Bridgewater United Church

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.

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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.

04/04/2026

We shared this poem at our joint service, West Side United Church - Pentz, Nova Scotia, yesterday for Good Friday. Thank you, Jan Richardson, for this poignant reminder this day

Holy Saturday. This is the day that calls us to breathe. This is the day that invites us to make a space within the weariness, the fear, the ache. This is the day that calls us to hold our anguish and our hope in the same hand. This is the day that beckons us to turn toward one another and to remember we do not breathe alone.

IN THE BREATH, ANOTHER BREATHING
A Blessing for Holy Saturday

Let it be
that on this day
we will expect
no more of ourselves
than to keep
breathing
with the bewildered
cadence
of lungs that will not
give up the ghost.

Let it be
we will expect
little but
the beating of
our heart,
stubborn in
its repeating rhythm
that will not
cease to sound.

Let it be
we will
still ourselves
enough to hear
what may yet
come to echo:
as if in the breath,
another breathing;
as if in the heartbeat,
another heart.

Let it be
we will not
try to fathom
what comes
to meet us
in the stillness
but simply open
to the approach
of a mystery
we hardly dared
to dream.

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

Image: “The Sixth & Seventh Words: It Is Finished/Into Your Hands”
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

04/04/2026

The Many is a favourite of Rev. Kim - if you missed a Good Friday service yesterday, this is a VERY special one.

Welcome to Day 45 of Proost through Lent - Good Friday.

Today, we simply invite you to light a candle and share in this lament with our friends, The Many.

https://proost.community/blog/good-friday-lament/

https://youtu.be/2m--BA5fxBk?si=sqFDOmMwI7Oe0L5k