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July 4th - Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Pastor Karen Willis 

Follow the link to the virtual worship service for
Sunday, July 4, 2021:

http://bit.ly/IUC-JULY4
 


Past services are also available at the IUC YouTube Worship Playlist:
  Online Worship YouTube Playlist

Please also visit us at:
http://innerkipunited.ca/
or
https://www.facebook.com/InnerkipUnited/?fref=ts
SERMON BY PHONE

Listen to a Message from Pastor Karen by Phone!

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For those without computer or internet access
Innerkip United Church now has a local telephone number that people can call to listen to Pastor Karen's message each week. 


Call 226-213-3815
This is a local number and there is no fee for the call.

Please pass this on to members of the community that don't have internet and don't receive this email each week.



Outdoor Evening Services
beginning July 11, 2021!

Innerkip United Church plans to resume in person worship services on Sunday July 11, 2021 at 7pm. This schedule is dependent on the Reopening Ontario Stage 2 proceeding as planned.

Services will be held in the paved parking lot on the east side of the Church. The decision to have the services in the evening was based on concerns that the sun makes this location very hot on summer mornings. The parking lot is mostly in the shade in the evenings and hopefully the temperatures will be milder than the late morning.

The services will be live-streamed as they were in the fall of 2020.

  • Please check in with the Greeter on arrival. Attendance is required by SWPH in case of contact tracing.
  • Please wear a facemask on arrival. Once you are seated, you can remove it if you want.
  • Please bring a lawn chair if you can. Some chairs will be available if needed.
  • Washrooms are available for use. Please enter from the parking lot entrance, if you are able. The wheelchair access ramp will also be available if needed.
  • If weather requires, we will hold the service in the Church Hall. 

Musical Summer

During outdoor services this summer, it is IUC's understanding that we will be allowed to SING together! We thought it would be great to celebrate and do lots of singing!
 


We want to know what your favourite hymns are!
Email your ideas for what we can sing this summer to
Pastor Karen pastorkaren@execulink.com.

Play an instrument?
IUC wants to invite guests to share music with us, or accompany the singing. Musicians don't have to play Christian music - just inspirational music.
If you or someone you know is interested in playing an instrument during our summer services, please contact Pastor Karen pastorkaren@execulink.com. 


Ideas can also be sent to the Church office:
519-602-6692 **** innerkipeastwood@gmail.com


The next Leadership Team meeting is scheduled for Wednesday July 14, 2021.

Meetings are open to members of the community. Minutes from each meeting are available following their approval at the next meeting. Contact the Church Office for minutes of previous meetings.

There are several openings on the Leadership Team (Church Council) as well as openings on other committees. Why not attend a meeting and see if you want to join? 
 
519-602-6692 **** innerkipeastwood@gmail.com

A Message from the Moderator


This post may be traumatic for residential school and intergenerational survivors. If you are feeling pain or distress because of your residential school experiences, please know that you can call the free 24-hour crisis line: 1-866-925-4419. You can also call the First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line at 1-855-242-3310. It's toll-free and open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Editor's Note: On Thursday, June 24, an announcement was made about the 751 undocumented and unmarked graves at the former Marieval Residential School in Saskatchewan, on the territory of the Cowessess First Nation. As part of observing the four days of ceremony for mourning of the peoples of the Cowessess First Nation, the Moderator originally posted the message below on his Facebook page on Friday, June 25, the evening of the second day.
There is an old hymn that I remember my mother singing, "Oh come and mourn with me awhile." It talks about taking time to gather with others and grieve a terrible loss. It has been in my ears and my heart for the past few weeks.

As I sat last Thursday morning, listening to Knowledge Keeper Elder Florence Sparvier and Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation share with the world the confirmation of 751 unmarked graves on the land of the former Roman Catholic residential school on their territory, I knew that I would be asked to make statements, and let people know what The United Church of Canada is doing in response to what may be found on or near the properties of the former residential schools that the United Church operated.

I want you to know that we are actively working on that, following the principles of right relationship identified by United Church residential school Survivors, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. Information about specifics will be shared in the coming days and weeks.

But...the hymn I mentioned has been in my ears, especially in the times I opened and sat with the bundle that the Moderator of The United Church of Canada was given to carry. The bundle has been a source of strength for me during this time as Moderator, even as my settler self has tried to understand the responsibility that has been given, as well.

As I talked with him about this post, the Rev. Murray Pruden, Executive Minister, Indigenous Ministries and Justice, asked me if I could share what the bundle was saying to me, right now. The medicines in that bundle have been speaking of so many things. The tobacco and the sweetgrass, the cedar and the sage, are reminding me of the need for ceremony, and how important traditional ways are for grieving, for healing, and for strength. The eagle feather is challenging me to be a witness to this time of truth. The Bible in the bundle fell open to the words of Isaiah 11:6-9, with the prophet saying, “The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them...."

As the song and the medicines touch me, as their scents fill my head and my soul, I believe they are inviting me to stop trying to *do* for a time, something that many of us who are of settler descent find very difficult. I believe they are calling me to remember who this time is really about–the children whose bodies are in the unmarked graves, and the grief of every Indigenous person across this land, because every Indigenous community, every Indigenous person has been changed by the legacy of Canada’s residential schools.

I have been given to understand that the peoples of the Cowessess have a tradition of four days of ceremony for mourning. As I post this, it is the evening of the second day.

Chief Delorme asked Canada to "stand by us as we heal and we get stronger."

There is going to come a time, very soon—a time that will need careful listening, careful action, and careful walking together with all of the Indigenous communities and peoples of this land. I believe this will be a time that will call for challenge and for change, person-to-person, community-to-community, nation-to-nation. We need to be together in a good way in this journey.

I believe that part of being together in a good way, right now, is to stop—to stand by the Cowessess community, and all Indigenous communities, in their mourning and prayer. To quietly mourn and pray, whoever we are, wherever we are.

So, for this moment, that is what I will do. I will continue to pray for the children who were ripped away from their families and communities, and never came home. I will pray for the Survivors. I will pray for the families and communities, the children and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, who are grieving today.

(See the Moderator's Facebook post for a prayer shared by the Most Rev. Mark MacDonald, National Indigenous Archbishop in the Anglican Church of Canada for the “Remembering the Children” church leaders gatherings that took place before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.)

[Photo credit: © THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor]
Minute For Mission       
 

“Supporting Education on the Path to Reconciliation”


“Part of the struggle with me in life was to find out who I was as Anishinaabe and who I was as French, Irish and English mix,” says Alf Dumont. Dumont’s story offers vital, timely leadership on the path to reconciliation.
Photo of a smiling Alf Dumont standing by a stream.
[Photo credit: Alf Dumont]
 
Minute for Mission Stories are from the
United Church of Canada's Your Generosity Matters 2021:

https://united-church.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ff2087d5fde243a770ed893a8&id=4442688f53&e=1f63e80d73

INNERKIP UNITED CHURCH FINANCIAL STATEMENT AS OF
MAY 31, 2021
MAY 2021:
Income:      $  4,877
Expenses:  $12,249               
OPERATING FUND Loss: ($7,372)
Year-to-Date OPERATING LOSS: ($27,402)
Building Fund Balance:    $29,704
M&S Fund (Year to date): $ 4,489
BANK BALANCE: $ 96,971
2021 BUDGET*: $107,000
* to be approved

Offerings and Donations

There are contact-free ways to send offerings and donations to the Church:

  • HAND DELIVER your offering and donation in the LOCKABLE MAILBOX installed near the Hall Entrance to the Church. This entrance is well lit and maintained. The mailbox will be checked daily, but please let Mel know if depositing Cash so it can be retrieved promptly.
  • MAIL your donation to the Church office: PO Box 137, Innerkip, ON N0J 1M0
  • Enroll in PAR (Pre-Authorized Remittance for automatic payment). Forms are available from the Church Office or online. Complete the form and include a void cheque. Contact the Church office to arrange contact-free pick up or delivery and Mel will submit the forms: https://www.united-church.ca/community-faith/get-involved/give-regularly
  • DONATE ONLINE - Donate directly to Innerkip United Church through the Canada Helps website:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/47706
CONNECTIONS
News and Views of Oxford County United Churches
 
WE ARE IN IT TOGETHER – with GOD
June 9, 2021

We hardly had time to celebrate the wonderful news that part of our church family in Ethiopia, will soon be evaluated by our Canadian representative when we learned of the shattering discovery of 215 graves in Kamloops, BC. These children were part of the government and church’s outreach family many years ago. We mourn their deaths.  As we learn about respectful ‘outreach/mission’, we realize that our previous thinking and theology was too restrictive and narrow.  Rather than growing our economy, we need to emphasize: growing our thinking about the interrelatedness of ALL things; where God – Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer – is; and achieving a sustainable future for all creation.
Inside, look for the new/renewed thinking of people moving on with hope, of people working ecumenically with others, of the UCW inspiring project ‘Women for Change – Zambia’, of the story of the Monarch butterfly.  And organizations adapt to meet the needs of today, fundraise and teach us new ways to respect Mother Earth.


The JUNE Issue of Connections is available at the link below:
http://oxfordunitedministries.ca
 


To be added to their emailing list, please email 
oxfconnections@execulink.com.

If you would like a printed copy of the Connections newsletter mailed to you, please contact the Church office and Mel will add you to the mailing list.

Conversation and Visioning

Thank you to those that have taken part in these conversations.

There will be more opportunities to take part in this open dialogue about hopes and plans for Innerkip United Church. 
Contact Us: innerkipeastwood@gmail.com
or call 519-602-6692
 
MAILING ADDRESS
PO BOX 137
INNERKIP, ON N0J 1M0
Emergency Pastoral Care: 
Contact Pastor Karen Willis
(519) 602-6692 -Church Office
(905) 512-4178 -Cell
PastorKaren@execulink.com
The Church office be will OPEN on Wednesdays between 10am and 2pm. Outside of office hours Mel can be reached at the Church phone number and email address. 

If you require assistance, please contact the Church office by phone or email and Mel or Pastor Karen will get back to you as soon as possible.
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