The River of Life – May 26, 2019
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
Easter Services
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
Easter Sunrise Service
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
Good Friday Service
3:00 pm St Andrew’s Bethel United Church in Maynooth
Worship Leaders: The Rev. Marilyn Zehr and Sheila Stringer
Musician: Valerie Kelly
Palm Sunday, April 14, 2019
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
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