Your Faith Life During - Covid 19
'Loving Self and Neighbour' =
Keeping yourself will keep others healthy.
Online Worship with Moderator Richard Bott
Beginning Sunday, March 22, 2020, Moderator Richard Bott will be offering an online worship service each Sunday for the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak. This will be a video-recorded service you can join on the United Church of Canada website or Facebook page. The prayers, hymns, and reflections from the Moderator’s online worship will also be available in audio and text form.
Online Resources with Kintore-Brooksdale
Tune in to hear Rev. Doug’s sermons here. He will continue to post a new sermon each week.
Each week, we will continue to send an e-Bulletin with reflections, prayers and community information. To receive the bulletin, sign up here - http://www.kintorechurch.com/rev-dougs-e-bulletin.html.
Online Health Resources
For the latest information from Oxford County Public Health go to - https://www.swpublichealth.ca/
What can you do?
Social distancing, learn best practices ie. don't touch your face, disenfect products that come into your house, wash your hands regularly etc. Offer to shop for those who are vulnerable so they don't have to. Call people and check in.
Hi Everyone,
The church will be listening to the advice of public health groups and suspending all functions. This will mean we will be cancelling or postponing all worship, programs and meetings (yoga, VON Exercise, Variety in the Dale) in Kintore and Brooksdale, until the end of March 2020. From there we'll re-evaluate.
We hope this will keep all of us safe and to do our part to 'flatten the curve', For those who haven't heard this expression, it means that these extra measures (though hard and stressful) are what we all need to do to ensure the medical system isn't overwhelmed.
Let's also remember that we are a church. We are called to follow and serve Christ. What does that look like in these times? If you are like me, prayer has been a great way to resolve stress in uncertain times. Please be courageous and creative in finding ways to share the good news and be a gospel people. Together, as a community, let us offer this prayer:
When we aren't sure, God,
help us be calm;
when information comes
from all sides, correct and not,
help us to discern;
when fear makes it hard to breathe,
and anxiety seems to be the order of the day,
slow us down, God;
help us to reach out with our hearts,
when we can't touch with our hands;
help us to be socially connected,
when we have to be socially distant;
help us to love as perfectly as we can,
knowing that "perfect love casts out all fear."
For the doctors, we pray,
for the nurses, we pray,
for the technicians and the janitors and the
aides and the caregivers, we pray,
for the researchers and theorists,
the epidemiologists and investigators,
for those who are sick,
and those who are grieving, we pray,
for all who are affected,
all around the world...
we pray
for safety,
for health,
for wholeness.
May we feed the hungry,
give drink to the thirsty,
clothe the naked and house those without homes;
may we walk with those who feel they are alone,
and may we do all that we can to heal
the sick--
in spite of the epidemic,
in spite of the fear.
Help us, O God,
that we might help each other.
In the love of the Creator,
in the name of the Healer,
in the life of the Holy Spirit that is in all and with all,
we pray.
May it be so.
- by the Right Rev. Richard Bott
God bless you all,
Rev. Doug
The church will be listening to the advice of public health groups and suspending all functions. This will mean we will be cancelling or postponing all worship, programs and meetings (yoga, VON Exercise, Variety in the Dale) in Kintore and Brooksdale, until the end of March 2020. From there we'll re-evaluate.
We hope this will keep all of us safe and to do our part to 'flatten the curve', For those who haven't heard this expression, it means that these extra measures (though hard and stressful) are what we all need to do to ensure the medical system isn't overwhelmed.
Let's also remember that we are a church. We are called to follow and serve Christ. What does that look like in these times? If you are like me, prayer has been a great way to resolve stress in uncertain times. Please be courageous and creative in finding ways to share the good news and be a gospel people. Together, as a community, let us offer this prayer:
When we aren't sure, God,
help us be calm;
when information comes
from all sides, correct and not,
help us to discern;
when fear makes it hard to breathe,
and anxiety seems to be the order of the day,
slow us down, God;
help us to reach out with our hearts,
when we can't touch with our hands;
help us to be socially connected,
when we have to be socially distant;
help us to love as perfectly as we can,
knowing that "perfect love casts out all fear."
For the doctors, we pray,
for the nurses, we pray,
for the technicians and the janitors and the
aides and the caregivers, we pray,
for the researchers and theorists,
the epidemiologists and investigators,
for those who are sick,
and those who are grieving, we pray,
for all who are affected,
all around the world...
we pray
for safety,
for health,
for wholeness.
May we feed the hungry,
give drink to the thirsty,
clothe the naked and house those without homes;
may we walk with those who feel they are alone,
and may we do all that we can to heal
the sick--
in spite of the epidemic,
in spite of the fear.
Help us, O God,
that we might help each other.
In the love of the Creator,
in the name of the Healer,
in the life of the Holy Spirit that is in all and with all,
we pray.
May it be so.
- by the Right Rev. Richard Bott
God bless you all,
Rev. Doug
Welcome to Chalmers United Church in Kintore, ON.
Our friendly, rural church is located just northeast of London.
Check our website to find out how we are more than Sunday morning.
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Services 1st Sunday of the Month - 9:30 am Services all other Sundays - 11:00 am Children's Church runs concurrently with services. All Welcome |
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All gatherings INCLUDING worship services shown below, are cancelled until further notice.
. Worship Services & Sunday School *Sunday School runs concurrently with 11 am services only. Mar. 29 @ 11 am Lent V Apr 5 @ 9:30 Palm Sunday Apr. 10 Good Friday Apr. 12 @ 11 am Easter Sunday Upcoming Thurs. Mar. 26 @ 7 pm Board Meeting. Wed. Apr. 1 @ 6:30 pm Choir Rehearsal Sat. Apr 4, 2020 @ 10 am Olde Fashioned Bazaar Ongoing
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