Prairie to Pine Regional Council

Learning on the Way: Continuing Education Opportunity for LLWLs
2021-05-04 18:00 - 2021-06-01 19:30, 2021-05-12 12:30 - 2021-07-14 13:00 (America/Winnipeg)
Tuesdays, March 2, April 6, May 4 at 7:00 pm ET, 6:00 pm CT ,4:00 pm PT
or Wednesdays, March 10, April 14, May 12 at 1:30 ET, 12:30 pm CT, 10:30 am PT
These sessions will run for 90 minutes.
Course Description: These round table discussions are designed to provide continuing support and education for people who are currently serving the church as Licensed Lay Worship Leaders. If you’ve already received your training and been licensed by your Regional Council to serve in this way, join us to go a little deeper in the themes of the season, and connect with others who are also leading worship in the same ways.
These discussion groups will have a minimum of 6 persons and a max of 10, and will be led by experienced leaders from our Online Licensed Lay Worship Leader’s training program. Cost of $ 34.99 with a $5.00 discount for online registration. For more information and to register please go to the United-in-learning website:
https://www.united-in-learning.com/index.php/webinars/379-learning-on-the-way-resourcing-for-llwl-s

Ministry Personnel Support Gathering
2021-05-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-06-01 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-06-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-06-29 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-27 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-08-10 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-08-24 15:00 - 17:00 and 7 more dates
Gatherings will be held every two weeks on Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. Here is the Zoom link information.

Prairie to Pine regional meeting
2021-05-28 09:00 - 17:00, 2021-05-29 09:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Our annual community, worship and decision-making meeting will be entirely online. All welcome. Look for all information at: https://prairietopinerc.ca/regional-council-meeting/
Registration now open! https://form.jotform.com/211086412237246

Virtual Games Night for Prairie to Pine!
2021-05-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
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 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.

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.

Fundraiser for Young United: Theatre by Zoom!
2021-06-25 19:30 - 21:00, 2021-06-27 14:30 - 16:30 | Zoom
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, 2021-06-27 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.

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!

Western Intercultural Network conversation and AGM
2021-11-02 13:30 - 15:00 | Zoom
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.

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.

Affirming get together for the Regional Council
2021-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
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.
