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Weekly Service: Truths & Trials

  • Weird Church 2688 Penrith Avenue PO Box 604 Cumberland, BC, V0R 1S0 Canada (map)

Embracing hard-to-understand truths is difficult for so many reasons. Sometimes the truth is too painful, life-altering, ugly, or complicated—which is why heavy truths may need to be taken in small doses. Other times, as Bible teacher Beth Moore says, “Some truths are a young fruit”—they need time to ripen before they’re ready to be shared. . If you don’t know how to start this act of truth-receiving and truth-telling, it may help to find someone for whom this is a strength—they can act as truth-telling serum. These are the people who speak the truth so well and so honestly that it makes it easier for each of us to do the same, or say “me too!”

Week six of our six week journey through the theme “Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day”, seeking to untangle our cultural obsession with toxic positivity, finding language to embody our hopes and anxieties. This is a series for the rest of us—which is to say, the people who don’t have magical lives that always work out for the best. Every day can be an obstacle course and together we will develop our capacity to feel the breadth of our experiences. The better we are at identifying our highs and lows, the more resilient we become.

Join us as we look for the ways we can expand our capacity for courage, love, and honesty—while discovering divine moments with God.

Weekly services: Sundays at 4 pm (they can be accessed online HERE - Zoom ID 810 1877 0234).

Our services are like church…but weird. Following monthly themes, we come together for about an hour for prayer, music, readings, reflection, and a time of discussion. There are no requirements or barriers to participating in Weird Church and all are truly welcome regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status etc.

Children and Youth are celebrated and welcomed (with all the wiggles and noise and love they bring along with them). Everyone gathers together for the start of the service and those who wish can join Nathan for programming downstairs after our initial gathering time. Like everything at Weird Church, this is an invitation not a requirement - children and youth are welcome to stay upstairs, and parents/guardians are welcome to join programming downstairs.

Earlier Event: March 21
Thursday CALM