Lake Country United Church

No Small Moments “Flynn” ©Hubcatstide2026 Her name is Flynn. Actually, it’s Joanne Flynn, but the Area Sales Managers and employees who worked for her called her “Flynn.” She was the manager at Dillard’s in West Fort Worth, and it felt like she had eyes in the back of her head. That woman didn’t miss a thing. She could spy a mis hung garment from five hundred paces. She would slide twenty shirts onto one arm and reach into a box full of boxes and hang those suckers faster th

Sermon: CHANGE COMES WITH FIRE August 16th, 2026 Traci Hubbard There is something different about talking about fire when you can smell the smoke. For us, this isn't theoretical. We are living in a season of wildfire. We know what it feels like to look toward the lakes and the mountains and wonder what is happening. We know what it means to watch the sky change, to check alerts, to wonder whether someone we love is safe. And when the world around us changes that

No Small Moments “Smoke Gets in Our Eyes” ©Hubcatstide2026 New lyrics to the oldie goldie by The Platters – during the Okanagan Fires 2026 Verse 1 You ask me how I know Our Earth’s heart is breaking Of course we reply, “Something deep inside cannot be denied” What do we do about what we have done? Verse 2 Some say this isn’t so Greed chooses blindness, we know When our hearts catch on fire because of hers Smoke gets in our eyes Bridge: Does greed laugh at evacuees? Si

Sermon: “You are Mine” Okanagan Fires/BC State of Emergency August 9, 2026 Traci Hubbard There are some words that mean something different after you have lived through them. “Fire” is one of those words. For some people, fire is something you see on the news. For most of us in Lake Country, fire means smoke in the distance. It means checking the wind. It means looking at our phones. It means wondering which way the smoke is moving. And for some peop

No Small Moments Okanagan Lake, August 3rd, 2026 “It Only Takes a Spark” ©Hubcatstide2026 It is 6 am. My puppy, Ruby, is snoring beside me with one paw touching me – ALWAYS that one paw touching me, making sure I haven’t left. I can feel the light of a new day on my face and my breath, well, you don’t want to know. I went to bed with this picture seared into my energy… I took this picture from my living room window that overlooks Lake Okanagan. The West Shores, La Casa, Kil

Reflection - August 2, 2026 Sermon: We Cannot Script the Spirit Traci Hubbard August 2, 2026 My doctor said I needed to make some serious lifestyle changes. So, I changed my doctor. Think about this… How many United Church’s of Canada does it take to change a light bulb? "Change it? My grandfather donated that light bulb! "We do not think ourselves into a new way of living; we live ourselves into a new way of thinking." Have you ever noticed ho

Presence or Presents No Small Moments “Presence and Presents” ©Hubcatstide2026 Depending on what is happening in our lives, we want to stop time, slow it down, or speed it up. First kisses, if it is a great first kiss, stop time. If someone with whom we share a loving relationship dies, it feels like the world doesn’t care because time and all the everyday things just keep going as if nothing has changed. If we are nauseated or waiting for a surgery that will heal our pain,

"Presence and Presents"