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Christmas Eve Service
Join us on Dec 24 from 6 – 7pm for our annual Christmas Eve celebration. We will worship together with music, hear the Christmas story, and light our candles together as we experience the wonder and light that Jesus brought, is bringing, and will one day bring. All are welcome. Invite anyone! Make sure you … [Read more…]
Get Into the Story!
Christmas time can provide some great opportunities to explore the Christmas story. I encourage you, in whatever situation you’re in, to make some time to read through the events chronicled in scripture regarding Jesus’ incarnation. Here are some suggested readings. You’ll notice that we’ve been exploring a few of these passages in our Advent series … [Read more…]
Christmas Feast – Pie Sign Up
Our Christmas feast is less than two weeks away! Jessie Penner, who has in previous years helped organize and cook for our feast, is also helping organize the feast this year! As she shared this past Sunday, she is needing some pies donated for our dessert at the feast. If you’re able and willing to … [Read more…]
EHS Next Steps Resources
The EHS Course is over and by all accounts was a great success! If you’re wondering what’s next, here are a few specific resources that we’ve put together to continue to fuel the journey. If you’re interested in taking the Emotionally Healthy Relationships course, or if you missed the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality course and would … [Read more…]
Emotional Allergies
This past Sunday, Krista Heide shared about “How to Love Well”, based off of our Emotionally Healthy Spirituality series. (To listen to that sermon, click here). As an opportunity to go deeper, she also created a helpful handout from Pete Scazzero’s book on ‘Emotionally Healthy Spirituality’ that speaks about “Emotional Allergies”. Emotional allergies are strong … [Read more…]
Nepali Women’s Co-op @ Third + Bird
Nepali Women’s Co-op will be at the upcoming Third + Bird Christmas Market in the downtown Hudson’s Bay basement! Here at the dates and times: November 22 – Pre-Shop (tickets bought online before the sale) November 23, 10 am – 5 pm November 24, 11 am – 4 pm This is a fun event; please consider … [Read more…]
Fall Community Update
Dear WCV, In the spirit of keeping our regular updates both extensive and, well, regular, we hope you’ll find this both encouraging and informative. As always we value your prayers and feedback regarding any of the topics covered in this update. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Course & Series We are super encouraged by the response to … [Read more…]
Help Needed
Hey folks! Are you wondering how you can plug-in to our community? Or be a little more connected? We need some practical help, and here’s where you come in! We’re in pretty dire need of some people to run the Sunday morning worship slides during the service. If you have a basic understanding on how … [Read more…]
Welcome Party – November 17th
All WCV newcomers are invited to join us for a Welcome Party after the service on Sunday, November 17th. If you’ve started coming to the church over this past year and you’ve never been to a Welcome Party here, join us! You’ll have the opportunity to meet some of our leadership team, meet some other … [Read more…]
New Flatlanders Administrator
We’re excited to let you know that Flatlanders Inn has a new administrator! Hannah Foulger will be stepping into the 10 hour / week role beginning October 25. This is a key role in the sustainability of our Flatlanders community, providing critical support for the leadership team and helping to keep things in order up … [Read more…]
The Ferment: listen for inspiration and instruction
Okay – so I’m not a huge podcast guy. But it turns out that spending a lot of time by myself either painting our new house (it takes two coats of primer and two coats of paint to cover that dark grey – who paints their house dark grey anyways?!) and my frequent treks across … [Read more…]
Plan to Protect Training Nov 10th
WCV has implemented a Plan to Protect, to ensure the safety of our kids, youth and volunteers. This training is essential to attend, for everyone who will be involved in any of the Kids and Youth activities this year. The training will take place at WCV on Sunday Nov 10th after church, beginning at 12:00pm … [Read more…]
