Naramata Community Church
The Naramata Community Church is a shared ministry of the Anglican and United Churches of Canada.
All are welcome!
Sunday worship: 10:00 AM. Worship is done in both Anglican and United traditions. For details see our Worship page.
Our Photos gallery shares a picture of the life of this church community.
How to find us? Check out the Contact page.
Worship for Holy Week and Easter:
Maundy Thursday Worship, Thursday, April 18, 7:00 p.m. Remembering Jesus last evening with his friends, we include opportunity to all ow another to wash your feet or hands, sharing some lovely tastes of the kinds of food Jesus might have enjoyed with his friends and Holy Communion. We also clear and wash the altar.
Good Friday, Friday April 19 – morning worship at 10:00a.m. we’ll share in the stories of Jesus’ arrest and death. A few people may be ready to share a short story of a day or time when everything changed for them and they were sure life was at its end. If you would like to offer a story like that, please be in touch with Rev’d Sandra Stickney 250 496-4293 or 250 496-5512.On Good Friday, we remember that the love remains no matter what else happens, love remains.
Easter Morning “Sunrise” Celebration of Easter around a campfire at Naramata Centre’s beach, 7:00a.m. Singing with Karen Henderson and her guitar–sharing in some of the stories of Easter–Jesus still present though no longer in our present earth bound way…love runs free and wild and life is renewed…also a kind of communion with fish and bread …after this, all are welcomed at the Church hall for a pot luck breakfast of hard cooked eggs, muffins and other offerings including any fish left from the early beach service…
Easter Morning, 10:00a.m. Easter Communion in the church with special choral music, Don Wade on Sax & Kristi Lind on keyboard.
All are always welcome at all or any of these offerings.
To help you hear: An Auris Hearing Loop, Induction Loop System has been installed in the sanctuary and hall. Please switch your hearing aids to the T position.
Click on this link or the play button below to listen to “A Drop in the Ocean.”
A piece written and played on a dulcimer by Eva McDouall. “This piece was inspired by the idea that all life on Earth comes from the ocean (quite literally) and all creation goes back to The Ocean (metaphorically). When listening to this tune, imagine rain drops falling and rising again. I tried to convey the message that even we appear and often feel separate, we are all like those little drops, essentially made of the same “stuff” as The Ocean and ultimately One with It and with each other.” … Eva. Continue reading →