We hope that you will join us for our Sunday morning Christmas worship service.  Together we will raise our voices in rejoicing, we’ll once again listen to the coming of Emmanuel through scripture and story.

This will be a joyfilled morning.  Our children and youth will participate in the service.  We’ll bless the newest addition to The Gathering through child dedication.  We will wait together in expectant hope of the Light among us.

Following the service we will enjoy a time of visiting over Christmas baking.Next Sunday, December 29^th, we will join for 10:30 morning worship at CMCC.

The church office will be closed from noon on December 24^th to December 30^th and again from noon on December 31^st to January 2^nd. Please contact Catherine at catherine@gatheringchurch.ca with any pastoral emergencies.

Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas Community Supper through your prayers, serving, food prep and extending the Peace of Christ to our neighbours. It was a wonderful evening of enjoying a delicious meal, meaningful conversations and a joyfilled atmosphere.

Following our worship service on December 22^nd, we will enjoy Christmas baked goods and hot cider. You are invited to share some Christmas baking if you are able.

This past week, four youth from the community, joined Catherine in cleaning out some “corners” at The Space. We are grateful for their help and for being able to support them in their Community Service hours. 

There are several boxes and some folding chairs that need to be delivered to an MCC Thrift Store. If you are able to help with this, please let Catherine know. It would be one trip for a pick-up truck and two or three trips for a trunk of a car.

On January 26^th, we will join together to celebrate God’s faithfulness to The Gathering.  Twenty years ago, The Gathering held its first worship service with the hopes of being a place of worship, spiritual growth and relationships. The founding team prayed that The Gathering would be a light in the community. We are thankful for the many ways that God has provided, led and been present with us.

We’ll celebrate together on January 26^th at our worship service and at a lunch following the service.

More details to follow.  We hope you will save the date.

• E-transfer to donations@gatheringchurch.ca.
• Cheque or cash in the white donation box at CMCC.
• Online through the donation button on our church website. (Part of your donation will cover processing and admin fees.)
• Please contact Meredith Bigham if you would like to arrange an alternate way of giving (click here).

With thanksgiving, we introduce our newly formed Vision and Care Team. This team will support Catherine in providing care, prayer and attention to the vision of The Gathering Church.  Over the next several weeks, members of the Vision and Care team will be present following our worship service to offer prayer and care. 

The team members are: Alisha, Clare, Doris, Frank, Gloria and Marlene. 

The Leadership Board brings prayerful leadership to our faith community, meeting monthly to ensure we fulfill our mission and vision and faithfully oversee the many areas of ministry of The Gathering.  The members of the Board are:  Wazir Ally, Andrew Jantzi, Rocco Maiolo, Debbie Wagler and Craig Nafziger.

Click  here for the regular MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) Newsletter.

Please submit any bulletin announcements for next week to Ruth at office@gatheringchurch.ca by Thursday at noon.