These resources are offered to help with worship on Union Sunday, usually celebrated on the Sunday before June 10.
Worship Ideas
- 96th Anniversary of the Inauguration of The United Church of Canada (41.19 KB) (Word): This service will be streamed live on June 10, 2021, at 7 p.m. EDT, on The United Church of Canada YouTube channel.
- Inaugural Sermon 1925 (89.83 KB) (Word): Rev. Samuel Rose's sermon from June 10, 1925, "The Cross at the Heart of Life."
- Seeds for Our Future: 99th Anniversary Service (184.82 KB) (Word): A service for June 9, 2024, as we prepare for the 100th anniversary.
- Then Let Us Sing! Hymn Sing (38.84 KB) (Word): The songs we sing will help us live into our call to be a people of Deep Spirituality, Bold Discipleship, and Daring Justice.
Related Material
- Prayer for Times of Change: A New Way of Being Church (24.06 KB) (Word): A prayer and other worship ideas that might be used during times of being a church with new relationships, during other times of change, for the Day of Pentecost, or for Union Sunday.
- Service for 99th Anniversary, 9 June 2024 (video): Service held at Metropolitan United Church in Toronto. This is a recording of the livestreamed service.
Worship Blog
Unsettling Thoughts on Church Union
Kenji Marui asks if we have confused “unity” with “uniformity”? All may be one, yes! But not that all may be one-and-the-sa
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