Join University of Victoria Music students Amy Collins, Jeff Poynter and friends for a contemporary worship service on the first Sunday of each month at 4:00 pm in the chapel. All are welcome to this spirit and music filled worship service. Young Adults usually meet for a shared supper at 6 pm. This service start up again in October 2010.
Are you looking for a contemplative way to reflect on your week? This is an ecumenical form of prayer accessible to all in a peaceful atmosphere of meditative chants. Come and join us at a Prayer in the Style of Taizé service. Taizé services are offered by the Downtown Churches Association once a month between September and May. To find the date and location of this month’s service, click on Events. All are welcome to attend this candlelit ecumenical prayer and music filled service.
Can’t attend a service, but want to experience the meditative atmosphere of Taizé? Listen to a few minutes of prayer with song and a bible verse recorded live in Taizé, France, courtesy of St. Stephen’s Anglican Church. Some samples of music used in services can also be found on the website of Elk Lake Baptist Church.
For more information, please contact Harry Ray of the DCA Taize Working Committee by email or Janet Gray, Committee chair, by phone at (250) 478-5066. For more information on the Taizé community and its programs, prayers, and songs, see: www.taize.fr/en.
The United Church Women prepare three seasonal worship services at 11:00 a.m. on a Monday preceding Thanksgiving, Advent, and Lent. Members of our own congregation, other downtown churches and visitors are all invited to attend.
A time of refreshments and fellowship begins at 10:00 a.m.
Celtic spirituality challenges the spirit and soothes the soul.
On the first Friday of the month from October to May, First†Metropolitan United Church offers a Celtic Vespers service in the chapel. This is a quiet, meditative service of prayer and song. The service is based on the resources of the Iona Community and uses Gaelic melodies.
Celtic Christianity: Island Pilgrims, based in Victoria, BC, are dedicated to deepen our own knowledge of all aspects of Celtic Christianity and to share its rich heritage with others.
Date: Dec 7, 2009
Time(s): 10:00 am coffee and goodies, worship at 11:00
Location: First†Metropolitan United Church
This annual service is sonsored by the Women’s Ministry Network and welcomes those from neighbouring churches to a morning of conversation, coffee and festive goodies, followed by a worship service at 11:00 am. The theme this year is “Born of a Woman,” honouring all women and especially at this time of the year, Mary, the mother of Jesus. All friends and interested folk are invited to join us to ready ourselves for Christmas and the arrival of the Christ Child.