Horseshoe Falls Regional Council

HF Congregational Support Commission Meeting
2025-02-13 10:00, 2025-01-14 10:00 (America/New_York)

ARW Regional Council Executive Meeting
2025-02-12 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)

ARW Discipleship & Justice Meeting
2025-02-11 10:00, 2025-01-14 10:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom

ARW Pastoral Relations Commission Meeting
2025-02-11 09:00, 2025-01-14 09:00 (America/New_York)

ARW Human Resources Commission Meeting
2025-02-10 09:00 (America/New_York)

HFRC GC45 Proposals Special Meeting
2025-02-08 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom
Please join us for a Horseshoe Falls Regional Council Special Meeting for GC45 proposals on Saturday February 8th from 9am-3pm with a Learning Session for questions of clarification on Tuesday, February 4th from 6:30-8pm (for attendance to ask clarifying questions meeting registration is required). Proposals will be posted on Horseshoe Falls Regional Council website here: https://hfrcucc.ca/regional-council-meeting/ on January 30th, 2025. Registration will open Monday January 6th, 2025.

Ministry and Personnel The Basics Workshop
2025-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom
‘The Basics’: Ministry & Personnel Committee Workshops
Online by Zoom, Upcoming dates:
October 3rd, December 5th, February 6th, April 3rd
with Micol Cottrell, Minister, Pastoral Relations

Ordered ministers and designated lay ministers while in paid accountable ministry positions are office holders within The United Church of Canada. While there may be elements similar to employment, the essential nature of the relationship is a covenant.
~ Statement on Ministry in The United Church of Canada (2012)

New members are often elected to the vital Ministry & Personnel Committee near the start of the year, although M&P Committee membership can change for many other reasons throughout the year.
The Basics will help a new member learn the essentials of this crucial role. More experienced members of M&P Committees are invited to take this workshop as a refresher with their team, and keep up with changing United Church practices and policies. This workshop is open to members from Western Ontario Waterways, Antler River Watershed and Horseshoe Falls Regional Councils!
Please Note: each member of your M&P Committee attending this workshop is required to register.
In your Confirmation Email, you will receive the Zoom link and material in preparation for the meeting to make the most of our time together. If you have questions about the content, please email Micol Cottrell, Minister, Pastoral Relations, at MCottrell@united-church.ca, or better yet, write down the questions to bring with you.

Lent & Easter Round Table - Children and Youth Ministry
2025-02-06 11:00 - 12:15, 2025-02-05 19:00 - 20:15 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Sharing ideas and challenges

Come prepared to share your ideas and/or listen to others

Contact Kathy Douglas for ZOOM link

kdouglas@united-church.ca

Regional Council Staff Meeting
2025-02-06 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-01-23 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-01-09 09:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom

ARW Congregational Support Meeting
2025-02-05 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-01-15 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom

Preaching with an Ecological Lens
2025-02-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom
Ministry Personnel and LLWLs,
Are you looking for ways to address the climate crisis from the pulpit?
Join us online Tuesday Feb 4th, 2025 7:00-8:30PM
Preaching with an Ecological Lens
A workshop offered by the Rev. Dr. HyeRan Kim Cragg,
Principal and Professor of Preaching at Emmanuel College.

The Rev. Dr. HyeRan Kim-Cragg is the 14th Principal and Professor of Preaching at Emmanuel College. She is the first racialized person holding both roles. Kim-Cragg received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2020, the highest honor granted to Emmanuel Alumni. She has been actively involved in the preaching life of the United Church of Canada, a denomination that has been aspiring to become an intercultural and anti-racist church for the last 25 years. As a leading postcolonial scholar, she has written or contributed to over 15 books including her monographs Interdependence: A Postcolonial Feminist Practical Theology (2018) Postcolonial Preaching: Creating a Ripple Effect (2021), both are claimed as original contributions in homiletics and practical theology. Her most recent book is Moments in Time: Sermons from the United Church of Canada 1910-2020 (UCPH, 2024). Currently, she is preparing a manuscript for preaching addressing the climate crisis and ecological justice with a tentative title, A Homiletic of the EARTH. She is grateful to share some of her current research in this workshop.
Workshop: Preaching with an Ecological Lens
In this workshop Rev. Dr. HyeRan Kim-Cragg will share her insights into challenges faced by those of us who wish to address the climate crisis from the pulpit. She proposes five homiletical strategies that may help preachers and congregations face these challenges and tackle this crisis. The five strategies can be remembered using the acronym of E.A.R.T.H. which stand for the Elements of Life, Animals in the Bible, Rhythm of Life, Tree of Life, and Hesed (God’s unconditional love). Once briefly reviewing these five, Kim-Cragg will note the Elements of Life as Water, Fire, Air, and Soil that are prevalent in the Bible and well used as theological metaphors. She will focus on air, Ruah in Hebrew. With the deepened appreciation of this sacred element of life, Kim-Cragg will offer how to proclaim the Gospel for the sake of the Planet Earth.
There is no registration fee. The costs of this workshop are fully covered by Antler River Watershed, Horseshoe Falls and Western Ontario Waterways Regional Councils.
For more information contact Thérèse Samuel (Minister, Right Relations and Social Justice) tsamuel@united-church.ca
Click to register for “Preaching with an Ecological Lens” online workshop.
The costs of this workshop are fully covered by Antler River Watershed, Horseshoe Falls and Western Ontario Waterways Regional Councils.

HFRC Learning Session for GC45 Proposals Special Meeting
2025-02-04 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom

Worshiplude 2025
2025-01-31 - 2025-02-02
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Worshiplude 2025

Fri. Jan. 31st – Sun. Feb. 2nd Ottawa, Ontario Join us for a weekend in Ottawa for Winterlude activities, a museum experience and gather with us for Dinner and Worship Saturday night at Southminster United Church (15 Aylmer Ave, Ottawa)

$75 per participant (Registration fee) plus spending money and enough $ for 2 lunches and 1 supper extra.

Youth and youth groups will need to be accompanied by an adult. (At least one adult for every 7-9 youth)

Grades 7+

Bus will begin in Beamsville, ON and travel along the QEW to 401 and on to Ottawa. We can discuss pick up locations along the route, once we begin to get registrations.

We will be billeted at a church in Ottawa. Participants can bring sleeping needs (sleeping bags, pillows, mattresses etc)

Register Now (spots are limited):https://regionalcouncil789.formstack.com/forms/worshiplude

Liaisons Gathering
2025-01-28 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom
A time for connection, mutual support, and information sharing.
We are meeting on Tuesdays January 28th, March 25th, and May 27th at 7PM on Zoom.
For more information contact Micol Cottrell at mcottrell@united-church.ca
Register now here: https://regionalcouncil789.formstack.com/forms/liaisons_gathering

WOW Online Clergy Gathering
2025-01-23 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom

HF Regional Council Executive Meeting
2025-01-22 16:00 (America/New_York)

HF Online Clergy Gathering
2025-01-22 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom

HF Human Resources Commission Meeting
2025-01-22 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom

ARW Online Clergy Gathering
2025-01-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom

WOW Pastoral Relations Commission Meeting
2025-01-21 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)

HF UCW Gathering
2025-01-18 14:00 (America/New_York)
Topic: Horseshoe Falls Fall zoom event
Time: January 18th, 2025 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://united-church.zoom.us/j/83472886564

Ministry and Personnel Gathering
2025-01-09 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Toronto) | Online via Zoom
Ministry & Personnel Gatherings
A time for collegiality, learning, and conversation about issues facing M&P committees.
Participants must have completed M&P: The Basics on Zoom or through the recorded training.
Participants are required to agree with the confidentiality and group norms agreement as found below.
Situations discussed will only be talked about by broad themes without reference to individuals.
November 7th 2024, 2-3:30 PM
January 9th 2025, 2-3:30 PM
March 6th 2025, 2-3:30 PM
May 1st 2025, 2-3:30 PM
Worship, 30 minutes learning time, 30 minutes of conversation, Question and Answers, etc. ending with a time to make suggestions for future learning.
By registering you agree to the following
Confidentiality Agreement:
I agree to maintain and respect the confidentiality of all information that is shared by group participants. I will not share individual conversations or situations that are shared by other members of this group. I understand and agree that failure to maintain confidentiality will result in my being asked to leave this group.
Group Norms:
I will trust that God has gifted me with wisdom to share and with wisdom to gain from others.
When sharing I will attempt to put situations into broad questions and not provide details about individuals. I will strive not use the names of ministers, employees, or congregation members. For example, I will ask about a situation. If not sure how to ask a question, I can private message Micol Cottrell or the host and they will help frame the question in broad terms, or without context of the church, minister, and staff. Note: you can always contact Micol Cottrell MCottrell@united-church.ca with situations that you need to talk about and in that conversation can be more candid.
I will respect that what others share is confidential and will not share that information outside of the group. This allows for learning drawn from individual experiences.
I will appreciate that the questions people ask may not be about a situation that they are facing as an M&P Committee at this moment, rather a question for future learning.
I will respect that different M&P committees work differently depending on context.
I will be gentle with myself and with others trusting in God’s Spirit in leading us to learn together.
Register Now!

WOW Congregational Support Meeting
2025-01-09 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
