Prairie to Pine Regional Council

Ministry Personnel Support Gathering
2023-06-27 15:00, 2023-06-13 15:00, 2023-05-30 15:00, 2023-05-16 15:00, 2022-01-25 15:00 (America/Winnipeg)
Gatherings will be held every two weeks on Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. Here is the Zoom link information.

Pastoral Relations Commission meeting
2023-06-13 10:00, 2022-02-08 10:00

Regional Council Annual Meeting
2022-05-07 09:00 - 17:00, 2022-05-06 18:00

Where They Come From: A Meditation on Eleanor Rigby
2022-04-01 19:30 - 21:30
Where They Come From: A Meditation on Eleanor Rigby
In 1966, Paul McCartney wrote a remarkable song—Eleanor Rigby. Over the ensuing decades, fascination with Eleanor and Father McKenzie has only grown. Who were they? Why were they lonely?
This year, Interesting Theatre will provide our answers with Where They Come From: A Meditation on Eleanor Rigby, written and directed by Tim Higgins.
Act One will feature the Haskins Street Band as they explore the musical influences that informed the Fab Four’s remarkable creativity and led them to Eleanor.
In Act Two, the company of Interesting Theatre tackles the questions more directly. The story is set in Winnipeg, in the winter of 1920. Supported by The Elleston Trio, you’ll watch two lives become intertwined in ways that neither could have imagined.
Where They Come From: A Meditation on Eleanor Rigby will be staged in the Sanctuary of Young United Church, 222 Furby Street, on Friday and Saturday, April 1st and 2nd. Curtain is 7:30 both nights. Tickets are $20 (plus agency fees) and are available on EventBrite. Proof of vaccination will be required. Running time approx. two hours.
Here is the link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/where-they-come-from-a-meditation-on-eleanor-rigby-tickets-277074095077
Universal questions. Unforgettable characters. Amazing music. Join us for Where They Come From: A Meditation on Eleanor Rigby. All proceeds go to the work of Young United Church in the West Broadway neighbourhood. Donations gratefully accepted.

Refugee support and sponsorship get together
2022-03-17 19:30 - 21:00 | Zoom, Canada
17 March 2022, 7:30PM Central Daylight.
This has been a strange and difficult two years for refugee support and advocacy. Come out for support, conversation, and updates. We will be joined by Khwaka Kukubo, General Council Refugee Program Advisor, so bring your questions! Whether you’re new to this or have been involved for years please join us. Sponsored by the Living Skies Refugee Task Group. Invited: Northern Spirit, Living Skies, and Prairie to Pine Regional Councils, and further afield if you wish. All welcome. Register here (this gives you the link and reminders automatically).

CCS Friday – Becoming an Anti-Racist Church
2022-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, Canada
Join an online conversation to explore more about what it might mean to become an anti-racist church. How does an organization continue the process of institutional change to become a more intentionally anti-racist one? Together, we’ll explore a continuum for becoming an anti-racism organization as well as the United Church’s national anti-racism action plan. The conversation will be facilitated by Adele Halliday who is the Anti-Racism and Equity Lead staff at the United Church’s General Council Office. An experienced anti-racism educator, workshop leader, and award-winning writer, Adele has been involved in anti-racism work with churches in Canada and beyond for many years. She is currently staff resource to the United Church’s Anti-Racism Common Table. She holds a Master of Education as well as a Master of Theological Studies degree, and is currently studying towards a Doctor of Education.
You can register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcuihqzspHtTmzSydBr3p3D-HMsqeODZi
CCS Friday conversations are free. If you feel like making a donation to the Centre for Christian Studies, that’s always appreciated. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/5260

Zeebu 2022 | A Virtual Games Night
2022-02-12 18:30 - 21:30 | via Zoom
Zeebu 2022: A Virtual Games Night
Join us for fellowship, worship, and games!
Game night treats will be mailed to youth who register by February 4th
Saturday February 12th, 6:30 -9:30 PM via Zoom
Ages: Grades 7 to Young Adult
Register Here!

Regional Council Executive
2022-02-03 04:00

Walking with the Thunderbirdz
2022-02-01 17:45 - 21:00 | Fenced parking area behind Central Neighbourhoods at 231 Isabel Street, 231 Isabel Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
For youth, families and youth groups as well as adults who want to explore the idea of bringing a youth group.
Meeting in parking lot at 5:45 to organize ourselves for a 6pm walk. Bring a back-pack to carry items we will hand out. Additional details in registration.
Register by clicking here.
Questions: Contact Twila 204-781-8124

Conversations about Colloborative Ministry
2022-01-29 10:00 - 13:00
The Pastoral Relations Commission of Prairie to Pine Regional Council invites representatives from Communities of Faith interested in or curious about exploring the sharing of ministry with other communities of faith through Collaborative Ministry arrangements. This is an information session and beginnings of conversations for those places that have Ministry Personnel or trained lay leadership (LLWLs or Congregational Designated Ministers) and those places who need Ministry Personnel or trained lay leadership. For more information please contact the Pastoral Relations Minister, Judy Hare (jhare@united-church.ca or 204-421-8151).

Travelling Youth Group
2021-12-10 19:00 - 21:00 | St. Mary’s Road United Church, 613 St. Mary's Road, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
An Advent Travelling Youth Night
Join us at St. Mary’s Road United Church at 613 St. Mary’s Road from 7-9pm
Activities will include games, a Christmas movie clip, art, advent candle-lighting worship, music and snack
Registration: https://form.jotform.com/213267336629057?mc_cid=af718d3865&mc_eid=97e9cd608c

Affirming get together for the Regional Council
2021-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom, Canada
Affirm United S’affirmer Ensemble
Affirming get together, 18 November, 7:00-8:30 PM (CST). Calling all Two Spirit and LGBTQIA+ Affirming, in-process, and seriously curious ministries! Join the Regional Equity and Diversity Committee for a get to know each other and support time together. Bring your good news, your questions, and your struggles to this time of prayer and conversation.
Click here to register in advance.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Chicken Take Out Supper
2021-11-13 04:30 - 06:30
A Chicken Take-Out supper will be held on November 13th, as a fundraiser for Carberry United Church. Pre-Order your take out meal by November 5th. Cost is $15/meal. To Order Call or Text Hazel at 841-2419, Call Brenda at 834-2913 or Message Carberry United Church via Facebook. Meals can be picked up curbside from the church from 4:30-6:30 on November 13th.

Western Intercultural Network conversation and AGM
2021-11-02 13:30 - 15:00 | Zoom, Canada
Encountering the Intercultural Iceberg: the Clergy Collar! Speakers Rev Lee Spice, Rev Piotr (Peter) Strzelecki VDM, and resource people from the WIMN executive, followed by conversation and a short AGM for the Network.

Join the Western Intercultural Ministry Network as we explore the cultural iceberg –specifically, the clergy collar. What values, histories, stories, power dynamics lie below the surface and the water lines of our lives when we see the clergy collar? Let’s talk Intercollartural Ministry together! (Scroll down for a fuller introduction.)
All welcome- all identities and all people on the intercultural learning journey. Click here to see the mandate and terms of reference for our network.
Our network crosses many time zones. Here’s our timing: 11:30AM – 1:30PM (PDT), BC
12:30PM – 2:30PM (MDT/ CST)- AB and SK
1:30PM – 3:30PM (CDT), MB and parts of NW Ontario
2:30PM – 4:30PM (EDT) ON and QC
Zoom link here.
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Intro to our topic: In intercultural work, we often refer to the cultural iceberg. With icebergs, only the top of the iceberg is visible on top of the ocean, while under the waterline the iceberg may be vast, deep and wide. Often, the most important parts of ourselves may be hidden beneath the waterline, and encountering those can bring us into richer and more respectful relationship with each other. Sometimes, icebergs that look far away from each other on the surface can bump into each other under the water – sometimes gently, sometimes causing damage.
For our coffee and chai conversation this month, we are going to explore the cultural iceberg that we call the clergy collar. On the surface, it might seem like a small thing, a symbol of office that some clergy intentionally wear and others do not. Some church members and people in the general public are comforted by it, others are puzzled by it, others are traumatized by it. Some clergy are comfortable wearing it, and others are not. All of our responses to this visible symbol of office are informed by our values, our histories, our stories, our power in society – those often unseen things that exist beneath the water lines of our lives. Let’s get together for meaningful conversation, and explore who we are as an intercultural community, through the lens of the cultural iceberg we call the clergy collar. Here’s one suggested reading, which may reflect the views of many in the church. And we’ll explore more views together.

Affirming celebration for Pembina Parish
2021-10-10 09:30 - 13:00 | YouTube, Canada
We are pleased to announce that Pembina Parish will be holding a celebration on becoming an Affirming Ministry, Sunday October 10th: 9:30am at Zion-Calvin in Darlingford, and 11:00AM at St Paul’s in Morden. The service will be recorded and will be made available on their YouTube channel. Much gratitude and many blessings to Pembina Parish for this public, intentional, and explicit to the Two Spirit and LGBTQIA+ communities in our church and far beyond!

Fundraiser for Young United: Theatre by Zoom!
2021-06-27 14:30 - 16:30, 2021-06-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Zoom, Canada
We have shot a new play, For Those in Peril on the Sea will be broadcasting it on Zoom.
These stories follow the adventures of that intrepid couple, Elleston and Pamela Liddell. After the events of All Made of Sighs and Tears, (available on Young United’s YouTube channel) the Liddells decide that a relaxing cruise on Lake Winnipeg is just what they need. It’s August, 1908. The weather is beautiful, the scenery stunning, their shipmates congenial and interesting… But then, as Elleston has often remarked: where Liddell goes, adventure follows!
Showtimes will be Friday, June 25th at 7:30 PM and Sunday, June 27th at 2:30PM. For those of you who are Zoom savvy, I’ll be opening the waiting room one half hour early to give theatre-goers the ‘lobby’ experience. The show is 1 hour 20 minutes with a brief intermission. When you’re ready to attend, just click on the link of which ever day you prefer.
Admission will be free but please include a reminder that a donation to Young will be greatly appreciated. This is a fund-raiser, after all! Tax receipts are available for gifts over $10. For the Zoom link, please email timhiggins2@me.com

For Those In Peril On the Sea - An Elleston Liddell Radio Mystery
2021-06-25 19:30 - 22:00 | via Zoom
A radio play written by Tim Higgins and presented by Interesting Theatre. The production will be aired over ZOOM.

Trek to Turkey refugee support
2021-06-14 08:00 - 2021-06-19 20:00 | Virtual
The Young Adults and Youth (YAAY) Committee is inviting you to join us in running or walking to raise money to bring a family of refugees to Winnipeg. If not registering as a walker/runner, please consider donating in support of one of our participants.
Using an app called Pacer, all participants will collectively run or walk a total of 900km between June 14th and June 19th. While Turkey is closer to 9,000km from Winnipeg, we decided that one-tenth of that would be a more doable goal. All participants who raise or donate at least $20 will be eligible to win prizes for three different categories. All participants will also receive a gift of a plant for their participation.
This is one of the fundraisers being put on by the YAAY Committee with support from Young United Church to bring a family of refugees to Winnipeg from Turkey to join their daughter who is already living here. We need to raise a total of $8000, of which we have already raised $2500. All money raised will be used to help the family settle into life in Canada by providing means to access housing, transport and other important resources. Please support this fundraiser by sponsoring any participant in the Trek to Turkey: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/young-united-church/p2p/trecktoturkey/
Prizes will be available for the following categories:
– Participant who raised the most money
– Participant who travelled the most kilometres in the week
– Random draw for all participants who raised at least $20
This is a virtual event, meaning that you can participate from anywhere, as long as you can use the app. Information about how to use the app and how to donate or collect donations will be sent to you after you register.
If you have any questions about the fundraiser and event, please send us an email at p2pyaay@gmail.com.

Prairie to Pine Affirming celebration
2021-05-30 10:00 - 11:30 | YouTube, Canada
All the people of the Regional Council and beyond are invited to gather Under the Same Rainbow in worship to celebrate Prairie to Pine becoming an Affirming ministry. Join us with your rainbows, noisemakers, and communion elements.

An Affirming ministry is a ministry formally designated as fully including and celebrating Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, intersex, bisexual, asexual, lesbian, and gay people, within the Affirm United/ S’affirmer Ensemble movement in the United Church of Canada. Our service will be a public worship. All welcome.

We will gather around an open table in all of our individuality, our many colours, languages, abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, sexualities, and more, to share communion and celebrate Jesus’ love for us all. Together we will commit to the next stage of our Affirming journey together.

This celebration builds on the past and present work of many, including the Affirming presbyteries within the Affirming Conference of Manitoba and NW Ontario, and the many Affirming ministries and people within our Regional Council. More details and information on the link will be sent out soon. For now, please hold the date and discuss in your community of faith whether you wish to bring your entire worshipping community to this service. This Affirming celebration will be part of Prairie to Pine’s annual meeting, May 28-30, and all are welcome.

Virtual Games Night for Prairie to Pine!
2021-05-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom, Canada
Join us Saturday May 29 at 7:00PM Central.
We’re planning a virtual games night as an opportunity to catch up with friends from across the region and have some fun! We’ll be offering several different games in breakout rooms, and have 1 or more breakout rooms available for people who just want to chat with friends, without the distraction of a game! Have a look at our Facebook event here, and please share widely: https://fb.me/e/2gRlR9kKL
You don’t need to be registered for the AGM to attend, and people of any age and with varying technical abilities are welcome. Registrants will receive the link, and are welcome to share it by email with others in your community of faith. (Do not post it on your website or public social media.) If you’re not registering for the meeting, please contact prairietopine@united-church.ca

Prairie to Pine regional meeting
2021-05-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom, Canada
Our annual community, worship and decision-making meeting will be entirely online. All welcome. Look for all information at: https://staging.prairietopinerc.ca/regional-council-meeting/
Registration now open! https://form.jotform.com/211086412237246

Test Event
2021-04-29 | via Zoom
June 4-6 2021, online only. Watch for more details! All details, registration, and documents will be posted at:
https://livingskiesrc.ca/governance-admin/regional-gathering/
For now, please see this invitation from Convener Rob Reed.

Test Event from Julie
2021-04-16 08:00 - 17:00 | First United Church, 23 Van Horne Ave, Dryden, ON, Canada
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