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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.
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If my religion is true, it will stand up to all my questioning; there is no need to fear. But if it is not true, if it is man imposing strictures on God (as did the men of the Christian establishment of Galileo’s day), then I want to be open to God, not to what man says about God.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Once again we invited you to share your deepest questions, your most troublesome doubts, your most daring wonderings. During Lent, we’ll pool your thoughts, and use these to build the themes for the six worship services leading up to Easter Sunday
Here are the questions you've posed:
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!
March 30, 2025
Fourth Sunday of Lent
“Daring Questions: 4. End Times”
Our worship themes in these weeks before Easter grow out of the daring questions you sent me last month. Here are this week’s questions:
- Why was book of Revelation written? How should we view it?
- Would be interested in your “take” on these scriptures and if you too see its predictions coming to pass.
We would have a much easier time understanding the Book of Revelation if it weren’t in the Bible!
If we could read the Book of Revelation alongside a dozen other Jewish apocalyptic books written around the same time, it would be so much easier to compare and contrast it to other writings in the same genre. We wouldn’t imagine for a minute that it should be read as predicting the future; we’d see it for what it really is: one more example of a wild and supernatural style of social commentary – exaggerating the evils of the world and their possible consequences in order to make a point. It’s only because this book appears among our holy texts that we imagine it is intended to be taken as a divine prediction, rather than as a human work of imagination.
Read more: Musings March 27, 2025 -- Daring Questions 4 -- End times