Greenwood United Church Peterborough
737 Donwood Drive K9L 1G6 Peterborough, ON, Canada

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Give me a study week and ....

So much has changed. We can handle this change no sweat!

The Mission and Service fund is how we re-distribute our wealth across Canada and the world - sharing in ways that ensure the dignity and partnerships we value.

Words of Wisdom... <3

From a talk with Chris Hedges... My father was a Presbyterian minister, he was a Sergeant in North Africa in World War Two, and after the war joined the anti-war movement, and the civil rights movement, and the gay rights movement for which the Presbyterian Church pushed him out. He'd been a parish minister for 40 years he was a great preacher - and the church said that's it you're not allowed to speak publicly about gay rights. ... It was the same thing the New York times did to me. His brother was gay. He was very close to my uncle and so what was my dad do? He was at a church in Syracuse. I was at Colgate as an undergrad. And his answer to them was to hold an Easter service for the GBLT community of the city of Syracuse. And he came down and got me and he said this is probably the last time you'll ever hear me preach and he got up and he said Marriage is a sacrament. It's not a reward for being a heterosexual and any church that doesn't honor the sacrament of marriage does not deserve to call itself Christian. So, when the New York times called me in and said that I was no longer allowed to speak publicly about the Iraq war because I was impugning the impartiality of the New York Times. I'm not going to pretend that was easy to lose my job and my pension. But I knew as I sat there that I had a choice. And that choice was this I could pay fealty to my career and muzzle myself. But to do so would be to betray my father. And I walked out of 229 W 43rd St and I realized for the first time what my father had given me. And that was freedom. I didn't need the New York times to tell me who I was. I knew I would never be rewarded for virtue. I knew the very institution that I invested my life in - as he had - would ultimately turn me. Away. And I often say it's my voice you hear but it's my father words. In the Christian faith we call that resurrection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj1-47VqgOs

Susie singing at Church this past Sunday, since the rest of us aren't allowed to sing!

Susie singing at our Church Service yesterday, since the rest of us aren't allowed to sing.

Food for thought...

A clip of Roger singing "What a friend we have in Jesus." last Sunday at Church.

Our new Queen for the East Hive. She has a blue dot on her back.

Some helpful conversation about dealing with our anger towards others and how it hurts us.

For this sunday.... When you believe.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTWbZAqRJDc

We had a sweet day yesterday in the Greenwood kitchen harvesting our honey from our hard working Bees. We extracted 3/4 of a pail that we will be bottling next week. Each family in our congregation will receive a small bottle of honey!