What ‘s Up At Wesley?  Friday, March 8, 2024

Here is what is happening in, and around Wesley United Church during this week.

4th SUNDAY OF LENT      SUNDAY, MARCH 10       10AM

Wesley United Church would like to invite you our Worship Service on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. for the fourth Sunday of Lent.

For those who are unable to attend, you can watch the services ‘live’ or at your convenience on the Wesley United Church YouTube station.

Click Here to watch.

REMINDER – MOVE THOSE CLOCKS AHEAD!

We would like to remind you to move your clocks ahead one hour on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

 

THANK YOU BETTY LANE!

Thank you Betty for your constant dedication to Wesley over many decades. You have served on just about every Committee at Wesley and Chaired many of them for eons without hesitation. Your continued care and kindness for our Wesley Family has not gone unnoticed along with your concern for Wesley’s continued growth and faithfulness. Betty is stepping down from a few of her jobs and we at Wesley wish to say thank you to “A good and faithful servant”.

THANK YOU BETTY!

 

“FROM THE HEART FOOD DRIVE” A BIG SUCCESS!

Thank you so very much for your outpouring of kindness and love for your fellow man by sharing your food with those in need. The Hope Centre was overjoyed with our donations. Thanks to Jennifer Sinclair, the Hope Centre’s, Community Engagement Coordinator and Mark, their Volunteers Coordinator, who came with the Hope Centre’s van and took all our donations to help fill their shelves. We were told that over 2,000 visits were made to the Hope Centre in this past month by those in the need of food.

Thank you Wesley, your help is greatly appreciated.

Submitted by Membership and Outreach Committee

 

PROPERTY COMMITTEE UPDATE

The Property committee plans to look at preparing a cost to have the church name but on the south-west wall on the outside of the church (this wall faces the parking lot.) Presently there is NO name identification on our building. The lettering would be approximately 30 cm. high, made out of aluminum and powder coated black. In preparation for this work we would get a cost to remove the tree that is currently in front of this wall and get a landscaping estimate to also neaten up the area under this new naming on the wall.

Book Reviews:

The United Church of Canada:  Unfettered For 2025 Celebrations

Mark June 10th, 2025 in your calendar which is the official date for the 100th anniversary of the United Church of Canada.  Already, celebrations are being planned with a special kick off service being held in Toronto at the Metropolitan United Church on June 9, 2024, @ 4:00pm. It will also be livestreamed.  Watch for more details to be released soon!

Also, a book entitled “The United Church of Canada: Unfettered for 2025 Celebrations” written by Brian Arthur Brown has been released and is now available in the Church Library.

In his book Untied Church: Unfettered for 2025 Celebrations, author Brian Arthur Brown provides us with a comprehensive picture of the life and ministry of the United Church of Canada.

Beautifully designed as a celebration of the denomination, the book takes us from coast to coast to coast and gives us stories and pictures of church life and ministry.

The author does present the reader with a picture of the emerging church in all it diversity in the first quarter of the new century.  It shows the changes that have come and are coming to the United Church there are however some significant questions in the book that need to be addressed such as declining membership and others!  To discover these questions, you should read the book.

This book would make a good coffee table discussion book and having said that church members are encouraged to order a copy of your own.   If there is a request for 10 or more copies the cost would be $14.95 each,  a saving of 50%..  Please sign the sheet placed in the Narthex.   Also, for those of you who receive the Broadview magazine, there is a 2-page ad in the current issue.

Please sign the list in the Narthex by the end of  the month if you wish to purchase a book.

Reviewed by Doug Willford.

TELL ME, GRANDMOTHER

by Lyn Hancock with Marion Dowler

A good read about Metis history for any age

There has not been much written in Canadian history about Metis women, but a wonderful biography called “Tell Me, Grandmother” puts Jane Mary Howse’s story on paper as she answers the questions posed to her by her inquisitive grandson, Dennis. He is a fifth generation descendant of English pioneers, Joseph Howes and Mary, a Cree Native Canadian.

The book is based on an authentic family history recalled from Grandmother Jane’s memory heightened by the contents of a box, her ring, and the author’s research which is crafted into the story along with early maps and illustrations by artist, Douglas Tait, who shows us sketches of York Boats, Red River carts, running buffalo, a pole and skin shanty and Jane’s husband, Sam Livingston.

As Jane answers her grandson’s questions, she describes her childhood memories of life in the Red River settlement (Winnipeg), her adventures crossing the prairies in an ox cart, and the raising of her large family of fourteen children in a sod hut with her husband often far away. Her descriptions of making buffalo lamps, soap, and bartering illustrates to Dennis how people helping each other was necessary for survival in pioneer life.

Thank you to Carol Sernasie for donating this fascinating book to our library. Do read it.

Reviewed by Ann Pinnegar

  • We will again be having the “How Many Candies In The Jar” guessing game beginning this Sunday until the end of March. There will be one jar for adults and one for children. Both chocolates and jelly beans will be mixed in together. YUMMY!!!
  • Ann Pinnegar will be presenting a book review after church on March 24th in the Library discussing the popular book “The Gilead by Marilynne Robinson” Please join us with your goodies. Yes, I will allow food and drink in the library.  LOL

QUOTE OF THE DAY

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

 

DATES TO REMEMBER

Sunday, March 10 – Sunday Worship Service – 10 AM (Move those clocks ahead Saturday night/Sunday morning)

Monday, March 11 – WOW (Women of Wesley) Meeting – 1:30 p.m. The Parlour

Wednesday, March 13 – Bible Study – 7:00 p.m. The Parlour

Sunday, March 3 – Wesley Annual Congregational Meeting

Thursday, March 14 – Senior’s Group Event:  1 – 3:00 p.m.

Sunday, March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day

Saturday, March 23 – Suzuki Niagara Recital – 2:00 p.m. – The Sanctuary

Friday, March 29 – Good Friday Service – at Central United Church – Joint Service.

Sunday, March 31 – Easter Sunday