Sunday Service: March 24th, 2024 - "A Web of Story and Song!"

Online and in Person @ 10:30 am

“A Web of Story and Song!”

The Annual General Meeting of the congregation follows a service of stories and songs that celebrate interdependence among us as a spiritual and relational practice.  Don’t miss this special day to celebrate community and the shared ministries of the congregation.  

                                                Led by Rev. Jamie Boyce and Religious Educator Tim Versteeg

🛑 Scam Alert

March 6th, 2024: Many congregants have reported receiving a text message impersonating Rev. Jamie.  It is NOT her! 

It has come to our attention that there is a text message scam occurring from a 781 number. The message is impersonating Rev. Jamie. Please do not reply to the message or comply with the request to purchase gift cards.

Notice of Annual General Meeting - Sunday, March 24th 2024 at 11:30 am

The 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) is scheduled for Sunday March 24th at 11:30 am in the sanctuary after service and on Zoom. 

Note that all congregants are welcome to attend the AGM but only members are permitted to vote. To vote, you must have been a member before February 5th, 2024. We require a quorum of 20% of members.  Please plan to attend.

Below are links to the following and can be accessed by clicking on the blue part of the link:

The AGM Package which includes the formal notice of the AGM, the agenda and the motions to be voted on by the members attending

· 2023 AGM Minutes

· 2024 Budget Meeting Minutes

· 2023 Annual Report

· 2023 Financial Statements (Consolidated and Fund Statements for 2023)

· ONCA Bylaw Revisions and Presentation

· ONCA Guidelines – Mapping Old and New Bylaws

If you have forgotten your password, click on “Forgot your password?” near the bottom of the Login page and then follow the instructions to reset your password.

The Zoom link for the AGM will be distributed by email during the week before and is available (along with the links for all Zoom meetings) from the Bookings Calendar found under the News menu of the church website.

Sincerely,
Sue Stewart Greene, President

News from the Ministerial Search Committee

The Search Committee is pleased to release the themes from the five Cottage Meetings the eleven Focus Groups conducted to date and the Congregational Survey results. Search Committee is grateful for the time and effort that staff, teams, committees, and individual congregants put into these meetings.

We have found your insights and priorities helpful as we create the congregational record for the UUA Transition Team and continue our search process. We are grateful for your commitment to this process and hope you too find the themes expressed in the slide sets informative.

Please share your thoughts and responses to the material with any member of the Search Committee: Mel Rutherford, Gail Rappolt, Jen Reid, Karen Trollope Kumar, Angela Morgan, Mary Ellen Scanlon, and Beverly Horton.

Congregational Survey Results presentation can be found here.

Focus Group Results can be found here.

Cottage Meeting Results can be found here. 

Visitor and Congregant Engagement - Meet 'n' Greet

The Visitor and Congregant Engagement team invites you to stay after the service on the first Sunday each month for Meet ‘n’ Greet. This is an opportunity for newcomers and seasoned attendees to be together for an hour to get to know each other and ask questions about our church. Refreshments will be available.

Land Acknowledgement

The City of Hamilton is situated upon the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas.  This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, which was an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

As settlers we continue to benefit from the land and its gifts.  As settlers, we must ask ourselves how or if we have shared and cared for the earth and its gifts. Facing the truth is hard.  Truth must come before reconciliation.

seven Principles

Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant (our Eight Principles) supports “the free and responsible search for truth and meaning.”

CYRE kids in circle

Children & Youth Program

We seek an outcome of respectful, responsible, life-loving kids who are both curious and questioning and know they are valued for all of who they are and are ready to show others the same deep acceptance.

Read our most recent and past Newsletters.