All Programs

Alphabetical Lists of Programs, Ministries or Partnerships

In case you're not sure where to look, here's a complete alphabetical listing:

  • Affirm United: What it means to be an affirming church
  • Annual Meetings & Annual Reports: Document Archive
  • Board of Trustees
  • Bible Study: "Bibles & Brekkie"
  • Building and Property
  • Celebration Guild
  • Children's Church & Nursary
  • Christian Development Ministries
  • Church Council
  • Coffee & Conversation
  • Concert Series
  • Crafting Group
  • Finance and Administration (F&A)
  • Friendly Callers
  • Friendly Visitors
  • Futures Task Force
  • Healing Pathways
  • Labyrinth Walk
  • Licensed Lay Worship Leaders (LLWL)
  • Men's & Friends: Monthly dinners and more
  • Ministry and Personnel (M&P)
  • Mission & Service
  • Music Ministries
  • Partner organizations: Carleton Interfaith Chaplaincy Centre, Carlington Community Chaplaincy, Centre 507, Centretown Churches Social Action Committee (CCSAC), Odawa Native Friendship Centre
  • Pastoral Care & Visitation Ministries
  • Patchwork Pilgrimage: Annual Quilting Retreat
  • Prayer Circle
  • Quilts for St. Mary's Home (Patchwork Pilgrimage)
  • Reconciliation: Indigenous Study Group; Red Dress Project; Sacred Garden; Land acknowledgement and annual reparation
  • Refugee Support (FACES - First Avenue Churches and community Embracing Sponsorship; OMRA (Ottawa Mennonite Church's OMRA Shelter Alternatives Corporation) grocery card program)
  • Scrabble
  • Steering Committee
  • Study Group - Indigenous Study, Lenten Study, Advent Study, etc. 
  • Sunday Services
  • Visitation - Pastoral Care
  • Welcoming & Communication Ministries
  • Women's Intergenerational Group (WIG): monthly Sunday potlucks and discussions
  • Worship Committee

While not every program or ministry happens every Sunday, here's some of what you can find on Sundays at GSJ as well as the behind-the-scenes groups that make Sundays happen!

  • Sunday Services
  • Worship Committee
  • Music Ministries
  • Sunday Morning Bible Study: "Bibles & Brekkie"
  • Children's Church & Nursary (Christian Development Ministry)
  • Behind the scenes: Licenced Lay Worship Leaders, Celebration Guild, etc. 
  • Coffee & Conversation
  • Other Sunday Happenings: Women's Intergenerational Group (WIG), Concerts Series, Labyrinth Walk

Sunday Ministries

Continuing education, deepening community and caring for each other

Programs meant to build and support our community here at Glebe St. James. Pastoral care, continuing adult education, or just getting together to play scrabble, these programs enrich the life and work of the church. Click on the links below to find out more!


  • Men's & Friends: monthly dinners and more
  • Women's Intergenerational Group (WIG): montlhy Sunday potlucks and discussions
  • Pastoral Care (Prayer Circle, Healing Pathways, Friendly Visitors, Friendly Callers, Pastoral Care Visitation)
  • Patchwork Pilgrimage annual retreat ("in-reach" AND outreach)
  • Christian Development Ministries
  • Scrabble
  • Crafting 

In-Reach & Congregational Care

Social Justice is part of the fabric of Christianity. GSJ is stronger for its ties to the broader community!

  • Affirm United: What it means to be an affirming church
  • Mission & Service
  • Quilts for St. Mary's Home (Patchwork Pilgrimage)
  • Refugee Support (FACES - First Avenue Churches and community Embracing Sponsorship; OMRA (Ottawa Mennonite Church's OMRA Shelter Alternatives Corporation) grocery card program)
  • Partner organizations: Carleton Interfaith Chaplaincy Centre, Carlington Community Chaplaincy, Centre 507, Centretown Churches Social Action Committee (CCSAC), Odawa Native Friendship Centre
  • Reconciliation: Indigenous Study Group; Red Dress Project; Sacred Garden; Land acknowledgement and annual reparation

Outreach

Behind-the-scenes work to keep GSJ running smoothly, being careful stewards of our resources

  • Church Council
  • Communications
  • Board of Trustees
  • Finance and Administration
  • Ministry & Personnel Committee (M&P)

Governance & Stewardship

No church is an island! Connections to our city, region and world make GSJ stronger!

  • Broader United Church
  • Sister Congregations
  • Social Justice Partners
  • Community Partners

Partnerships & Affiliations
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