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We are a community of believers in Christ in Cambie Village. We are a ministry of Chown Memorial and Chinese United Church. Worship Service --> 10.00 am

"You are the light of the world. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
~Matthew 5:14-16~

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08/28/2026

Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
Psalm 103 ESV

Eugene Peterson, in his book Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer, tells us that “forget not all his benefits is the pivot sentence in the showcase salvation psalm, Psalm 103.”

If we are not mindful, our prayers can focus only on the future and what we and others need from God, and forget all that he has done for us in the past. If we don’t remember what he has already done for us, how can we trust him to respond faithfully to our pleas for help?

And if we remember all of these blessings, how can we do anything but respond in praise?

I hope to see you on Sunday when Rev. Paul Beckingham will help us to praise God! We will read Psalm 103 and remember all of the blessings that God has given and continues to give us, including the beauty of the earth, the joy of human love, strength, wisdom, redemption, mercy…the list goes on.

Susan

08/21/2026

Jesus closes his Sermon on the Mount with these words: “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.” He is suggesting that following his words forms a firm foundation for life.

One of the things that Jesus said in the Sermon was “do not worry”. As we continue our series on the Psalms, we will look on Sunday at one of the Psalms whose overall theme addresses how to dispel the underlying fear that causes us to worry.

Psalm 27 opens:

The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?

In just the first verse, the Lord is described as a light, a salvation and a stronghold; there is no need to be fearful! As Jesus suggested, the Lord is a very firm foundation on which to build your life.

Rev. Donna is away on vacation for two weeks, and we gladly welcome back Rev. Paul Beckingham to worship with us.

I hope to see you there!

Susan

08/14/2026

What’s weighing you down? What would you like to let go of?

On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, ‘Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.’
Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

We don’t know what was crippling the woman - it could have been a physical condition or an emotion like worry, stress, grief that weighed upon this woman. Or a combination of the two.

When I looked at this week’s scripture, I stopped at “immediately she straightened up and praised God.“ I have been weighed down by the physical pain of arthritis for many years. I finally found something that helps me, and the physical and emotional relief that this has brought me feels no less than a modern miracle. It has changed the way I pray. I used to only look for Psalms of comfort and assurance and now I also look for Psalms of praise and thanksgiving, like Psalm 100.

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.

I am beginning to let go of the worry that this condition will worsen. I have unclenched my fists a bit to notice, love, and trust that goodness is stronger than fear, evil and malice. Praise God indeed!

I’m looking forward to worshiping with you on Sunday.

08/07/2026

When were you graced by God's goodness this week?

On Thursday, Rev. Donna spoke to me about Worship Matters. “Grace, goodness, gratitude,” she said. “The 3G Network of Christian Spirituality” “OK”, I replied. But did I really understand?

Later, she watched me receive a gift and said, “You were just graced by God’s goodness! And you are grateful.” Ah, there is nothing like experiencing something to really understand.

I began to think back over my week and remembered receiving two other gifts from people - graced by God’s goodness again! And the cool marine breeze and shadow of God’s leafy trees that kept me cool as I walked in the hot sun…more grace and goodness!

As I looked over the Worship Map (attached), I realized that I had received a multitude of gifts that I didn’t recognize at the time. Our songs and readings are full of them.

Isaiah 40:

He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.

How many times did I stumble and not fall this week? How many times did God give me the strength that I needed? I can’t even count.

How many times did his angels bear me up or did he give me refuge and shield me from harm (Psalm 91)? Did I respond by singing his grace? I did not. Hopefully I’ll make up for it on Sunday.

Come O fount of every blessing
tune my heart to sing your grace.
Streams of mercy never ceasing
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet
sung by flaming tongues above!
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it,
mount of God’s unfailing love.

I hope to see you there. We're going to record a couple of songs to share with Stephen's house church in China. If you arrive a bit early your vocal chords will be primed to help us share our songs from Isaiah and Psalm 91.

Susan

"For many of us, expressing thanks is too infrequent or only comes with a rush of relief that you have somehow dodged another bullet, found your iPhone, had good news from the doctor, didn't get pulled over … you get the idea.” - Anne Lamott

07/31/2026

This Sunday we celebrate Communion, and yesterday I imagined being at the Last Supper with Jesus and the disciples. I felt sad for Jesus. He knew ahead of time that Judas would betray him; he also knew that Peter would deny him – a kind of betrayal too. How heartbroken he must have been!

Following these words, Jesus was deeply troubled in spirit. He spoke clearly: "I tell you the truth, one among you will betray me."
"It is he to whom I give this dipped bread." He offered the piece to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.

Simon Peter asked, "Lord, where are you going?"
Jesus answered, "You cannot come with me now, but eventually, you will follow."
Peter protested, "Lord, why not now? I would give my life for you."
"Would you really?" Jesus asked.
"The truth is, before the morning bird cries, you will claim three times that you never knew me."

How great is the love and mercy of God that he knows about our betrayals ahead of time and still loves us!

Susan (with help from Rev. Donna, Kitty, and Patsy)

O Lord, you have searched me,
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

07/24/2026

The writer of Psalm 46 uses two strong metaphors to invite us into God’s action in our lives: The City of God (Zion) and a River.

Imagine you are a resident in the city of Jerusalem, a city without a river, at the time the Psalm was written. Each day you walk outside the city walls to get water from the Gihon Spring. Outside the walls you are exposed to attackers…a war is raging and you are only safe within the city walls. You are very afraid.

Then, King Hezekiah performs the engineering feat of delivering fresh water through hidden, underground aqueducts. How glad you are!

To the Psalm writer, these were not imaginary images but a real life example of God’s action in the lives of his people…a very present help in trouble. In praise, he writes this song:

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved; God will help it when the morning dawns. The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

"Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth." The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

We will be learning two new hymns on Sunday that poetically make these two images come alive.
The Unchoir, as always, will help you learn them quickly. And don’t let the older words “thee” and “thy” put you off. They are used to communicate deep respect for God.

See, the streams of living waters,
springing from eternal love,
well supply thy sons and daughters
and all fear of want remove.
Who can faint while such a river
ever flows their thirst to assuage?
Grace, which like the Lord, the Giver,
never fails from age to age.
John Newton

Like a river glorious is God's perfect peace,
over all victorious in its bright increase:
perfect, yet still flowing fuller every day;
perfect, yet still growing deeper all the way.

Trusting in Jehovah,
hearts are fully blest,
finding, as he promised,
perfect peace and rest.
Frances Ridley Havergal

In addition to these two metaphors, we find in our Psalm perhaps the most ignored words in our
scriptures: Be still and know that I am God.
Be still. Relax. Let go.

So much challenge. So much comfort. Sounds like intentional realationship with God, doesn’t it?

See you on Sunday!

Donna and Susan

07/17/2026

How does God speak to you? What language do you and God use? What energizes and excites you?

God often speaks to me in words and ideas. I know this because words and ideas energize me. Another thing that energizes me is learning new things.

How does God speak to you? Music? Pictures? Nature? Animals? People? Something else? What energizes and excites you? God is there, St. Ignatius said.

We continue our series on Prayer this Sunday with Psalm 42 (below). When I prayed it one morning I was drawn immediately to Verse 8. It seemed so personal to me. I felt comforted. Why, I wondered? So I looked carefully at the words:

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.

Then I looked carefully at the words of the other verses, and noticed that Verse 8 is the only verse that contains the word “love”. No wonder I felt comforted!

I noticed something else. “LORD” is only used in Verse 8, and it is written with all capital letters. The other verses use “God”, and only the first letter is capitalized. What’s the difference, I wondered?

Many of you might know this already, but I learned something this week. In the original Hebrew, the text in Verse 8 of Psalm 42 shifts from the general word God (Elohim), to using God’s personal, holy name, YHWH, which many bible translations translate to LORD in English. Wow. That makes the love personal too!

Now I’m wondering about another thing too. How is knowing about the difference between Elohim and YHWH going to change my reading of the Bible in the future?

I look forward to praying and worshiping with you on Sunday. Yes, I’m excited.

Susan

Psalm 42 NRSV

As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so my soul longs for you, O God.

My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
the face of God?

My tears have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me continually,
“Where is your God?”

These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng
and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,
a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.

Deep calls to deep
at the thunder of your torrents;
all your waves and your billows
have gone over me.

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.

I say to God, my rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because the enemy oppresses me?”

As with a deadly wound in my body,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually,
“Where is your God?”

Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.

One of the great discoveries of Ignatius is that God is in the deeper desires of your heart. This is not the superficial stuff, e.g. the desire for comfort, ease, or quick fame, but rather the long-term attraction you feel toward something that is genuinely life-giving. This means paying attention to what energises you and also what deadens you. Where do you really come alive in your life right now? - Brendan McManus, SJ

07/10/2026

If prayer is a conversation with God, how do we begin that relationship?

This is just one of the many questions we might have about prayer. Here are a few others we talked about on Wednesday evening in our Prayer Group meeting:

What do we pray for? What if we can't find the words? How do we pray for things we don't want (like things for our enemies)? What is the difference between personal and community prayer? Is there a right and a wrong way to pray? Who speaks first in our conversation with God?

What are your questions about prayer?

Even the apostles asked Jesus about prayer (Luke 11)! And so we begin this Sunday to have a closer look at Praying…with the prayer book that Jesus used - the Psalms.

In 2024, I began to meet with a Spiritual Director. He repeatedly asked me “How did that feel?” I found that I was unable to answer that question, so he suggested that I “pray” the psalms. “The Psalms are meant to engage the emotions,” he said.

A few months later, Gordon Smith, an instructor at Regent college, said to our Spiritual Discernment class, “ The most important spiritual practice is to pray the psalms. Know the psalter so well that you know which psalm is needed.”

I still don’t know the psalter at all well, so I am enthusiastic about the upcoming series, beginning with Psalm 27:

The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?

When evildoers assail me
to devour my flesh—
my adversaries and foes—
they shall stumble and fall.

Though an army encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear;
though war rise up against me,
yet I will be confident.

One thing I asked of the Lord,
that will I seek after:
to live in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the Lord,
and to inquire in his temple.

For he will hide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will set me high on a rock.

Now my head is lifted up
above my enemies all around me,
and I will offer in his tent
sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud,
be gracious to me and answer me!
“Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!”
Your face, Lord, do I seek.
Do not hide your face from me.

Do not turn your servant away in anger,
you who have been my help.
Do not cast me off, do not forsake me,
O God of my salvation!
If my father and mother forsake me,
the Lord will take me up.

Teach me your way, O Lord,
and lead me on a level path
because of my enemies.

Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,
for false witnesses have risen against me,
and they are breathing out violence.
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.

Wait for the Lord;
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
wait for the Lord!

I hope to see you on Sunday to learn about praying together.

Susan

Letting yourself be known in this relationship means more or less the same as it does in any relationship: you must speak about your life, share your feelings, and reveal yourself openly.
- Learning to Pray, James Martin, SJ

O Eternal One,
It would be easier for me to pray
if I were clear
and of a single mind and a pure heart;
if I could be done hiding from myself
and from you, even in my prayers.

- Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace

07/03/2026

What does Jesus show us about God in this story?

In his telling of the Last Supper, John writes of an act of love not found in the other three Gospels. Jesus washes the disciples’ feet, but Simon Peter stops him. ‘No,’ said Peter, ‘you shall never wash my feet.’

In my imagination, I watch Jesus kneel at my feet. He takes one of them in his hands, looking deeply into my eyes to understand my response before he begins. I feel loved, but also a bit uncomfortable. I see how vulnerable he is at that moment.

I invite you to put yourself in the story (below).

How would you feel if Jesus wanted to wash your feet? What do you see in his eyes? Would you be able to receive his love? Can we take what he offers?

There is also a passage from the Old Testament, from the prophet Jeremiah. What does the New Covenant say about God?

We will gather at the Lord’s Table this Sunday and I hope to share communion with you!

Susan

Jeremiah 31. 31-34 NIVUK

‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord,
‘when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,’
declares the Lord.

‘This is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,’ declares the Lord.
‘I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.

John 13 excerpts NIVUK

It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel round his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped round him.
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’
Jesus replied, ‘You do not realise now what I am doing, but later you will understand.’
‘No,’ said Peter, ‘you shall never wash my feet.’
Jesus answered, ‘Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.’

When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. ‘Do you understand what I have done for you?’ he asked them. ‘You call me “Teacher” and “Lord”, and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.

A poem by Steve Garnaas-Holmes, Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net

Footwashing
Jesus poured water into a basin
and began to wash the disciples’ feet.
—John 13.5

A basin of baptismal water,
mother’s water breaking,
river of life, basin of tears.

With gentle hands he enfolds your feet,
your journey, your sorrow,
your pain.

He washes away
your fear, your betrayal,
your failure.

He rejoices to do this.
He is tender with you.
He is beneath you. Always.

__________________

Image: The Washing of the Feet, by Sieger Koder

06/26/2026

What can Jesus teach us about REALationship? What makes a good friend?

Honesty, loyalty, enjoyment, support, vulnerability, forgiveness, commitment, interest…those are some of the words our Wednesday Night Pentecost Study group used to describe attributes of a good friend.

This children’s book cover illustrates to me how close Jesus was to his friends - his facial expression and eye contact demonstrate his vivid interest in them, their connection. What do you think was the basis of this friendship?

I never realized until our series on The Trinity, how much Jesus talked about friendship. What do Jesus’ commandments/teachings have to say about how he viewed relationships?

And then Jesus promised to send us an everlasting friend. A friend who would be with us to the end of the age…connected and committed to us even as we change over time. In your experience, how does the Holy Spirit demonstrate the characteristics of a good friend?

2 Corinthians 13:13

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

Matthew 28:19-20

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

Romans 8. 26-28

Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

I’m looking forward to worshiping with you in the final chapter of Rev. Donna’s Trinity series.

Susan

The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose
he will not, he cannot, desert to its foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake,
he never will leave, he will never forsake.

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