle if they are willing to wear a mask.
11. The reason for the masks is that we will allow ourselves to sing, and masking reduces the distance air we expel travels with the increased effort singing.
12. New Vision Virtual Worship is experiential, participatory, image-rich and collective, just like worship in person at New Vision! Join us on Sunday mornings 10:30 am week to week during the Covid-19 emergency by clicking here. If you want to put the link someplace easy to find each week, here it is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/782292511. Please share it with others and invite them to a “different” kind of time on Zoom from the usual.
13. You can also call in to the gathering on the telephone. Call 1 647 374 4685, then, when prompted, input the Meeting ID 782 292 511 followed by the # sign. Ignore the prompts for Participant ID and Password. You are in when the recorded voice says, “You are in the meeting.” If you can only connect by video on your computer with no audio, you can use the phone connection for audio and the computer connection for visual.
14. Rev. Ian’s sabbatical leave will end January 8, 2023 and we look forward to his return to our worship space on Sunday January 15, 2023.

See you on Sunday!