Russell-Silverton United Church

12/21/2025

Blue Christmas service
Rescheduled for:
Monday Dec 22, 7 pm at Knox UCC.

04/18/2024

05/25/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10227899753212624&id=1035123475&sfnsn=mo&mibextid=RUbZ1f

05/31/2022

Come check out Knox United Church's yard sale Thursday June 2nd 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. and Friday June 3rd 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m..

03/16/2022

Tickets available tomorrow March 17. All proceeds will go towards the humanitarian efforts in Ukraine through the Canada-Ukraine Foundation.

03/04/2022

https://united-church.ca/prayers/sunflowers-ukraine-praying-miracle

A prayer for Ukraine

02/01/2022

God of Love and Life,
today I saw banners of hate
lifted to the sky
in a place that is dear to my heart.

The battle flags of a failed nation-state,
confederated for the continued enslavement
of Black people;
the sw****ka of another failed nation-state,
whose core principles brought forth
the Shoah -
the systematic murder of
over 6 million Jews;
and a eugenic platform to eradicate
anyone who did not fit
its image of perfection -
flew in the midst
of a protesting crowd
of Canadians.

Protest I understand,
even if I feel the reasons are misguided,
and wrong.

But those symbols of
White Supremacy,
representations of a desire
to enslave and eradicate -
those flags of hatred's horror -
they should never be flown
in a way that honours them
and the principles for which they stand.

God, help us,
to put those symbols in the places
that will make us remember
what they represent, with horror and grief,
and fight against them
ever being raised up
as possibilities for the future.

God, help us,
to challenge the unthinking hatred,
the fear and the greed that give it power,
the anti-Semitic hatred,
the idea that "White is Right."

God help us.

Because we can't seem to do it
on our own.

Amen.

(Note: The photo is intentionally blurred to not have these symbols on this page.)

Apologies for the lateness of this. A number of posts from this past week got sent to "drafts" rather than posting.

12/23/2021

It is with regret that Knox Council and Silverton Board announce that due to changes in COVID 19 restrictions, and concerns over large gatherings, the decision has been made to cancel in person Christmas Eve Worship services.
Christmas Eve ZOOM services will be offered at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm. ID 480466178 Passcode 671470
All other worship services will continue as scheduled with a limit of 50% capacity.
A reminder that Dec. 26 and Jan 2 will be joint services at 11:00 am @ Knox and on ZOOM