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GENESIS Cooperative Community
************************************************* CHECK OUT THE TAB UNDER HOME: GENESIS STRUCTURE UPDATE ************************************************* CHECK OUT THE TAB UNDER MORE: Genesis Policies and Procedures ************************************************ THE NEW FALL AND WINTER 2022 SCHEDULE IS AVAILABLE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORSHIP TIMES PAGE. ************************************************ 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. ************************************************************** Please call the Genesis office if you have anyone you wish to be mentioned in our prayer corner. Our announcement deadline is Wednesday at noon. ********************************************************* SOCK A LOT STARTS THIS WEEK! SEE HOW MANY FEET WE CAN WARM THIS WINTER. ********************************************** Nov. 29: A meeting of the Genesis Executive will be held on Tuesday, November 29 at 7:00 pm at the Genesis Office. ********************************************************* Dec. 11: Cassburn is holding their annual BAKE SALE and AUCTION on Sun. Dec. 11 after the service. The funds raised will support "Operation Ukrainian Safe Haven", an effort to support those arriving in Canada that have been displaced by the war. This effort provides support such as housing, employment & financial assistance. Special envelope donations will be collected: Dec. 4th, 11th & 18th. ********************************************************** Dec. 11: Champlain Chamber Choir will hold a concert at Knox Presbyterian Church in VKH on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 3:00 pm. Free will offering in support of the choir. *********************************************************** Dec. 11: Our own Katie (Smith) Ditschun will be giving a concert on Dec. 11 at 7pm at the Alexandria Church (The Church on the Hill) entitled “Peaceful Christmas - an intimate concert with Katie Ditschun”. The Concert will begin with a Christmas Carol sing-a-long. Special guest, Bob Cleary will join the sing-a-long and play a couple songs for us, too. This is a Christmas Fundraiser - Free will offering at the door. Join us for tea and coffee in the hall after the concert. (Katie will have her CD’s available for purchase: a great stocking stuffer!!) ******************************************************** 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! *************************************************** Knitting / Crocheting / Craft time every Thursday at the Alexandria United Church. 1:00 to 3:00 pm. *************************************************************** 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 have resumed! *************************************************** 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 ********************************************************* |