Winfield United Church

By Rev. Joan Kessler Luke 15: 11-32 Today we hear what many consider the most well-known story Jesus ever told... it’s only rival would...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Isaiah 55: 1-3, 10-11b Luke 13:6-9 Today is the first day of Spring. It is the equinox that sees the near...

Welcome To each one of you, welcome to this page. No matter who you are, no matter where you’re at, no matter what you believe, no matter...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Luke 13: 31-35 It has been another difficult, dangerous and heartbreaking week for the people of Ukraine as the...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Deuteronomy 26:1-10 Finding words and organizing my thoughts for today’s reflection have largely eluded me this past...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Luke 9: 28-36 Today as we celebrate our past year together and look down the road of the year ahead of us in our...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Luke 6:27-38 If I were to give a pen and a piece of paper with the writing prompt, “Enemy”, what would you have to...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Luke 6:17-26 I begin with a question for you today and that is: What are you like in a group? Or in other words,...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Luke 5:1-11 I grew up in a small farming community in southern Saskatchewan and my family attended the United Church...

By Rev. Joan Kessler 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 There are passages in holy scripture that just seem to have a life of their own. The reading...

By Rev. Joan Kessler 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 Snow has most definitely been on our minds, under feet, across our doorsteps, melting off our...

By Rev. Joan Kessler John 2: 1-11 Everybody loves a good wedding. With the arrival of the pandemic, these grand celebrations of a...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Reading: Matthew 12:1-12 https://youtu.be/x7M5ZqFSynQ I love the words found in this piece of music, "May It Be"… it...

By Rev. Doug Martindale Jeremiah 31: 7-14 One hundred years before Jeremiah, the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom and carried...

by Rev. Joan Kessler Readings: Gospel of Thomas No 24 Luke 2: 1-20 Tonight is a night of holy mystery. We wonder how it is that God...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Luke 1:39-55 There is an intimacy in this scene we have just heard tell of…we may know this experience firsthand. ...

by Rev. Joan Kessler Reading: Zephaniah 3: 14 - 18 What has you rejoicing these days? As you prepare for Christmas, where have you found...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Reading: Luke 3:1-6 We are considering Peace this second Sunday of Advent and just under three weeks until...

By Rev. Joan Kessler Luke 21:25-36 During my time away last week, quite by accident, I found a book that I have a hard time putting down....

By Fran Schultz Reading: Mathew 14: 22-23 and Philippians 4: 8-9 There is a hymn in our hymn book (Voices United) entitled “Come and Find...