Please join us for this special service on October 30th.
On this day, we will celebrate the lives of love ones we have lost and hold them in the hearts of our West Hill family.
Gratitude can be difficult in a broken world. But in gratitude we may find rejoicing.
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This Sunday we will wonder about our place in this broken world. We will open spaces for lament. sadness, and outrage. We value our commitment to justice and work for the common good but it doesn't seem to make a dent in the brokenness of this world.
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Join us on Sunday, April 10 and 17 for our Dream Away services as we reach deep into the complexities and challenges that resonate with an ancient story but face us at this moment in time… and seek within them the beauty of possibility and hope.
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Our next movie in our Inspired by Hollywood series is Don’t Look UP, created by Adam McKay.
This award-nominated film is a dark, satirical, comedy about the end of the world. The movie examines our willingness to live in denial in the face of an existential threat. We will look closely at the question, “What is Truth”?
Members of our Outreach Committee are inviting you to join us in lending a helping hand to these youth. Their Councillor has told us that they like to provide each student coming into the program with a bag of useful items.
We have set up a dropbox in the lobby for goods brought to the Sunday gathering.
The third movie we will look at in our Inspired by Hollywood service series is BELFAST, created by Kenneth Branagh. The movie doesn't get into the reasons behind the Troubles but the specter of violence is always looming. Of course, the Troubles were connected to a complicated history in Ireland and the UK. If we are going to contemplate the nature of violence, it is helpful to dig into our history. This Sunday we will travel deep into our own history.
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Donations to the United Church Mission and Service Emergency Relief Fund for Ukraine help both HCA and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank with relief work in the area. 85% of money donated to the fund will go directly to Ukrainian relief while the other 15% goes to other needed relief efforts around the world.
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For several weeks each winter, our Sunday gathering draws inspiration from Hollywood, bringing the innovation, challenges, and provocation of the silver screen into our Perspective(s). This week, we are beginning our film series, Inspired by Hollywood, with the remake of West Side Story.
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March 14 is PIE Day, and in church circles it has nothing to do with math.
PIE is short for public, intentional, and explicit―the standards we hold ourselves to when we seek to live into being affirming, welcoming, and inclusive people and communities. PIE Day was co-founded by Affirm United/S’affirmer Ensemble and Affirming Connections.
Women ROCK! Signature Service this Sunday, MARCH 13th
If you're a woman, this means you... If you're a man, this means you, too ...
This Sunday, March 13th will be our Women Rock service, an opportunity to pay tribute to all those women who have and continue to influence our lives.
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Meet King Julez, “Drag, as an art form, is diverse and takes many forms. I first began doing Queen (feminine) drag because that is what people knew, then I morphed into doing King drag (masculine). Once I was engaged with masculine drag, I ended up coming to terms with my transition. Only by acting out presentation and mannerisms in an exaggerated way did I come to know what made me comfortable. Drag is how I found myself and how I connect to my true and authentic being that exists within my soul.”
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