St John's United Church Pointe-Claire Quebec

05/05/2024

Lakeshore Trinity United formly St John's United. Will NOT be holding a spring thing sale this year. Thank you to all those who have. Messaged asking.

01/04/2022

Effective January 1, 2022, St. John's United and Dorval-Strathmore United have merged. The new name for the Community of Faith is Lakeshore Trinity United Church. It is located at 98 Aurora in Pointe-Claire.

01/02/2022

Sunday January 2nd, 2022
WEST ISLAND ECUMENICAL WORSHIP
As we gather with our neighbours in worship from home to pray, listen to the Word, and reflect together, we know that we are not alone. As a community who believes in the presence of the Divine Spirit in the world and in one another we take this time to be in community even as we are physically apart. We hope that this online worship service will help to break your sense of isolation and remind us all that there are always possibilities. This service will be held online only due to the ongoing spread of the Omicron variant we take this action as an act of love for all. This worship brought to you by Riverside, Summerlea, Roxboro, Lakeshore Trinity,
Cedar Park, and Beaconsfield United Churches, St. Columba by-the-Lake Presbyterian Church, and Merging Waters Pastoral Charge. It will premier on YouTube at 10 am Sunday, Jan 2nd 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GFHEkmU1m4

01/02/2022

West Island of Montreal Ecumenical worship for the 2nd Sunday after Christmas. Join in this worship filled with song and Word, prayer, and action. An interac...

12/24/2021

Join us in worship. You don't have to wait until tonight. The service is available at https://youtu.be/BjERY7F83VA

May all of God's gifts of love, peace, understanding, and hope bless you and yours at Christmas and always.

12/21/2021

Watch the Blue Christmas Service presented by Dorval-Strathmore United Church and St. John's United Church.
https://youtu.be/oja1DLJgxFk

12/12/2021

Join in worship Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 11 AM.
To attend service in person we ask that you be fully vaccinated, wear a mask and bring your vaccination passport.

09/29/2021

When I wear an orange shirt,
that can't be all that I do -
I need to understand what happened
when Phyllis Webstad
went to the Mission school
and her new orange shirt was taken away;

when I listen to Phyllis's story,
that can't be all that I do -
I need to learn more about
Canada's Residential Institutions,
where her mother and grandmother
and thousands upon thousands
of Indigenous children
had been taken, away from their families,
forced to learn white words and white culture,
and kept from speaking and learning their own,
and about the abuse, and the trauma,
and the children who died
at the Residential Institutions,
and what happened to the Survivors
and their children, and communities,
and on;

if I learn about the Truth told by survivors
of the cultural genocide,
that can't be all I do;
I need to learn how the racism
and systemic oppression
that built the Residential Institutions
continues on in so many ways
in Canada's social, judicial, legislative,
education, policing... and theological
institutions -
and how that continues
the broken promises, the broken treaties,
the broken relationships,
the stolen resources,
the missing and murdered Indigenous
women and girls and two spirit people;

and if I'm going to learn
about all of these things,
it can't be all that I do.

Listening and learning
can't be all that I do.

I need to act.

I need to hold Canada's leaders,
federal, provincial, municipal,
in places of learning, in places of faith,
and places of economics,
in all the places where decisions get made,
to account.

I need to demand that they act
on the Calls to Action and the
Calls to Justice and the
calls from Indigenous communities
to work *with* rather than steamroll *over*.

And if I'm going to call others to change,
to the work of starting again,
in a good way,
to the work of right relations
between Settler-descendants
and Indigenous peoples -
it can't be all that I do.

I need to change me, too.

There is *always* a next step.

I hope that I'll take it.

Because I'll be putting on my orange shirt...

(Image: Orange Shirt Day, 2018, RB)

08/08/2021

Join us in worship.

Dorval-Strathmore and St. John's United Churches are pleased to host this week, with the theme being social justice in our community.Below are links to vario...

07/20/2021

Statement from the Moderator on residential school burial sites.