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ST.
JOHN’S UNITED CHURCH
175 Waterloo St. S., Stratford
St. John’s United Church
“A Church That
Serves the Community”
Your family is invited to
MESSY CHURCH
Friday, January 6, 2012
(Other dates this year include:
Fridays,
February 3
March 9
and
April 13)
Doors open at 5 p.m.
Supper finishes at 6:45 p.m.
St. John’s United Church
175 Waterloo St. S.
What is MESSY CHURCH?
A TIME FOR FAMILIES
TO SHARE SOME FUN (crafts and games), LEARNING (a Bible Story) AND
A DELICIOUS MEAL!
Who is
welcome?
Everyone is
welcome, but Messy Church is especially fun for parents,
grandparents and children!
Come when you can – it’s impossible to be late for Messy
Church!
Come as you are! – no need to dress up, come right from school or
work!
Welcome to MESSY CHURCH. Please sign in so we know who you
are and can send you information about future MESSY CHURCH events.
This is
St. John’s
We are
working on becoming Radically Welcoming!
Read that line again! Are we saying that
there will be a warm, dependable welcome at the church door and a
good cup of coffee and snacks in the church hall? Sure! But Radical
Welcome is so much more than that to us. It is a spiritual practice
that combines the ministry of welcome and hospitality with a deep
desire to recognize habits and practices that include some and
exclude others. Here at St.
John’s we long to welcome the voices,
presence and power of everyone who worships here or participates in
some aspect of our community life. We are challenging ourselves to
be especially aware of those who have been pushed to the margins,
cast out, silenced and closeted. We are challenging ourselves to
move out of our habits and our building to connect with our community
and ask how we can deepen relationships and live more fully the
Dream of God for this church family, the Stratford community and the
world.
We hope that you will peruse this website and
get a sense of the things happening here that might interest you.
We hope that you’ll contact us if you’d like to know more about
anything that you see on this site. We’d love you to any of the
many church and community activities that happen in our building.
We’d love for you to come out on a Sunday morning and get a flavour
of the way we worship and celebrate together. The first time you
come, you’ll already belong. We long for the energy and the gifts
that you will bring if you choose to join us. We’re working to make
sure you’ll feel our welcome and find a place for your voice to be
heard and your story to be shared.
Most of all we hope that we’ll meet you where
you are because that’s where Radical Welcome begins.
Blessings,
Rivkah Unland
Minister
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