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Light: When Clarity Emerges From Chaos
In this episode, Light, Richard explores how moments of darkness can pave the way for clarity. Through a heartfelt personal story of rejection and rediscovery, Richard uncovers how life’s dead ends can lead to unexpected purpose, reminding us that light always shines through the chaos. (from Shift: Finding Light in Life’s Transitions podcasts)
Daily Meditation
By Rev Dr Richard Chung
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Worship Music Survey
Upon our organist’s retirement, a thoughtful consideration of what worship music might include, is being done. Your input will shape the hymns, choir, and music we will be experiencing.
Live in person at Knox or View HERE November 2 nd
Next Worship
All Saints Day
on November 2, 2025
at 10 am
Reading:
with Rev. Cari Copeman-Haynes
Our United Church of Canada’s 45 Moderator
The Right Rev. Dr. Kimberly Heath is our United Church of Canada’s 45 Moderator.
Rev. Dr. Kimberly Heath studied History at McGill University, earned her Master of Divinity at Emmanuel College and completed her Doctorate in Ministry, with a thesis titled “Aware, Repair, Renew: Preaching Transformation in a Mainline Church.” It centers on how preaching can foster transformation through awareness, reparation, and renewal. Rev Heath’s ministry trajectory began at the Claresholm Stavely Pastoral Charge, in rural southern Alberta. Since 2007 she has served as the lead pastor at Wall Street United Church in Brockville, Ontario. This migration from local pastoral care toward an increasingly prophetic, justice-orientation retains deep roots in both congregational ministry and the broader church structures. A constant focus of preaching that changes hearts and communities, by using spiritual courage.
Since being installed as Moderator on August 11th, 2025 she has committed to:– Deepening faith in changing times.– Embracing being small, recognizing church sizes and resource constraints, will have richness of intensity for the gifts they are able
to offer.– Creating connections in a divided world by building bridges, listening across differences and encouraging life giving relationships.– Utilizing Rev. Dr. Kimberly Heath’s bilingual skills to engage the
Francophone community..
Rev. Dr. Kimberly Heath’s doctoral thesis, public statements, and sermons such as the “Unstuck and On a Mission” explore tensions between waiting and mission, between being “unstuck” spiritually and moving forward into mission is an evolving direction we can expect. Transformation is not always through big dramatic changes but through: awareness of hurt acts of repair renewal of faith and community, encouraging small faithful actions caring for local congregations fostering justice connecting across differences through strengthening what is “small”
She has repeatedly emphasized “faithfulness, often humble, often committed,” the importance of the small, everyday work of the church.
Transformation doesn’t always come in grand gestures, but in faithful preaching, in small shifts, in strong relationships, and in embracing vulnerability and justice.