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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.
Federal Election is on April 28th, 2025
This is the moment to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8)
As faith communities, and registered charities, we don’t promote or critique only one party. We address all of them, we focus on the effect of social policies, and we expect accountability of all of them.Below are some suggested principles and issue-specific resources to help people of faith engage the federal election process.Download a copy of our Federal Election Denominational Statement, listen to a video message from General Secretary, the Rev. Michael Blair, emphasizing the importance to vote with the values of faith, and read the news release
“If my religion is true, it will stand up to all my questioning; there is no need to fear. But if it is not true, if it is man imposing strictures on God (as did the men of the Christian establishment of Galileo’s day), then I want to be open to God, not to what man says about God.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Once again we invited you to share your deepest questions, your most troublesome doubts, your most daring wonderings. During Lent, we’ll pool your thoughts, and use these to build the themes for the six worship services leading up to Easter Sunday
Here are the questions you've posed:
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!
April 13, 2025
Palm Sunday
“Daring Questions:
6. Loving Enemies”
Our worship themes in these weeks before Easter grow out of the daring questions you sent me last month. Here are this week’s questions:
- “Slaves, accept the authority of your masters with all deference, not only those who are kind and gentle but also those who are harsh”. (1 Peter 2:18) Really?? If an authority belittles us, should we say, "thank you"?
- How should we view the pain of the world we live in and the ones we experience/experienced?
- Why do good people suffer?
I sometimes wonder why Jesus thought it was worth the risk to ride that donkey down the Mount of Olives, and into the clutches of his enemies.
Surely he knew the risks. Surely, he knew that the Romans would be on high alert for signs of rebellion, especially at this holy time of year when Jews were commemorating how God had liberated Pharaoh’s slaves. Surely, he knew that posing as God’s Righteous Ruler, entering the Holy City in Sacred Humility, could only inflame the crowds who were longing for a new Exodus from their new oppressors.
Read more: Musings April 13, 2025 - “Daring Questions: 6. Loving Enemies”