Month: February 2018

Time for a Change – Green Team for Global Wellness

March 13, 2018

 

Weekly Eco-friendly Tip from Leaside United Church’s Green Team for Global Wellness:

TIME FOR A CHANGE!

Extreme temperatures this past winter have certainly demonstrated our climate is changing. We all know each of us can and need to make changes in our daily habits if we are to pass on an inhabitable earth to following generations. Here are some well known changes each of us can implement now:                                       
  • East less meat
  • Walk, cycle or take transit more often
  • Turn the car off rather than idling
  • Turn off lights when you leave a room
  • Replace old incandescent light bulbs with LED ones
  • Buy less stuff

LUC’s Green Team is looking for a new focus for the Weekly Eco-friendly Tip and we need your input.  Please email us your ideas, or the things that are concerning you most about climate change. We have project ideas we intend to introduce to Leaside United Church over the next few months; if you would like to be more involved with the LUC Green Team for Global Wellness contact janice.franklin@sympatico.ca or margaret.casey@sympaticio.ca.

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Spirit Alive Gathering – Saturday March 10, 2018

March 12, 2018

 

All welcome to attend Spirit Alive on Saturday March 10th from 10:00 to noon.

Ross Lawford will provide the leadership. His topic is “Quest for power : discussion of its spiritual implications.”

Please join us in the Auditorium for some light refreshments for the first 15 minutes.

10am to Noon Saturday March 10th, 2018

Leaside United Church (auditorium)

Coffee, tea and refreshments between 10am – 10:15am

On a regular basis Spirit Alive meets to explore matters of spirituality, meditate, and reflect together. Save the second Saturday morning of the month to meet at 10:00 to noon. Spirit Alive begins with coffee, snacks and fellowship followed by a period of led meditation, music, quiet time and reflection to deepen the sense of the spiritual at the center of one’s life. For more information contact Bea Lawford.

 

The Coldest Night of the Year Recap

February 27, 2018

 

Well, we did it!  Although it wasn’t the COLDEST night of the year, we definitely could empathize with anyone being left homeless to sleep on the streets in any temperature.  Thank you to all of our fabulous walkers and over 40 individual donors.  A special thank you to our Team Leader Tanya Wiles-Bell for so expertly organising us for this relevant “Faith in Action” event.  Leaside United Church had the largest team registered in Toronto with 19 walkers and raised over $2,500 to increase awareness of the homelessness situation in Toronto and across Canada.

For more information about the Yonge Street Mission who convened this year’s Coldest Night of the Year Walk, please click here: Yonge Street Mission

Enjoy these pictures taken last Saturday, February 24th, 2018 of our wonderful walkers: