Our Past Services

2015 - Present

Advent and Christmas Series

 

2019

  • Sunday, December 29, 10:30 AM
    A joint service with College St. U.C.
    Christine Smaller
    Sanctuary, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, December 24, 7:00 PM
    Christmas Eve: A joint service with College St. U.C.
    Christine Smaller
    Sanctuary, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, December 22, 12:00 Noon
    Christmas Brunch and Carol Singing
    The Parlour, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, December 15, 10:30 AM
    Advent III: Carol Service
    Bathurst St. U.C. Choir, Bev Lewis Music Director
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. West

  • Sunday, December 8, 12:00 Noon
    Advent II: Embodiment and Ensoulment — the Holiness of our Embodiment and our Interdependence with the Earth
    Jenny Nedelsky
    Multi-purpose room, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, December 1, 12:00 Noon
    Advent I: Incarnation Theology and Communion
    Christine Smaller
    The Parlour, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, November 24, 12:00 Noon
    Meditation, worship and music in the style of the monastery of Taizé
    The Parlour, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, November 17, 12:00 Noon
    Christian Peacemaking at Grassy Narrows
    A reflection by Jane Enticknap on her visit with the Christian Peacemakers Team to Winnipeg, Kenora and Grassy Narrows
    Multi-purpose room, CSUC, College & Bathurst

2018

  • Sunday, December 30, 10:30 AM
    Bathurst will be joining worship with College St. U.C.                                  (no service in the TSP chapel)
    College St. U.C., 454 College St.

  • Monday, December 24
    Christmas Eve with Bloor St. U.C., 300 Bloor St. W.                                    10:00 PM – Candlelight communion                                                             7:00 PM – All ages candlelight service

  • Sunday, December 23, 10:00 AM
    Christmas Breakfast:Christmas stories and carols

  • Tuesday, December 18, 7:00 PM
    Carols in a minor key
    Bloor St. United Church, 300 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, December 16
    Advent 3: Christmas Choral Service

  • Sunday, December 9
    Advent 2: Waiting in Darkness, liturgy from the Iona Community
    Congregational Meeting

  • Sunday, December 2
    Advent 1: Messy Church on the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary

2017

  • Sunday, December 31, 10:30 AM
    A joint service with Trinity-St. Paul’s and Bloor St. United Churches
    Bloor St. U.C., 300 Bloor St. West

  • Sunday, December 24, 10:00 PM
    Christmas Breakfast

  • Sunday, December 24, 10:00 PM
    Joint Christmas Eve Communion Service
    Trinity St. Paul’s Sanctuary
    Ralph Carl Wushke
  • Sunday, December 17
    Bathurst Choral Concert
    Bev Lewis

  • Sunday, December 10
    Still Waiting … Waiting Still
    Ken McEvoy

  • Sunday, December 3
    Wake! Wait! Watch!
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, November 26
    Waiting and Working for Transformation
    Jenny Nedelsky

2015

  • Sunday, January 3
    Christmas in Cuba
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • December 27
    Christmas Breakfast

  • December 20
    Christmas Choral Service

  • December 13
    ‘From a Small Place’, a reflection on Mary
    Sarah Mikhaiel

  • December 6
    A Step Along the Way: The Youth on Bloor Trip to El Salvador
    Shintaro Tsukamoto

  • November 29
    Reflection on the Stanley Tucci movie ‘Big Night’
    I Thessalonians 5 : 1-11
    Cam Watts

Advent is traditionally a time for waiting for Christmas celebrations for the children, for the celebration of the miracle of birth and of Jesus’s birth in particular, and for many Christians, a reminder of the waiting for Jesus’s coming again for the fulfillment of the hope and promise he brought. We gather to reflect on the kind of waiting those working for social justice must do.

The Lent series connected the gospel stories and teachings of Jesus with various Spiritual Practices such as prayer in the style of Taize, social justice activism as a spiritual practice, Lectio Divina and Messy Church.

Lent Series

 

2019

  • Sunday, April 21, 10:30 AM
    Easter
    Christine Smaller
    Trinity St. Paul’s, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, April 14, 10:30 AM
    The In Between
    Christine Smaller
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, April 7, 10:30 AM
    Cleansing the Temple (“Messy Church”)
    Lindsay Tyler
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, March 31, 10:30 AM
    The Last Supper
    Ken McEvoy
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, March 24, 10:30 AM
    What does Lent have to do with anything, anyway?
    Exploring how the ancient practice of Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving might provide glimpses of hope and healing in our time and place.
    Christine Smaller
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, March 17, 10:30 AM
    Our Stories, Ourselves
    Reg McQuaid, Pat Douglas, Shirley Endicott
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, March 10, 10:30 AM
    Bathurst Annual General Meeting
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

2018

  • Sunday, March 25, 10:30 AM
    Decolonization in Prairie Perspective
    Lynn Caldwell
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, March 18, 10:30 AM
    Decolonization
    Ralph Carl Wushke
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, March 11, 10:30 AM
    Decolonization
    Caro Ibrahim
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, March 4, 10:30 AM
    Food Culture & Decolonization
    Pruneah Michelle Kim
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 25, 10:30 AM
    Annual General Meeting
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 18, 10:30 AM
    Decolonization in action: Anti-racism and White Allyship Workshop
    Tobias Wiggins, guest facilitator
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 11, 10:30 AM
    Transforming Promise
    The Rev. Dr. Néstor Medina
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 4, 10:30 AM
    Decolonizing Preaching
    The Rev. Dr. Sarah Travis
    Trinity St. Paul’s, 427 Bloor St. W.

2017

  • April 16, 10:00 AM
    Easter Sunday­ Breakfast and Messy Church                                                The Gym at Trinity St. Paul’s
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Saturday, April 15                                                                                          Easter Vigil Ralph Carl Wushke Presiding
    Bloor Street United Church
    9:00 PM ­Silent Vigil
    10:00 PM Service

  • April 14, 10:30 AM                                                                                                  Good Friday: Contemporary Reflections on the Passion
    Joint Service at Trinity St. Paul’s United Church

  • April 13, 6:00 PM                                                                                            Maundy Thursday Foot-washing Service
    Joint Service at Bloor Street United Church

  • Sunday, April 9, 10:30 AM                                                                  Palm/Passion Sunday
    Michael Carens – Nedelsky & Allison Smith
    The chapel at Trinity St. Paul’s United Church

  • Sunday, April 2, 10:30 AM                                                                                      The Chapel at Trinity St. Paul’s
    Lazarus
    Joy Cowan

  • Sunday, March 26
    UCC Remits
    Ronald Macfarlane

  • Sunday, March 19
    Samaritan Woman
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, March 12
    Nicodemus
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, March 5
    Healing Journeys in Indigenous Communities
    Diane Longboat

2016

  • Sunday, Mar 20                                                                                                      Palm Sunday
    Latin America’s Gift: Theology of Liberation
    Reg McQuaid

  • Sunday, Mar 13                                                                                                      Lent V
    Cuba: Church and Society II
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, Mar 6                                                                                                        Lent IV
    Cuba: Church & Society I
    Reinerio Arce

  • Sunday, Feb 28                                                                                                Lent III
    Bathurst Annual General Meeting with a Latin Flavour

  • Sunday, Feb 21                                                                                                Lent II
    Partnering in Latin America: United Church of Canada
    Jim Hodgson

  • Sunday, Feb 14                                                                                                Lent I
    The Mapuche People of Chile: Indigenous Struggle
    Marie Elena Oliva

2015

  • Sunday, April 5, 10:00 AM                                
    Easter Sunday: Easter breakfast
    Baptism and Communion in the gym

  • Friday, April 3                                                                                                  Good Friday
    Joint service at Trinity-St. Paul’s

  • Thursday, April 2 , 6:00 PM                                                                                    Maundy Thursday
    Bloor Street United Church

  • March 29                                                                                                          Palm Sunday
    Messy Church

  • Sunday, March 22                                                                                            Fifth Sunday in Lent
    John 12:20-33 Whoever loves their life, loses it / Evangelical Sermon
    Andrew Pak

  • March 15                                                                                                        Fourth Sunday in Lent
    John 2:13-21 Jesus clears the Temple / Social Justice and Activism as Spiritual Practice
    Diane Meredith

  • March 8                                                                                                            Third Sunday in Lent
    Mark 8:31-38 “Take up your cross and follow me” / Prayer in the style of Taizé
    Ralph Carl Wushke and Bev Lewis

  • March 1                                                                                                        Second Sunday in Lent
    Mark 1:9-15 Jesus in the Wilderness / Meditation and Contemplation Lectio Divina
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • February 22                                                                                                      First Sunday in Lent
    Annual General Meeting (Can we imagine a meeting as a “spiritual practice”?)
    Ralph Carl Wushke

Epiphany Series

 

2020

  • Sunday, February 23, 10:30 AM
    A Confirmation Service
    Christine Smaller
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 16, 10:30 AM
    Aging and Spirituality: Part III
    Kathryn Humphrey, Jenny Nedelsky, Ronny Yaron
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 9, 10:30 AM
    Aging and Spirituality: Part II
    Sharon Goodier, Kathryn Humphrey
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 2, 10:30 AM
    Aging and Spirituality: Part I
    Sharon Goodier, Judi McCallum, Ken McEvoy
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 26, 10:30 AM
    The Holy Land Service
    The Rev. Robert Assaly, Canadian Friends of Sabeel
    Joint service with Trinity St. Paul’s
    Sanctuary, Trinity St. Paul’s, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 19, 10:30 AM
    Mark 2: Healing the Paralyzed Man
    Frances Combs
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 12, 10:30 AM
    Matthew 15: 21-28 – The Woman who Argued with Jesus
    Frances Combs
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 7, 10:30 AM
    Epiphany: The Fourth Magi
    A pageant prepared by the Christian Education group at CSUC
    Sanctuary, College St. United Church

2019

  • Sunday, March 10, 10:30 AM
    Bathurst Annual General Meeting
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, March 3, 10:30 AM
    Jesus’ Teachings on Food and Drink
    Frances Combs
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 24, 10:30 AM
    Transforming Faith Through Art
    Catherine Hernandez
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 17, 10:30 AM
    The Parables of Jesus
    Christine Smaller
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 10, 10:30 AM
    Welcoming service for our new minister, Christine Smaller
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, February 3, 10:30 AM
    The Power of Stories
    Sharon Goodier
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 27, 10:30 AM
    Joint Holy Land Service
    Jews and Allies Supporting Palestinian Rights: Hopeful News
    Diana Ralph of IJV
    Trinity St. Paul’s, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 20, 10:30 AM
    Bathurst 2020 / Congregational Meeting
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 13, 10:30 AM
    Intimations of Mortality
    Cathleen Fillmore
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

2018

  • Sunday, January 28, 10:30 AM
    Joint Holy Land Service
    Trinity St. Paul’s, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 21, 10:30 AM
    Privilege
    Frances Combs
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 14, 10:30 AM
    Living Presence
    Bri-anne Swan
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, January 7, 10:30 AM
    An Epiphany Party
    Kathryn Humphrey
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

2016

  • Sunday, February 7
    Bathsheba
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, January 31
    Joint service with Trinity-St. Paul’s
    The Holy Land: Israel – Palestine
    Robert Massoud

  • Sunday, January 24
    Ruth
    Frances Combs

  • Sunday, January 17
    Rahab
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, January 10
    Tamar
    Judi McCallum

2015

  • February 15                                                                                              Epiphany VI
    Judgement and Righteousness Re-visited
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • February 8                                                                                                Epiphany V
    Broken and Repaired: Two Ways to Read Psalm 147
    Deborah McGinnis

  • February 1                                                                                                Epiphany IV
    The Magic Sky: A Meditation On Seeing
    David Barker

  • January 25                                                                                                          The Holy Land
    Joint service with Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church
    Wendy Gichuru

  • January 18                                                                                                Epiphany II
    Know Thyself: Psalm 139
    Frances Combs

  • January 11
    Epiphany
    Sharon Goodier

In our Epiphany series, we started with some of the stories of healing by Jesus and also had a series of services on Spirituality and Aging. In some of the services we experimented with ‘Church light’, in which we focused on liturgy in services without a presiding minister or sermon.

Our Easter series will seek to find resonance between these ancient witnesses and the contexts of our time. Every age is a crucible, a refiner’s fire for people of faith. The Book of Acts, the first letter of Peter and the Easter gospels attest to the tests and fortitude of the first generation of believers.

Easter Series

 

2019

  • Sunday, June 2, 10:30 AM
    Easter VII – Migrant Workers
    Reg McQuaid
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, May 26, 10:30 AM
    Easter VI
    Service led by the CAMH team
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, May 19, 10:30 AM
    Easter V
    Memory of Her – A personal midrash on Mark 14:2-9
    Shirley Endicott
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, May 12, 10:30 AM
    Easter IV – Tabitha
    Christine Smaller
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, May 5
    Crieff Hills Retreat

  • Sunday, April 28, 10:30 AM
    Congregational Meeting
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

2018

  • Sunday, May 13, 10:30 AM
    Love one Another as I have Loved You
    Jasper Miller
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, May 6
    Bathurst Spring Retreat at Crieff Hills

  • Sunday, April 29, 10:30 AM
    Theopolitics of Gregory Baum
    Sharon Goodier
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, April 22, 10:30 AM
    The Good Shepherd: Contextual Bible Study
    Ralph Carl Wushke
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, April 15, 10:30 AM
    Worship in the Style of Taizé
    Judi McCallum and Ken McEvoy
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, April 8, 10:30 AM
    Jesus Appears to the Disciples and Thomas: A contemplative and intergenerational service
    Lindsay Tyler
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Easter Sunday, April 1, 10:30 AM
    Resurrection and Healing
    Ralph Carl Wushke
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

2017
  • Sunday, May 28, 10:30 AM                                                                                    Cast all your anxieties on God, for God cares for you
    The chapel at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre
    Ralph Carl Wushke
  • Sunday, May 21                                                                                               John 14:15-21 – If you love me, keep my commandments
    Caro Ibrahim
  • Sunday, May 14                                                                                          Thomas and Phillip, faith will issue in works
    Ralph Carl Wushke
  • Sunday, May 7                                                                                            Retreat at Crieff Hills
  • Sunday, April 30                                                                                              Luke 24:13-35 – Their eyes were opened at the breaking of the bread
    Ralph Carl Wushke
  • Sunday, April 23                                                                                      “Doubting” Thomas; What is Faith?
    Ralph Carl Wushke
2016

  • Sunday, May 8                                                                                                      
    Easter VII: Spring Retreat at Crieff Hills
    (no service in the TSP chapel)

  • Sunday, May 1                                                                                                      
    Easter VI: The Communion on the Beach (John 21)
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, April 24
    Easter V: Spirituality and Mental Health
    Nazila Isgandarova, D.Min, RSW,
    Spiritual Care Provider, CAMH

  • Sunday, April 17 
    Easter IV: The Craddock Lecture
    A joint service with Bloor St. United Church
    Marie Wilson, TRC Commissioner
    (no service in the TSP chapel)

  • Sunday, April 10
    Easter III: Doubting Thomas (John 20)
    Sharon Goodier

  • Sunday, April 3
    Easter II: The Road to Emmaus (Luke 24)
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, March 27, 10:00 AM
    Easter Sunday: Easter Breakfast
    Ralph Carl Wushke

2015

  • May 17 
    Easter VII: Seeking Home: Locally and Globally
    Ian Van Haren

  • May 10
    Easter VI: Crieff Hills Retreat Weekend
    Wholeness and Health: Inter-generational weekend

  • May 3
    Easter V: Solidarity in the Lindsay Detention Centre
    Meredith McEvoy

  • April 26                                                                                                            Easter IV
    Let’s Keep Talking III: Finding Joy / Will there be a just peace in Israel/Palestine?
    John 15: 9-17 “You are Friends”
    Frances Combs

  • April 19                                                                                                              Easter III
    Let’s Keep Talking II: Beating the Drum of Justice
    Acts 4: 5-12
    Cathleen Fillmore

  • April 12                                                                                                            Easter II
    Let’s Keep Talking I: Be Not Afraid
    John 20: 19-31
    Ralph Carl Wushke and Cathleen Fillmore

Pentecost Series

 

2019

  • Sunday, June 30, 10:30 AM
    Pentecost III – Pride Sunday
    Caro Ibrahim
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, June 23, 8:00 AM
    Pentecost II
    Solstice Service
    Beach near Hubbard and McLean

  • Sunday, June 16, 10:30 AM
    Pentecost I
    Congregational Meeting
    Trinity St. Paul’s, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, June 9, 10:30 AM
    Pentecost
    The baptism of Joaquin Fernando Barrios Miller
    Christine Smaller
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

2018

  • Sunday, June 24, 10:30 AM
    Pride Service:
    The connection between Pride and the 30th anniversary of the decision to ordain gay and lesbian ministers
    (This is Ralph Carl Wushke’s last service as minister at Bathurst United Church)
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, June 17, 8:00 AM
    Solstice Service: The Call of the Spirit in Baptism
    Balmy Beach (Hubbard and MacLean)
    (no service in the chapel)

  • Sunday, June 10, 10:30 AM
    What are we called to do? Where is the spirit calling us now?
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, June 3, 10:30 AM
    Being at Bathurst with Ralph Carl
    Members of the congregation
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, May 27, 10:30 AM
    My Ministry at Bathurst
    Ralph Carl Wushke
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, May 20, 10:30 AM
    Pentecost
    Ralph Carl Wushke
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

2017

  • Sunday, June 25, 10:30 AM 
    Pride Sunday: The Gates Shall Not Be Shut
    Caro Ibrahim
    The chapel at Trinity-St. Paul’s

  • Sunday, June 18, 8:00 AM                                                                               Our Summer Solstice Service
    The beach at the foot of MacLean Ave (at Hubbard Blvd.)
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, June 11                                                                                                Our Mental Health Mission
    The CAMH Volunteer Team

  • Sunday, June 4                                                                                          Baptism of Henry James Griffin
    Ralph Carl Wushke

2016

  • Sunday, June 26 
    Pentecost VI: Pride Sunday – Festival of St. John the Baptist
    Baptism of Margot
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, June 19, 8:00 AM
    Pentecost V: The Summer Solstice Service
    Memorial Service for the Victims in Orlando
    The beach opposite 82 Hubbard Ave.
    Ralph Carl Wushke
    (no service in the TSP chapel)

  • Sunday, June 12
    Pentecost IV: Worship as at CAMH
    The CAMH Worship Team

  • Sunday, June 5 – Pentecost III
    The Doctrine of Discovery
    Peter Haresnape, CPT

  • Sunday, May 29
    Pentecost II: Empowerment – Speaking of Diversity
    Aziza Miller, Howard Williams, Val Kalende

  • Sunday, May 22
    Pentecost I: Working with the SCM
    Sarah Mikhaiel
    General Secretary, SCM Canada

  • Sunday, May 15
    Pentecost: Project Hope
    Hakim Sabbah, Director, Project Hope (Nablus)

2015

  • June 28
    Pentecost VI: Pride Sunday – Right Relations
    Ralph Carl Wushke and team

  • June 21
    Pentecost V: Solstice Service (with baptism) – Right Relations with Earth
    Location: Toronto’s eastern beach 8.00 am, followed by brunch.

  • June 14
    Pentecost IV: CAMH Worship / Right Relations
    CAMH Team

  • June 7
    Pentecost III: Interfaith Right Relations
    Susan Kennel Harrison, University of Toronto.

  • May 31
    Pentecost II: Honouring the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Closing
    TSP Right Relations Working Group
    Hon. Bob Rae
    Joint service with Trinity-St. Paul’s and Bloor Street United Church
    Locaton: Bloor St. Uinited Church

  • May 24
    Pentecost: Celebration of Pentecost
    Ralph Carl Wushke and team

At Bathurst, Pentecost is the final series of Sunday services before our Wednesday evening events during July/August. Pentecost traditionally includes our Solstice and Pride Services. It gives us an opportunity to visit a number of issues that might not fit into a more traditionally-themed series.

This series examined the Exodus story for its meaning to us today. Many of the themes of the story are important to people in the Bathurst congregation: refugees, freedom, leadership, settlers, and colonization. 

Fall Series

 

2019

  • Sunday, October 27, 12:30 PM
    Conflict Resolution
    Cathy Stewart, from Creedence & Co.
    Multi-purpose room, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, October 20, , 10:30 PM
    Worship / Congregational Meeting
    TSP Chapel, 427 Bloor St. W.

  • Sunday, October 13, 12:30 PM
    Thanksgiving: Christian Worship in an Interfaith World
    Christine Smaller
    Multi-purpose room, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, October 6, 12:30 PM
    History of Communion at Bathurst United Church
    Frances Combs
    Multi-purpose room, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, September 29, 12:30 PM
    Deconstructing Liturgy–What do we do when we gather
    Christine Smaller
    Parlour, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, September 22, 12:30 PM
    What is the purpose of worship?
    Stephen MacDonald
    Sanctuary, CSUC, College & Bathurst

  • Sunday, September 15, 10:30 AM
    Christine Smaller
    Sanctuary, CSUC, College & Bathurst
2018

  • Sunday, November 25
    On the Ground in Palestine
    Judi McCallum

  • Sunday, November 17
    What Faith Means to Me
    Sharon Goodier

  • Sunday, November 11
    Remembrance Day: War and Peace
    Reg McQuaid offers a reflection titled “The Red Poppy and the White Poppy”

  • Sunday, November 4
    “Being a Community of Faith”
    A Reflection by our Volunteer Pastoral Associate, Frances Combs

  • Sunday, October 14
    What Faith Means to Me
    Members of the Bathurst community

  • Sunday, October 21
    Faith in the life of the Pontes de Graça Community
    Ricardo Silva

2017

  • Sunday, November 19
    Exodus 16: 2-15
    Marie Simon

  • Sunday, November 12
    You shall see the the glory of the Lord
    Caro Ibrahim

  • Sunday, November 5
    Exodus 32: 1-14

  • Sunday, October 29
    Exodus 17: 1-7
    Rosalinda Paredes

  • Sunday, October 22
    Exodus 20: 1-20
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, October 15
    Exodus 
    Lindsay Tyler

2015

  • November 22
    What’s Happening in the Middle East?
    Remmelt Hummelen
    Mark 13: 1 – 8

  • November 15
    Mouldy Bread
    Joshua 9
    Cam Watts

  • November 8
    Crime and Punishment, What’s Wrong with Prisons
    Cathleen Fillmore

  • November 1
    Silencers
    Matthew 9.14-38
    Cam Watts

  • October 25
    Buildings and Mountains (Why We Are Peacemakers)
    Cameron Watts
    Mark 13: 1 – 8

  • October 18
    Compassion, and the question of Poverty
    Jane, Judi, Ken, Reg and Sharon

  • October 11
    Thanksgiving: Undisclosed Recipients
    Joel 2:21-27
    Cam Watts

Summer Series

 

2019

  • Wednesday, August 28
    Meister Eckhart
    Ken McEvoy

  • Wednesday, August 21
    Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered
    Ulla Weimann and Frances Combs

  • Wednesday, August 14
    Poetry of Resistance: readings from various poets, Canadian and American
    Sharon Goodier

  • Wednesday, August 7
    Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy, and Waldorf Education.
    Kathryn Humphrey

  • Wednesday, July 31
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Reg McQuaid

  • Wednesday, July 24
    Conflict Resolution
    Guest Speaker: Cathy Stewart, of Credence & Co.

  • Wednesday, July 24
    Conflict Resolution
    Guest Speaker: Cathy Stewart, of Credence & Co.
  • Wednesday, July 17
    Jean Vanier: Canada’s Humble Philospher
    Judi McCallum
  • Wednesday, July 10
    Robin Wall Kimmerer and Gayla Trail
    Lindsay Tyler
2018

  • Sunday, October 7
    Thanksgiving, Sabbath and Gratitude

  • Sunday, September 30
    Christian mystics and the sanctity of being birthed
    Diane Meredith and Lindsay Tyler

  • Sunday, September 23
    Modern Physics and Creation; Who is Pulling the Strings?
    (What creation story most closely resembles what science teaches? Hint: It’s neither of the two in Genesis)
    Ken McEvoy

  • Sunday, September 16
    Shamanic perspectives on creation
    Jasper Miller

  • Sunday, September 9
    Two stories of Creation in Genesis
    Frances Combs

  • Wednesday, August 29
    Lindsay Tyler

  • Wednesday, August 22
    Conversation around transition
    Pastoral Care Committee

  • Wednesday, August 15
    Judi McCallum

  • Wednesday, August 8
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Wednesday, August 1
    Bathurst 2020: Making the vision a reality
    Jasper Miller, Ronald Macfarlane

  • Wednesday, July 25
    Reg McQuaid

  • Wednesday, July 18
    Marie Simon

  • Wednesday, July 11
    Ken McEvoy

  • Wednesday, July 4
    Ralph Carl Wushke

2017

  • Sunday, October 8
    Thanksgiving 
    “Messy Church”: Church for children, large and small

  • Sunday, October 1
    “Who is My Neighbour?” What do the Environics data tell us about our neighbourhood? Who lives here and what do they care about?
    Guest presenter: Anne Shirley Sutherland

  • Sunday, September 24
    “Render to God the things that are Gods” How do post-colonial theory and de-colonization inform our current transformation?
    Reflection: Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sunday, September 17
    “What Language Shall I Borrow?” Second, what is the current context and new discourse? A panel of voices including Howard Williams, Jeremy Malcolm and Joel Burkholder will interpret the signs of the times and the longing for meaningful faith.

  • Sunday, September 10
    What was Bathurst’s most recent great upheaval and major transformation (1980-1995) responding to? What was wonderful about that? What were the compelling questions of society and theology, and themes the congregation was wrestling with? How were those questions answered? What was the discourse? What language was being spoken? What can we learn from that experience? How have we become small “c” conservative? That upheaval was thrust upon us by a crisis. Are we able to see the crisis of demographics that is moving us to the next upheaval?
    Reflection: Frances Combs

  • Wednesday, August 30
    Topic: Generous Spaces ministry

  • Wednesday, August 23
    Topic: Bathurst 2017 Pride Service Reflection

  • Wednesday, August 16
    Topic: Update on the Westbank development (Bloor & Bathurst)

  • Wednesday, August 9
    Topic: Colombian Methodist partner Paola Marquez

  • Wednesday, August 2
    Topic: Revisiting the Crieff Hills Bathurst 2020 Conversation

  • Wednesday, July 26
    Topic: Pre-wedding celebration for Caro and Audrey

  • Wednesday, July 19
    Reflecting on the visit to A Different Booklist

  • Wednesday, July 12
    Visiting A Different Booklist

  • Wednesday, July 5
    Home – Howard Williams

2015

  • October 4
    Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
    Diane Meredith

  • September 27
    Subscribing to a Faith
    Ephesians 3.14-4.7
    Cam Watts

  • September 20
    The Theology of Bathurst United
    Frances Combs

  • September 13
    Who Do People Say That You Are?
    Mark 8.22-32
    Cam Watts

  • Wedesday, August 26
    Topic: Tongue Tried: Freedom of Speech
    Sharon Goodier
  • August 19

    Topic: Islam (El Tawhid Unity Mosque)
    Ken McEvoy

  • August 12
    Topic: SCM Faith House Reflections
    Sarah Mikhaiel

  • August 5
    Topic: Jesus is Lord Filipino Pentecostal Church
    Reg McQuaid

  • July 29
    Reflections on Ecumenical Accompaniment in Palestine
    Karen Rodman

  • July 22
    Topic: The Unitarian Church
    Ronny Yaron

  • July 15
    Topic: The Mennonite Church
    Lindsay Tyler

  • July 8
    Topic: Metropolitan Community Church
    Ralph Carl Wushke

In September, we welcomed the return of members after the summer break. We welcomed all those who are interested in what it means to be a progressive Christian at this time and in this community.