At Metropolitan United Church, Toronto, Ont., the ministers are the first to walk together to place their offerings in the plates before the ushers pass the plates through the congregation, modelling discipleship for the congregation.
In 2024, Gathering celebrates 50 years of sharing worship resources among worship leaders throughout The United Church of Canada and with other denominations in Canada and around the world. The first issue of what was then called Getting It All Together was published for Lent-Easter 1974. In each issue this...
Has your congregation considered the possible environmental impact of importing palms from the Holy Land or elsewhere? How important is having this symbol in hand for your community of faith? Have you tried alternatives to wave and welcome Jesus on Palm Sunday? We’d like to know what you are doing...
In May 2023, Halifax hosted the seventh quadrennial Unison Festival, a choral event featuring Canada’s LGBTQIA+ and Two-Spirit choruses . The event in Halifax drew 22 choirs and over 1,000 attendees, including members of the LGBT Purge Fund Board, who attended to experience the three chorale works commissioned by the...
Check out Music that Makes Community (musicthatmakescommunity.org), a group of presenters committed to the full embodiment of music (including sign, movement, dance, and multiple instruments) and overcoming barriers to full participation in music that empowers community. They encourage paperless transmission of song, which enlivens the worshipping community. Resources and workshops...
As requested by our subscribers, we are providing a pdf of the complete Prayers for Worship section for the Lent-Easter 2024 issue. This will be available until the end of the Season of Easter 2024. All of the prayers in this section have also been added individually into GatheringWorship.ca. We...
Copyright is about more than legalities. In The United Church of Canada, we seek to honour the work of all God’s people by • crediting authors, composers, and artists when we use their work, • purchasing legal copies of works (books, recordings, artwork, etc.), and • either reporting their use...
When the ministers at her church suddenly came down with Covid on Baptism of Jesus Sunday , Celia Penman, High River U.C., High River, Alta., quickly came up with an idea and jumped into leading the service. Many years before, her mom had penned the story of Celia’s baptism as...
While Bing Crosby sang that “Mele Kalikimaka” is the thing to say on a Hawaiian Christmas Day, is it a traditional Hawaiian Christmas greeting? While many of us may think that these are the Hawaiian words that translate into the greeting “Merry Christmas,” they are the phonetic transliteration of the...
It is a delight to introduce you to Then Let Us Sing! , the upcoming music supplement currently being created by the Sing 2025 team. They are busy developing (e.g., curating, editing, negotiating copyright) a physical resource along with an online musical portal that will be integrated with One License...
