Worship

Today’s theme, led by Rev. Larry, is "Light"

Isaiah 9:2 "The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned."



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Today’s theme, led by our Worship Team is

Character & Integrity.

It is said that “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.” The problem is, God knows it all!

The following passage is attributed to Mahatma Gandhi and Lao Tzu

Carefully watch your thoughts,

for they become your words.

Manage and watch your words,

for they will become your actions.

Consider and judge your actions,

for they will become your habits.

Acknowledge and watch your habits,

for they shall become your values.

Understand and embrace your values,

for they become your character.

Concern yourself with your character,

for it becomes your destiny.

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Loving Creator God, we come today from the busyness and the darknesses of our lives, stepping out from the lack of light into the brilliance of your presence, knowing that You are God’s present to us. Open our minds and very essences to realizing that Your radiance and warmth, Your joy and glow are ours for the asking, that Your words serve to bless and guide us, and that Your sacrifice has purchased for us an undeserved boon of God’s Grace. Let our service today, and Your Holy Words, kindle anew the flames within us, to sustain us in the hours and days to come, so that our glow can also be beacon of all that is good in you, to others and to the world. Amen.


This prayer was to be offered in worship this morning but our service was cancelled due to weather. The Order of Service, including the Reflection, is here for you to read.

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"What Are You Looking For?"

For each of us, in each circumstance, it may be something different. But more importantly, focus on your  answer to the question. Is it something for your relationship, life, work, as a Canadian, as a Senior, as a congregation, or as a faithful follower of Jesus?

From John 1:38:  When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to them, ‘What are you looking for?’

They said to him, ‘Rabbi’ (which means Teacher), ‘where are you staying?’

He said to them, ‘Come and see.’

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"It was likely a warm day when Jesus went to the river to be baptized. But it's winter here, so just imagine, for a moment, Jesus trudging through the snow with everyone else, down to the river where John the Baptist is frantically chopping at the ice, trying to break through. He can't, so he finally gives us and uses snow . . ."

These are the opening words of Rev. Larry's Message on the day we celebrate the Baptism of Jesus.

The entire message and order of service are here for you to read at your leisure.

Click on the Order of Service link to the left.

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Happy New Year!

On the Sunday of Epiphany let's join together

and celebrate!

The Magi were drawn to Jesus' birthplace

by a light in the sky.

Many years later, we are here,

drawn to celebrate Jesus in our lives.

We pray for peace in our homes, our communities,

and our world.

The Peace of Christ be with you all.


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On the first Sunday since Christmas we reflect on the idea that Jesus' light is like a porch light. His light is always on for every person who has ever felt lost, alone, or afraid. His light is on for those people who need to find their way home to Him. His light is on for everyone who needs a new beginning. They just have to follow His light, a soft golden glow on a cold night.

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"A Promise of Love:

God is love. Jesus brings God's love to mankind. "

This was Rev. Larry's message to us.

The whole order of service,

including this full message, is here for you to read.

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Arise and celebrate, good news of deep joy is here! The warm glow of the Divine lightens our hearts. Here we are together. We are not alone. We gather on this third Sunday in Advent with gratitude and overflowing generosity, blessed multiple times by our "give-away" God. we are witnesses to JOY!

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Wake up! It's time to get up and get ready!

Get ready? Get ready for what?

Rev. Larry, in his message to us today, encourages to get ready for the coming of our Saviour,

as a baby to be born in humble beginnings,

 bringing HOPE to all the world.

And so we wait.

As Advent begins, we await the coming of the Lord.

On this first Sunday of Advent,

know we are people of HOPE.

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Reign of Christ Sunday & 7th Anniversary

Rev. Larry welcomed us all into the midst of this faithful congregation, celebrating its 7th Anniversary of its current unitedness, but also commemorating the decades of members of our predecessor churches, years, and an abundance of faith, service, and following or loving Creator God.

While Dunwich United Church was born in 2011 with the amalgamation of three churches: Chalmers United, St. John's United, and Wallacetown United,

our 7th Anniversary represents our move to our

fully-accessible building in 2018.

We are blessed!

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This Sunday's Service is Children's Sunday, and the message is clear: all children need encouraging words that will build them up, not tear them down. As responsible, faithful people, we need to listen, pay attention, learn, and work towards making things right.


Videos used this week:

Encourage One Another https://youtu.be/SHa51GW5eoo

Power of love https://youtu.be/hNS_D-pw8y4

A Message to Bullies (2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6hSFAsrhY&list=PPSV

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Through the generosity of Dunwich UC Church Family, we collected a car-load of warm clothing and other supplies as well as a cash donation of $923.55 all for Grace Cafe. Mike Toth, CEO at Grace Cafe was our guest speaker.

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Rev. Larry offers this Meditation and Prayer

CASA Meditation and Prayer October 16, 2025

  ‘All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey, I’ve been for a walk, on a winter’s day.’ California Dreamin’ has probably been the last thing on our minds, as we have been living through a seemingly endless summer in recent weeks. But this morning is colder, greyer, and the Blue Jays are flocking to our feeders for food, while we hope that those other ‘Blue Jays’ can pull this series out of the fire. We hope too that our economy and the various conflicts around the world can be brought back from the brink, as is seemingly being done this week in the Middle East with the truce in Gaza and Israel. We pray for all whose lives have been harmed, as they struggle to return to where their homes once were and to rebuild their lives.

      The theme of our United Church of Canada Pentecost Worship this year has been enriched with ‘Creation Connections’ that are keeping us ever mindful of our roles as caretakers for this planet, and for all of God’s Good Creation. We may at times feel quite lost in this hectic, rapidly moving society, with an overwhelming daily dose of bad news in the media, which inevitably saturates our conversations and our mindset. On Thanksgiving Sunday I read a children’s version of the story of Noah, the Flood, and the Ark. I described the animals, the boat, and the flood, with its ceaseless rains, but gave only passing notice to why God chose to ‘start over’ with his experiment of humanity, with the glowing, ever repeating rainbow left as the ongoing symbol of God’s promise to never destroy the earth through flooding ever again. Any flooding which is occurring at present is the direct result of human’s interference with nature. I cried when I read yesterday about the current dead state of the world’s coral reefs.

       We Christians are people of HOPE. We have already been saved through our deep faith and belief in Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. While we can and do contribute to the many humanitarian efforts in our area and around the world, to buffer and reduce the suffering of others, in every way that a person can suffer, we must always lead with our hearts and minds, fervent prayers, then our hands, feet and pocketbooks.


 

Let us pray,

Heavenly Creator God,

The birch which I can see from my window,

Stripped now of all but a few tenacious, clinging, yellow leaves

Its white bark already standing, a skeletal, ashen reminder of

The inner strength and resilience which will come to life again,

In another season,

On another day,

Once the frigid, all-consuming blasts and snow of winter have done their best

To bury all of the land with pristine, sparkling, snowflakes,

Each uniquely gorgeous, crystalline and oh, so very temporary.

In so much of our existence we feel, like these frozen flakes,

We too feel temporary, tentative, and transient.

Overwhelmed by the signs of death all around us,

As the leaves lose their chlorophyll, glowing with radiant crimsons,

Yellows, tangerine, amber and auburn,

Fearing the small death that is to come,

An annual ritual or dance,

Forgetting that in the nuts buried by the squirrels, in the seeds that fall

From the dying blossoms and crops,

Therein lie the kernels, the pits, the sources of new life,

Life that will find its genesis in the coming months,

Following a time of stillness and seclusion,

Perhaps some claustrophobia and isolation…

We truly become SAD with the shorter days and the longer nights,

The colder temperatures which slow the world and the snowbanks which

Muffle sounds, the cacophony of this world.

Let us relax into this stillness, this silence, this imposed restraint,

And dream, hope, and prayer for renewal, regrowth, and rebirth,

Centered in the Hope that gives our lives and existence meaning,

Our faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour,

The ultimate seed which died on a cut down tree, both cut down

In their prime, but with a deeper, mysterious, purpose,

Which buoys and inspires us all, if we will but listen, think, and believe.

On Sunday, October 5, Wesley-Knox UC in London, hosted an introduction to our

new hymn book Then Let Us Sing. 

They included 15 new songs.

Here is a video of the event.

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