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Living Skies Regional Council news
Pastoral letter re right wing Christian concert in Saskatoon
18 August 2025 Dear Living Skies Regional Council, siblings, friends, neighbours, strangers... Many of us have been drawn into, and affected by, the unfolding story of Sean Feucht's "Let Us Worship...
Accessing General Council 45 for everyone
General Council is the national decision-making body of the United Church of Canada and meets every three years, with business and learning meetings online in between. It hasn’t met in person since...
Regional details: Apology to Two Spirit and LGBTQIA+ people on August 8
August 8 at 9:00 AM MDT, the United Church will offer a public apology to 2SLGBTQIA+ people. Read on to learn how to participate and be supported. Dear members of the Northern Spirit, Living...
New video on aid and Gaza; a renewed call to raise your voice
The ecumenical Just Peace group in Living Skies offers to local churches a new 90 minute YouTube video exploring why people in Gaza, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, are starving and dying...
Regional finance administration: retirement and a welcome
Happy retirement to Heather Dootoff and welcome to Francesca Martina, our new finance administrator! There are many transitions at this time of year, and in Northern Spirit, Living Skies, and...
June 2025 – Sask UCC Women’s Network Newsletter
The June 2025 issue of the Saskatchewan's UCC Women’s Network Newsletter has been posted to the Women’s Network page. See the full newsletter for the latest from Mary and the women of the UCC...
Ecumenical event: Why isn’t aid reaching Gaza?
Choking Gaza: why aid isn’t getting through, and what we can do. Thursday June 19, 7:00PM CST (SK). Please join our Regional Council's Just Peace group and Mennonite Central Committee SK for this...
Call for daily prayer for wildfire impacts
The Power of Prayer: call for daily prayer for wildfire impacts. Keewatin Circle, the Indigenous United Church in Manitoba, invites you to pray with them for all communities in Canada regarding the...
Call to support those affected by the wildfires in the north
A letter from Regional Council chairperson Rev Piotr Strzelecki, 3 June 2025 Dear Friends, The fires are ravaging the northern part of our province, and those of our western and eastern neighbours....
Arbor Week in Saskatchewan – May 2025
In 2018 the Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association (YFBTA) – also known as the Yellowhead Nature Society (YNS) agreed to promote an annual Spring Arbor Day/Arbor Week observance within the...
