Prayer
By Michael Wilson Pastoral Letters February 13, 2026

Watch this week’s service on YouTube by clicking:

February 15 Worship Service Video

 

 

Join us for Sunday morning worship at CUC is at 10:00 AM

with the He/SheBrews Café and Pancake Breakfast following in the Van Roon Community Hall

 

 

  • Join us this week for our Mardi Gras Sunday!! – On Sunday, we will be readying ourselves for Lent with our annual Dixieland music in worship featuring the Winnipeg Brass. And following that toe tapping extravaganza, stay with us for a Pancake Breakfast in the He/SheBrews Café.

 

  • In advance of our Annual Meeting on Sunday, March 15, we have posted the revisions made to our church constitution which better reflect our current practises in ministry. To read the revised constitution, please click here: https://charleswoodunited.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/DRAFT.-CUC.-Constitution.-Final.pdf The document begins with notes to explain the changes made. Printed copies are available on request and will be provided for tables at the Annual Meeting.

 

  • We were saddened this week to learn of the death of Otto Penner. Otto’s funeral service will be at the church on Saturday, February 14 at 11:00 AM. Please remember Marlene and the Penner family in your prayers this week.

 

 

 

Dear Friends

 

Welcome to worship for Sunday, February 15, 2026.

 

This past Tuesday the unthinkable, yet far too familiar, came to the serene, beautiful, mountain community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. Having killed two family members at home, an 18-year-old entered the local secondary school and in a shocking display of evil and grievous violence, killed six more victims and injured 27 others. This entire community has been thrust into the deepest sorrow imaginable.

 

While a time may come to provide tangible aid to these hurting people, and to ask questions of how and why, we immediately seek to support them in spirit and hold them in prayer. We do so out of our common nationality. This offence is shared by everyone who calls Canada home and is horrified by such behaviour.

 

We support them out of our common humanity. The people of Tumbler Ridge are living through a nightmare that no community should have to experience. Something no one can predict, and no one can adequately prepare for. And we pray out of our belief that these are God’s beloved children and the healing and comfort they need is more than human hearts alone can provide.

 

Our creed calls upon the church to seek justice and resist evil. The evil that has been visited upon Tumbler Ridge can only be defeated by a love that is even greater. May our love for them add a small amount to their comfort and peace.

 

 

Grace and peace,

 

Michael

 

 

 

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Michael Wilson / About Author
Michael’s involvement in the wider church has included ministry with children and youth, membership on the National Division of World Outreach, supervision of campus ministry, and the Ten Days for Global Justice National Committee. He has been blessed by the opportunity to represent the United Church of Canada in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Africa on different occasions. Michael has taught at the University of Winnipeg – Faculty of Theology and is past President of the Conference of Manitoba and North Western Ontario.
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