Fairview United Church
3524 Dutch Village Road B3N 2S1 Halifax, NS, Canada

In his Advent message, Moderator Richard Bott reminds us that for everything there is a season. Advent and Christmas will be different this year. We will need to keep our physical distance and cover our faces. Perhaps the distance this pandemic brings can allow us to prepare our spiritual life for the coming of the Christ child. One step at a time. Each in its own order. There is a time for everything. https://youtu.be/LABIYLZWtr8... #UCCan #Advent2020 #UCCanCOVID19

Out of an abundance of caution, we will be worshipping online only this Sunday, November 22, 2020. We understand this will disappoint some but please know this decision is triggered by the recent Covid 19 cluster outbreak in Clayton Park where many of our people live, work and shop and the most recent Covid 19 updates by Dr. Strang for Halifax Regional Municipality. Please join us right here in this virtual space on Sunday at 10:30 am for live-stream worship.

Interested in participating in the Northwood Christmas Card Campaign for Seniors project? This year has been especially hard for our seniors, and we know family visits will be limited over the Christmas season, so we at Fairview are excited to help out the Kin Club of Halifax with their Northwood Christmas Card Campaign for Seniors project. The goal is 5000 cards. Our very own Denise Hirtle has taken this project under her wing as a Kin Club member. Those who wish to partici...pate are asked to purchase an extra box of cards this year for these friends (or finish off your box for them). The Kin Club will then gather these cards and safely distribute to Northwood. Deadline for this project is December 7th. Cards can be mailed to PO Box 22076 Bayers Rd, Halifax B3L 4T7, dropped in mail slot at Fairview United Church, 3524 Dutch Village Rd or email [email protected] for pick up. See more

Today at 2pm we will celebrate the life of Joan Marcia Hill. Due to Covid 19 restrictions this funeral is by invitation only. We are also live-streaming this event so please join with us here as we honour the life that was so well lived by our dear friend Joan.

Welcome to worship this morning friends

Please join us this morning for worship at 10:30 am online! We offer our condolences to Rev Sarah Raeburn on the passing of her mother last week and we thank Rev. Matthew Fillier for providing us with his Reflection for this service. This is our final joint worship service for the summer with Rockingham United. A HUGE thank you to those who have assisted with recording, audio/visual, candle lighting, vocal solos, prayers, music, etc. We could not have done it without you.

Its back to school time and this year is a little more stressful than others. As a way to help lesson the burden on many families you are invited to contribute as you are able to our School Supply Drive for our local schools. Please see the letter below from our outreach team for more information. Fairview United Church School Supply Drive Sept 1, 2020 Sept 7, 2020... From today Sept 1, 2020 until Sept 7, 2020 Fairview United Church Outreach Team will be holding a school supply drive for the elementary schools in our area and the Indigenous community in partnership with the N.S. Native Council. In addition to elementary school supplies, there is also a need for graphing calculators for high school students who take academic math. Three calculators are needed at the N.S. Native Council. We would donate three of these directly to the Native Council so they can do the loaning of the calculators. Any other calculators we receive would be loaned out by Fairview United Church to our local high school students (marked with our identity) and tracked by the Outreach Team. You can donate in one of two ways: You are welcome to do your own shopping as you are able. You can drop off your donation to Allison MacKenzie-Power. Allison can be contacted at 902-445-9161 to set up a safe physical distance drop off time. or If you would like to donate but do not want to shop please e-transfer your donation to [email protected] and clearly label your donation as OUTREACH SCHOOL SUPPLIES. All money donated to the church with this label noted will be used to purchase school supplies for our local students and will be delivered by Allison MacKenzie Power, Brittany Power, and Kaitlyn Power to the schools. The following items are the supplies that are requested (tax not included in price list): Graphing Calculator - $130 Scientific Calculator - $15 Backpacks - $30 Lunch Bags - $20 Binders - $10.99 each Loose Leaf paper - $2 Pens - $12 for a pack of 50 Pencils - $1 for a pack of 10 Crayons - 69 cents for a pack of 24 Coloured Pencils - $2 for a package of 24 Markers - $3.49 for a package of 12 Glue Sticks $5 for a package of 6 Pencil Boxes - $3 Notebooks - $2 each Dividers - $2 each Once again, thank you for helping out with this need in our community and be assured that your donation will be greatly appreciated. THE OUTREACH TEAM Fairview United Church

Good morning Fairview and Rockingham - we are so glad to have you with us this morning! Here is todays service for August 30th!

We hope you are able to join Fairview United and Rockingham United tomorrow morning for worship at 10:30 am right here. All are welcome!

Good morning Fairview and Rockingham - here is todays service for August 23rd - we are delighted to have you join us for worship this morning!

Immediately following the service this morning, please join us for a time of fellowship online at our Cup & Conversation via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87279113476 This is a great time to meet and greet each other from both Rockingham and Fairview United and online friends who join us! Hope to see you there

We hope you are able to join us and Rockingham United this morning for worship at 10:30 am right here. We are all the body of Christ and all are welcome!

Thank you for this prayer Moderator Richard Bott

Good morning friends - here is the service for today, August 16th - its good to have you here!

A message from the Mission and Service partners of the United Church of Canada: Your donation to the people affected by the explosion in Lebanon can be doubled by the Canadian government. Canada has announced that it will match donations made from August 4 to 24, 2020 (up to $2 million) You can contribute here if you are in a position to do so. The people of Lebanon continue to be in our hearts and our prayers. ://www.united-church.ca/lebanon

Spirit sightings: Our very own Gayle Heisler and friends at it again. Thank you to all involved in helping the people in our community. Loving our neighbours.

Good Sunday Morning Fairview and Rockingham! Here is the service for today, August 9th. We are glad to see you here.

Immediately following the service on Sunday Aug 9th, please join us for a time of fellowship online at our Cup & Conversation via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87279113476 This is a great time to meet and greet each other from both Rockingham and Fairview United and online friends who join us! Hope to see you there

Stormy seas and walking on water. Please join Fairview United Church and Rockingham United Church joint worship service here tomorrow morning at 10:30 AM. All are welcome! Photo taken at Magdala, a first century Jewish synagogue site near the Sea of Galilee where Jesus taught and visited.

Holding the people of Lebanon and our Lebanese friends and neighbours who are worried about their loved ones back home in our hearts and our prayers today after a massive explosion in Beirut. God hear our prayers.

Good morning Everyone! Welcome to Worship! We are glad you are here

Immediately following the service on Sunday Aug 2nd, please join us for a time of fellowship online at our Cup & Conversation via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87279113476 This is a great time to meet and greet each other from both Rockingham and Fairview United and online friends who join us! Hope to see you there

Bread and fishes, struggle and compassion. Join us tomorrow at 10:30 am right here for worship. All are welcome! Rev. Angela is back from vacation and looking forward to being with you in this space from where ever you find yourself this Natal Day Weekend.

Happening on Forestside Crescent

Welcome Home to the crew of HMCS Fredericton!

Good morning - here is the service for today, July 26th.

Hello Folks! It has come to our attention that there is a big need in the Halifax community for tents and sleeping bags. Early in the pandemic, the NS government moved high risk individuals from shelters and homeless folks into hotel rooms to keep them safe. This funding ended at the end of June with no concrete plans on where people should go. Shelters continue with social distancing so cant take any more people. Approximately 100 people were staying in a hotel and most of them are now living on the street. If any of you (or your friends/family) have small tents or sleeping bags you no longer need, Denise Hirtle would be pleased to collect these to pass them on. Please contact Denise Hirtle at 902-457-9133 if you are able to contribute to this need in our community. Thank you so very much! Blessings and peace to you all.

Good morning church!

Good morning - heres the service for this Sunday!

A post, and some more pics, from the boxes you all helped us to send to the folks on HMCS Fredericton. And guess what? They just finished their last exercise abroad and are counting down the days now to be home. Safe travels to everyone on HMCS Fredericton - thank you for your service!

Good Morning Fairview! Heres the link to the service for today - just click and it will take you to Rockinghams channel. Note: the service will be available in full after it has aired on Rockinghams channel, right here on our page. I know some of you are having trouble with YouTube. We will try to upload the link separately to Rockingham next week so that you can watch/comment from this page.

Good morning Fairview and Rockingham. Click on the link below to join us for worship - the stream of the recorded service will begin in 5 minutes. Let us know youre here in the comments - we are glad to have you here!

GOOD NEWS! The 297 boxes of hope and treats arrived on the HMCS Fredericton! Your care and generosity shines through a time of deep grief and sadness. Thank you all for reminding our sailors overseas they are not alone. A special thank you to Laurel Walker who spearheaded this beautiful initiative. Ill leave you with words from Joe Chaput and Brenda Zwicker who speak on behalf of the crew. With warm gratitude, Rev. Angela Good afternoon everyone. I received the attached pi...cture from the Executive Officer of HMCS FREDERICTON. The packages so lovingly prepared from all over Nova Scotia were successfully delivered last week while the ship was in Kiel, Germany. LCdr Nichole Robichaud expressed tremendous thanks for the incredible show of support from back home and wanted everyone to know how well received the packages were by the crew. In her own words: The thoughtfulness of Nova Scotians and the rest of Canada has been greatly appreciated by everyone on board HMCS FREDERICTON. Joe Chaput And On behalf of HMCS Fredericton I want to thank you for the gift boxes you sent to the crew. We had many very excited young sailors getting packages and the crew was amazed that any group would take on such a big project for us. The morale mail certainly lived up to its name as we enjoyed opening the boxes and finding many surprises inside. Capt Brenda Zwicker, Chaplain

This looks like something fun!

Something for your afternoon enjoyment.

Good morning Fairview! Heres the service for today...click on the link below. Good to see you this morning!

We at Fairview United Church are united against racism in all its forms. You are invited to join in worship online tonight at 7pm EDT.