A Time for Waiting

Advent is traditionally a time for waiting—for Christmas celebrations for the children, for the celebration of the miracle of birth and of Jesus’s birth in particular, and for many Christians, a reminder of the waiting for Jesus’s coming again—for the fulfillment of the hope and promise he brought.

This is also a season of waiting for the Bathurst community; waiting for a new minister to join us, and waiting to see the outcome of our deliberations about our call and future mission. Our services in Advent reflect our different forms of waiting, and the joy and celebration we will share with the arrival of Christmas.

Unless otherwise noted below, services are held Sunday mornings at 10:30, in the chapel at Trinity St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor St. W.

Advent and Christmas services this year include:

• Sunday, December 16
  Advent 3: Christmas Choral Service

• Tuesday, December 18, 7:00 p.m.
  Carols in a minor key
  Bloor St. United Church, 300 Bloor St. W.

• Sunday, December 23
  Christmas Breakfast:Christmas stories and carols
  10:00 am

• Monday, December 24
  Christmas Eve with Bloor St. U.C., 300 Bloor St. W.
  • 7:00 p.m. - All ages candlelight service

  • 10:00 p.m. - Candlelight communion

• Sunday, December 30
  Bathurst will be joining worship with College St. U.C. [no service in the TSP chapel]
  College St. U.C., 454 College St.
  10:30 am

• Sunday, January 6, 2019
  Epiphany and Communion

Previous services in this series included:

• Sunday, December 9
  Advent 2: Waiting in Darkness, liturgy from the Iona Community
  Congregational Meeting

• Sunday, December 2
  Advent 1: Messy Church on the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary

What Faith Means for Me ...

This fall, the Bathurst community continues its search for a new minister. At the same time, through the '2020 Project', we are seeking to understand the changing nature of church in the 21st century, and how we are called to serve our broader community.

In the light of the changes underway, our fall series will focus on what faith means to us as members of a spiritual community, with reflections from members and also from outside voices involved in our changing neighbourhood.

Services are held Sunday mornings at 10:30, in the chapel at Trinity St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor St. W.

The next service in this series is:

• Sunday, November 25
  On the Ground in Palestine
  Judi McCallum"

Previous services in this series included:

• Sunday, November 17
  What Faith Means to Me
  Sharon Goodier

• Sunday, November 11, Remembrance Day
  War and Peace
  Reg McQuaid offers a reflection titled ""The Red Poppy and the White Poppy"

• Sunday, November 4
  "Being a Community of Faith"
  A Reflection by our Volunteer Pastoral Associate, Frances Combs

• Sunday, October 14
  What Faith Means to Me ...
  Members of the Bathurst community

• Sunday, October 21
  Faith in the life of the Pontes de Graça Community
  Ricardo Silva