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In a couple of weeks I am to begin a series of presentations named "Stepping Further Out" (Ottawa - Oct 27; Calgary - Oct 30; Vancouver - Nov 6). As a way of summarizing the past I am flirting with these paragraphs. I wonder though whether it is too harsh, not tough enough or just true. I'd appreciate any comments. Thanks.

Three years ago, the situations of The United Church of Canada and General Motors had a lot in common.

Although we made gestures, in the form of motions and policy formation, and talked a lot about innovation we did not really appreciate the depth and speed of a rapidly changing context. We operated with varying degrees of a sense of entitlement, our dealers/paid accountable leaders had grown accustomed to a certain degree of “loyalty” from their customers/parishioners and were fundamentally confused by this new reality.

Hi,

I'm wondering if anybody can recommend interesting, intriguing, and effective websites of United Church congregations? There are lots of people out there looking for examples and it would be great if we could come up with a list of good United Church sites for them to take a look at.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Aaron (Admin2)

I have a soft spot for international hockey, probably a holdover from being raised during the heyday of the hometown 1961 World Champion Trail Smoke Eaters.

Following the Juniors recent 5th straight gold medal, I read a feature in the Vancouver Province newspaper about how the Canadian hockey system was rebuilt after 1981. The junior team was fifth at the world junior hockey tournament in 1979 and 1980 and seventh in 1981.

After this Murray Costello and others decided something had to be done. Calls were made, doors resounded with knocks and presentations were made. The result was the Program of Excellence. And Canadian hockey stepped back from the brink and towards excellence. The challenge of the changing global hockey context made us better. 

Leads me to wonder.

I have a link on our Church website to the United Children's Play Site.  Today I was updating information and decided - new year better check everything - and lo and behold, got a 404 error message for the Play Site.

Where did it go? 

Is there no place for play in the UCC

Sigh, you have no idea the work that is involved in removing that link....

Hi all,

In the spirit of open minded discussion I have decided to present to you a link

Here it is:

http://www.united-church.ca/ucc/basisofunion/

When you cut and paste this link into your browser (because our ultra modern forum service doesn't allow for hyperlinks) and hit enter you will be taken to the United Church of Canada's Basis of Union.

This document is the United Church of Canada's doctrine section and it explains what we believe.

Almost.