Dunlop Central United Church
A warm welcome awaits you at "The Church in the Pines".
Sunday Worship: 10:00 am
Nursery and Church School: 10:00 am
Wheelchair accessible
FM Hearing assist
Large print order of service available
Sunday Worship: 10:00 am
Nursery and Church School: 10:00 am
Wheelchair accessible
FM Hearing assist
Large print order of service available
Please help us to continue our mission in the Sarnia community by supporting us through a donation. Your donation can be made securely by clicking on the Donate button. Your generosity is much appreciated, especially during these challenging times.
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In-Church Worship Services
As Ontario continues to ease COVID-19 restrictions, churches can now allow more members to attend services as well as meetings or events in our building.
Church Council has agreed that effective Monday Nov. 15th, each person attending worship services on Sunday or entering the building via the Annex, must provide Proof of Vaccination. You will only be asked to show proof once and a confidential record will be kept in the office.
In addition, now that the full choir is singing on Sundays wearing “singing masks”, the congregation will be allowed to sing quietly and voice responsive readings in the pews.
Ushers are vital for in-person attendance. Please consider volunteering to be an usher.
Church Council has agreed that effective Monday Nov. 15th, each person attending worship services on Sunday or entering the building via the Annex, must provide Proof of Vaccination. You will only be asked to show proof once and a confidential record will be kept in the office.
In addition, now that the full choir is singing on Sundays wearing “singing masks”, the congregation will be allowed to sing quietly and voice responsive readings in the pews.
Ushers are vital for in-person attendance. Please consider volunteering to be an usher.
First Sunday of Advent - November 28
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Christmas Concert - Sunday, Dec. 19, 7:00 pm
The Choir invites you to join them for a Christmas Concert. This event will not be live-streamed due to licensing issues. We will also forgo our usual social time afterward.
Christmas HampersCalling all knitters! We will need mitts, hats and scarves for all ages for our Christmas Hampers, but we often find ourselves short on the age group 10-16 and the adults.
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excerpt from Minute for Mission
Loving and caring God, we have done everything we’ve been told:
Worn masks, stayed home, gotten our shots―
Isn’t it about time all this is over?
Let us remember always that no, it’s not over;
It’s not over for people in so many places we never think about:
People whose lives were already a struggle
Now overflowing with illness and loss and grief,
And often with no masks, no shots, no way to stay safe at home.
Remind us, God of the whole world, that the whole world is our family.
That this won’t be all over until it is over for all.
And let us do all we can
To give our whole-world family what we take for granted:
Hope for a future.
Amen.
The Healing Fund
The United Church of Canada established in 1994 “The Healing Fund”, which is a grant that supports healing initiatives in Indigenous communities to address the ongoing impacts of the residential school system. Most folks probably don’t know that this exists, or have forgotten about it.
Read more about this this important work of the U.C.C.
Online donations to Misson and Service can be made at that site or you can donate to Dunlop and identify it as ‘Healing Fund’ or send a cheque to:
United Church of Canada,
attn. Healing Fund
3250 Bloor St. W., Suite 200
Toronto, ON M8X 2Y4
Read more about this this important work of the U.C.C.
Online donations to Misson and Service can be made at that site or you can donate to Dunlop and identify it as ‘Healing Fund’ or send a cheque to:
United Church of Canada,
attn. Healing Fund
3250 Bloor St. W., Suite 200
Toronto, ON M8X 2Y4
Copies of ‘The Upper Room’ are available at the church office for anyone that would like to have one. Each edition covers a 2 month period and offers a daily scripture, thought for the day, prayer and a short editorial.
Scripture Readings
The Joint Worship Committee is looking for Volunteers to read scripture during the church service. This is one way we can get to meet/know more members, until we get together in person. Scripture readings will be videoed and played at the appropriate time.
Please call either office to submit your name.
Please call either office to submit your name.
Click below to read the latest
Mission & Service
The United Church of Canada was formed in 1925 in part so the founding denominations―Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregational―could combine their finances to do more mission work in Canada and around the world. From the very beginning, our United Church was formed out of a desire to come together and serve others like Jesus did.
Through Mission & Service, we have been helping to save and transform lives, inspire meaning and purpose, and build a better world for 96 years.
Today, we are as committed as ever. Together, we turn compassion into action every day. How? To put it simply, we help.
In Canada, we help people in need by supporting homeless shelters, food banks, soup kitchens, and refugee programs. We reach out to young people on campuses and through camping. We care for people who are sick or at the end of life by supporting addiction, mental health, and counselling services and hospice care.
Globally, we help people access clean water, food, and medical care. We support skills training and economic development. We help with peace-making and sustainable agriculture efforts. We provide disaster relief and advocate for the rights of those who all too often don’t get a say, like children and migrant workers.
We also support opportunities for people to grow spiritually in all kinds of ways. Locally, we subsidize theological schools and education/retreat centres. We support events that promote spiritual development and personal reflection. We inspire new and innovative ministries, and sustain communities of faith that are remote or in need. Globally, we support church organizations that work with theological schools, offering practical training in agriculture and health.
It’s a win-win. We trust that when people are in tune with their meaning and purpose, they will naturally want to help change lives and make the world a better place for all.
Through Mission & Service, we have been helping to save and transform lives, inspire meaning and purpose, and build a better world for 96 years.
Today, we are as committed as ever. Together, we turn compassion into action every day. How? To put it simply, we help.
In Canada, we help people in need by supporting homeless shelters, food banks, soup kitchens, and refugee programs. We reach out to young people on campuses and through camping. We care for people who are sick or at the end of life by supporting addiction, mental health, and counselling services and hospice care.
Globally, we help people access clean water, food, and medical care. We support skills training and economic development. We help with peace-making and sustainable agriculture efforts. We provide disaster relief and advocate for the rights of those who all too often don’t get a say, like children and migrant workers.
We also support opportunities for people to grow spiritually in all kinds of ways. Locally, we subsidize theological schools and education/retreat centres. We support events that promote spiritual development and personal reflection. We inspire new and innovative ministries, and sustain communities of faith that are remote or in need. Globally, we support church organizations that work with theological schools, offering practical training in agriculture and health.
It’s a win-win. We trust that when people are in tune with their meaning and purpose, they will naturally want to help change lives and make the world a better place for all.
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Please bring in used stamps, eye glasses, dead batteries, recycled jewellery, egg cartons (dozen only), plastic bags.
We do not collect pop tabs, milk bags or plastic bread tabs. |
- Old batteries and small e-waste items should never be included with regular garbage as they are a hazard to the environment. You can drop them off in the Annex.
- Eyeglasses are being collected and given to Rayjon for their work in underdeveloped countries.
- Jewelry is collected for cleaning, repairing and ultimate sale at our Christmas Bazaar
- Stamps are still being collected for CNIB
- Bedding for NeighbourLink
- Egg cartons are needed for the Inn-of-the-Good Shepherd
Sarnia's Inn of the Good Shepherd
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The Inn is always in need of food donations and don’t forget the cardboard egg cartons.
You can donate at https://www.theinnsarnia.ca/donate/ or through Dunlop’s donate button near the top of the page. You can safely make a food donation without personal contact by dropping food into bins at any of these locations:
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The NeighbourLink Pantry needs your food donations.
The NeighbourLink Pantry is in a state of constant emptiness. They are in dire need of canned meat, canned vegetables, canned fruit, and peanut butter.
A container is just inside the Annex door
A container is just inside the Annex door
Sarnia Blessings
... is a new local charity born out of Covid-19 and formed as a way to provide free meals to seniors and the most vulnerable people in our community.
Local volunteers purchase food, prepare the meals and deliver them, all at no charge. Their costs are now running upwards of $2,500 a week for food and meal trays, so they are seeking financial assistance from local churches.
Dunlop's Mission and Outreach Committee is donating $500 from its funds to this worthy cause. If you would like to make your own personal donation, Sarnia Blessings is a registered charitable organization. You can mail cheques for Sarnia Blessings to 110 Samuel Street, Sarnia, ON N7T 2X6, or make email transfers to sarniablessings@outlook.com
https://www.facebook.com/sarniablessings/
Local volunteers purchase food, prepare the meals and deliver them, all at no charge. Their costs are now running upwards of $2,500 a week for food and meal trays, so they are seeking financial assistance from local churches.
Dunlop's Mission and Outreach Committee is donating $500 from its funds to this worthy cause. If you would like to make your own personal donation, Sarnia Blessings is a registered charitable organization. You can mail cheques for Sarnia Blessings to 110 Samuel Street, Sarnia, ON N7T 2X6, or make email transfers to sarniablessings@outlook.com
https://www.facebook.com/sarniablessings/
Reaching Out/Pastoral Care
The Pastoral Care Team is making sure the most isolated people in our congregation are contacted and have opportunity for conversation.
- Please remember the single and elderly in our midst.
- Don’t be afraid to make a phone call to check up on them and to ask if they need anything.
Find us:
757 Rosedale Ave. Sarnia, ON | 519-337-3061 | email
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