Our next youth group meeting will be on Wednesday May 15th from 7-8:30! Join us at Westminster United Church as we finalize and prepare our merch for our Tri-Pride outreach project. We'll be making buttons and getting everything together so our outreach is the most successful it can be! We invite you to use your bold imaginations to express your identities.

Don't forget to mark your calendars for Saturday, June 1st, the day we will be at Tri-Pride.

You are invited to explore membership through story sharing, engaging with The United Church's history and theology,  learning about our faith story with Marg Dickson, and doing a church tour. Please contact Rev. Hoeun by email (rev.hoeun.firstuntied@gmail.com)

Jeff Learmonth, a candidate for ministry from our congregation, will be ordained on May 25. This past Saturday he graduated from the Atlantic School of Theology with a Masters of Divinity and was awarded the ASTIAA Award which is "Awarded to a graduate who has demonstrated service to the AST community with creativity, passion, and dedication".

We congratulate Jeff and wish him well in his future ministries.

If you would like to contribute to an Ordination gift from our congregation please pick up a contribution envelope at church on Sunday, or you may send an e-transfer to the office at firstunitedchurch@rogers.com

YOU ARE INVITED TO EXPERIENCE THE KAIROS BLANKET EXERCISE

First United Church in Hilliard Hall
William and King St, Waterloo (enter off of Caroline Street)

Freewill donation, proceeds for Crow Shield Lodge. Dress for the weather. We begin with smudging outdoors. Bring a refillable water bottle.

Register at https://kairosblanketexercisejune2.eventbrite.com/

More information below

On Saturday, June 1st, Waterloo Region will be celebrating 2024 Summer Pride Festival at Willow River Park (Victoria Park).

The United Churches of Waterloo will all be in attendance. We will need some volunteers to help setup, take down and staff the table. First United, Emmanuel and Westminster will all share a table.

Please email gregjcase@gmail.com if you would be willing to take a shift at the United Church Pride table. Please consider coming and spending some time at the Pride Festival.

While much of our lives at First United slow down come summer, the needs of our community do not.

There are a number of ways you can help us support others over this slower season. We can use donations of non perishable foods for our food cupboard. We are in need of sanitary napkins and incontinence supplies for our period supplies.

Our fence ministry would appreciate new and gently used socks, T-shirts, baseball/sun hats and new men's underwear.

Thank you so much for your continued support of all our ministries.

First United Church will be receiving $4,000 from the Western Ontario Waterways Regional Council(WOWRC) KW Post-Secondary Ministry Fund, to help further the ministry objectives laid out in our “Flourishing Connections” program.

First United Church will also be receiving $8,000 from the WOWRC Ministry with Children, Youth, and Young Adults Fund, to  support “Generation Now”!

Read all about "Generation Now" and "Flourishing Connections" by clicking below

The U.C.W. wishes to thank everyone for their donations to the garage sale. A very big thank you to all the volunteers who helped in so many ways. The successful sale made $1729.75 for the work of the U.C.W.

The Group is going on a tour of the Waterloo Hospice May 15th at 10:00 a.m. We will meet at the Church at 9:30 a.m. The tour will last for approximately 45 minutes. Then we will come back to the Church Parlour for our business meeting. Bring a bag lunch. Please let Jean Hoffmann know if you plan to attend – 519-746-7184 or jeanhoffmann921@gmail.com.

It’s time to renew or start your annual subscription.  Our Current Group Expiry date is July/Aug 2024.  Get 8 issues of the award winning United Church Broadview for just $30.  Please make cheques payable to First United Church, with “Broadview” on the memo line or ETransfer to firstunitedchurch@rogers.com. The Deadline is May 20, 2024.

The Anti-Racist Working Group at First has had their first session exploring "Wait, Is This Racist?: Co-creating Anti-Racist Communities of Faith". Click Below to read about what the group will be looking at over the next year.

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival ...

Click below to find the time and the Zoom link.

Camp Bimini, St. Paul's, Ontario (Google map)

Kids Across the Regions is a fun, faith-filled weekend for children (in grades 4-8) from across the three regional councils of Antler River Watershed, Western Ontario Waterways and Horseshoe Falls of The United Church of Canada! APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 24th 

Audacious Hope youth and young adult event is happening July 3-6, 2024 at Brock University in St. Catharines, ON. It promises to be a life-changing event!

Join us for transformative worship with leaders, Adele Halliday and Mitchell Anderson, cutting-edge workshops with Moderator Carmen Lansdowne, Jim Cain, Andrew Hyde, Julian Munro, and many others.

*Registration must happen before May 15, 2024

Click below to see some upcoming Community Events

There was no one listed for this position at the annual meeting in February. Rick Heemskerk is now past chair and still a member of the Board. We are in the happy position of having Kristin Snell as vice chair. Kristin will take over as Board chair in January 2025.

The list of those chairing throughout the year can be found by clicking on the button below.