Some is the proposals coming forward are interesting:
That the National office remain within a 40 km. radius of 3250 Bloor St.; that it be leased space on a subway corridor; that it be "green office space". (translation: stay in Toronto)
Hi all. I"ve been away for a bit but when I heard that RIck Garland, the national staff person for Youth and Young Adult ministry was cut this week, I wanted to check in here. There is an ongoing discussion and strategizing on a FB group - United Church of Canada Response to YAYA Cuts. FYI.
Greetings and anniversary wishes from the Theology and Inter-Church Inter-Faith Committee. As you celebrate the United Church's 85th Anniversary, we invite you to reflect on this phrase from 1 Corinthians 10:17:
"...we who are many are one body..."
and answer the following question:
How do you as an individual, congregation, or ministry of the United Church experience being one body? In other words, what bonds us together as The United Church of Canada?
Welcome to my blog—a place to reflect with me on God’s abundant healing of soul, community, and creation. I hope you will visit often and be part of this sacred conversation.
For four days the General Council Executive (GCE) has met carefully and faithfully, discerning God’s leading and direction as we considered the actions of General Council and their implementation.
There was joy in the struggle as we recognized both our gifts and our limitations as a church. In God’s world, there is abundance in community, and wherever our particular gifts end (and our limitations begin), others’ particular gifts begin and are called forth. I saw this process of trusting one another’s good gifts throughout the meeting, and am confident that when we have the sense to choose community, the truth of abundance is known in both personal and institutional ways. We are being called to explore and live into this truth in new ways as the United Church.
This has been bothering me for a while now and I want to ask the opinion of some others attending General Council 40 in Kelowna.
Over the past few years (having been accelerated in the past few months), the Vancouver Olympics have overtaken the city of Vancouver and the province of BC (and much of the rest of Canada, in the form of advertising campaigns, etc.). But while most Canadians are reveling in the attention the world will soon focus on our country, injustice and discrimination and racism bubble just beneath the surface.
Before anyone panics that I have fallen down a well somewhere I thought I would drop a note to say that I will be gone, except for quick peeks, until the 17th of August.
Later today, like after I go to bed this morning, the family and I will be off to the Muskoka area to hang with some friends in the Lake Rosseau area. Swimming, sleeping, eating, lathering, rinsing and repeating.
So, General Council is coming. And since it is longer than any other church meeting, I don't have enough shirts to last from the 9-15. Plus one day on each end for travel, but those two are optional.
So far I have:
1) "God is coming. Look busy."
2) My "Jesus Saves" goalie shirt that was my avatar
Ok. Continuing on to the next in the 20 Articles of Faith in the Basis of Union... how do you do on essential agreement with this one? What does it say to you?
(Note: If you're just coming into this thread, you may want to take a look at the previous connected thread titled, "What does this say to me? Article 1". Then again, you may not! *grin*)
