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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”
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 welcome your attendance
and participation in 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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