Join us for the kick-off of our summer series: Garden of God and we start In the Beginning…
9:30 am St. Andrew’s Bethel United Church in Maynooth
11:30 am St Paul and St. James United Church in Madawaska
Worship Leader: The Rev. Marilyn Zehr
Musicians: Diane Thompson Gouchie and Carol Peterson
Join us at 11:00 am for worship followed by a potluck lunch
at St. Andrew’s Bethel United Church, Maynooth.
Worship Leaders: Doris Hollingsworth, Margaret Canning
Musician: Diane Thompson Gouchie
9:30 am St Paul’s United Church in Lake St. Peter
11:30 am Smith Post Memorial United Church at St. Anthony’s Anglican in Whitney
Worship Leader: The Rev. Marilyn Zehr
Musicians: Doris Hollingsworth and Erin Morlock
9:30 am at St. Andrew’s Bethel, Maynooth
11:30 am St. Paul and St. James, Madawaska
Worship Leader: The Rev. Marilyn Zehr
Musicians: Valerie Kelly and Carol Peterson
Join us for Worship:
9:30 am St Paul’s UC in Lake St Peter
11:30 am Smith Post Memorial UC at St. Anthony’s Whitney
Worship Leader: The Rev. Marilyn Zehr
Musicians: Catherine Khan
9:30 am St Andrew’s Bethel in Maynooth
11:30 am St Paul and St. James in Madawaska
Worship Leader: The Rev. Marilyn Zehr
Musicians – Erin Morlock and Carol Peterson
April 21, 6:15 am at Hay Lake Lodge and Cottages, Sunrise Easter Service with BBQ breakfast on the shore. Local “forest church” congregation, Cathedral of the Trees, a ministry of the Maynooth Madawaska Community of Faith of the United Church of Canada, celebrates Easter and Earth Day together this year, the same way they do every time they gather: by worshiping outside in communion with the Earth itself.
This church is also part of the Wild Church Network,that began less than 5 years ago when several pastors who had taken their congregations outside of buildings, serendipitously realized they were “not alone” as Christian leaders of outdoor churches. Wild Church Network is representative of an emerging phenomenon: outdoor church. Christians are concerned about the environment and seeking greater relationship with the living world they can see, feel, hear, taste, smell, touch, breathe, drink, nurture, and be nurtured by.
AllCreation.org, an online resource linking spiritual practices with environmental concerns, has released a new issue in honor of Earth Day, focused on these congregations, along with a virtual coffee-table book highlighting a couple dozen of the churches.
Links
All Creation’s Lover of the Land issue
Wild Church Network
Cathedral of the Trees
3:00 pm St Andrew’s Bethel United Church in Maynooth
Worship Leaders: The Rev. Marilyn Zehr and Sheila Stringer
Musician: Valerie Kelly
9:30 am, St Pauls United Church in Lake St. Peter
11:30 am, Smith Post Memorial meets at St Anthony’s Anglican Church in Whitney
Worship Leader: The Rev. Svinda Heinrichs
Musicians: Doris Hollingsworth and Erin Morlock