February 15, 2026 - Black History Sunday
Please join us this Sunday at 10:30 am, either in person or on-line, as we celebrate Black History at Glebe St James
Here's what you can expect at Glebe St-James this Sunday:
- Rev. Dr. Teresa Burnett-Cole will lead the service.
- Susan Palmai will welcome us.
- Teresa Burnett-Cole will acknowledge that the land on which we gather and work is the traditional and ancestral territory of the Algonquin People, unceded and unsurrendered.
- Ruth Burnett-Cole will read the scripture from Matthew 5:13-20.
- Rev. Charmain Bailey wrote the reflection read by Rev. Teresa. The reflection refers to a virtual exhibition called "From the Beginning".
- Our Minister of Music, Paul Grose, and the choir will lead us in music and song; the Gift of Music will be "Like a River in my Soul” (Traditional African-American spiritual arranged by Tim Osiek, edited by Dan Forrest).
- Paul will also play a prelude (music before the service) and postlude (music after the service) with these notes: Prelude 1: "O What Sorrow, O What Joy" is the first movement ("Ni Huzuni, Ni Furaha") of Three African Tunes for Organ (2003) by Carl Reine, a Seattle composer who celebrates global diversity with settings of world music for organ and other instruments. This movement is from a Tanzanian Haya-language hymn by Joas Kijugo. It incorporates an asymmetric metre in an attempt to capture the additive, non-binary rhythms of African drumming.
- Prelude 2: "Idyll," highlighting the organ's solo clarinet stop, is by Norman Warren (1934-2019), English composer, author, theologian, and Anglican priest.
- Postlude: "Toccata" is by Andrew Gant (b. 1963), British composer, author, teacher and politician.
Here is the bulletin for the service to follow along with the words of texts, hymns, songs, and prayers. You can join the service live at 10:30 am on YouTube; after the service ends, it will be available to watch as a recording.
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