Dear First Friends:

One of our favourite things to do in Southampton is to go downtown and get an ice cream cone of our favourite flavour. Then walk to the end of the main street and sit on the red and white benches and watch the sunset on Lake Huron. There are a lot of people there doing the same as we are eating an ice cream cone and enjoying God’s paint brush at work. We all sit in silence and enjoy the beauty God has created. We are never disappointed…

Some inspirational quotes about sunsets….

“If you can look at the sunset and smile, then you still have hope.” Author Unknown

“The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.” Ram Charan.

“Sunsets shows that life is too beautiful to hold on to the past so move on to the present.” Jennifer Aquillo

Joanne

WORSHIP THIS WEEK

Sunday June 12^th, 2022 - Rev. Harry Disher

At 10:30 am - Theme: "Left for Dead" with Communion. To join the service please CLICK HERE

At 4:00 pm - Happy Hour Church with Communion. To join Happy Hour Church please CLICK HERE

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We’ll be talking about articles in the current issue of  Broadview Magazine

For more information contact Walt at waltbrooker@gmail.com 

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Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez

Trillium Book Award and City of Toronto Book Award finalist; Edmund White Debut Fiction Award finalist; A Globe 100, National Post and Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year

Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a multitude of voices to tell the story of a tight-knit neighbourhood under fire

INTENTIONAL INTERIM MINISTER’S NEWS

We made it! We created a Living Faith Story, a job description for a new minister, and filled in other data needed by Western Ontario Waterways Region to complete a Congregational Profile. Thank you to the Transition Team and the support of a few other helpers, the Church Board, and the Congregation who met on May 27^th to offer their approval. The Region will meet soon to give us a green light to post a vacancy for one full-time minister and appoint Carol Stephenson to work with our Search Team as their liaison.

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We really need to be consistent in the weeding, watering, and thinning of plants in order to have a productive garden. Last year was our year to learn what to do and not to do. With that experience, let’s make it really happen this year! We will have the sign-up sheet at the church on Sunday. Join the fun! Contact Marilyn Gerriets at 1(902) 318-9375 for more information.

Please check out the Convergence ministry website – www.convergenceus.org for the following online opportunities:

“A Conversation with Jim Wallis” – a columnist for Sojourners magazine and social activist.

Digital Ministry Summit – June 27^th to July 1^st, 2022.

Please also check out the six-week course entitled “Christianity in Process – Joining God in World Solidarity” with John B. Cobb and Tripp Fuller – exploring process theology.  This course begins June 2022.  https://cobb.institute/learning-lab/christianity-in-process

Blessings,

Harry

June is National Indigenous History Month, and June 21^st  is Indigenous Peoples Day. It is also Pride Month and Faith Climate Justice

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We will be hosting Artisans at First at First United again this year on Saturday, October 15^th, 2022 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.

This is a market of handcrafted items, no commercially-prepared items.

Vendor spaces come in a range of sizes/prices.  We welcome a wide range of items.

If you wish to have a space to sell your creations, or if you know someone who wishes to have a space, please contact Joan Westcott at handatfirst@gmail.com

WAYS TO DONATE TO FIRST UNITED

You can get your offering to the church office in several ways:

  You can use PAR, or

  E transfer to firstunitedchurch@rogers.com, or

  Website donation to www.firstunitedchurch.ca, or

  Send a cheque to First United Church, 16 William St. West, Waterloo ON N2L1J3, or

  Drop a cheque into the mailbox located at the Entrance on William St. side.

**Just a reminder- credit card companies have a fee of around 3-5%. If you wish the church to get the full amount, then please add that % to your contribution. **

The Friday Letter will continue but will not be produced every Friday. It will be produced every two weeks. In the table below are the dates for the Friday Letter. We are also including the dates when we would like to receive articles for these letters.

Beauty from Whitehorse, YT