| WELCOME TO OUR NEW COMMUNITY OF FAITH Dorval-Strathmore United and St. John’s United have merged into a new Community of Faith: Lakeshore Trinity United Church, effective January 1, 2022. The Trinity honours our relationship with God: Creator, Christ and Spirit. It also honours our history of the three founding Communities of Faith: Dorval United, Strathmore United and St. John’s United. Welcome |
| MINISTER’S MESSAGE Greetings, everyone! Here’s our first Happenings for the new year!!! I wish you peace, health, joy, and courage for 2022. At the beginning of a new year, many people make New Year’s Resolutions. (I hope this isn’t an “oops” moment for you six days into the year!) It’s a clean slate, a new chapter: time to take stock of our living and focus on changes, improvements, and goals. If this annual tradition is important to you, and you have thought carefully about your resolutions this year, please know that I am in your corner cheering you on. (And even offer a compassionate ear when the choices get tough.) Remember that resolutions require a resolve: a commitment to a firm course of action. Not just a wish, but a plan set with determination. Again, I’m cheering you on! Personally, I gave up on making new year’s resolutions a long time ago. For me, it felt like a lot of pressure that often led to feelings of guilt and disappointment. So, rather than the overwhelming thought of looking ahead with a 365-day plan, I take one day at a time. Making new choices each day, each moment. Facing each decision with faith and as much wisdom as I can scrape together. And it helped me learn to live in the moment. Why wait for the coming new year to make a change when I can start living that resolution now? I saw a cartoon of a couple sitting on a sofa eating junk food as quickly as possible. The caption read, “Hurry! Eat faster! Our new year’s resolution starts in 10 minutes!” Again, I’m not sharing the enlightened wisdom of the ages. Whatever works for you, I applaud you and bless you. But I did think that this year I would replace the idea of a New Year’s Resolution with something else: a New Year’s Prayer. Something that I can easily carry with me throughout this coming year. Not a complicated prayer. Or, at least not a lengthy or wordy one. In fact, a prayer of just one word. A prayer shared with God at least once a day. A thought God will share with me at least once a day. My word will be between me and God. However, this might be something of interest to you; your own new year’s prayer. One word. Something to carry with you. Not a big decision that sets you up for failure, but something that you share with God that will encourage you, guide you, nurture you, and ground you. You choose the word, the prayer, that means the most to you. Some thoughts: Gratitude. Patience. Kindness. Courage. Peace. Love. Possibility. Believe. May each day this year bring you hope, bless you with opportunities for love, and fill you with the courage to let God’s light shine through you. Peace. Rev. Steve |
| SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2022, 11AM Join us in worship via zoom.Gathering is at 10:45AM and the service starts at 11AM. Checking in Welcome and Call to worship Prelude: Noel IX sur les flutes, L-C D’Aquin Opening Prayer Hymn: VU#91 “The First Nowell” (all 6 verses) Reading: Matthew 2:1-12 Message: “Three Gifts” Prayers Offering: Sung Dedication VU#541 Hymn: VU#81 “As With Gladness Men of Old” (verses 1, 2, 3) Blessing Postlude: Noel X grand jeu, L-C D’Aquin The link to participate in the service is:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7197797321?pwd=RmF4Q0c1UVJlN1BIaUhEM1gvTk1MZz09 Meeting ID: 719 779 7321 Passcode: 442730 You may also join us by phone at: (438) 809-7799 |
| IT’S COFFEE TIME! WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 10AM We are resuming our zoom morning coffee parties! Please join us Wednesdays at 10AM, beginning January 12. All are welcome. No masks, no distancing required! We will be using Lakeshore Trinity United’s new zoom account: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7197797321?pwd=RmF4Q0c1UVJlN1BIaUhEM1gvTk1MZz09 Meeting ID: 719 779 7321 Passcode: 442730 or by phone at: (438) 809-7799 From Judy Lindsay: “I’d welcome a revival of the coffee hour while we’re in yet another round of sort of being under house arrest. I’m so thankful for my family- my special ‘household bubbles’.” |
| A BELL CHRISTMAS STORY Graeme and BJ Bell’s grandson, RJ Semancik, had arranged to fly from his university in Phoenix, Arizona, to Montreal to join the Bell family at Christmas. He took the requisite pre-flight Covid19 test at the university, but there was a delay, and when it came time to leave for the airport the next day, he still had received no result. In order to board his flight, he was obliged to take another test at the airport, costing over $200, quite a blow to a penny-pinching university student. But he joined the line of people waiting for the tests, and soon fell into pleasant conversation with the man just ahead of him. When he reached the front of the line, he pulled out his wallet and prepared to pay. “No need,” said the agent behind the counter, “the gentleman before you paid for your test.” |
| ST. EDWARD’S CHRISTMAS PAGEANT What would Christmas be without a children’s pageant? The children of St. Edward’s recorded a nativity play for their Christmas Eve Mass. You can still watch it by clicking on the link: https://stedwards.luma.tube/embed/?x=00002b |
| WE GIVE THANKS The new e-transfer protocol is outlined in the Happenings email. Don’t forget to include your envelope number and indicate how you wish to have your offering divided. If not indicated, it will be designated as local offering. For the month of January 2022: Everyone who writes a cheque for their offering should make it payable to St. John’s United Church. Even though the church is closed due to covid, you can still drop your offering cheque in the mail slot. For the moment there will be no change for people who use PAR*. . *Pre-authorized remittance (PAR) is a way to donate to the church through automatic withdrawals from a bank account or charges to a credit card (the latter not recommended as the service fee to the church is higher). Many of our Dorval-Strathmore friends use this easy method and changes can be made anytime. If anyone is interested in signing up or getting more information, please contact Joan LeVasseur at (514) 631-4455 or jblev@ca.inter.net“ |
| Rev. Steve Gillam can be reached by phone or text at (514) 235-9383 or by email at macduffsdad@hotmail.com. Lakeshore Trinity United Church 98 Aurora Ave. Pointe-Claire, QC, H9R 3G7 (514) 697-6459 email: lakeshoretrinityunited@gmail.com We have a new Facebook page! Check it out at: https://www.facebook.com/Lakeshore-Trinity-United-Church-101331995747334 |
