Not every church has the ability to run a Vacation Bible School during Summer Break, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other fantastic opportunities for ministry with families in your community. Check-out some of these great ideas from different United churches for inspiration. Special Events Consider hosting a special event like an ice cream sundae social, sing-a-long, field trip, movie night, or church picnic. Make sure to personally invite your families to attend, and ask if there are any...
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Not every church has the ability to run a Vacation Bible School during Summer Break, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other fantastic opportunities for ministry with families in your community. Check-out some of these great ideas from different United churches for inspiration. If your Sunday School program closes for the summer, or your church worships all-together on Sundays, consider how to include children in all parts of your worship together. Invite children to be leaders taking charge...
Not every church has the ability to run a Vacation Bible School during Summer Break, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other fantastic opportunities for ministry with families in your community. Check-out some of these great ideas from different United churches for inspiration. During the height of the pandemic many of our churches created take-home Sunday School or VBS care packages for families to explore. St. John’s United Church in Marathon ON called theirs “Camp-in-a-Box”, it included a...
The United Church Rural Ministry Network (UCRMN) is a national network, that connects electronically sharing stories and news of rural communities across Canada (and around the world), by networking with lay and clergy leaders of rural communities of faith. Find us on website: https://ucrmn.ca/ Let me walk with you through some of the resources on the UCRMN website. Peter Chynoweth (Cochrane, AB) is the web minder. The ‘Network’ connection includes a partner Atlantic Canada network called...
By Rev. Tori Mullin, Growth Animator for Eastern Ontario and Quebec This week I attended a fantastic webinar put on by The Presbyterian Outlook in the USA, exploring digital discipleship and specifically how we can use social media as faith communities. Perhaps your church has struggled to know whether you should be on TikTok, Instagram or Facebook. You might have an old Twitter (now called X) account lying dormant out there on the web. The question we grappled with was, how can we create a...
The Living into Right Relations Leadership Circle has developed some ideas to help communities of faith dedicate their copies of the Mohawk Bible with respect and gratitude, including liturgical resources, video clips of Harvey Satewas Gabriel reading from the Mohawk Bible and other resources about the significance of this translation. Ohiatonhseratokénti, The Holy Bible in Mohawk
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