October 25 Update - GSJ on a learning journey towards Reconciliation

October 24, 2023

News from the Glebe St James ReconciliAction Working Group

We are all on the road to truth, and through truth, to reconciliation, together.

In the last e-update from the ReconciliAction Working Group, we let you know that the RWG is currently learning about land acknowledgements. Why do we do land acknowledgements? What can we learn from them? How can land acknowledgements be part of our journey to reconciliation?


We shared the first of a series of three videos from an indigenous woman, Sandi Boucher, about land acknowledgements that talked about the “why”. Follow the link below for the second video in this series. This one challenges us with the question “What is the one key thing we have to do in a land acknowledgement”.


Sandi Boucher: How to create a good land acknowledgement

By April Yorke September 12, 2026
We gather knowing that the choices we make each day shape the world we share. Please join us at 10:30 am ET online or in person.
Two hands in different shades of green cradle the Earth, made up of those shades of green.
By April Yorke September 5, 2026
Dear God, Water is a gift from you, help us to care for it, using only what we need, keep it from being polluted. Amen.
open door with tree outside
July 17, 2026
July 19 10 AM service at Glebe St James with sister churches Joanne Tanner presiding
cartoon image of a hand sowing seed
July 10, 2026
July 12 2026 summer service at Glebe St James with sister churches St Giles Presbyterian and Southminister United. Ruth Burnett Cole presiding.
painting of a loaf of bread
July 3, 2026
First of three summer services hosted by Glebe St James United. Service starts at 10 AM
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Sunday
By April Yorke June 26, 2026
We encourage you to mark this day and celebrate the lives and ministry of LGBTQIA+ and Two Spirit people in all their diversity. Join us in person or online at 10:30 am.
A tablecloth with a medicine wheel pattern holds a white candle and some scattered pebbles.
By April Yorke June 19, 2026
Indigenous Day of Prayer, the Sunday on or before National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21), is an opportunity to celebrate First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples’ values, customs, languages, and culture.
James Tissot. He Sent them out Two by Two (Il les envoya deux à deux). Brooklyn Museum
By April Yorke June 12, 2026
Seeing What Jesus Sees. Join us in person or online at 10:30 am.
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There are some Sundays ministers approach with joy and confidence. And then there is Trinity Sunday. How do you explain the Trinity? One God in three persons...
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