A Message to Connect - April 16, 2020

Grace & Peace to everyone connected with High River United, (and friends & family across the province & country),   I switched the banners in the sanctuary today, taking down the purple ones of Lent and hanging the white for the Easter ...

A Message to Connect - April 15, 2020

Grace & Peace to you!  April showers bring May flowers… I hope snow showers count, since once again today, we have snow coming down. I’m thinking of the farmers and ranchers, who are having to contend with delivering calves and trying to prep for ...

Donating at a Distance

April, 2020 Dear Friends and Members of High River United Church:   Your offerings are as important as ever so that we can be help, home & hopefor each other. We are doing what we can to reduce expenses, draw on government programs, and be wise ...

A Message to Connect - April 14, 2020

On Easter Sunday afternoon, we watched the riveting 2018 Live in Concert production of Jesus Christ Superstar. It was for us, the performance was a spectacular blend of choreography, technology, visual art, theatre and vocal agility.   We were still ...

A Message to Connect - April 13, 2020

Grace & Peace to you!  Here we are at Easter Monday. Easter actually runs for 50 days – right up until the celebration of Pentecost & the coming of the Holy Spirit. But what a strange Easter it has been with this physical isolation and the ...

A Message to Connect - April 9, 2020

Grace & Peace to you,   In our daily 10:00 am prayer, I wrote the line, “I commit myself to live life in all its fulness, even in the midst of the challenges of this time.” It was a good line to write, perhaps a harder line to live.   It ...

A Message to Connect - April 8, 2020

Grace & Peace to you,  We awoke this morning to the radio, to a Jewish rabbi speaking about Passover, Rabbi Mark S. Glickman of Temple B’nai Tikvah in Calgary. Today is the first day of Passover for Jewish people around the world. Passover celebrates ...

A Message to Connect - April 7, 2020

Grace & Peace to you,   As we sat in the empty sanctuary today, lighting the Christ Candle and praying, thinking of all of you,  I also thought about the gift of being interrupted each day at 10:00 am for prayers. Our Muslim friends ...

Wilderness Meditations for Holy Week

    Photo by David Robertson: Jordan wilderness   We invite you to print or download this booklet of images and reflections, one for every day of Holy Week - from Palm Sunday through to Easter Sunday. Join us in reflecting upon this time of ...