Okotoks United Church (A work in progress)

 Thanks folks. Wonderful!!

Great pictures folks! I took a look around online and couldn't find a good one of the exterior of our church, so I will try to take one and post it in the next few days (I may have to wait for a sunny day). The interior is well covered in our website, www.staidansunited.com.

Thanks again for the photos folks! Please keep them coming.

Here's another one from our collection. Trinity United Church, Oxford, Nova Scotia. Photo by Diane Renault-Collicott.

There's some great shots on the United Church Facebook page too, so please take a look if you haven't already.

http://www.facebook.com/UnitedChurchCda

One of the architecturally beautiful ones I have had the pleasure of entering and set in a naturally beautiful setting in Windermere, Ontario.

So, we're under reconstruction.

Like what?????

IT

Russ

Hi Russ:

Under Reconstruction

a metaphor for the entire United Church, eh?

Thanks SG. That's a really beautiful church building! Russ, yours is beautiful too in its process of change! Thanks for posting.

Here's a link to a picture of the United Church I attend when on most summer vacations (sometimes Christmas vacations too). It is Bethel United in Nash Creek New Brunswick, of the New Mills Pastoral Charge...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebapep/2689521132/

Arminius

How true, a continuous process, that has no plan, and no funding

IT

Russ

Port Perry United Church - Port Perry, Ontario

the exterior changed a little when the elevator was installed.  There was no longer need for the ramp out the side so it was removed.

Thanks MorningCalm and Hilary. These are both great shots.

Thanks to everybody who has shared their photos! Here's another from our collection. St. Anthony United Church, St. Anthony, NL. Photo by Rae Fletcher.

My first Pastoral Charge!

Grace and peace to you.

John

 Here's my first church, just down the road from St. Anthony, at Pasadena NL

This one is a fav, though I cannot find an actual photograph of it online I have taken many

Another favourite, but use a washroom first, there is none

In Rosseau, Ontario

This one in Burk's Falls, Ontario has a unique tower design. Is it common architecture?

Where we are until the reconstruction of Emmanuel United Church  is completed.

Many thanks to the friendly folks at Rideau Park United Church for hosting us.

IT

Russ

Hi Stevie:

A square tower with a pyramidal spire, and on each of its four corners a smaller round tower with a lower round spire: this is the architecture of the main tower of the Temple District of the Knights Templar in Paris.

This tower was a prominent landmark in medieval Paris. It no longer stands, but one can see it depicted on paintings and drawings.

Rundle Memorial United Church - Banff, Alberta. i got married here .

Wait! The one I gave isn't my shot. Don't go using it for nothing. I just wanted to share in the fun.

 Speaking of UCC buildings, is Belledune, New Brunswick the only place that has a seperate UC Sunday School building, physically detached from any church?

ditto!  sorry I didn't give a photo credit.  it wasn't credited on the website: portperryunited.com.

It's not easy to get a photo without a car on that corner.

Nope - I suspect that it is in the minority. I remember going to Bowen Island United Church for a weekend presbytery youth retreat when I was a teen and they had a separate building for their hall. Here is a picture that I did not take:

Bethel United Church, Little Heart's Ease, Newfoundland.

I was a visitor here a couple of summers ago.  Beautiful little church.

http://www.wondercafe.ca/groups/mikepaterson

SORRY ADMIN... I couldn't get my pic pasted in here! If you can do it, bravo!!

Here is Mike's pic of Gordon Memorial United Church in Alberton, Prince Edward Island.

A work in progress

another apt metaphor for the entire United Church.

Arminius

Key word...progress

IT

Russ

Great idea! Thanks for starting this Aaron!

From Welsey United in Cambridge website. One of my favourite past churches.

And Siloam United in London Ont where we got married: http://siloamunitedchurch.org/Pages/Facilities/facilities.php

Crossroads United in Kingston ON:

Hey, that's just down Fanshawe from me. Drive by it everyday on the way to work. Never been in it, to be honest. My wife and son have but not for church. Kiwanis uses it for the music festival and my son sometimes goes there to compete.

Mendalla

 Northwind posted the picture of the church that i am a member of Wesley...though it is the backside of it!

I found one on flickr but for some reason, i cannot post youtube or images for the last month or so..

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/suckamc/259303330

It was a drive-by photo by Martin Cathrae.

Maybe someone else can post the image/

Central Westside United Church, Owen Sound ON

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=310%2010th%20st%20west&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

 i'm noting, that all of these pics are of buildings.....no people.....I get that is what Aaron may have posted asking for..but...thinking that on our websites we should have people

 ps. dks..your link doesn't work

More like this? The gallery page from my UU fellowship's site. No me there, I'm afraid but that may change. The official photographer took some pics of me at both the services I did over the last month. There are, of course, privacy issues and legalities involved which may be why you don't see more of these kinds of pictures.

Funnily enough, we don't have a decent pic of the building anymore. There is one on the Facility Rental page but it is badly out of date (the big tree in front of the entrance was taken out by a storm years ago) and I think it's the same one I used when I was the webmaster (I gave up that gig about 7 years ago).

Mendalla

Go to their home page and scroll down: http://www.centralwestside.ca/index.html.

Mendalla

This is St Luke's United. The building is known as the Shared Church because it is shared with St Martins Anglican.

I really like the Okotoks United Church. How is it a work in progress? Is that building the church building, or does the church use part of it, or is it multi-purpose?

I've talked many times about growing in the UCCan. Here is the gallery page from the website of the church where I grew up and which I still think of as "my" United Church since I haven't really been affiliated with any other United Churches since. The old place has changed in some ways, in others it still looks like it did the last time I darkened it's doors (which, I think, was for my brother's wedding in the mid-nineties). Funny part was looking at the page on the Unified Board and realizing how many of them were probably on the Board at some point when I was still a member there.

http://sjruc.ca/our_home/?show=gallery

Mendalla

 The church that First United in Ottawa, shares with All Saints Anglican/

 The first and third picture is of the chapel, which was built around the time Canada was created. The 2nd picture is of the new and larger church which was built around the chapel in the 50s.

 Here is  a larger picture that included both the older chapel and the new part.

wow there all so beautiful and rich in heritage , i am enjoy the pics

Lake Joseph Community Church, an interdenominational Church operating under the "guidance of the United Church of Canada".  Its a summer church.

and its beautiful interior

I took these photos in 2007 and 2008

Not without signed releases.

DKS -- are you presuming that you couldn't get signed releases or stage a photo?  I mean, of course, there are requirements for posting pictures ..and most of us have encountered them at some point in our life.

PS..here is an interesting article...with links to appropriate laws.  http://ambientlight.ca/laws/overview/what-can-i-publish/

Um.. you asked a question about putting people in pictures. I pointed out that signed releases are normally necessary.