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For all national United Church of Canada updates, keep visiting here. See also:
Health Canada Government of Saskatchewan
For resources on discerning and planning re-opening of your building, please click here. (January 2023)
Resources for Re-opening summer 2021: COVID considerations – Sept 2021 Step 3 Re-opening Plan Template (download)
For Vaccine Mandate – November 29, 2021 – Downloadable Sample Tenant Waiver
The newsfeed below includes Regional Council news about the COVID-19 pandemic, and some national updates.
God’s call – take care of one another
Printable version To Communities of Faith, Matthew 12: 25-26 “but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it. Greetings in the name of...
Lifting of Restrictions
Printable PDF February 11, 2022 Dear Members of Living Skies Regional Council, Greetings to you on this beautiful February day. I am reaching out to touch base with you as we begin to navigate the...
Omicron Concerns
Printable PDF January 11, 2022 To the People of Living Skies Regional Council, It was my hope that we would enter the New Year without having to write yet another letter to you regarding COVID and...
Conversations re: Omicron
As the Omicron variant causes a surge in new cases throughout our province, many communities of faith are re-visiting their decisions regarding in-person worship. There are two opportunities to...
Important clarifications re Proof of Vaccination
PDF version of this letter Dear friends, By now, you are thoroughly tired of hearing from both Tracy and me. These past three days have been a flurry of anxiety and tension based on the changes in...
Proof of Vaccine (PoV) for Churches
December 2, 2021 Printable PDF Dear Friends, This is a follow up to the letter that I released yesterday regarding the...
PoV mandate update for leaders and supervisors
December 1, 2021 Printable PDF Downloadable Sample Tenant Waiver Dear friends, Advent greetings. I wish I was just writing a letter with pastoral...
When COVID is both global and personal
On November 1, All Saints Day, the United Church held a service of remembering that carried hundreds of names of those who have died from COVID. We are a global church, a small part of the body of...
Spiritual and Religious Care: An Essential Service
In honour of Spiritual & Religious Care Awareness Week: October 17-23, 2021, Regina Spiritual Care Providers offer us this reflection. Chaplain Angela Fraser, Reverend Lorna King, Reverend...
COVID September 2021 Letter to Living Skies Regional Council
Dear Members of Living Skies Regional Council, Printable version Autumn greetings to you. It’s hard to remember that summer was...
