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Beverley Scouts Hands of Peace 2025

No one can deny that we need peace in Summer 2025, where appalling scenes of war appear nightly on our television screens. Here the children of Tranombitsika, Madagascar, make their opinions known with a mural Tranombitsika, Madagascar - children's "Hands of Peace" mural

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Toll Gavel United Church Bulletin July/August 2025

This is a great opportunity to review where you might be able to reduce single-use plastics in your life. Being part of Plastic Free July will help you find great alternatives that can become new habits forever. Paying attention to what we consume and its effect on God’s earth, can lead us not into guilt, but into action and prayerful determination to see change where it’s possible

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Toll Gavel Christmas Tree

This year we decided to encourage people to focus on peace as a theme for the Christmas tree. So this year there will be no tinsel and no baubles but simple white cardboard cut out doves. We have asked and encouraged people to add a prayer or thought about peace.

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Toll Gavel United Church December 2024 Bulletin 

This time of year, Advent leading up to Christmas, puts a lot of pressure on relationships to be perfect, to be our all in all. Think of the famous Christmas song by Mariah Carey, ‘All I want for Christmas is you!’ No pressure then! Expectations of family members at this time of year, with all its joys and anxieties, can be high.