Speaker: Rev. Maya Landell

Hello friends, Last week we kicked off our Summer Series: Empowered by the Spirit – Exploring our Spiritual Gifts. I’m grateful for the inspiration of Patricia D. Brown, author of Spirit Gifts: One Spirit, Many Gifts. Here are three important biblical foundations: God gives gifts to everyone – Read 1 Corinthians 12:4-7 God distributes the […]

Speaker: Rev. Maya Landell

Speaker: Amy Crawford (Voluntary Associate Minister)

Dear Islington United Community: In March it was difficult to imagine what was ahead as the world was declared to be in a pandemic.  COVID-19, the world’s most infectious virus in over a 100 years, was about to change all our lives in so many ways for years to come. I am grateful for the dedicated, […]

Speaker: Rev. Maya Landell

Dear Friends, As I write this Friday message at 5:30 am, the sun is up and we are so close to the longest day of the year and the summer solstice. I pray that you will find moments to savour the gift of this day. I am savouring how the Giving Garden is growing and […]

Speaker: Rev. Maya Landell

Dear Friends, There is so much to talk, write, pray, reflect, and sing about these days and I am grateful for a community that leans into what it means to “seek justice, love kindness and walk humbly with God.” At the council meeting on Wednesday, this statement of solidarity was adopted to denounce systemic racism […]

Speaker: Rev. Maya Landell

It’s Pride Month, and in the midst of our re-commitment to being an Affirming congregation (which is this Sunday), our work of open hearts, open doors, open minds names that Black Lives Matter. We lament, we listen, we learn, we act in response to the the cries, anger and truth-telling of people of colour in […]