Cedar Park United
Cedar Park United is on the progressive end of the Christian neighbourhood, taking the Bible seriously, but not literally, engaging the sciences and arts in our ways of following Jesus, and learning and re-learning how to live with respect in Creation, while creating as wide a welcome as we can for all who seek wisdom, belonging, and common purpose around the Dream of God for the world. We're so glad you're here!
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Today, you’ll hear a retrospective of gratitude from lay leader Elizabeth Chown Lafreniere on the last Sunday before the arrival of our new lead minister, and before we begin two months of sharing worship with our local cluster of United Churches. As she looks back over the past year of ministry at Cedar Park United, Elizabeth says, “Our reward for welcoming and being welcomed is God’s grace: the joy of knowing an...
This was Jessica Gauthier's last sermon at Cedar Park United before she headed out on her next adventure. The text, from Romans 6 asks whether in order to receive more of God's grace, we should sin more! In this sermon, listen as Jessica flips the script and hear those words not as a threat but as an invitation for us to live as our authentic selves.
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Jesus sends us out to be conspirators of grace. All we need is Love! In today’s reflection, Rev. Cathy Hamilton reminds us that Jesus did not come to solve humanity's problems for us, but rather to encourage and empower us to solve them. Nothing, she says, is impossible with God. All you need is love.
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Today, we jump into a follow-up interview with Jessica Gauthier, a roundtable discussion as she prepares to embark on the next pathway of her pastoral ministry. Our first interview with Jessica was back in September 2025:
Around the table with Jessica were Joanne Kalan, Amy Barratt and Martha Randy.
The conversation turned to song at several moments. We gratefully acknowledge these musicians for their inspiration:
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Today we hear Abram’s threshold story: a call to leave, to trust, and to become a blessing. In this threshold time at Cedar Park United, faith means thinking carefully, praying honestly, learning from what has been, receiving what is new, and taking the next step together. In her next-to-last Sunday with this community of faith, Pastoral Minister Jessica Gauthier invites us to open ourselves to the love that leads us onward.
On this Trinity Sunday, we gather in the mystery of God who creates, accompanies, and renews. We open our senses to joy, recognition, and hope as we tell the story of Mary’s visit to Elizabeth. We celebrate Love that lifts the lowly, restores community, and turns the world toward mercy. In her reflection, Pastoral Minister Jessica Gauthier reminds us that Love knocks. Love waits. Love recognizes. Love sings.
In her Ascension Sunday reflection, Pastoral Minister Jessica Gauthier notes that “Out of sight, out of mind.” is usually said as a criticism, naming something painfully human: that when someone or something disappears from view, we may begin to forget. Not because we stopped caring, but because attention is fragile. We are shaped by what is in front of us. And, she says, that is one of the questions Ascension places be...
In her reflection on God’s gift of the Holy Spirit, today’s lay worship leader, Susan Winn, invites us to remember that the Holy Spirit dwells within each of us, is there to guide us, and is always present to remind us of Jesus’ teachings. When we are open to God’s will for us, and aware of God’s presence in our lives, we may come to see that God is in constant communication with us. What a gift indeed...
Our guest speaker in worship today was Julia Asselstine, Executive Director of Literacy Unlimited, a non-profit serving English-speaking families, youth, adults and seniors from Verdun to the Ontario border. Literacy, Julia explained, is agency; it is power; it is allowing people to fully participate in society. If you can read and write, you can fly like a bird, and nobody can stop you. This is the truth about literacy.
We are not alone. We do not always see where the path is going, or how it will unfold. Yet the One who walks with us has already taken this path. Pastoral Minister Jessica Gauthier invites us to remember: The Good Shepherd leads us into life.
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The first Sunday after Easter is “Holy Humour Sunday”. Today, lay worship leader Elizabeth Chown Lafreniere invites us to walk with Thomas, and all those who doubt, or hesitate, or feel a little bit out of step. But first, we’ll sing and dance. Hear the scriptures readings from the livestream recording.
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Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! On Easter morning, what was buried begins to rise. New life unfolds, even before we can see it clearly. We gather at the table where death and life meet: where love is broken and shared, and nothing is lost to God. On this Easter Sunday, with Pastoral Minister Jessica Gauthier we rise together in life made anew.
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“Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!” Branches rise. Voices shout. The city stirs. The Way becomes a public journey. Yet, even in the crowd, the Way is chosen in love. On this sixth Sunday of Lent, Palm Sunday, Pastoral Minister Jessica Gauthier asks, What does it mean to walk with the One who abides?
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On this fifth Sunday of Lent, we walk with the knowledge that the human life of Jesus is close to completion. Death is near.
Yet, we enter spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The dying in the winter transforms into rebirth. Snow becomes water again, even as the Southern Hemisphere enters the Fall season, slowing down and dying. The whole planet lives into death and rebirth simultaneously. And so do we. Worship leader Joanne Kal...
Lent is a spiritual journey of prayer, honesty, and renewal. We remember both our fragility and our belovedness. Though the journey may sometimes feel solitary, we do not walk it alone. Jesus goes before us, leading us on the Way that leads to life. Today, on this fourth Sunday in Lent, Rev. Cathy Hamilton invites us to meet Nicodemus and a Samaritan woman, two who are searching for new life.
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We hunger for certainty and thirst for relief in this season of Lent. And yet, it is in the wilderness that God meets us –and communities experience wilderness seasons, too. Times of change and uncertainty. Moments when the question rises again: Is God among us… or not? Sometimes the answer only becomes clear when we look back.
We check the rear-view mirror of our shared life and begin to notice things.
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On this second Sunday of Lent, we gather in faith that spring is near, that each seed of justice will grow, that caring for the homeless, feeding the hungry, and nurturing community moves the world towards compassion, even if it is beyond what we can see.
Our guest speaker, Kirstie Jagoe, speaks to this from her perspective as the founder of the Montreal-based charity Bread and Beyond. During the COVID lockdown, she began supportin...
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Lent is a spiritual journey of prayer, honesty, and renewal. We remember both our fragility and our belovedness. Though the journey may sometimes feel solitary, we do not walk it alone. Jesus goes before us, leading us on the Way that leads to life. On this first Sunday of Lent, Pastoral Minister Jessica Gauthier invites us to consider that this season is not meant for us to change who ...
The Transfiguration is a pivotal New Testament story where Jesus becomes radiant with divine glory on a mountain. Together with Peter, James, and John, guest worship leader Vincent Randy invites us all to reflect on its deeper meaning for our lives.
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It is a wondrous thing to be able to share salt and light. Today, Rev. Cathy Hamilton invites us all to consider what the world could be like if each of us used the valuable salt we have been given to restore sanity– to be joyous and hopeful, generous, creative and kind. Just imagine!
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