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Spirit of Wellness


Creating balance in our lives can be complicated. It is certainly something we need to approach intentionally. We tend to feel much healthier when our day, or at least our week, includes attention to our physical health, mental health, and spiritual health. It is often just a matter of creating good habits that are built into the routine flow of our daily activities. Okay, I will admit that is easier said than done. It doesn’t take much for our well-intentioned plans to go off the rails. We must be flexible enough to manage the unexpected things that send us off in different directions, and yet still connected to the habits that bring us back in a healthy balance again.


This Sunday, both Gaetz United and Sunnybrook United, are focusing worship on the Spirit of Wellness: Building Community through Creativity and Play. This is an initiative organized by a team from both our United churches, with the intention of bringing people together through community partnerships, playful creativity, and spirited exploration. We believe that creativity and imagination can be used as vehicles for spiritual exploration, personal healing, and community development.


As we come out of pandemic times, we recognize that we are all in need of some healing, both personally and within community. We believe this Spirit of Wellness initiative will provide the spaces for us to do that together. We also believe that as faith communities, this is a way for us to offer spiritual nurture to the community within a wholistic approach to wellness. It’s all part of the re-balancing of our lives in such a time as this. Our first partnership is with Kerry Wood
Nature Centre. Stay tuned for details of upcoming activities May through August!

Peace and joy,
Nancy Chegus

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Thank you from Doris
A huge thank you to everyone for sharing my special day. It was
an amazing celebration and I had such a wonderful time. I would like to
give special thanks to Alana Lowe for all of her help organizing this special
celebration.
UCW 60 Anniversary
Mark your calendar and plan on joining the United Church
Women as they celebrate their 60th anniversary
We are encouraging all women who have ever been a part of
the UCW in any church are invited to attend this service.
May 14: 1030
Enjoy cake & ice cream after the service.
Bible Study
Wednesdays
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
New:. First Thursday of the month
Evening Bible Study-6:30 p.m.
Everyone welcome.

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Wednesday Zoom Coffee
Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85353818939?
pwd=QXpORXl0U0JLL0thV3lTTGtVUWNuUT09
Meeting ID: 853 5381 8939
Pass code: Sunny
Thank you Volunteers!
A Big Heartfelt Thank You to All our
Volunteers who have stepped up when
needed and assisted to help our church
continue to prosper and be the welcoming
community we all value! Thank you for your
continued dedication to Sunnybrook United
Church! We appreciate you all! We are
recognizing all our Volunteers this Sunday, April 16th after the service with cake at Coffee
Time downstairs.
Congregational Care
The Congregational Care Committee is re-examining ways to
adapt to post pandemic situations because things are
different now. This is especially so with regards to hospital
visitations since the hospital has removed the ways we used
to have access to names of members that are there. At the
present time, it is necessary for the office to be informed if
someone who is hospitalized would like to be visited by a pastoral care member. Then we
can make that happen. We would also encourage our members to let the office know if you
think a member of Sunnybrook would benefit from a card or a call from the Congregational
Care Committee. This would help us as a church community help each other.. Thank you.
Brenda Corney
A special thank you to Cobs Bread for their donation of hot cross buns which
were served during coffee on Easter Sunday.