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Thanks for Supporting our "Little Free Pantry"
Our Little Pantry is emptied and refilled almost every day of the year. Drop by and check it out!
Most people think of Forest Hill as a neighbourhood of leafy trees, detached homes and people earning high incomes. What many people do not realize is that Forest Hill is also home to people on fixed incomes, immigrants and people who do not earn high salaries. These people may live in a home on a leafy street, an apartment building or in Toronto Community Housing. A characteristic they all share is the fact inflation is creating financial stress in their lives and may be contributing to food insecurity.
Church School Sundays at 11am
September - June
In-person Church School is offered September - June. Please bring your kids with you to church at 11am. They'll go out with Ann Fraser, a certified Early Childhood Educator, about 10 minutes after the beginning of the Worship Service.
Over the summer months we take a break from church school programming, but we continue to offer basic child care with a certified Early Childhood Educator.
On Sunday, June 8, 2025, at 5:30pm ET,
a special National Centennial worship service will be held
at Gower Street United Church, 99 Queens Rd, St. John's, NL.
The service will be livestreamed on YouTube.
Musings -- weekly reflections on Scripture
We're pleased to introduce this new feature to our website.
I began writing these short essays for our weekly e-newsletter. They served two purposes: First, they gave me an initial run at the Scripture that I would be preaching on -- an opportunity to start thinking about the spiritual and life questions that the sermon might address. Second, they serve as advertising; an invitation to folks to join us on Sunday morning and see how my thinking has developed between the first take on my questions and the final sermon that gets delivered.
We've started collecting these at this website so that people who aren't already subscribed to our newsletter can get a sense of what's coming up in worship. Feel free to check back weekly to see the reflection for the week, or click here to subscribe to our email newsletter and have these delivered into your inbox every Friday
Musings are available from the main menu of our website. The one reflecting the texts for next Sunday is intended to appear on the front page of our website each week.
Rev. Stephen Fetter
Events in our Region
Our Congregation is a member of the Shining Waters Regional Council, and there are events hosted by our neighbouring congregations which are varied and exciting. Check out what our neighbours are doing!
June 1, 2025
Seventh Sunday of Easter
celebrating the Ascension
A New Future
The Acts of the Apostles opens with an odd story of the Risen Jesus floating away into the clouds, leaving his disciples with the promise that more would be revealed in the days to come. It’s hard to imagine what those disciples might have seen. Did he rise up like a rocket ship? Float like a balloon? Vanish like Captain Kirk in a transporter beam?
And once he was up in the clouds somewhere, where did he go? Is that where God lives? For people like the writer of Acts who trusted that God lived in the sky, this is a way of picturing Jesus moving from our Earthly realm and into God’s; but for those of us who imagine planets and stars in outer space, instead of angels and harps above the clouds, the events are harder to visualize.
What does this story mean? What is the author trying to tell us? What changes in Jesus – or in his disciples – as Jesus’ former students move through the time between the resurrection on the first Easter Sunday, and Pentecost when the church is empowered by the Holy Spirit?