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The United Church of Canada is celebrating 100 years of ministry in 2024/2025. 

 Regional Project

Trinity has a puzzle piece to decorate – depicting their ministry.  It will be put together into a mosaic to be displayed at the 2025 in person Regional Council meeting.   

 Possible Congregational Projects

  • Send 100 youth from our regional council to Rendez-vous 2024- Audacious Hope (a youth event this summer to be held at Brock Univ, St. Catharines). First 100 registrants from the Tri Regions only pay $100 registration fee.
  • Help us identify all members who are 100 years or older in 2024 so we can feature them.
  • Plant 100 trees across the regional council – let us know where and how many trees your congregation plants.
  • 100 members to each give a special $100 gift to a United Church program, such as Mission & Service, Gifts with Vision, The Healing Fund, etc. Perhaps we can raise an additional $10,000 for each of these ministries.
  • Each congregation to invite 100 people to attend worship over the next year. Let us know what you did to make them feel welcome.
  • Let us know how many new members have joined your church between June 2024 and June 2025. Can we get 100 new members in the regional council?
  • Share what your church is doing to celebrate 100 years through our Regional Council Facebook page with a tagline (to be determined).
  • Compile 100 reasons why we love the United Church.
  • Create 100 paper cranes with prayers on them.
  • Reach out to 100 past members/adherents and invite them back for an anniversary service.
  • Send 100 letters to advocate for homelessness, food insecurity, etc.

  • Lots of preparations for the June 2025 Centennial of the United Church are underway, and all communities of faith and ministries in our Regional Council are invited and encouraged to make plans that suit your context and community.

    National resources

    There are many!
    It’s well worth signing up for this Centennial newsletter, which will keep you up to date on emerging resources and events, the monthly themes, and more, and more.
    Click here for the main website for all things centennial.
    Click here for related grants.
    Clarity on 100th anniversary package sent to communities of faith

    Design materials: Click here to access lots of free visual tools,such as the Centennial logos, a PowerPoint template; banners you can have printed locally.

    Worship: Several national livestreamed worship services are planned.
    Click here for the June 2024 YouTube video of the national service celebrating our 99th!

    Event sign up

    All local and regional events should be sent to this country-wide events posting, as well as to your Regional events calendar. We know this involves twice the work, as these are two different systems, but this allows you to share your creativity with two very different audiences.

    Social media: Use these hashtags in your community’s social media Centennial posts:
    #UCCan100
    #DeepBoldDaring

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