Sunday, August 21 - Fairy Trails

Sunday, August 21 at 11:00 a.m. — FAIRY TRAILS — Other people take vacations; I go on pilgrimages. This summer, I wandered through the lands of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, looking for traces of tales and harbingers of truth. Rev. Stefan M. Jonasson will preach.

Gimli Unitarian Church is located on Second Avenue, just north of Centre Street. Dress is casual — after all, it's cottage season!— and light refreshments are served following the service.

Sunday, July 31 - Music of the Heart

Sunday, July 31 at 11:00 a.m. - MUSIC OF THE HEART – According to an old joke, Unitarian Universalists have a hard time singing in unison because we are continually reading ahead to check that we agree with the lyrics. This service explores how, whether or not it includes words, music has the potential to uniquely give voice to the spirit. Rev. Millie Rochester is minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg.

Gimli Unitarian Church is located on Second Avenue, just north of Centre Street. Dress is casual — after all, it's cottage season!— and light refreshments are served following the service.

Claire Rudyk will preach on Sunday, August 7, and Rev. Stefan Jonasson will return to the pulpit for the remaining Sundays this summer: August 21 and September 4.

Sunday, July 17 - A Magical Mystery Tour!

Sunday, July 17 at 11:00 a.m. — TÖFRANDI RÁÐGÁTA FERЗMAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR — Rev. Wayne Arnason and Rev. Kathleen Rolenz have just returned from a week on a tour bus, driving around Iceland with fifty-nine relatives! Their magical mystery tour resulted in some life lessons about lineage, heritage, family, and patience -- all of which they will share this Sunday morning.

Gimli Unitarian Church is located on Second Avenue, just north of Centre Street. Dress is casual — after all, it's cottage season! — and light refreshments are served following the service.

Rev. Millie Rochester will preach on Sunday, July 31, during the Icelandic Festival long weekend. The summer season will continue with services on August 7, August 21 and September 4.

Summer Services at Gimli Commence July 3rd

Summer services will resume at the Gimli Unitarian Church on Sunday, July 3 at 11:00 a.m., and continue on the "odd Sundays" of the month until Labour Day.

Rev. Stefan Jonasson will preach at the opening service: Are You Sure About That? -- In his book On Being Certain, neurologist and novelist Robert A. Burton explores the murky world of how and why we believe we are right—even when we’re wrong! Does our sense of certainty flow from our abilities to reason and understand? Or are we simply hardwired to believe?

On July 17, Rev. Wayne Arnason and Rev. Kathleen Rolenz will take people on a Töfrandi ráðgáta ferð—Magical Mystery Tour – They will have just returned from a week on a tour bus, driving around Iceland with fifty-nine relatives! Their magical mystery tour is sure to result some life lessons about lineage, heritage, family, and patience?

Rev. Millie Rochester will preach of Sunday, July 31, during the Icelandic Festival long weekend. The summer season will continue with services on August 7, August 21 and September 4.

Check the Intelake Unitarians' website for service details at http://www.interlakeunitarians.blogspot.com/.

The historic Gimli Unitarian Church is located on Second Avenue, just north of Centre Street.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Sunday, May 15, at 11:00 a.m. – OUR KINDRED FELLOWSHIPS – Fifty years ago on this day, the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America consolidated to establish the Unitarian Universalist Association. We will examine the events that brought together these two distinctive liberal religious traditions and reflect of upon the fruits of their merger. Rev. Stefan Jonasson will preach.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Sunday, April 17, at 11:00 a.m. – DOES THE HISTORICAL JESUS REALLY MATTER? – On the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Jesus Seminar last fall, Peter Laarman suggested it was a “good time to ask what difference it makes when the Jesus of history turns out to be considerably more interesting than the myth-encrusted Christ created by the church over the centuries. Or does it make any difference at all?” As long as truth matters, and as long as Jesus is claimed as an authority in both politics and religion, then the search to uncover the Jesus of history does indeed matter. Rev. Stefan Jonasson will preach.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Sunday, March 20, at 11:00 a.m. - THE ART OF LOVING - Don Ayre recalls the extremes of idealism and realism of the 60s and 70s and the rhetoric of the "Make Love, Not War" era. Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving was one of the books that sparked the movement but it was lost in the violence of the antiwar protests and demonstrations against the "system." Today there is a renewed call for the development of a more caring global community which will reactivate the need for the art of loving. Unitarian Universalism could play a key role. Our pulpit guest this morning will be Don Ayre of Winnipeg.