The Finance & Extension Board is seeking a part-time Secretary to administer all the secretarial functions of the Board. The position requires approximately 35 hours per month. The Secretary will be paid a comparable salary related to field and years of experience. Tasks include Issuing agendas and minutes of Board and committee meetings. Approving invoices and acting as signing officer for cheques, contracts, and loan agreements. Preparing the annual funding...
Month: July 2020
Dear Members of the Congregation Kol Yehoudah, On behalf of the United Church of Canada, in the Conseil régional Nakonha:ka Regional council, and through the support of its Justice and Community Leadership Team, we are reaching out to you after hearing of the vandalism done to your synagogue in recent weeks. We wish to express our deep sadness upon hearing of this. Even though it is possible that your worship site was not specifically targeted as such, any vandalism of any worship site is an...
The following guidelines should be considered as best practices for outdoor worship based on current knowledge: Pre-screening questionnaire; Are you ill? Have you been ill within the last 14 days? Have you been with anyone who has been ill? Consider not allowing entry if there is a positive response to any of these questions.. Register names of participants. Recommended the elderly 65+ not attend Masks are mandatory Bring your own chair, towel or blanket to sit upon Monitor and direct...
Dear Communities of faith in the Nakonha:Ka Regional Council: With the provincial reopening plan in full swing, and churches across Quebec making plans to have face-to-face worship again, our YaYA leadership team wanted to highlight a few recommendations for churches to consider with regard to children, youth and families. We are all children of God, and worship should be as safely accessible as possible for people of all ages. It may be that your community of faith rarely hosts children or...
United Spirit Camp online was a big success. In these uncertain and disconnecting times, we wanted to be able reach out to our camper community and remind them that we love them and miss them! When things are safer we will be here to welcome them to camp. We sent out a letter with some “warm fuzzies” and some friendship bracelet string to every camper from the past three summers. During what would have been our week of camp every morning at 10 am we gathered for Worship with Mama...
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