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Meet Our Part-Time Minister
We're so happy to have the Rev. Suzanne Wasilczuk with us this year. Suzanne has been joining us on a part-time basis approximately once a month since 2011. For more on Suzanne, her plans, her past sermons ... More ->
SUNDAY SERVICES
10:30 am
129 South Algoma Street
Date: January 6
Title: Sawbonna: Setting Our Intentions on Restoritive Justice
Service Leader: Brenda Diebel
Speaker: Margot Van Sluytman
Margot Van Sluytman’s father was brutally murdered when she was only 16 years old. It was an event that changed her life forever. She wrote to express pain and to heal, never knowing it would instigate a passion within her to formulate a new social justice theory: Sawbonna. Resilience, agency, and voice are the foundations of Sawbonna, changing the current model of restorative justice. Sawbonna is a Zula greeting meaning “I see you.” It acknowledges our shared-humanity in all of its complexity.
Date: January 13
Title: A Grace-Filled Life
Service Leader: Hanusia Tkaczyk
Speaker: Rev. Suzanne Wasilczuk
Grace is a gift that comes to us unexpected and unbidden. It is the gift of life itself as well as the surprising gifts that bless our lives. Perhaps Mary Oliver's approach is best. Oliver writes, "You can have the other words - chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it."
Date: January 20
Title: Being Jewish in Thunder Bay
Service Leader: Rosemary Burris
Speakers: Jenny Roth & Debra Gold
The diaspora produces so many different ways of Jewishness. LUF welcomes two speakers from Shaarey Shomayim Congregation to share some thoughts and experiences: One whose family is conservative, orthodox, and one for whom being Jewish is more of a culture than a religion.
Date: January 27
Title: Recovery: A Spiritual Path Through the Complexities of Life.
Service Leader: Rob Van Wyck
Speaker: Rick Faulconer
Today's speaker looks at the recovery process involving a "spiritual principle of discovering how to ignite that original instruction energy, deeply inside you, regardless of what has stifled it".
Getting in Touch
You can reach us by e-mail at lufship(at)tbaytel(dot)net or by phone at 807-344-5980.
Our Administrator, Angela Bach, is usually in the office between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It is advisable to call to be sure someone is there to let you in. At other times please send e-mail or leave voicemail at 344-5980 and someone will get back to you during office hours.
LUF meets on Robinson-Superior 1850 Treaty territory, traditional lands of people of the Fort William First Nation.