celebration Archives - Ralph Connor Memorial United Church

Sermon: January 23, 2022 – John 2: 1-11

January 23, 2022

Pretty much everyone in Ministry has some good stories about weddings, and wedding receptions. Other than a few brides being prodigiously late, there haven’t been many silly things happen at weddings, but wedding receptions, welllll, that’s another story. Watch at https://youtu.be/FUgxe_bsumA Download PDF: Sermon_23January2022 There have been heartfelt, touching, entertaining receptions, there have been top-notch plated meals, and there have been DJs or bands who did an excellent job of inviting and encouraging all ages and abilities to enjoy a …

Sermon: Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2020 – Acts 2: 1-21

May 31, 2020

JOIN US ONLINE FOR COMMUNION this Pentecost Sunday: Pentecost Sunday, is widely regarded as the birthday of the Church, so today’s message starts with the not-very-liturgical words, Happy Birthday! We won’t be having cake, but later in the service as we share in a socially-distanced communion service, we will have bread and wine or whatever celebrative beverage suits the occasion for you – and I hope that the mood of celebration permeates this time of worship. This week, our focus …

Missing the 7 pm bells?

June 6, 2020May 28, 2020

At 7 pm each night, we’re all encouraged to make joyous noise as a note of thanks to our first-line responders. Part of this has been the peals of the Church bells at St. Michael’s Anglican and Ralph Connor United. Unfortunately, the next few days both bells will be silenced – at St. Michael’s, an ongoing silence as their bell is broken, and at Ralph Connor, a temporary silence due to the sanctuary & narthex floor refinishing. For those wishing …

Sermon: Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020 – John 20: 1-18

April 12, 2020

The calendar indicates that April 12, 2020, is Easter Sunday. And here it is! The Church building is not open, a public gathering at Riverside wasn’t allowable, a few of you are still providing essential services and we thank you profusely for that, but most of us are pretty much spending our days at home. Yet even with the strangeness of these necessary restrictions, Easter Sunday is here and the message and power of Easter are not diminished, regardless of …

Affirming Ministry Celebration!

October 29, 2019

Ralph Connor Memorial United Church celebrated its new designation as an Affirming Ministry, during the service of Worship on Sunday, October 27, 2019. The dramatic rainbow banner from Lakeview United Church, Calgary, adorned the sanctuary, the ‘High Strung’ ukuleles led off the service with “over the rainbow/what a wonderful world”, the Affirming Vision Statement was repeated by all, official Affirming Ministry certificate was received, and a human rainbow chain surrounded the Church building after the service (featuring the 125-foot rainbow …