100th Anniversary Resources for Everyone - Western Ontario Waterways Regional Council

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United Church Centennial resources

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. Read on! Bookmark this page for your home base. It has the following sections:
Regional resources and national resources.

Regional resources

If you have a special 100th Anniversary event you would like shared, please send your entries to Michele Petick Mpetick@united-church.ca to be posted on this page.

100th Anniversary Celebration

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Save the Date:

Sunday, June 8, 2025 and the time is 10 am

Wasaga Beach United Church is holding a special Sunday Service to honour the 100th Birthday of the United Church of Canada.

Along with sharing many historic facts of interest during that 100 years, we also have our MPP BrianSaunderson, our MP Terry Dowdell, our Mayor Brian Smith, and a Town Counselor Joe Belanger giving brief words of congratulation.

The service will be followed by a celebratory light lunch and a big birthday cake. All welcome!

Contact Information:
Wasaga Beach United Church
380 Zoo Park Road
Wasaga Beach, ON
L9Z 1S7Phone: 705-429-9429

Email: wasagabeachunitedchurch@rogers.com

Read this:
HAPPY 100TH ANNIVERSARY – A poem by Marian Ritchie

100th Puzzle Project

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Contact: WOW President Elect, Rev. Rebekah Duncan at rebekahjane73@gmail.com

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 99^th!

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

Monthly themes are covered in the Regional resource mentioned above.