On December 16th, the theme was joy. Our special offering was to support young girls in Mozambique. Blue feathers were added to the tree. Next Sunday’s special offering to support The Home of Blessings in China that supports youth and adults with developmental challenges and provides baking supplies for the workshop. The young people lead … [Read more…]
We celebrated Advent 2 with the theme Peace on December 9th. The children added blue ribbons to the tree to represent ribbons of peace that circle the earth. The loose change offering will go towards providing meals to young children and seniors in Colombia. The previous week, the congregation was generous and we gathered enough … [Read more…]
If you were looking for two words to describe the covenanting service held at Georgian Shores United Church on December 2, they would be colourful and meaningful. Revs. Gwen and Roy Nicol-Macdonald, Northern Waters Presbytery and the congregation made promises in this three way covenant among all parties concerning the ministry of our new ministers. … [Read more…]
December 2 was the first Sunday in Advent for 2012. During the time with the younger members, blue stars were added to the tree. The children and youth went out into the congregation and collected loose change for the first week of “Change the World”. Money collected will support the “Gifts of Vision Project – … [Read more…]
The Sun Times ran a very interesting story about the GSUC combined organ on October 2nd: “Organ brings together best from two churches”