{"id":4302,"date":"2022-11-06T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T17:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charleswoodunited.org\/2022_charleswoodunited\/wordpress\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:40:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:40:26","slug":"pastoral-letter-sunday-november-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charleswoodunited.org\/2022_charleswoodunited\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/06\/pastoral-letter-sunday-november-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral Letter: Sunday, November 6, 2022 \u2013 Remembrance Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"small-body\">\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Watch this week\u2019s service on YouTube by clicking: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nfoiakKSfaI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nfoiakKSfaI<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Please join us for in-person worship Sundays at 10:00 (masks recommended)<\/p>\r\n<p>Our newest video for children video is available here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/AtS0TYzL1Cw<\/p>\r\n<p>Join us after church on Sundays for Hebrew\u2019s Caf\u00e9, coffee and fellowship following worship in the Van Roon Community Hall<\/p>\r\n<p>Did you know you can support this ministry by PayPal\/Visa, e-transfer, automatic withdrawal, and gifted securities, in addition to weekly or monthly cheques? For Offering Information please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleswoodunited.org\/support\">www.charleswoodunited.org\/support<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Thank you for your generous support.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Dear Friends<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Welcome to worship for Sunday, November 6, 2022.<\/p>\r\n<p>You won\u2019t find Remembrance Sunday on a calendar, church, google or otherwise. But it is more than a local custom or creation. I have always been part of churches that reserved the Sunday before Remembrance Day as an opportunity to cast our civic responsibility to remember in the light of Christian worship and the promise of the Gospel. In that sense Remembrance Sunday is clearly related to the civic observance that is held at numerous locations across the country on November 11. And yet, it also has a certain particular quality.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>That particularity has long been expressed in the presence of World War II veterans within the congregation. Theirs are the particular stories which accompany the broad narrative of Canada at war in the last century. Their witness, their testimony made personal the varying accounts told in numbers and dates and places of battle. They were the people we knew in their post conflict life. The people who did more, lived more, and loved more than we can remember.<\/p>\r\n<p>But the inevitable and natural truth of time is that the further we move from the momentous events of the World Wars, the fewer first hand accounts that are available to us. If the last year we mourned the death of two of the last three World War II veterans who were members of our congregation. Gordon Saunders died last December at the age of 100.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>He was immensely proud of his service first in the army but latterly in the Royal Canadian Navy rising to the rank of lieutenant. Last month Able Seaman and true gentleman Bud Snarr passed away having made five trips across the Atlantic in a Corvette escort convoy. In their day they were each an integral part of our Remembrance observances and our congregation\u2019s life.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>The presence of first-hand memories is diminishing and so it becomes incumbent upon the rest of us to remember and to share the stories of those who served and subsequently shared their lives with us, as part of the body of Christ. Not only what our forebearers did in the war but who they were in the church. To remember Mal Curle, the Charleswood village barber. And Marg Morien of the RCAF and maybe the kindest Sunday School teacher ever. To recall Art Gessner sitting in the last chair of the last row on the east side of the sanctuary. Or Lloyd Macklin and Jim Moffat in the middle of men\u2019s row of the choir. To chuckle about the colourful glasses of Nursing Sister Thyra Reid or the \u2018reserved seat\u2019 of Denis Thompson. And so many others.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>We are blessed these days by the presence of Len Van Roon. Len was in the 19th Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery who landed on the beaches of Normandy. He can also be found tending the yard on Charleswood Road in which he grew up or sitting in his favorite pew of Charleswood United Church, in which he was baptized. We thank Len for his service throughout his life.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>In Christian worship the past, present, and future are gathered together and united by God\u2019s grace.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>We remember.<\/p>\r\n<p>And give thanks.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Grace and peace,<\/p>\r\n<p>Michael<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Phyllis\u2019 story is but an entrance into the history and legacy of the Residential School System in Canada and a reminder of our collective responsibility to work for reconciliation today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pastoral-letters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pastoral Letter: Sunday, November 6, 2022 \u2013 Remembrance Sunday - Charleswood United Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pastoral letter Sunday September 25, 2022\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/charleswoodunited.org\/2022_charleswoodunited\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/06\/pastoral-letter-sunday-november-6\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pastoral Letter: Sunday, November 6, 2022 \u2013 Remembrance Sunday - 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