http://www.cedarparkunited.org Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr. Wed, 07 May 2008 14:34:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Want to put some fun in your Friday night? Join the Cedar Park United Family Ministry Team for BINGO this Friday, May 9, at 7:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The cost is only $5 for an entire family! Little ones can sit with their parents to play or ... http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/05/07/family-ministry-bingo-night/ Renew Our Call to Love Acts 1: 6-14 In an article in Sojourners magazine* this month that Elisabeth Jones gave me at the retreat yesterday, Justo Gonzalez, a Cuban-born theological educator, claims that humour is one way the author of Luke-Acts was engaging in “moderate subversion of an early church that was ... http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/05/04/may-4-2008/ The concert will be held Saturday, June 7, at Cedar Park United Church Tickets for this 50/50 fund-raising concert for the church are $15. Please see Elizabeth Chown on Sunday or during the week for tickets. This is RESERVED seating in the sanctuary, so please decide where you’d like to sit ... http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/05/03/montreal-welsh-male-choir-concert-scheduled/ Tickets are on sale now for the fund-raising dinner being held by Cedar Park's Youth in Action Group of Free the Children. The dinner will be held at the church on Saturday, May 31, at 6 p.m. Our young people have been busy! The menu has been taste-tested, the evening ... http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/05/03/youth-in-action-to-hold-african-dinner/ The Affirming Congregation Program is an opportunity, a challenge, a hand reaching out. It is for congregations who are ready to begin a dialogue about the concerns of lesbians, bisexual, transgendered and gay men in the United Church and is also about creating an inclusive faith community for all, regardless ... http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/04/29/upcoming-affirming-congregation-meetings/ As you look in your garden, please consider what perennials you could divide to sell at our Perennial Sale, Wednesday, May 21, 6:30–8:30 p.m. No plants? Perhaps you could bring us some old margarine containers or plants pots within the next 2 weeks so our green-thumbed members could use them ... http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/04/29/perennial-sale-coming-up-may-21/ Bursaries are available through the Finance and Extension Board of the Montreal Presbytery for students registered in Canadian Universities and post-secondary institutions who are active members in Congregations in both Montreal Presbytery and Consistoire Laurentian. Call our Presbytery rep., Renate Sutherland (514 695-1970), for more information or see http://www.montrealpresbytery.ca What’s ... http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/04/29/student-bursaries-available/ Where: Offsite at Beaurepaire United Church When: May 3, 2008 from 9:00-3:00-ish Freewill Offering to cover lunch and expenses. http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/04/29/visioning-retreat/ The God in Whom We Live and Move and Have our Being Acts 17:22-31 Paul in speaking in Athens describes the God who created the world and everything in it, who is the universal giver of life and breath to all that lives, who created the diversity of people on the earth, ... http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/04/29/april-27-2008/ A Sacred Place Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 1 Peter 2:4-10 John 14:1-4 Each of our Scriptures are written for people living in the midst of trying times and they all, in their own way, speak about a sacred place...a place where the holy and the human encounter. The Psalmist in a time of crisis and ... http://www.cedarparkunited.org/2008/04/29/april-20-2008/