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Our Little Pantry is emptied and refilled almost every day of the year. Drop by and check it out!
Most people think of Forest Hill as a neighbourhood of leafy trees, detached homes and people earning high incomes. What many people do not realize is that Forest Hill is also home to people on fixed incomes, immigrants and people who do not earn high salaries. These people may live in a home on a leafy street, an apartment building or in Toronto Community Housing. A characteristic they all share is the fact inflation is creating financial stress in their lives and may be contributing to food insecurity.
Church School Sundays at 11am
September - June
In-person Church School is offered September - June. Please bring your kids with you to church at 11am. They'll go out with Ann Fraser, a certified Early Childhood Educator, about 10 minutes after the beginning of the Worship Service.
Over the summer months we take a break from church school programming, but we continue to offer basic child care with a certified Early Childhood Educator.
Federal Election is on April 28th, 2025
This is the moment to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8)
As faith communities, and registered charities, we don’t promote or critique only one party. We address all of them, we focus on the effect of social policies, and we expect accountability of all of them.Below are some suggested principles and issue-specific resources to help people of faith engage the federal election process.Download a copy of our Federal Election Denominational Statement, listen to a video message from General Secretary, the Rev. Michael Blair, emphasizing the importance to vote with the values of faith, and read the news release
Musings -- weekly reflections on Scripture
We're pleased to introduce this new feature to our website.
I began writing these short essays for our weekly e-newsletter. They served two purposes: First, they gave me an initial run at the Scripture that I would be preaching on -- an opportunity to start thinking about the spiritual and life questions that the sermon might address. Second, they serve as advertising; an invitation to folks to join us on Sunday morning and see how my thinking has developed between the first take on my questions and the final sermon that gets delivered.
We've started collecting these at this website so that people who aren't already subscribed to our newsletter can get a sense of what's coming up in worship. Feel free to check back weekly to see the reflection for the week, or click here to subscribe to our email newsletter and have these delivered into your inbox every Friday
Musings are available from the main menu of our website. The one reflecting the texts for next Sunday is intended to appear on the front page of our website each week.
Rev. Stephen Fetter
Events in our Region
Our Congregation is a member of the Shining Waters Regional Council, and there are events hosted by our neighbouring congregations which are varied and exciting. Check out what our neighbours are doing!
April 27, 2025
Second Sunday of Easter
Annual Congregational Meeting
A New Presence
This week’s Scripture is “the first supper.”
I don’t hear it called by that title very much – but essentially that’s what it was. The first supper that Jesus shared with his disciples after the resurrection.
The setting is Sunday evening on the first Easter. Cleopas and an unnamed disciple (maybe his wife?) are travelling from Jerusalem to Emmaus, grieving the death of Jesus and unaware of what the women had seen at his grave earlier that day, when they encounter a stranger on the road. They end up talking together about all that happened, and inviting the stranger to stay with them for dinner. It’s only in the breaking of the bread that they recognize the stranger was, in fact, the Risen Christ himself. It’s the first of countless meals Jesus has eaten with his followers ever since.