Your gifts to Mission and Service should be celebrated, and what better place than in worship. Mission and Service provides clean water, food, shelter, medical aid, community of faith support, refugee programs, and emergency aid, both in Canada and globally.
Please use these resources to tell the story of the generosity and compassion shown through your support.
Remember, Stories = Minutes for Mission. An updated name for the same great resources.
Worship Ideas
- Us and All of Us: Sermon (50.03 KB) (Word): A Mission and Service sermon.
- Us and All of Us: Sermon video: This sermon by the Rev. Dave Jagger draws on Matthew 22:34-40. It reminds us that our gifts to Mission and Service make it possible for us to love even more people and let even more people know they are loved by God.
- Us and All of Us: Slides (1.31 MB) (PowerPoint): A Mission and Service sermon slide presentation.
- We Offer Gratitude through Food | Thanksgiving Service (46.89 KB) (Word): A worship service where all are invited to God’s banquet, where we will be fed and feed each other.
- You Feed Them | Thanksgiving Sermon (25.96 KB) (Word): A Thanksgiving reflection on the gift and grace it is to be called into God’s work of caring.
Related Material
- Five Easy Ways to Promote Mission and Service (14.01 MB) (PDF): Simple steps United Churches can take to promote Mission and Service on Sundays.
- Make A Gift Through Mission & Service Today!: Help transform and save lives, inspire meaning and purpose, and build a better world.
- Mission and Service Stories: Apr-Jun 2024 (130.81 KB) (Word): Share these stories of the amazing work of Mission and Service in services, newsletters, and face-to-face conversations.
- Mission and Service Stories: Jan-Mar 2024 (130.99 KB) (Word): Share these stories of the amazing work of Mission and Service in services, newsletters, and face-to-face conversations.
- Our Generation: The Mission & Service Music Video 2019!: Toronto Conference youth's song "Our Generation" is the theme song for this Mission & Service music video.
Worship Blog
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Why Do You Have a Building?
The Rev. Brenna Baker invites us to tell a new story about our church buildings and what the community would lose if we didn’t have them.
A Life-Shaping Decision
Rev. Roger Janes writes about the wise stewardship decision to "pay God first."
A Healthy Lent
Rev. Melody Duncanson Hales writes on the importance of being intentional about our spiritual practices during the season of Lent.
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