Thank You Marion

On Marion's Musical Rest
And now the time grows near, I fear,
To say farewell to someone dear.
For Marion, who helped us sing,
For bluer skies has taken wing.
A love of music she inspires;
That's why we're sorry she retires.
From us, she coaxed forth dulcet tones,
When sharp or flat, she seldom groaned.
Good memories will always shine
Of choir parties -- oft with wine --
And friendships that will ever last
E'en though her choir leading's past.
Marion's not left us in the lurch,
Since we'll still see her here at church!
Love always, Kristin Vilcius

Annual Roast Beef Dinner Saturday Nov 19

Buffet Roast Beef Dinner
Saturday Nov. 19, 2011 Open Seating 5:00-8:00 pm
Located at 12274 Guelph Line - 9 Km N of 401
Adult $20 Student $10 Child (5-11) $5 Pre-school Free
Ebenezer United Church
Ticket Reservations: (905) 854-2423 (519) 822-4374
+ Silent Auction

Building of a new church (1915)

Spring tears a strip of brown through the snow
And she swallows winter in greens
Her glare is intense and lingers
the slumbering she strips of their quilts
and those who have drawn the blind are refused comfort.

She is a tyrant, waking everyone in the house
She is like Ebenezer Scrooge
Punctual, incessant, exacting, merciless
Single-minded like a stone.

Spring came tearing in one Sunday after Church in 1915.
Punctual, merciless, incessant
raising roof and rafters, knocking out windows
untethering the air inside that ligered long over Bibles and Hymnals
untethering the air that slumbered on wooden pew and hung from banners
untethering like a dog whose collar stretched in a great argument with 100 cats

The dog off and gone forever, becoming an idea; a memory…only.
The old frame church became distant that day; reduced to…talk.
And spring, like Ebenezer Scrooge
Flinging the window open, and with unrestrained laughter.
Broadcasted this disturbance as a sign of new life!
She imagines life so narrowly; like a stone.

By the time the last load of red bricks arrived behind the sweating horses;
By the time the threshold was leveled out,
and the great wooden doors hung closed in their iron holsters spooning
the cool skin of a robust autumn
Spring had withdrawn like a mortal dictator.
Her torment faded like the old frame church had
when it slipped away seven months before.
Then on Sunday in December of 1915
The clergy in their black robes, glided to the communion rail,
with the children of the Most High stirring behind in joyful procession
until the mortar around the cornerstones was consecrated into a timeless
stillness
dreaming the church as one seamless stone
This Ebenezer imagined its December life as a stone of help,
a quiet holding where flesh could cling to its steady presence
a hermitage of the Eternal, and a rock for the sojourners to unfurl their lives upon.

Rev. Daryl Webber, B.A., M. Div.

Kairos Guelph - Nov 23, 2011

Changing the Climate with Canada's Indigenous Peoples is the subject of a public event co-hosted by Kairos Guelph and St. James the Apostle Church:

Wed., Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m.  

Changing the Climate with Canada's Indigenous Peoples  

Building partnership with a northern community. 
Climate change impacts on Labrador Inuit community well-being.  


Speakers: 
Rev. Marty Molengraaf, Duff's Presbyterian Church
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, U of G.  
At St. James the Apostle Anglican Church, Glasgow St. at Paisley.
Free - all welcome.

Sponsored by KAIROS Guelph and St. James Church.

Combined Summer Worship Schedule

Combined Summer Worship Schedule
10:00 a.m. unless otherwise noted

Jul 17              Eden Mills Anniversary service, Eden Mills

Jul 24              Ebenezer

Jul 31              Eramosa Eden Retreat Center Service of Meditation on the Eramosa
River (Eden Mills)

Aug 7               Ebenezer

Aug 14             Eden Mills

Aug 21             Ebenezer

Aug 28             Eden Mills

Sep 4               Ebenezer

Sep11              Regular Services 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. (Confirmation Sunday)

Eden Mills 150th Anniversary Sunday, July 17, 2011 - 10:00 a.m.

Eden Mills United Church
150th Anniversary
Sunday, July 17, 2011 - 10:00 a.m.
Guest Speaker - Mardi Tyndal
Moderator, The United Church of Canada
Everyone welcome.

Baking bread

Today, April 3rd, 2011, we bring the breads that we have baked to the service. We will share some of this bread as we did the previous Sundays of Lent. We also will bring some to the homes of the members we haven't seen for a while. To remind them that we do not forget them and that we would like to see them again soon.

New Post: Sermon January 16, 2011

Please see the new posting of Rev. Daryl Webber's Sermon January 16, 2011 by following the linked page above.

Remembrance Service, Nov. 7th, 2010

Prayers offered by the congregation during the remembrance service. (objects were offered to choose from and think of a prayer inspired by those ordinary objects)
"We pray that nobody has to fight and die by the sword and/or by violence. We pray for peace"

"My grand-father drove a tank in WW II. One day their tank was hit and his partner died and my grandpa was badly burned and spent months in the hospital. Rest in peace"

"Thanks for Reese and Hudson. Thanks be for the young generation, with them rests the hope to abstain from the war"

"Thank you God for the Wright Brothers'invention [plane]; Miracle of flight, deliverer of food, medecine, water, human help. Please help us prevent the deliverer of devastation, bombing, suicide mission, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Gulf Oil Wells, Twin Towers. May we not repeat our mistakes."

"The Tennis ball, we pray that the children can play in the streets again without having to worry about war."

"Building blocks: we pray for those who have to rebuild lives, homes, communities, cities, etc, after wars. God be with you and bring you strength, love and peace."

"Dove: For peace- shows that God is with us- new beginning-respect. Represents UN."

"All women without a voice in countries where they are silenced and oppressed, hidden behind their veils."

"My father's generation, who were young and playful, who shouldered duty and gave their lives for all."

Popcorn: With popcorn in the bowl beside me, before the fireplace and TV, beneath the roof made of chipboard and dry wall. I have eaten that popcornwatching movies where there are children of war and child-soldiers, diamond cut from the earth by the blood of slaves brutalized; Mr and Mrs Smith set up to kill each other. Popcorn and tragedies easily consummed harder yet is the taste the kernel of peace and to rear ourselves up in the spirit. Help us, oh! God! Help those who are caught up in the theater of war."

Special Events

Join us, family, friends, neighbours, and all visitors
 for

More Special Events to come

STAY TUNED!

Marion Samuel-Stevens

Music Director

Ebenezer United Church

12274 Guelph Line, Brookville

(9 km N of 401)

where we make every Sunday a "Special Event!"

Ebenezer United Church

Ebenezer United Church is located in a rural area at 12274 Guelph Line, approximately 9 km N of Campbellville. The congregation dates back to 1823 when early pioneer settlers first gathered to worship God once every two weeks in the home of William Trudgeon. For more history and current information, visit the Ebenezer page.
Our worship service is at 10:30 a.m.

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Rental Information
for a very reasonable rent
- call Ellen Gilbert, 519.856.4857

Assembly Hall

• Suitable for business, recreational, social, and / or banquet activities, etc.

• bright open space - capacity of 250 people (seating for 150)

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Eden Mills United Church

In the rural hamlet of Eden Mills, population approximately 300, Eden Mills United Church is nestled in the trees. A small, but vibrant, congregation, we are involved in a number of outreach activities. Sunday worship takes on an informal atmosphere with frequent participation by church and Sunday school members. We welcome visitors, whether local residents or "just passing through." Come and join us for an uplifting hour followed by coffee and fellowship. For more information, call the Allen's at 519.856.1071. Eden Mills page.

Our worship service is at 9:00 a.m.