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Richard Bott is a storyteller, liturgist and ordained minister in The United Church of Canada, who has had the fortune to explore various and diverse parts of congregational life. He has a special interest in developing worship gatherings that are relevant to both longer-term participants in the church and those who are "checking it out".

Shannon and I will be returning to our old stomping grounds for part of next summer. We've been invited by the stewardship committee of Montreal & Ottawa Conference to facilitate worship for their summer stewardship event. Its going to be held on the campus of the University of Guelph in Kemptville - not too far away from Ottawa, beginning July 12th, 2009.

When registration details are available, I'll post them here. 

Somewhere on this site, I've written about "U.N.I.T.E.D." - six attributes of discipleship, worked into United Church langugage

As I try to find ways of helping people live out these six attributes, one of the things I've come to realize is that people don't always have ways of joining with a worshiping community on Sundays. A number of people at St. Andrew's head out to camp a distance away from any church, or travel in countries in which they find it difficult to find worship experiences in their own language and idiom. 

So...

Started at the beginning of Advent 2006, for the congregation of St. Andrew's Haney United Church, the "Daily Prayer and Scripture Brochure" is now being used by 30 congregations across The United Church of Canada. With United Church of Canada writers reflecting on scriptures laid out in the Consultation on Common Text's Daily Lectionary, this resource is a 'daily devotional', out of the United Church Experience.

Writers come from many of the congregations who are using the resource. If you would like to become a writer, or your congregation might like its own version of this resource, please contact me.