Bridgewater United Church

05/28/2026

A free mattress and box spring are available! Please Click Below to contact the generous individuals offering the donation if you are interested!

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05/08/2026

May 8 News -

May you know the wonderful blessing that you are and that others are to you. Reverend Kim Curlett  Worship and Small Group Minister [email protected] Reverend Neil McEwen  Pastoral Care and Outreach Minister [email protected] Jaida Herrera-Williams Office Administrator Assistant in...

05/08/2026

YARD SALE Tomorrow, May 9 at 8:30 am - 1:00 pm

04/11/2026

MINISTERS ON VACATION until April 21, 2026
Rev. Kim & Rev. Neil are now both on well-earned vacation time. They will not be answering phone calls, texts, or emails while on vacation. Please call the church office, and someone will get back to you asap.

Donna Kelly will provide Emergency Pastoral Care for both Bridgewater and West Side United Churches; her information has been included in both church bulletins. (not posted here to avoid scammers stealing her number etc.).

Below is a photo of Rev. Neil on a beach somewhere

04/10/2026

Cool!

Nova Scotia Health’s prideHealth team is partnering with GoProud Radio to launch a new podcast for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities! Hear trusted health information, learn about available services and connect to care.

📅 Launching April 7 | New episodes first Friday of every month.
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04/05/2026

Happy Easter, friends near and far. The monks spent the early morning hours asleep in bed, unlike other monastics who awake to greet the dawn. Jesus is just as risen at 8am as he is at 6am.

After chores and church, we went to visit the elder monks. One of them is 104 and he may be the most virtuous monk among us all. Brother Jim always enjoys a laugh. Sister Adele stays just down the hall from him. She used to bungee jump for Jesus back in the 80s when the Abbey was still just an east wing.

Tonight, the monks have decided on a campfire singsong with all of our Easter favourites including Morning Has Broken and Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Carl the Apostate (or Carl the Not so Sure since the burning bush episode) spent the day yesterday baking the communion bread for today’s Easter Mass.

The monks made some unkind faces when they realized that they were eating raisin bread.

Carl says it’s the perfect day to eat it, but he had a weird world view and sense humour.

How is your Easter Sunday? Why not share the most beautiful think you experienced today?

04/05/2026

Happy Easter from Bridgewater United Church 🩷🙏🏻🐣

04/05/2026

‘Risen Christ,
help us to lay down the graveclothes,
roll away the stone
and come out into life,
here and now.

We will find you,
among the living,
ahead of us, going to the Galilee we seek.
You have wrestled death to the ground,
and now there is nowhere we can go,
no darkness we can enter,
which is not God-encompassed.’

Kathy Galloway, Talking to the Bones, SPCK

Hallelujah!

04/05/2026

He is risen!

"Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" Jesus asked Mary Magdalene when he met her outside the tomb where she had expected to find his body. As Easter arrives, I am thinking about emptiness that comes as an astonishing grace and a discombobulating joy, calling us into a world we can barely begin to imagine but that we receive a glimpse of on this day. Beloved friends, I am sending so many blessings for you.

SEEN
A Blessing for Easter Day

You had not imagined
that something so empty
could fill you
to overflowing,

and now you carry
the knowledge
like an awful treasure
or like a child
that roots itself
beneath your heart:

how the emptiness
will bear forth
a new world
that you cannot fathom
but on whose edge
you stand.

So why do you linger?
You have seen,
and so you are
already blessed.
You have been seen,
and so you are
the blessing.

There is no other word
you need.
There is simply
to go
and tell.
There is simply
to begin.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “In the Garden of Resurrection”
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

Inspired by John 20:1-18.