West River United Church
10 Church Street C0A 1H0 Cornwall, PE, Canada

We want to hear from you!! Tell us your camp story. You can send it via private message, or email. We'd love to read them and share it with the community. If yo...u have pictures from your time at camp we'd love to see them as well. You're welcome to share the story in writing, video, or audio form. If you need a little help editing your video or audio piece, we've got you covered.

A gift from The Prayer Bench https://mailchi.mp//prayer-bench-christmas-newsletter-4707

Congratulations Camp Abby. 75 Years.

From General Secretary Michael Blair: "As we here in North America move towards 2021, and as other parts of the globe have moved into the new year already, we a...ll hope that it will be a different kind of year. I too hope for a different year, yet one where we crave for putting an end to the economic and social injustices, where people's basic human rights and dignity are held as inviolable, and to end the commodification of human beings and mother Earth. 2021 will not be miraculously different unless we chose to act and be different." #UCCan #HappyNewYear2021

Everyone (except permanent Island residents) must fill out the appropriate forms before coming to PEI. Whatever your reason for wanting to come to PEI, get inf...ormation on all travel requirements on our travel page princeedwardisland.ca/travel PS - People within the Atlantic bubble fill out a self-declaration form (not pre-approval) and do not need to self-isolate.

#PrayTogether #StaySafeTogether We continue our weekly series of intercessions for our one human family at this time of crisis adopting the words of sister...s and brothers from different parts of the world. Today we invite you to pray with Moderator Richard Bott of The United Church of Canada, seeking the guidance of the Triune God as we prepare to go into the world. To find additional prayers and resources for this time of crisis, please visit: www.oikoumene.org/corona

Travel Advisory and Worship Change Hello Everyone! As you may have heard, our Chief Public Health Office has issued a travel advisory to the Campbelltown and Moncton regions of New Brunswick due to two separate COVID-19 outbreaks.... Today, the government also advised that anyone who still chooses to travel to those regions, must do the following: wear a mask at all times when outside of their household for the next two weeks; monitor themselves for symptoms of COVID-19, and visit a Drop-in Testing Clinic to be tested if symptoms develop; avoid public places, unless it is essential; avoid large gatherings; and, minimize contact with individuals outside of their close circle of contacts and household. In accordance with this, we will be adding these two regions to our COVID questions that are asked each week. If you have travelled to either of these regions, we ask that you refrain from attending in person worship or other in person church related activities for two weeks following your return home. If you would like to know more about the recent advisory, you can go to the PEI government website for more information. Thank you for your understanding during these difficult times. Operational Team,

This Thanksgiving, why not consider making a gift to the Mission & Service fund as an expression of the gratitude for those memories that we all carry asks R...ev. Dr. Bob Fillier. Give a gift Help transform & save lives, inspire meaning & purpose and build a better world. https://www.united-church.ca/donate #Uccan See more

We have so much to be thankful for. Share your gratitude. What are you thankful for today? #UCCan [Photo: Aaron Gallegos]

All the feels in the Mission & Service inbox today as people share who they are honouring through their generosity this Thanksgiving... Sarah Charters is the Ac...ting Director Of Philanthropy. Her parents wrote in to dedicate their Thanksgiving gift to her grandparents and sent along this note: "Our Thanksgiving donation is in honour and memory of Sarah’s grandparents, Bill and Lucy Book generous in time, talent, resources and especially in their love for Sarah." -Brian & Kathy Magee united-church.ca/donate #uccan See more

A reflection on Gratitude. https://gatheredalonetogether.blogspot.com/2020//day-3.html

Happy Thanksgiving to all, and a special thank you to those in the agriculture, agri-food and food industry who keep food on our tables.

Here are the carrots that we gleaned the other day as mentioned in the sermon today.

The worship service from this morning can be viewed at https://youtu.be/zL5FNBJO1GE.

The United Church of Canada's new Gifts with Vision giving catalogue has just been released! Watch for your copy in the mail or in Broadview magazine. You can also browse the new selection of world-changing gifts online. Take a look! https://giftswithvision.ca #UCCan #GiftswithVision

A Thanksgiving note from our General Secretary Nora.. https://mailchi.mp/united-church/notefromnora-201009

++++ October is the month of painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself... acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight. +++++ It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! How gently lay themselves down and turn to mould! Painted of a thousand hues, and fit to make the beds of us living. So they troop to their last resting place, light and frisky. They put on no weeds, but merrily they go scampering over the earth, selecting the spot, choosing a lot, ordering no iron fence How many flutterings before they rest quietly in their graves! They that soared so loftily, how contentedly they return to dust again, and are laid low, resigned to lie and decay at the foot of the tree, and afford nourishment to new generations of their kind, as well as to flutter on high! They teach us how to die. +++++ Let your walks now be a little more adventurous; ascend the hills. If, about the last of October, you ascend any hill in the outskirts of our town, and probably of yours, and look over the forest, you may see well, what I have endeavored to describe. All this you surely will see, and much more, if you are prepared to see it,if you look for it... Objects are concealed from our view, not so much because they are out of the course of our visual ray as because we do not bring our minds and eyes to bear on them; for there is no power to see in the eye itself, any more than in any other jelly. We do not realize how far and widely, or how near and narrowly, we are to look. The greater part of the phenomena of Nature are for this reason concealed from us all our lives. The gardener sees only the gardener's garden There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, not a grain more. + Henry David Thoreau