Last Sunday\u2019s scripture was about the transformation of Lydia found in Acts 16: 9-15. Lydia was a well-to-do widow who produced purple cloth. She worshipped God but was not a follower of Jesus.<\/p>\n
Paul came to Philippi and on a Sunday met with some of the women by a stream outside of the city. He preached and she became a follower. From that time on her house was a meeting place and a refuge for the new followers of Jesus. The making of purple dye was a long process. The murex snails were used and only one drop of fluid from the snail was used, so many murex snails were needed to get enough dye for clothing. Thus only royalty, the elite and the very wealthy were able to afford the purple cloth.<\/p>\n
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May 29 – Ascension Day<\/p>\n
Luke 24:44-53\u00a0 \u2018Another version of the ascension story.\u2019\u00a0 This is one of those stories that is often overlooked because it does not occur on a Sunday. Yet, like missing the funeral of a close friend, if we don\u2019t read them, we may discover that we have missed a vital part of the story or \u201cmissed the memo\u201d as they say.<\/p>\n
The question is how these parting words affect our ministry now that the mantle has been passed on to us. How do we pick up where Jesus left off?\u00a0 We should not waste our time hoping for Jesus to come back. We are called to proclaim the Good News as long as we live.<\/p>\n
Once we have marked the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, we will all be commissioned to put what we have learned to use. There are great differences between the time of Jesus and 2025. Technology and science have given us knowledge that even the human Jesus could not have imagined, but we know we still have the problems of mistrust, injustice, and violence. In this \u201cin-between time\u201d before Pentecost, allow the parting words of Jesus to challenge our discipleship.<\/p>\n
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Creation Connection:<\/strong><\/p>\n While the psalms seem to guarantee the stability and permanence of this created world, people have forgotten their responsibility to care for it. Since the Industrial Revolution, we have abused Creation. A belief that we are powerless to change has allowed collective destruction. Scaling back our (mis)use of earth\u2019s resources is the key to restoring the promise. Used with permission The Gathering 2025 L\/E.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n June 1 \u2013 Seventh Sunday of Easter<\/p>\n Acts 16:16-34\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paul and Silas are freed from prison<\/p>\n Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am coming soon<\/p>\n John 17:20-26\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Jesus prays that they all may be one<\/p>\n Lay Leader:\u00a0 Maria\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reader: Brenda<\/p>\n Announcements:<\/strong><\/p>\n UCW will meet on Monday, June 2nd at Kaireen\u2019s cottage for a potluck supper and \u201cNot so silent\u201d auction. We will meet at the church at 6:15 to carpool down. All women are invited to attend.<\/p>\n The Prayer Shawl group will meet on Saturday, June 7 from 3-4:30 p.m. All knitters and crocheters are most welcome. If you need supplies, they can be provided.<\/p>\n Reminder: there will be no services held at First United Church for July and August.<\/p>\n June: National Indigenous History Month<\/p>\n June: Launch of Pride Season<\/p>\n June 3 \u2013 World Bicycle Day<\/p>\n June 4 \u2013 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression<\/p>\n June 5 \u2013 World Environment Day<\/p>\n June 6 \u2013 National Gardening Exercise Day<\/p>\n June 8 \u2013 World Oceans Day<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Sunday\u2019s scripture was about the transformation of Lydia found in Acts 16: 9-15. Lydia was a well-to-do widow who produced purple cloth. She worshipped God but was not a follower of Jesus. Paul came to Philippi and on a Sunday met with some of the women by a stream outside of the city. He …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":4914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 18:07:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74138,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74136\/revisions\/74138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}