All are loved as children of God, without exception or condition. You are welcome in this church as a child of God, who loves you! God made you to be the person you are, the person you are becoming, in the fullness of the best person you can be.
3rd Sunday after Pentecost
Presider: The Reverend Canon Mary Ellen Berry
Preacher: Brenda Million, Lay Reader
Reader/Intercessor: Beth McKibbin
Musician: Michael Costello
Live Producer: Ian Parker
From our Bishop: On May 27, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced the discovery of the bodies of 215 Indigenous Children at the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. This news is heartbreaking and horrifying, and is profoundly distressing for Indigenous people, especially Survivors and intergenerational Survivors.
A prayer: Holy One, Creator of all that is, seen and unseen, of story and of song, of heartbeat and of tears, of bodies, souls, voices and all relations: you are the God of all truth and the way of all reconciliation. Breathe in us the grace to trust in your loving forgiveness, that we may face our histories with courage. Guide us with holy wisdom to enter through the gates of remorse that our feet may walk gently and firmly on the way of justice and healing.
May the bracing and challenging love of God be with us all as more stories of Indigenous Children who perished in residential schools come to light.
We placed these teddy bears from our church community in our Sanctuary and 215 seconds of silence was held during our service this morning to mark this day.
Names of over 4,000 children who died while attending a Residential School:
https://memorial.nctr.ca/?page_id=372
Bishop Shane Parker has pointed us towards three Indigenous voices:
The Honourable Murray Sinclair, former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sinclair-kamloops-residential-remains-1.6049525
The Honourable Mary Jane McCallum, Senator and residential school Survivor:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/our-hearts-are-broken-sen-mccallum-delivers-gut-wrenching-speech-on- residential-schools-1.5451997
Albert Dumont (Oshki Nodin) of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Ottawa Poet Laureate:
http://albertdumont.com/215-dead-children-kamloops/
2nd Sunday after Pentecost
Presider: The Reverend Pat Blythe
Preacher: The Venerable Brian Kauk
Reader/Intercessor: Cora Nolan
Musician: Ian Guenette
Live Producer: Helen Vandermey
Trinity Sunday
Presider: The Reverend Canon Christine Piper
Preacher: The Reverend Canon Mary Ellen Berry
Reader/Intercessor: Geoffrey Nugent
Musician: Ian Guenette
Live Producer: Christopher Jones
Day of Pentecost
Presider: The Venerable Brian Kauk
Preacher: The Reverend Pat Blythe
First Reader: David Moat
Second Reader/Intercessor: Tom Gardiner
Musician: Michael Costello
Live Producer: Ian Parker
Seventh Sunday of Easter
Presider: The Reverend Canon Mary Ellen Berry
Preacher: The Reverend Canon Christine Piper
Reader/Intercessor: Brenda Million
Musician: Ian Guenette
Live Producer: Helen Vandermey
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Presider: The Venerable Brian Kauk
Preacher: Joe Million, Lay Reader
Reader/Intercessor: Yvonne Kilpatrick
Musician: Ian Guenette
Live Producer: Christopher Jones
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Presider: The Reverend Canon Christine Piper
Preacher: The Reverend Canon Mary Ellen Berry
Reader/Intercessor: Cora Nolan
Musician: Michael Costello
Live Producer: Ian Parker
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Presider: The Reverend Canon Mary Ellen Berry
Preacher: The Venerable Brian Kauk
Reader/Intercessor: Debbie Burn
Musician: Ian Guenette
Live Producer: Helen Vandermey
