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by Aidan Mitchell Legault As the strange summer of 2020 winds to a close, our Grow Team is looking back fondly on the work that we’ve accomplished, the seeds that we’ve sown, and the community that we’ve built together in the gardens at Eglinton St. George’s United Church. Over the past weeks and months, our …
ESG’s Reopening Work Group has been working hard this summer to develop a plan for ESG in compliance with Ontario Ministry of Health’s and The City of Toronto’s ever-evolving COVID-19 Guidelines and Bylaws for the reopening of places of worship. It is our responsibility to consider carefully how to prevent infection among our staff, members …
Are you feeling helpless, wishing there was something you could fix during the pandemic? The Peace with Justice Group has provided a draft of a letter you can use to send to members of city council and the mayor. If we bombard council with enough letters they might do something. Homelessness has been a problem …
ESG held a special Congregational Town Hall live on ZOOM on Sunday June 14th. The video recording of the meeting, and the presentation material is available here for viewing. Town Hall Presentation Watch the Town Hall Video Recording
Letter Help ESG meet the revenue challenge posed by COVID-19 Mary went to the tomb that first Easter morning, found it empty and her life was changed. From that moment on, she spoke, taught, and lived her life in the Word and world of the resurrected Christ. The disciples called Mary the Migdal – the …
ESG held a special COVID-19 Congregational Town Hall live on ZOOM on Sunday April 26, 11:30-12:30. The video recording of the meeting, and the presentation material is available here for viewing. Video recording of the April 26, 2020 Town Hall Presentation slides
– story by David Lemmon, Member of the ESG Choir Our Church Music heritage has been 60 years in the making. Throughout the decades, with the continuing unfailing support of the Congregation, it has provided inspirational leadership in Worship. Some interesting notes from the history of our choir: Our choirs have made 2 National Tours …
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– story by Gord Brookes, Member of the ESG Choir Music has always been an element in my life. When I was a child I had aunts that lived in a not large house in mid-town Toronto who had “dueling piano and organ” on either side of the living room/dining room with one aunt at …
– story by Cathy Macdonald, a beloved Member of the ESG Choir who passed away in 2016 “Singing in Italy’s beautiful venues was as exciting as it was humbling. We were inspired by our exquisite surroundings. We were amazed by the incredible acoustics – occasionally in churches that were over 1000 years old. We were …
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– story by Jim Black, Member of ESG Having visited the Isle of Iona in Scotland a couple of times, I’ve had the opportunity to experience what the Celts call “a thin place,” where heaven and earth seem to touch. George Macleod wrote that Iona is “a thin place where only tissue paper separates the …
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