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.
Mission and Service This Season
- Mission and Service Sermon for Thanksgiving (36.9 KB) (Word): Our shared generosity can do more, feed more, spread more hope, because it is done collectively.
- Mission and Service Thanksgiving Liturgy (34.18 KB) (Word): Let us share and give thanks for what God has given and rejoice in God’s abundance.
Worship Ideas
- A Sermon: Us and All of Us (50.03 KB) (Word): A Mission and Service sermon.
- A Sermon: Us and All of Us (Slides) (1.31 MB) (PowerPoint): A Mission and Service sermon slide presentation.
- A Sermon: Us and All of Us (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.
- Mission and Service Stories - August 03: Wonder and Worship in the Wilderness (PowerPoint) (2.82 MB) (PowerPoint): Mission and Service Story for August 3 in PowerPoint form.
- Mission and Service Stories - August 10: General Council 45 (PowerPoint) (438.72 KB) (PowerPoint): Mission and Service Story for August 10 in PowerPoint form.
- Mission and Service Stories - August 17: Ladles of Love (PowerPoint) (310.89 KB) (PowerPoint): Mission and Service Story for August 17 in PowerPoint form.
- Mission and Service Stories - August 24: Framed by Creation (PowerPoint) (432.95 KB) (PowerPoint): Mission and Service Story for August 24 in PowerPoint form.
- Mission and Service Stories - August 31: Education Shaped by Compassion (PowerPoint) (123.98 KB) (PowerPoint): Mission and Service Story for August 31 in PowerPoint form.
- Mission and Service Stories - July 06: 100 Years of Spirit and Song (PowerPoint) (5.21 MB) (PowerPoint): Mission and Service Story for July 6 in PowerPoint form.
- Mission and Service Stories - July 13: Words That Carry the Spirit (PowerPoint) (3.41 MB) (PowerPoint): Mission and Service Story for July 13 in PowerPoint form.
- Mission and Service Stories - July 20: Sacred Care for Those Who Carry the Weight (PowerPoint) (138.47 KB) (PowerPoint): Mission and Service Story for July 20 in PowerPoint form.
- Mission and Service Stories - July 27: Healing with Compassion - Sue's Story at Wesley (419.32 KB) (PowerPoint): Mission and Service Story for July 27 in PowerPoint form.
Related Material
- 2024 Mission and Service Accountability Report (2.33 MB) (PDF): A report on Mission and Service activities and donations in 2024.
- 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: 2024 (140.79 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: April - June 2025 (106.45 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-March 2025 (106.7 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: July-August 2025 (74.12 KB) (Word): Share these stories of the amazing work of Mission and Service in services, newsletters, and face-to-face conversations.
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