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sunday december 6th
twenty years after one of the most horrific days in Montreal's 367 year history, we take time out to remember the evil that sometimes lurks in the human heart, and the fourteen women's lives taken on that day. we will gather at the Undercroft at 5.00 pm for bread & soup as usual, then at 6.00 pm we will go upstairs to join in the service of remembrance at Christchurch Cathedral.

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thursday november 26th
Knit-Chat-Crafty evening. 7 to 9 pm
Bring your craft and food if you are on the run.
There will be some nice warm tea and something baked and sweet! Joan & Tanya's place.



sunday november 29
happy new year!
church year that is, and we're starting it off with
an emerge arts-based community workshop! a chance to step back and look at our selves, and see what kind of community we have become and are still becoming in the seven short years of our existence. audrey will be animating our time together, using picture as well as word. be part of the process!

5.00 pm the Undercroft for bread & soup, 5.30 pm workshop begins!

friday november 20th
a prayer seminar on human trafficking at 7:30p.m. It will be held at the Undercroft and will be led by Jason Parks of Exodus Cry Canada. This is the first step in a partnership between Chab Dai and Exodus Cry and hopefully there will be more workshops, both in French and English, in the future. This seminar will be given in English.

sunday november 22nd
"celebrate the feast!"
as we come to the end of the church's year we celebrate Jesus' kingship of our lives and renew our committment to seeing his kingdom come in all its fullness. so with bread & soup, laughter and conversation, music & coffee, but most especially in the Lord's Supper, we'll celebrate his continuing presence in our lives! 5.00 pm the Undercroft.

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sunday november 15

"the word became flesh and moved into the neighbourhood"

if we claim to be followers of Jesus, then they way he lived his life on this planet presumably has huge implications for the way we live our lives. this sunday we continue our exploration of some of those. live music, soup & bread, coffee, tea, good conversation, great people!
5.00 pm the Undercroft

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spent a couple of days in Toronto this past week, speaking to various people and teaching a class on church planting at Wycliffe Colege. thank you to those of you who prayed for me while I was away. last week we talked about the people who have supported and encouraged us in following in the Jesus way, and also how we could be people who support and encourage people in the same way. praying to God on behalf of others seems a basic thing most of us could manage. expressing our hopes as well as our concern for other followers of Jesus needn't be so hard or as mysterious as it sometimes seems to be.

sunday november 8

we gather at the Undercroft at 5.00pm to eat bread & soup, catch up with one another, listen to some live music, and importantly spend some extended time praying using a variety of styles. it would be great to see you there. so think about people and concerns you'd like to pray for, and about creative ways in which you could do that!

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The challenge of sainthood
is to go where love takes me.

sunday november 1st
all saints day

sometimes it's hard to remember that everyone who ends up memorialised in a stained glass window starts off as a real live human being like us! it's funny how we often turn 3 dimensional people into 2 dimensional "saints", something always seems to get lost in the process! so today we'll talk about who are our heroes of the Jesus Way. there'll be food, friends, music, all the things you'd expect to find where people gather around Jesus!

5.00pm the Undercroft

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for the last couple of days I have been up in Sault Ste Marie spending time with the anglican diocese of Algoma. I've had a lot of fun meeting loads of really interesting people and talking about Fresh Expressions. I get back to Montreal late friday night.

sunday october 25
"celebrate the feast!"
we often find ourselves hemmed in by various kinds of barriers, stopping us from getting where we would like to get to. in addition to celebrating the Lord's Supper together we will be looking at the barriers that people have that prevent them from checking out Jesus, with the aid of the experience of a 1st century formerly blind beggar! we start at 5.00 pm in the Undercroft, with bread & soup, hopefully some live music, interesting people, and plenty of conversation. hope to see you there!

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saturday october 17th 20.30 Yellow Door Montreal, Quebec, Tanya Nielsen and musicians play "firefly"

sunday october 18th
Matthew Brotherwood has been a member of emerge since the beginning. two years ago he spent monday-thursday of each of six summer weeks in Toronto doing animation at the NFB's downtown studio. this sunday we get a sneak preview of the results.we will get a chance to see an almost-finished copy of the movie. the trailer can be seen here . things start at 5.00 pm in the Undercroft with bread & soup, and continue with live music, conversation, and of course the movie! this would be a great opportunity to invite and bring a friend with you.

thursday october 22nd
20.00 Shaika Cafe Montreal, Quebec, Tanya Nielsen plays "firefly"

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yes, thanksgiving day really is next monday. seems to me the time between labour day and thanksgiving gets shorter each year! it's always a good time to get together with family and friends, and I expect many of you will be doing so this coming weekend, which will take some of you out of town. but by the same token that means some of us will be in Montreal. so this sunday october 11th, we are going to gather in the Undercroft at 5.00pm to enjoy a Thanksgiving Poutine together, and share times when we have felt especially thankful. feel free to bring a favourite poem, psalm, song, whatever, that expresses what you feel, and of course be ready to share it!

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welcome to a new month!
shorter days, longer nights.
31 days in which to engage with God and others.
enjoy!
sunday october 4th
station to station
(no, not that kind of station)

simply a series of generally quiet places, that offer us ways to turn our hearts towards God that do not rely on words only. the invitation is to look, touch, taste, hear, smell.

5.00pm the Undercroft
accompanied by bread, soup, things to drink, people to talk to, and some live music.