![]() Ruth Wickett Ruth passed away at her residence with her family by her side on Thursday February 3rd, 2022 at the age of 61. She was taken from us far too soon due to uveal melanoma. Loving wife of Jeffrey Phelps. Beloved mother of Shannon, Megan, Victoria, and Emma, and stepmother to April, Victoria and Katryna. She will be sadly missed by her grandchildren Ronan, Zoe, Isaac, Iris, Andrew and Lily. Also survived by her sisters Linda and Wendy. She was predeceased by her parents Mae and Marvin Wickett and by her brother Ron Wickett. Ruth showed her love through serving others. Her caring spirit and sense of humour were great assets during her career as a Registered Nurse. For 30 years, she also spent time every summer cooking for Camp Noronto’s family camp. She was always happy to travel when needed to support and visit her children and fill them with food. As per her wishes, there will be no visitation or service. There will be a small celebration of life once the warmer weather is here. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Princess Margaret Cancer Research Fund or the North Bay Serenity Hospice would be gratefully appreciated. ![]() June Violet (Kurtz) McLean June 12, 1935 ~ February 3, 2022 (age 86) This tiny, spunky woman never gave up, no matter what life threw at her. A fabulous cook, baker, cake decorator, event planner and organizer left this Earth peacefully, after a medical event. She leaves behind her husband Rod, daughter Kimberley McLean (Charles Kaiser), son-in-law Darren Hager (Karen, predeceased), daughter-in-law Karie McLean (Mark, predeceased) and grandchildren Korbyn McLean (Amanda Buchnea), Stacia Tizzard (Lucas), Rileigh McLean, Carsten McLean. June’s many brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews and friends will also miss her huge presence. She was so looking forward to her first great-grandchild from Stacia and Lucas, and the wedding between Abe Martin and Rileigh, highly anticipated events this year. Family gatherings were what she loved. Her devotion to helping others manifested through decades of volunteering for Terry Fox runs and helping with Camp Quality, not to mention thousands of church related activities with Community of Christ and the Salvation Army. A Celebration of Life service will be held at Northridge Community Church in Aurora Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 2:00 pm. Please register at https://rsvp.church/r/0OSqq9tR Masks will be required. You may wish to check the website for details to be posted about viewing the service online. In lieu of flowers, should you wish to donate, June would prefer support to the Terry Fox Foundation terryfox.org or Camp Quality Canada campquality.org Beyond the Walls - Become the True and Living Expression Linda Booth brings our message this week on the theme: “Become the True and Living Expression.” Jerry Dale Jr of Casper, Wyoming, will teach our Peace Lesson and Mark Shannon, of Brampton, Ontario, will teach our Living Church Lesson. Sharon Hines of Easley, South Carolina, will offer our Invocation and our Communion Blessings will be read by Sandra Mogg of St Joseph, Missouri, and Nancy Barnett of Eustis, Florida. Our Call to Worship will be read by Yesenia Villalta of Santa Tecla, El Salvador, and our Lectionary scripture will be read by Jamie Carson of Tucson, Arizona. The Beyond the Walls Choir will premiere hymn CCS 521 “Let Us Break Bread Together.” Beyond the Walls is an online worship service offering live ministry from locations around the world. Our global congregation meets every Sunday at 12:00 pm EST. All are welcome at this inclusive church service. Ottawa Congregation - 10:30 Worship. Contact [email protected] for Zoom details. Windsor Congregation - 10:30 Worship. Contact Jeff Moor for Zoom info. SLIM (Sharing Love in Mission) - 1:45 p.m. Anthony Smith is coordinating the service of communion and sharing. Video Message. Contact Don Robb for Zoom details. Port Elgin Congregation - 9 a.m. . Contact Darrell Belrose for Zoom details. La Salle Road Congregation - Social time from 10:15-10:30. Worship 10:30 a.m. Contact Pastor Vonda den Boer for Zoom details. Reaching Out - Generally meets twice a month. Please sign up for email notices by clicking here. Kitchener Congregation - Sunday evenings at 7:00 p.m. Contact John & Ruth Black for details. Cambridge Congregation - 11 a.m. Complete Worship Services are held each Sunday at 11:00 am For details go to www.cofchristcambridge.ca. On the calendar page click on the event for the Zoom link. Social time follows the service. First People Community of Christ (FPCC) - Reaching out to Native People across North America and the World! Online Prayer and Testimonies Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. and Worship Sundays at 7 p.m. Contact Larry Buchanan for ZOOM details. Other Online Ministries are available from many varied places for you to connect with. Beyond the Walls - Speak Truth to Power This week we explore the theme “Speak Truth to Power” with ministers from Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway. Live from Germany, Kai & Astrid Schwermer bring our message and Mike Botts our Living Church Lesson. Elray Henriksen will teach our Peace Lesson and Kerstin Jeske will offer our Prayer for Peace in Norwegian. Our scriptures will be read in Dutch and Frisian. The choir of Community of Christ in Germany and the Beyond the Walls Choir will join their voices to sing CCS 12 “Herr, du mein Gott” and CCS 377 “Sizohamba Naye.” This multi-language service will be subtitled in English, Spanish, French, and German. Beyond the Walls is an online worship service offering live ministry from locations around the world. Our global congregation meets every Sunday at 12:00 pm EST. All are welcome at this inclusive church service. Ottawa Congregation - 10:30 Worship. Contact [email protected] for Zoom details.
Windsor Congregation - 10:30 Worship. Contact Jeff Moor for Zoom info. SLIM (Sharing Love in Mission) - 1:45 p.m Paula Tite will be coordinating the service with Mary Robb sharing a message on the theme: "A Call to Ministry". Contact Don Robb for Zoom details. Port Elgin Congregation - 9 a.m. . Contact Darrell Belrose for Zoom details. La Salle Road Congregation - Social time from 10:15-10:30. Worship 10:30 a.m. Contact Pastor Vonda den Boer for Zoom details. Reaching Out - Generally meets twice a month. Please sign up for email notices by clicking here. Kitchener Congregation - Sunday evenings at 7:00 p.m. Contact John & Ruth Black for details. Cambridge Congregation - 11 a.m. Complete Worship Services are held each Sunday at 11:00 am For details go to www.cofchristcambridge.ca. On the calendar page click on the event for the Zoom link. Social time follows the service. First People Community of Christ (FPCC) - Reaching out to Native People across North America and the World! Online Prayer and Testimonies Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. and Worship Sundays at 7 p.m. Contact Larry Buchanan for ZOOM details. Other Online Ministries are available from many varied places for you to connect with. ![]() Register Today! Confront Unconsciousness, Build Inclusiveness! Join us on Wednesday, February 16 @ 9pm EST for an online mini workshop on "Unconscious Bias", presented by Gwendolyn Hawks-Blue and Cathi Cackler-Veazey.
This 90 minute online workshop was created by Community of Christ Diversity and Inclusion Team whose primary focus is to assist the church in clarifying how we perceive those who are different and embrace attitudes that lead to actions of advocacy and peacemaking endeavours in our congregations and communities. This workshop will focus on honouring the worth of person and their diversity and what unites us rather than divides us across the international church. There is no registration fee, however, registration is required to receive Zoom link. For more information please email Lisa Neudorf. Friends,
This past week a close friend contracted COVID, was hospitalized in serious condition and is now in the care of a convalescent hosputal on a long road to recovery. It appears the virus has affects on people that are very individual, creating unknown vulnerabilities for some. I pray for continued awareness of one another as we enjoy limited personal interactions. In January, none of our Mission Centre congregations were gathering in person. I thank you for your understanding of our current provincial health standards. As we head into Feb, reaching somewhat if a peak in COVID hospitalizations, I ask that every congregation examine their local health authorities' recommendations before choosing to reopen. We all by now know the protocols of masking, spatial distancing, no singing, limiting social time and how to celebrate sacraments. We have a collective wisdom from experience. We also have individual choice about our own attendance or to continue to be together in the variety of excellent on-line services, fun events and sharing groups that are offered locally or widely across the church. Again I would emphasize there is an unknown vulnerability factor for every person. Some experience minor symptoms and some severe. Age, immunity and health are all factors. If a congregation chooses to reopen under extreme caution, please let me know by emailing me at [email protected]. This allows us to be aware of gatherings, perhaps what we can learn from your experience and who we can contact if further cautionary developments emerge with this dynamic virus. I pray with deep passion for a final conclusion to this devastating virus. How we all desire to resume our lives albeit with the wisdom of new insights. Through our journey we have new understandings of "what matters most". May we discover the blessings that transform us through these times. In the Spirit that abides always..... With Meaning, Kerry Richards CEM President “Poetry and Storytelling at the Intersection of Climate and Race" Webinar – Sunday, February 13, 5 pm EST Follow-up Conversation – Sunday, February 27, 5 pm EST Online The people who contribute the least to environmental crises and high carbon emissions are often the ones who suffer the most from climate catastrophes. It is true in U.S. cities as well as in developing nations worldwide. Racial justice is deeply entangled in climate mitigation issues, from distribution of green zones to availability of subsidies to transition from fossil fuels to electricity in homes and businesses. Learn how racial justice and climate justice intersect, in this intriguing presentation of poetry and storytelling by Ashia Ajani. Ashia Ajani (they/she) is an environmental justice educator and storyteller hailing from Denver, CO, Queen City of the Plains and the unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute, Arapahoe and Comanche peoples. They are an environmental studies doctoral student at University of Oregon and an environmental justice educator with Mycelium Youth Network. Her work seeks to address underlying anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity in contemporary environmental policy and ecology research while working towards bold, Black ecologically justice futures. Her words have been published in Sierra Magazine, Them., Frontier Poetry, Lumiere Review and EcoTheo Review, among others. They are, above all else, a dreamer. NOTE: Is your congregation addressing climate change? If you want to record a video of what you are doing, contact Susan Oxley. If you registered for a past webinar or conversation, you do not need to register again.
Open to people of all faiths and traditions. This is an online ministry sponsored by the Greater Pacific Northwest USA Mission Center for Community of Christ. The North American Climate Justice Team are the planners, with members from GPNWMC, Canada East, Canada West, IWMC, SPMC, and SPIMC. Watch previous webinars, conversations, and Steve Veazey’s sermon by clicking the button below. ![]() Karen Elizabeth Hager (McLean) January 16, 1965 – December 31, 2021 Our much loved wife, daughter, sister and auntie has transitioned from her earthly life to heaven, after a fiercely fought 2 year battle with cancer. With the support of family and friends, she lived valiantly and fully, with often invisible effects of Multiple Sclerosis and her latest medical challenges. Karen was born in Etobicoke, to Rod and June McLean (Kurtz), during a ferocious blizzard. Perhaps that gave her the tenacity for life. She and her husband Darren have lived in the Clarkson area of Mississauga for many years, in a home with the most beautiful gardens they built. Many a fun gathering has taken place around their pool Karen’s careers encompassed leadership positions in various corporations. Since 2007 she has been Director of Science Engagement at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto. She was a Fellow and featured speaker at the NOYCE Leadership Institute. Karen earned her BA in Vocal Performance at Graceland University in Lamoni, IA, as a gifted soprano. She furthered her education at Harris Institute in Music Business, thereby obtaining a position with the Canadian Country Music Association. She thoroughly enjoyed her time in the entertainment industry. Karen leaves memories of her love to her husband Darren Hager, parents Rod and June McLean (Kurtz), sister Kimberley McLean (Charles Kaiser), sister-in-law Karie McLean(Mark, pre-deceased), nieces and nephews Korbyn McLean(Amanda Buchnea), Stacia Tizzard (Lucas), Rileigh McLean (Abe Martin), and Carsten McLean. She will also be missed by Carl and Madeline Hager , Lydia (Wence) and Christine. Karen had a rich multitude of close aunts, uncles and cousins. Her friends list reached far and wide throughout the world. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations to The Canada Cancer Society, MS Society of Canada or World Accord. Click here if you would like to share your memories and/or condolences. Beyond the Walls - "Light and Truth" Evan Sharley of Boise, Idaho, brings our message on the theme “Light and Truth,” exploring the effects of dissent throughout the history of our tradition up to our days. Parker Johnson, the president of Harmony, will teach our Peace Lesson from Calgary, Alberta. Noelle Gaffka of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, will teach our Living Church Lesson. Wanda Mercer of Georgetown, Indiana, will offer our Invocation. From Chatham, Ontario, our Call to Worship will be read by Anthony Smith of the “Sharing Love in Mission” congregation and our Lectionary scripture (Doctrine and Covenants 149:5) will be read by Claire Cropper of Anchorage, Alaska. The Beyond the Walls Choir will premier hymn CCS-341 “Arabs, Romans, Jews, and Gentiles.”
Ottawa Congregation - 10:30 Worship. Contact [email protected] for Zoom details. Windsor Congregation - 10:30 Worship. Contact Jeff Moor for Zoom info. SLIM (Sharing Love in Mission) - 1:45 p.m Presider, Steve Lamoure and speaker, Pat Lewis. Please bring pen/pencil and paper. Contact Don Robb for Zoom details. Port Elgin Congregation - 9 a.m. . Contact Darrell Belrose for Zoom details. La Salle Road Congregation - Social time from 10:15-10:30. Worship 10:30 a.m. Contact Pastor Vonda den Boer for Zoom details. Reaching Out - Generally meets twice a month. Please sign up for email notices by clicking here. Kitchener Congregation - Sunday evenings at 7:00 p.m. Contact John & Ruth Black for details. Cambridge Congregation - 11 a.m. Complete Worship Services are held each Sunday at 11:00 am For details go to www.cofchristcambridge.ca. On the calendar page click on the event for the Zoom link. Social time follows the service. First People Community of Christ (FPCC) - Reaching out to Native People across North America and the World! Online Prayer and Testimonies Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. and Worship Sundays at 7 p.m. Contact Larry Buchanan for ZOOM details. Other Online Ministries are available from many varied places for you to connect with. "Living Grace and Generosity"
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