Advent Calendar 2017
A special gift for you from the Prayer Bench, an Advent calendar. Each day from December 1 to New Year’s Day, it offers you a practice or gesture for creating hope, peace, joy and love in complicated times. Your Advent calendar is available as a free instant...
Blessing for a Website
After many months of conversation and design, a website is launched. The Rev. Dr. Linda Yates wrote this blessing, and offers it as a model for others looking for a website blessing. Blessing of the Lower and Middle Musquodoboit Website (mvuc.ca) One: Gracious One,...
Praying the News – Sample of Leader Page
A few years ago I was leading a retreat and my eye caught the cover of the bible of a woman sitting next to me. It was a soft covered Good News Bible. A black smudge was ground into the cover. At a quiet time I asked her about it. She looked at It almost like she...
Contemplative Moments
Set of 40 Contemplative Moments These contemplative moment cards invite us to pay attention, be grateful, and aware of the gifts of this moment. All we have is this moment. In this exact moment, something of our life is here to be lived, noticed, or engaged. Each...
The Hours of Christmas (Free Resource)
Make a soul pause on Christmas Day. A free resource, The Hours of Christmas Day.
Frequently Asked Questions about Small Group Studies
Frequently Asked Questions 1. Our church doesn’t have an internet connection. How will this work? The Audio Recording is easily downloadable. You can download (directions on the Study webpage) and save it to a laptop or computer. Once downloaded and saved you don’t...
Sample: The Trinity and Everyday Spirituality
The Trinity and Everyday Spirituality 2016 Lent Small Group Study Listen to a sample of the Lent Small Group Study, The Trinity and Everyday Spirituality. Here is part of Session 2: To Be Alone with God The speaker, The Rev. Dr. Rob Fennell is a Professor at the...
Learn about Spirit Corner
Listen as Karen MacLeod-Wilkie and Nicholas and Julia introduce the Spirit Corner audio series. Here is the sampler. This is a series for youth, and a creative way to learn stories and teaching from the Christian Bible while involved in daily activities. Can’t...
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