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GENESIS Cooperative Community
GEPC AGM The Annual GEPC meeting will be held on Sat. May 28, 2022 at 11:00 am, outside at the Dalhousie Mills United Church. Please bring your lawn chair. ************************************************* CHECK OUT THE TAB UNDER HOME: GENESIS STRUCTURE UPDATE ************************************************* CHECK OUT THE TAB UNDER MORE: Genesis Policies and Procedures ************************************************ WE WANT YOU! Thinking of transferring your church membership to one of our Genesis churches? Plans are "in the works" to receive your membership. Please speak to someone at the Genesis church office at 613-678-5499. ************************************************************** GO FISH TOTALS: Alexandria Cassburn: E. Hawkesbury: Dalhousie Mills: Kirk Hill: Pendleton: Trinity: ******************************************* Please Note: All churches are now open for regular services. *********************************************** ONE MORE WEEK TO GO FISH! Now through Pentecost (June 5), all of our Genesis family will be collecting cans of fish and meat for our local food banks, as a great source of protein. We do this to remember the earliest of Christians, who would draw the fish symbol in the sand in order to find other Christians in those first days of Christianity. Help your local congregation “haul in the catch”, and build up the stock of protein in our local food banks over the summer months. Come on! Let’s GO FISH! ******************************************************* Trash and Treasure is back in Vankleek Hill on Saturday, June 4. Trinity United will be participating again this year. If anyone has any “treasure” they would like to donate, please bring to the church on the morning of the sale. ************************************************************ The UCW Seaway Valley Area Gathering will be held on Tuesday, June 14 beginning at 10:00 am (registration @ 9:30) in Winchester at the Winchester United Church. Bring a bag lunch; salad and dessert will be provided by the Winchester UCW. Theme: “Let the Music Move Us” ************************************************************ Please also remember to support the United Church appeal for Ukraine. United Church Mission & Service partners are responding to the crisis in the Ukraine. You can help. Right now, people urgently need shelter, clean water, food, and medical attention. You can contribute at the following link: https://united-church.ca/social-action/act-now/ukraine-crisis. |
Nursing Homes/Seniors’ Homes No services until further notice. ****** Monday Morning Craft Group - 9:30 am to noon at Trinity United (VKH) - Quilting, Swedish Weaving, Knitting and Crocheting. Everyone welcome to join. For more information contact Pauline Newton 613-678-2247 or Jean MacCuaig 613-527-2064.
Meetings have resumed! *************************************************** Trinity UCW meets on the first Thursday of each month at 1:30 pm in the church hall. Meetings postponed until further notice. ************************************************* Alexandria UCW meets on the second Thursday of each month at 1:30 pm in the church hall. Meetings postponed until further notice. *************************************************** Alexandria Knitting Group will not meet until further notice. *************************************************** Marguerite House in L'Orignal is always looking for donations (odds and ends), so if you are doing a spring or fall cleaning and would like to donate kitchen articles, toiletries, bedding, or clothing, please call Élise Côté at 819-242-6156 and she will come and pick up your "treasures". ************************************************************* Please Note: Anyone who enjoyed the jams, jellies, pickles and relishes made by Winnie Williams, which were sold at our churches at Fall and Christmas Bazaars, and have empty jars that are not required, please return them to your church so we can collect them for Winnie to use again. If you have any surplus decorated Christmas tins, she also makes fruitcake! The Genesis Office will collect them from the churches and deliver the jars and tins to Winnie. ************************************************************ Appeal for Ukraine: I’m sure that right now, you are thinking of the people whose lives have been devastated by the invasion of Ukraine. Right now, our Mission & Service partners are working at the borders of Ukraine to provide refugees with food, water, healthcare, and safe shelter. If you feel called to do so, please donate to help them continue this vital work. Our Moderator, Richard Bott, has written a prayer for Ukraine: God of all Creation, God of the heights and the depths, and everything in-between, God of this blue-green bauble, spinning in space, a place of such wonderous creatures, and abundant life. We are praying for a miracle, one of the smallest of changes, one that would have immense consequences. As people around the world seek the end of the war that Russia has perpetrated on Ukraine, seek to end the death, seek to make a peace, what I am praying for is a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of worldview, in the Russian leadership, who brought this into being. Help them, God of all hope, to see that this is the chance to step back from the war, to pull back the escalation, to let go of whatever it is that made them choose the path that has led to the chaos, the destruction, the death, in Ukraine. We need a miracle that will help them to not only pull back, their forces to within their borders, their rhetoric of nuclear option; but to be part of the rebuilding of the nation they sought to overtake... in the midst of the grief and tears and anger and rage, of the parents and grandparents, of the siblings and children, of the friends and neighbours, of those who have been killed in this act of aggression. Help us to bring this to an end, God, one that will allow the sunflowers of Ukraine to reach their growth, sprouting in the soil of peace, under a hope-filled sky. Help us to make that miracle, God, for it is truly needed. In Christ's name, in the Spirit's power, in the Creator's love, I pray. AMEN. Written by Moderator Richard Bott ********************************************************* |