Bloor Street United Church

This Week

Bible passages to be read January 14th: 1 Samuel 3:1-20; Psalm 33
Sunday, January 15th after church NABS will be gathering in McClure Hall. There will be a free lunch. Anyone in their 20s to early 30s is very welcome!
Workshop on Funeral Planning Sunday, January 15th at 12:00 noon. Bathurst United is hosting this workshop in the Chapel at Trinity-St. Paul's.

New to Bloor? Click here to find out more about our ministry team, including Reverend Martha ter Kuile, our Minister of Worship, Pastoral Care and Faith Formation, pictured here. New to church? Try Bloor 101, for an introduction to our church services.

Here's what we're.....

On January 9th, the Book Club will be discussing James Bartleman's As Long As the Rivers Flow. Anyone is welcome to join us as long as you have read the book.

For further information on the book club, phone Bob Farquharson at 416-962-3998.

I met the Walrus
Here's a fascinating animated short where a fourteen year old Toronto boy interviews John Lennon in 1969 about the way to achieve lasting peace. Nominated for an Academy Award, it is a pacificist gem.

Click here to watch.

Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 7:30 pm: The Choir and Soloists of Bloor Street United Church with Orchestra presented “Haydn and Hovhaness”, a performance of Haydn's brilliant "Lord Nelson" Mass along with a work by the mystical Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness in celebration of the centenary of his birth.

Response to Crisis in Horn of Africa

The United Church of Canada is deeply concerned about the emergency situation now affecting several countries in the Horn of Africa—Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, and the Karamoja region of Uganda. On July 20, 2011, the United Church launched an appeal in response to this crisis and is currently accepting donations. Click here to find out how you can help.

Bread and Justice:
Our New Wednesday Night Service

Starting on January 25th, Bloor Street will be holding a new worship service on Wednesday nights with contemporary music and video. All are welcome. Click here for more information.

Welcome to Bloor Street!

Whoever you are, you are welcome here. Our church has been welcoming friends and strangers alike for over a century. We are an open, affirming congregation of compassionate people. We have a commitment to explore our faith, seek justice and live with respect with each other, and all of creation.

If you're looking for a place to worship where ideas matter, and are put into action, this may be the place for you. We try to balance exploring the meaning of our faith in these changing times with helping others as Christ calls us to - here, and in the world around us.

We meet every Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. at 300 Bloor Street West, just north of the University of Toronto's main campus in downtown Toronto. We welcome all who come through our doors - all genders, sexualities, races, faiths and all manner of questions. Each week, we rely on our service to renew our faith, like returning to a well. We have a wonderful music program, with a classically trained composer leading our large, enthusiastic choir. Like most churches, we read the scriptures together, pray and listen to sermons about how to connect this ancient faith with a quickly changing, modern world.

Our commitment to seek justice takes many forms. We have people helping grandmothers in Africa who are raising children orphaned by HIV. We have an active refugee outreach program, where we help refugees settle into life in Canada, and provide financial assistance for getting the paperwork done. We have a long history of helping newcomers to Toronto - in the 1940s, our services needed to be moved to Massey Hall to accommodate all our new congregants.

Today our numbers are still strong, with over one hundred people coming to most services. We have a thriving Sunday School program, with classes for children of all ages, including teenagers. We also have a nursery for small children so parents with babies can enjoy the service.

After each service, we retire to McClure Hall, where we have coffee and chat, catching up on our week, and enjoying each other's fellowship.

Please feel free to explore this website to learn more about us. There are sections on what we do, our weekly podcast of sermons, how we celebrate throughout the year, and also what we like - from articles and books, to videos. You can also follow us on our Facebook page.

We hope that you can find a home here with us, among people who believe life is full of meaning - but it takes some help to find it - and make it. Please join us in making your life and ours more meaningful. By helping each other, we help ourselves, too.