Author: Éric Hébert-Daly

Matthew 9:35-10:8 The harvest is plenty, but the labourers few. Since I began to fulfill my responsibilities as the Regional Executive Minister in January, I’ve become particularly worked up about the future of the church. We all know the stories: a church closes every week across Canada. Ministries are having to move to hiring part-time ministers because they can’t afford full-time ones. Some have decided to try to make it work without a minister, without a building or by sharing ministry...

Genesis 1 Matthew 28:16-20 The passages we read this morning are, in many ways, a model for planning our lives together as a church. In the United Church’s New Creed, we talk about God who has created and is creating. God has created in the past and continues to create today. It’s an important reminder that God was there at the start of all things when the world was being created, to set everything into motion… and at the same time God is working in our world today and is accompanying us in...

I was standing in line at the post office earlier this week. Wearing a mask, a long time friend stood two people ahead of me and I didn’t recognize her until she turned to me and said, “Eric, it’s me, Megan!”. I was surprised and stood in disbelief that she could be right there so obviously and a small piece of cloth covering her face could baffle me. And I wish I could say this was the first time over the last three years that this happened to me, but it wasn’t. I have been regularly...