Knox-Met United, Regina
2340 Victoria Avenue S4P 0S6 Regina, SK, Canada

Here's what's on at Knox-Met for the week of April 25! Want to stay in the loop? Sign up for our weekly e-newsletter, and #LetsStayConnected. https://knoxmetregina.org/whats-on/

Each spring KM member George Grassick brings in some willow branches from his property near Lumsden to decorate the Sanctuary. Although Covid-19 meant that he could not to do so this year he’s sent along some photos of what he would have brought by under different circumstances! A beautiful sign of budding newness and Easter possibility! Thanks George!

Sunday Morning Worship; A Place at the Table with the Very Reverend Gary Paterson; a series on harm reduction and the United Church of Canada; the Regina CGIT plant sale; Heritage United Church tomato plant fundraiser; Spring 2 Life virtual concert celebration; the Knox-Met Pie Auction, and much more... Here's what's on at Knox-Met for the week of April 18! https://knoxmetregina.org/whats-on/

This past Sunday’s reflection looked at the ideas of radical hospitality and redistributive justice, the Dinner Church movement, and the symbol of the fish in Christianity. Intrigued? You can find the full sermon on our website: https://knoxmetregina.org//upl/2021/04/Sermon-April-18.pdf Photo of Cathedral Community Fridge via CBC Saskatchewan

The Heritage United Church Tomato Plant Fundraiser is on now! Order your plants by April 26.

Another opportunity for learning offered up from Chinook Winds Region, United Church of Canada and Affirming Connections.

Calling All Bakers! The Congregational Life Committee is bringing Knox-Met’s much-loved pie auction online! Bidding will take place via Facebook from May 2 4. More details to follow in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we are looking for commitments of pie from our community’s talented bakers! Note that pies will need to be ready for delivery on Saturday, May 8 (just in time for Mother’s Day!). If you would like to contribute a pie to this auction, please fill in this Goo...gle form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSfmNol6HyYO2BieH/viewform See more

A Beautiful Prayerful time with our wonderful friend Rev. Joy from Heritage United Church. https://m.youtube.com/watch

Ramadan Mubarak to our Muslim siblings and all who are celebrating beginning at sundown this evening. #yqrdowntown #ramadan2021 #solidarity

Yesterday's sermon reflected on the story of Thomas; the vulnerability in sharing trauma; ableism; and the nature of faith. ICYMI or if you’d like to go deeper into this text you can find Cam’s sermon here: https://knoxmetregina.org//upl/2021/04/Sermon-April-12.pdf... Image: 'The Incredulity of Saint Thomas' by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Circa 16011602 (Public Domain)

Knox-Met has been honoured to connect with Regina's East African Community through a number of endeavours over the past decade and more and we hold our friends in this community in prayer and love amidst this sad news. Please take care of one another and stay safe. "Our mother would want everyone to be safe."... https://www.cbc.ca//regina-woman-remembered-as-a-mother-to

Welcome to our 10:30 AM Traditional Service, recorded live from the sanctuary at Knox-Metropolitan United Church, an Affirming Ministry in the heart of the city, on the sacred lands of Treaty 4 Territory. Note that there is a brief audio glitch at 34:04, but it quickly resolves itself at 34:45. You can download the bulletin here:... https://mcusercontent.com//2021_04_11_Sunday_Morning_Worsh NOTE - Our services are recorded in accordance to current public health orders. This means all participants (including those off screen) are masked. The exceptions currently allowed are clergy when leading spoken parts of the service and brass/woodwind musicians while playing.

A beautiful reflection from enfleshed on the story of Thomas & Jesus. This story is the focus of our reflection tomorrow in which we ponder such questions as...is this the story of Jesus sharing or Thomas demanding? What does this story invite us to ponder about bodies? How does this story invite us to address harm and woundedness, in self, in relationships, in church, in society?

Our friends over at Heritage United Church are selling Tomato Plants!

Join with other folks throughout the Living Skies Region of the UCC for an evening of music. Proceeds from ticket sales can be directed to any community of faith or community ministry.

#uccanlivableincome

KMUC Worship will be online only effective Sunday, November 22. Dear Friends, We are called to be the church, to celebrate a gracious and passionate presence in our lives and world that we name as God, to live with respect and right relationships with all beings, and to seek justice, especially for the most vulnerable. ... Right now we are living out this call in a hard, worrying, often troubling and sometimes scary moment in our collective lives. This evening the Board of KMUC made the difficult but necessary decision to move to online only worship effective immediately. As case numbers and hospitalizations rise in this city and province, as medical professionals look to the public for support, we feel that this is the right, faithful response. In March we began to speak of this as a time to "Bless the Space Between Us" and we sought to nurture connection while we are in different places, choosing to stay apart as an act of love, for one another and for our world. While we deeply enjoyed being able to, for a time this fall, welcome limited numbers of masked worshippers following our PRAYSAFE guidelines, now the right thing to do is to once again be a community dispersed. This is especially hard as we approach a season of beloved story, song and ritual, but that which is hard can also be beautiful, and can also be good. We will be live on Facebook this Sunday at 10:30, we hope you will join us. Please stay safe and care for one another as best you are able. We are not alone. Thanks be to God. - Cam Fraser | Minister | Knox-Metropolitan United Church

"Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is internationally recognized on November 20th every year. This day raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people. 2020 is now the worst year on record for the murder of trans people worldwide." https://livingskiesrc.ca/transgender-day-of-remembrance-no/

Any KMUC connected folk living in the downtown and interested in working towards the creation of a new inner city community association?

We’re so disconnected from our food system right now. We go to the store to buy produce, but we don’t think about where it comes from. https://www.thewhig.com//kingston-developed-private-member

Compassionate and wise words from Moderator Richard Bott of The United Church of Canada. Let us all seek to live love each day, including today while at the same time being patient and gentle with ourselves and others as we all grapple with the grief and disappointment at the loss of things we love about this time of year.

'So That Our Joy May Be Complete': An Advent Concert Celebration Sunday, December 13 at 7:00 PM Living Skies Regional Council is excited to offer a wonder-filled virtual evening of music & story for the entire UCC family! Co-hosted by Lorne Calvert & Lindsay Mohn, the evening features music provided by Sacred Sounds Worship Band, a Christmas narrative from Jim Tenford, and production support from Cheri Uthe of Faith Productions.... Ticket proceeds go directly to UCC Communities of Faith (congregations) & other UCC Ministries throughout the Living Skies Region. When you buy your ticket, simply indicate the specific Community of Faith or Ministry that you would like to support. https://livingskiesrc.ca/tickets-now-available-so-that-our/

This festive routine from Vibes YQR is certainly on a list of our favorite things right now! Thanks Regina Downtown BID for involving our space!

Two reflections based on Matthew 25:14-30, one from this morning, one from three years ago. One offers a Socio-Political Reading, the other comes from Poetic/Meditative perspective. They are shared here together in the feeling that one without the other is incomplete, that action and contemplation are less opposites and more like the inhale/exhale that make up breath. Of course, these are only opening conversations, not meant to be final words. https://mcusercontent.com//Matthew_25_14_30_A_Socio_Politi https://mcusercontent.com//Matthew_25_14_30_A_Poetic_Medit

Advent @ Home kits are coming together! Should be ready for delivery/pickup in another day or so. We’ll be in touch if you’ve ordered one when they’re ready! Digital versions are in the works as well (it’s just a less exciting photo). #blessthespacebetweenus #thosewhodream #uccan

Sunday morning worship, coffee times, the return of Knox Met Kids @ Home, a Celebration of the Peace Garden and more... Here's what's on at Knox Met for the week of September 27: https://mailchi.mp//heres-whats-happening-knox-metropolita

Just a reminder that today November 23 is the last day to place your order for the Regina CGIT Poinsettia Fundraiser in support of the Regina Adopt-a-Family program. https://rcgit.growingsmilesfundraising.com/home

This Sunday, October 4, there are two ways to join in our 10:30am Traditional Service, online via Facebook Live or, for the first time in 6-months, in person. Today we release our PRAYSAFE guidelines for returning to in-person worship. Learn more by following the link below. Email, Call, or Message between now and the end of Thursday to register. Sunday is also the return of Knox-Met Kids @ Home online. More details to come. https://mailchi.mp//praysafe-guidelines-for-in-person-wors

Working on mic issues

"On September 30, people all across Canada will wear orange shirts to remember and honour Indigenous children who attended Residential Schools. Indigenous Ministries and Justice at The United Church of Canada asks you to participate in Orange Shirt Day!" https://www.united-church.ca/news/orange-shirt-day-2020

Beautiful to celebrate this along with Living Skies Region Council and The Indigenous Council of The United Church of Canada! Thanks Wesley United Church for hosting and providing beautiful gifts of music.

Welcome to our 10:30am Traditional Service, live from the sanctuary at Knox-Metropolitan United Church, in the heart of the city, on the sacred lands of Treaty 4 Territory. We are grateful to Hart Godden and our Quintet from the KM Choir, Aaron, Brandyn, Carol, David, Debra and for this morning’s musical offerings and to Bill Johnson for giving voice to ancient wisdom in our readings. Dan Coggins is our ever faithful virtual greeter replying to your comments below! You can fi...nd the liturgy and hymn lyrics linked in the comments below. If you would like to have something named in prayer please leave a comment and we will so our best to read them all in the prayers. A time of coffee and conversation follows the service on Zoom. We will share the link below. Circumstances dictate that we cannot be together, still we rejoice that we are not alone and we gather, a community dispersed to bless the space between us.

On Friday afternoon we gathered with the family of Muriel Susan Brennecke at Riverside Cemetary to remember and give thanks for her life - Muriel was 104 years old when she passed away last Wednesday. Muriel was a baker, a loving aunt, and an ardent Riders and Blue Jays fan! After the service, the family came to Victoria Park, Regina to listen to the Darke Memorial Chimes play in her honour. After tolling 104 times (a new record for Master Bell Ringer Wayne) we caught this video of "Wilfred" an old hymn tune chosen in memory of Muriel's beloved husband Wilfred who passed away in 2004.

"It’s an ongoing genocide. If there were more people like me standing up, they wouldn’t be brutalizing us, but people are too scared to talk. It’s like Saskabama the Alabama of the north."

"Embraced by a new generation of fans, the indie musician still holds his faith close to his heart." https://broadview.org/sufjan-stevens-gen-z/

Hello friends...our time of prayer and practice, Come and Find a Quiet Centre that was scheduled tonight will not be happening. Be well and see you soon.

She saw being a Jew as having a place in society in which you’re always reminded you are an outsider, even when she, as a Supreme Court justice, was the ultimate insider. https://broadview.org/ruth-bader-ginsburg-faith/

"How a scholar, advocate, and judge upended the entirety of American political thought." https://www.newyorker.com//ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-cou