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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photo: Lou Sprenger
We celebrate the heritage and culture of Indigenous communities across Canada.
Since the 19th Century, laws and policies were created to assimilate Indigenous Peoples. The Indian Act was used by the federal government to ban religious and cultural ceremonies and force Indigenous children to attend residential schools. Other policies such as the pass system and permit system limited their freedom for decades. This caused many Indigenous Peoples to lose ties with their lands, languages, families, and traditional practices. |
We recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. The Canadian Constitution recognizes these three groups as Aboriginal peoples, also known as Indigenous peoples.
Today, many Indigenous communities are experiencing a cultural resurgence, where their traditional culture and languages are being revived and reinvigorated. This revival is essential to healing the trauma caused by decades of systemic discrimination and loss. Non-Indigenous people can reflect on the history of assimilation that put Indigenous cultures at risk. Learn from and amplify Indigenous voices, read books, watch films, visit art exhibitions, and listen to music by Indigenous creators sharing their stories, culture, and languages. In cooperation with Indigenous organizations, the Government of Canada chose June 21, the summer solstice, for National Aboriginal Day, now known as National Indigenous Peoples Day. For generations, many Indigenous peoples and communities have celebrated their culture and heritage on or near this day due to the significance of the summer solstice as the longest day of the year. |
Ladies' Potluck - Monday, June 27
The UCW is having a pot luck lunch and ALL WOMEN of the congregation are invited. Weather permitting, it will be outdoors.
If you need a ride please call Karen or Cathy (numbers in your newsletter email) to have one arranged.
If you need a ride please call Karen or Cathy (numbers in your newsletter email) to have one arranged.
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Join us for Coffee Time after the service!
Consider joining the rotation on the Coffee Crew. |
Hygiene Bags for Ryan's House - update
Ryan’s House, the Bluewater Health residential withdrawal management transition program continues to need our support supplying hygiene bags for its ‘graduates’. DCUC has supplied 40 bags to the program and is currently working on another 30 thanks to the generosity of many of our congregants. Special thanks to Claudia and Mary who are sewing the bags we will fill.
Those of you who still wish to contribute may do so in the next 2 weeks, either as a monetary donation along with your Sunday givings or by placing any of the items listed below into the designated box at the entry.
Those of you who still wish to contribute may do so in the next 2 weeks, either as a monetary donation along with your Sunday givings or by placing any of the items listed below into the designated box at the entry.
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Items Needed:
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Ukraine Emergency ReliefThe invasion of Ukraine is costing precious lives and creating a humanitarian crisis as people flee to safety. The United Nations reports that a growing number of well over 3.5 million people, displaced from their homes, are seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. Many have lost friends, loved ones, and property and struggle to meet their basic needs and face an uncertain future.
United Church Mission & Service partners are responding to the crisis. You can help. Right now, people urgently need shelter, clean water, food, and medical attention. Please show your support by making a gift today. Send or deliver a cheque marked Ukraine Emergency Relief to Dunlop Central United Church or donate online through the United Church of Canada Website at https://unitedchurch.ca/social-action/act-now/ukraine-crisis. Any money donated in the jar during Coffee Time will also go to the Ukraine at this time. |
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Need a ride to church?Pastoral Care will issue Taxi Vouchers to anyone that needs a ride to
church and home again. Call the office to make arrangements to receive your vouchers. |
Conductive Education Program - July
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We welcome the Conductive Education Program, taking place in The John Harvey Hall for the month of July.
This program is designed for children 2- 16 years old with motor challenges, and their parent advocates. Such challenges could include cerebral palsy, dyspraxia, spina bifida and other neurological and mobility impairments. |
Go to the church calendar to see event dates, times, and locations. |
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Contact the office to book your meeting room.
The Courtright United Church Book Club is meeting every Thursday evening in June. They will be reading the book God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines, which will be available at the Book Keeper in Sarnia. Everyone is welcome to join.
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Pizza, Popcorn and Movie Night
- Friday, September 16 at 5:00 pm
- John Harvey Hall
Lord, make me a channel of disturbance.
Where there is apathy, let me provoke;
Where there is compliance,
let me bring questioning;
Where there is silence, may I be a voice.
Where there is too much comfort and too little action, grant disruption;
Where there are doors closed and hearts locked,
Grant the willingness to listen.
When laws dictate and pain is overlooked …
When tradition speaks louder than need …
Grant that I may seek rather to do justice
than to talk about it;
Disturb us, O lord.
To be with, as well as for, the alienated;
To love the unlovable as well as the lovely;
Lord, make me a channel of disturbance.
- Author unknown
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
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
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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