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Thanks for Supporting our "Little Free Pantry"
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.
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!
May 18, 2025
Fifth Sunday of Easter
New Rules
What do you do when the Bible addresses a problem we simply don’t care about? Does that mean we should just find some other passage to ponder?
Maybe.
But maybe there’s more at stake than first appears.
This week’s reading from Acts wrestles with the question of how Jewish you have to be in order to be a Christian. That’s not a question I’ve ever lost a second of sleep about! How crazy to suggest, in our era, that people should have to eat like Jews in order to be acceptable in the church!
Of course as the gospel began to spread beyond the bounds of Jesus’ initial Jewish audience in Galilee, you can see why it might have been an issue ‘way back when. After all, just about everyone Jesus preached to was Jewish. Like him, they lived near the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Like him, they were rural, and living on the margins. Historically, you can see why folks like that would have been surprised to find non-Jews interested in what Jesus had to say. Historically, you can see why they might have expected those non-Jews to start eating kosher and worshipping at the Jerusalem Temple, just like he did. Just like they did. Historically, it’s a rather odd thing that anybody other than rural Galilean Jews would have been even interested in Jesus’ message.