This Sunday, July 2, we celebrated Canada Day. Our music featured our four section leads as well as guest organist, John Charles. Music included hymns and anthem by Canadian composers, and we also sang O Canada during the service. The Call to Worship was by Wetaskiwin Writers, Grace Lutheran Church and First United Church, Wetaskiwin, Alberta. Our scripture reading was Matthew 10:40-42. If you would like to watch the service, click on this LINK.
This Sunday, June 25, we celebrated Pride Sunday and the Indigenous Day of Prayer. This was our last Sunday before the summer with our full Chancel Choir, and it was another wonderful service of music with the anthem “Don’t BE Afraid.” If you wish to see the service click this LINK.
Leaside United Church, together with the other eight United Church congregations in the North Toronto Cluster, joined in a shared service of worship on Sunday, June 18 at 10:30am at Rosedale United (159 Roxborough Drive). The Moderator, the Right Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, spoke on the theme “Meeting the Moment, Together”, and we celebrated communion during the service. There was a mass choir with choristers from the cluster congregations; the Mass Choir anthem was conducted by Matthew Boutda, and one of the hymns was the new offering dedication written by Rev. Emily Gordon and Matthew Boutda. If you would like to see the service, click on this LINK.
Today we celebrated our church’s birthday and watched the annual Stewardship slideshow. We celebrated 6 years since the coming together of Leaside United Church and Presteign-Woodbine United Church, and all that we’ve done together since then. We also marked the 98th birthday of the United Church of Canada! Our music included Let Us Build a House, which we sang during our very first Church Birthday service in 2017, and Bless Now O God, Our Journey, which we sang during our Church Birthday service last year. The choir anthem, sung by our Junior and Chancel Choirs, was John Rutter’s For the Beauty of the Earth. If you would like to watch the service and slideshow, click on this LINK.
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