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Announcements - March 17, 2021
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If you have an item that you would like included please email it to Tanya at wilmotuc@nb.sympatico.ca by Tuesday.
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COVID 19 Team
Worship Service – Sunday, March 21, 2021
This week our service will be live streamed (No in person worship) at 11:00 am, accessible through our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/wilmotunitedchurch or later through the Wilmot Website http://www.wilmotuc.nb.ca . Later in the day if the Livestream is not yet posted on the website, you can find it by searching Wilmot United Church on the YouTube website.
The COVID 19 Team and the Worship Committee are looking forward to celebrating Easter Sunday with a return to in-person worship provided we stay in the Yellow Phase. We will continue to livestream all of our services for those who refer to join us from the safety of their own homes.
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 Photo Directories Are Here
Printed copies of the photo directory are now available through the church office for $7 (exact change is greatly appreciated). Please contact Tanya at 458-1066 if you would like to have one delivered to you. For those who requested the online copy it will be sent through a separate message later this week.
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Spirit Conversations
Join an Online Gathering
Wilmot ZOOM! March 25 7:00-8:30pm
Spirit Conversations is a new offering of the Wilmot Adult Faith Formation Group. All are welcome!
The Wilmot community has diverse interests and spiritual development needs and this group is exploring various ways and means of meeting these needs together. Our first two sessions focused on the pandemic, on our learnings and opportunities for enriched lives, and on the needs of others in our communities.
The third session will explore what it is about Wilmot as a downtown city church and its outreach programs and social justice orientation that connects to our spirituality and spiritual development. What do Wilmot's various acts of service mean to us? Lynn MacKinnon will also join us to speak about her experience with Wednesdays@Wilmot. For those planning to attend, please review the February 18th Wilmot Newsletter which also has the link to Lynn's interview with Terry Sequin. news2021jan18.pdf (wilmotuc.nb.ca)
The link to the interview with Lynn, who was the second one to speak (marker... 5.17), is Church programs struggling | Information Morning - Fredericton with Terry Seguin | Live Radio | CBC Listen
Below please find the Zoom link and information for the next Spirit Conversations:
Time: Mar 25, 2021 07:00 PM Halifax
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84000048845?pwd=bVp4MzZ4WDhmRDJtdHFjVDZmTDdidz09
We look forward to seeing and talking with you online on March 25th.
Jilanna Eagles and Marilyn Luscombe
- Wilmot Adult Faith Formation Group
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Wilmot Book Club
Everyone is invited to participate in the lively conversations at the monthly meeting of Wilmot Book Club. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 when we will be discussing the book Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.
https://zoom.us/j/99730459861?pwd=VEtLdHhUWng3d2Y2NHp6b2VLK3Z4UT09
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Wilmot Council Meeting
The regular meeting of the Wilmot Church Council will be held on Wednesday, March 27 at 7:00 pm by Zoom. Committees and groups are reminded to submit their reports for distribution to Terri MacLean tmac3938@gmail.com by Sunday, March 21.
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UCW Rummage Sale
The Spring Rummage Sale, an important service for our community outreach, is planned for April 23 & 24. During this time of COVID, we need to manage traffic in the church building. Please come to the Carleton Street door and ring the bell.
We have adjusted the drop off times slightly due to a change in Randy’s work schedule now we are in Yellow. Please drop off your donations beginning on Thursday, March 18 during the times below.
Monday evenings 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:00 am – 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturdays, March 27 and April 10 only 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Thanks for your support of this important work.
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Follow up to the Care for the Earth initiative at Wilmot in 2019
Wondering How You Can Encourage Canada's Response to Climate Change?
As the international meeting on climate change in Scotland - called COP26 - approaches, and our neighbours to the south are ramping up their response to protect the earth from the worst extremes of climate change, you may want to sign a new E Petition to Canada's House of Commons. It was initiated by the Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in NB and is being promoted nationally. Once it is complete on May 11th, Green MP for Fredericton/Oromocto, Jenica Atwin has agreed to present the petition to the House.
To read more about how Canada has fallen behind and why we need to be more ambitious, the CRED NB website has helpful information at: https://crednb.ca/2021/03/12/why-getting-to-paris-with-trudeau-doesnt-cut-it/. You can access the petition from that website, or you can access it directly on the House of Commons website here: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3221 You will receive a follow up email from the House of Commons which asks you to respond to confirm that you were the person signing the petition.
If you have any questions about the petition, you can contact Gail Wylie (wylie1@nb.sympatico.ca)
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La libellule: Works for Solo Guitar Is Now Available
 Wilmot Music Director Steve Peacock's new CD, La libellule: Works for Solo Guitar, is now available. As Steve writes, "La libellule ( 'libellule' is French for 'dragonfly') combines seven of my own compositions with complementary works by seven composers drawn from the baroque and 20th-century repertoire, and a few of the pieces included on the CD have been played during this past year's video and live-stream services here at Wilmot. The title composition is episodic in form and generally proceeds slowly from one set of inflected chords to the next--evocative, perhaps, of a pleasant summer afternoon in the life of a dragonfly.... This recording is dedicated with love to the memory of my mother, Doris Peacock Nicholson (1928-2015), who loved dragonflies, and whose soul is with them--in nature but also in the life of the spirit--in all the places that dragonflies go."
The CDs are $20, and $5 from every Wilmot purchase will go to the Wilmot Benevolent Fund, which supports (among other things) the Wednesdays @ Wilmot and the Saturday Night Drop-in programs. CDs will be available from Tanya during her office hours and directly from Steve (452-0170; speacoc1@unb.ca). Contact Steve directly if you'd like home delivery or if you'd like a flash drive to be included with the audio files in MP3, M4A and WAV formats.
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