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Please join us for in-person worship Sundays at 10:00 (masks required)<\/div>\r\n
\u2022 The Healing Farm Farmer\u2019s Market in support of Winnipeg\u2019s Yazidi Refugee Community is this week Sunday, August 21 from 9:00 to 12 noon in the parking lot. There will also be a selection of foods from local sustainable producers and a few craft tables sharing the space. Farmer’s Market Poster<\/div>\r\n
\u2022 Vacation Church School is returning August 31 and September 1. Please select this link for more information and don\u2019t forget to tell your young friends.<\/div>\r\n
\u2022 \u201cTwo Weeks Left\u201d – Mission and Social Action Committee School Supply Drive for families in need. Throughout the summer we will be collecting school supplies from the list provided. Feel free to drop off Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 2:00. See list here: School Supply List \u2022 Congratulations to Janet Menec and all the volunteers of our outreach partner \u201cDays for Girls\u201d who were recently awarded the MB Liquor and Lotteries Community Changemakers Award at the 2022 MB Volunteer Awards!<\/div>\r\n
For more information on this organization you can visit their website at: https:\/\/www.daysforgirls.org\/<\/div>\r\n
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Dear Friends,<\/p>\r\n

Welcome to worship for Sunday, August 21, 2022. One of the projects Council has been working on this year is a redesign \u2013 rebuild \u2013 relaunch of our church\u2019s website. This has come about primarily as a consequence of necessity. Like all things technological, a website can only work for so long before it is unable to manage the ever-increasing demands of the content. We ask it to do more things that it was not designed to do. The software that has upgraded and supported cease to be available. You may think (or at least I think) that the phone I have is perfectly fine and could be used indefinitely but eventually it must be replaced with a newer model. That is the nature of the information world we inhabit.<\/p>\r\n

Originally built and developed by volunteers (for whom we are deeply grateful because it has served us exceedingly well) we have asked a website developer to work with us on the newest incarnation. In that process we have been made to ask some important questions about ourselves as a church. Who are we? What do we want to say to the world? Who are we trying to reach? The answer to the last question is \u2018both\/and\u2019. The website project is a wonderful example of a \u2018both\/and\u2019 scenario. On one hand the website has to serve you, the congregation and wider community of Charleswood United Church. You are its primary users. It is a place for you to get information about your church. It is a central element of our church communication strategy. If there is something specific we want you to know about, we will often post it on our website and then send you a link to the page by email. The website allows us to do almost the essential aspects of ministry. You can use it for worship, education, stewardship, outreach, and, to a certain degree, fellowship.<\/p>\r\n

Our website is for you! But it is also the place where strangers find us. Or at least learn about us. The website can serve as the first point of contact for someone who has never been to the church. In this regard we want\/need it to be inviting and honest and engaging. We want an experience of the welcoming community someone can find at Charleswood to be accessible through the website. Or at least a taste of it. Our website is for others!<\/p>\r\n

So, you can see that when we ask who we are trying to reach, the answer must be \u2018both\/and\u2019. It is for you and it is for the other. Those who know and those who do not. Those who have been and those who have not. Those who have found and those who are yet seeking. The familiar and the stranger. In this most modern of tools for ministry we find as aspect of faith that has been true forever. We are always a \u2018both\/and\u2019 community. Israel was a chosen people with whom God made a covenant. And they were told to be a light to the nations. David sang of a God who leads besides still waters and is present in the valley of the shadow of death. Jesus called the faithful and the outcast to follow in equal measure. The Spirit invites us to love God and love neighbour as though the two were one and the same. Which they are.<\/p>\r\n

Later this year we will be trumpeting the launch of our brand new website. It will be quite exciting, a fresh platform at the start of our second century. A contemporary way of sharing what has always been true.<\/p>\r\n

Grace and peace,<\/p>\r\n

Michael<\/p>\r\n

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This coming Friday, September 30, is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is more commonly known as Orange Shirt Day to honour the story of Phyllis Webstad who brought a new orange t-shirt to her Residential School in 1973 when she was six years old only to have it taken from her. 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