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Sunday morning worship at CUC is at 10:00 AM
with the He/SheBrews Café following in the Van Roon Community Hall
Advent/Christmas Dates
- Sunday, December 7
- White Gift Sunday, kick-off to hamper week
- Sunday, December 21
- Worship with The Winnipeg Brass
- Wednesday, December 24
- 5:00 PM Christmas Eve Family Service
- 7:00 PM Christmas Eve Communion Service
- 9:00 PM Christmas Eve Candlelight Communion with Senior Choir
- Sunday, December 28
- 10:00 AM Worship and Baptism
- Sunday, January 4, 2026
- 7:00 PM Lights for Lives Worship Service
- Our sympathy is extended to our dear member Sharon Gordon whose son Clayton died unexpectedly last week. Funeral arrangements are pending but please remember Sharon and her family in your prayers this week.
Dear Friends
Welcome to worship for Sunday, December 7, 2025.
This week is White Gift Sunday. At Charleswood we use this tradition to generate gifts and enthusiasm for our annual Christmas Hamper Program. Our goal this year is fill and deliver 57 hampers to families whose names are provided by the Christmas Cheer Board of Winnipeg. They are filled with a week’s worth of groceries including a chicken or turkey for Christmas dinner. Toys are wrapped and provided for all children 12 years of age and under and as our esteemed convenor Jenna told us in church last Sunday, most of the people our hampers serve are children.
It’s not too late to contribute to this year’s effort. Donations are gladly received until the end of the year. In spite of the rich harvest of donated foods that we will dedicate on Sunday (which has been coming in for several weeks now), a lot of what we need must be purchased to ensure every receiving household has an equal and fair amount. All steps of the process, wrapping, packing and delivery have enough volunteers. Thank you!
To show support for our Hamper Team and with the deepest gratitude for the effort of our whole community, I offer an utterly forgettable ditty, sung to the tune of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”.
It’s beginning to look a lot like hampers
Everywhere you turn
There are goodies with crunchy bits
Scarves and socks and mitts
With candy canes and chocolate added in
It’s beginning to look a lot like hampers
Soon the day will come
When the hampers in this place
Are delivered as gifts of grace
To someone’s own front door
Yes it’s hampers once more
It’s beginning to look a lot like hampers
Toys are piling up
And our people are coming in
To sort and wrap and then
Fill the boxes, cartons, Santa bags, and more
It’s beginning to look a lot like hampers
Soon the day will come
When the hampers in this place
Are delivered as gifts of grace
To someone’s own front door
Yes it’s hampers once more
Grace and peace,
Michael
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