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In this week's Crossroads, you will find information on:
Provincial and Regional restrictions
In-Person Worship, Sunday 10 AM
Photos from Pr. Lyle’s Honorary Doctorate
Fred's Birthday Party
Boston's Indigenous Recognition Ceremony
National Indigenous Peoples Day
Indigenous Peoples History Month
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June 16 Harm Reduction
World Refugee Day
Victoria Pride
Queer Film Festival
Queer Family Retreat
Read Ahead
This Week at Church of the Cross
The deadline for all Crossroads submissions is Wednesday at 12 noon.
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Provincial and Regional restrictions have been updated as of April 8, 2022.
Here is the public health restrictions page.
At Church of the Cross masks are recommended but not required. Choir members have been asked to wear masks and those singing are encouraged to as well.
In-Person Worship, Sunday, 10 AM PDT
 Church Council continues to work to see that in-person worship is safer for everyone. We will adjust our plans as health orders change.
Being vaccinated against COVID-19 is the best protection for the health of yourself and others. We strongly encourage everyone who is eligible to be fully vaccinated.
We will continue to livestream worship each Sunday.
June 19, 2nd Sunday after Pentecost
Everyone planning to come to worship are asked to follow these requirements:
- If you are not feeling well and experiencing any Covid-19 related symptoms or if you are not vaccinated, please stay home and participate in worship online.
- You are encouraged but not required to wear a mask when entering the building and throughout worship.
- Observe social distancing.
- Sanitize or wash hands as needed.
- You are welcome to sing and you are encouraged to wear a mask.
- We will greet one another and share the peace at a distance.
- Holy Communion will be served with bread and individual glasses of wine that are spaced in the trays. You may commune with bread or wine alone if you wish.
- It is not required that people register for worship ahead of time or sign in as you arrive.
We will continue to make adjustments as needed and keep you informed of any changes. Your feedback on your experience with in-person worship is valued. Please let any member of Church Council, Pastors, or the church office know of any questions, concerns or ideas for making in-person worship and Sunday School safer and meaningful for everyone.
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Photos from Pr. Lyle’s Honorary Doctorate
    
Photo attribution: Don Storch, Nicky Ni, Lyndon Sayers
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Coffee and Cake after worship this Sunday, June 19, are in honour of Pastor Lyle’s Honorary Doctorate. We also lift up graduating students.
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Fred Jauck celebrated his 104 birthday with a coffee party at church
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Boston Laferté's Indigenous Recognition Ceremony, UVic
“During the ceremony at First People’s House, graduates are gifted a blanket and called to the front to be honoured individually. The ceremony followed the protocols of the Lkwungen and WSANEC peoples. After we were honoured, Elders and community members were invited to the floor to say words about us and about their family members among the graduates.” - Boston
 
 
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National Indigenous Peoples Day
Tuesday June 21, 2022, beginning at 10 AM, Royal Roads University invites the Victoria community to join in celebrations for National Indigenous Peoples Day! See the schedule of events below. Royal Roads University is located at 2005, Sooke Road in Colwood. All activities are free and open to the public.
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Indigenous Peoples History Month - Who are the Inuit?
Inuit means “the people”. The Inuit live throughout most of northern Canada in the territory of Nunavut close to the Arctic , although Inuit are found from Alaska to Greenland. The areas inhabited by Inuit peoples primarily centre around the Arctic Ocean. They are a distinctive group of Aboriginal Canadians who are specifically identified in the Constitution Act of 1982. Most of the approximately 60,000 Inuit live in the territory of Nunavut.
For centuries the Inuit have relied on their natural resources, strong leaders and innovative tools and skills to adapt to the cold harsh environments of the Arctic. The Inuit diet is primarily fish, caribou and sea mammals.
The inuit place a high value on inclusiveness resourcefulness, collaboration and decision making through discussion and consensus. While individuals are expected to be self-reliant and fulfill their role in Inuit society, each member is also expected to support and help one another.
The Inuit have used naming, or renaming to resist the colonial legacy on their culture by choosing names in their own language. When the Canadian government formally recognized the Inuit claims to the land, the inhabitants changed the name of the region to Nunavut, which means “our land” in the Inuktitut language. Nunavut connotes home and a deep relationship and interconnectedness with the land.
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Keynote & Panel Discussion: Harm Reduction for Youth
Thursday June 16, 7 PM PDT via Zoom
Threshold Housing Society hosting
Panel members are:
Guy Felicella, who was homeless as a youth, Jennifer Charlesworth, BC Representative for Children and Youth, Dr. Bernie Pauley of U Vic, Center for study of Addictions, Kim Keats, Island Health Nurse and Marlene Stevens , Harm Reductions Co-ordinator of the First Nations Health Authority.
Issues will include “safe use of drugs for teens”, age and range of consent, working to reduce stigma and what successful harm reduction strategies have been for youth.
Folks need to register on Eventbrite to receive the zoom link. Click here.
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World Refugee Day - June 20th
Here are two events in Saanich to honour the day. Below is a short video focused on Ukrainian Refugees. It is a dramatic representation of their plight. All refugees from everywhere need our help.
Click here for the video.
Bill Williamson
Social Justice Committee
 
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Victoria Pride
Victoria Pride Events begin next week and our sanctuary is decorated for it.
The Victoria Pride Week’s biggest and most colourful event the Victoria Pride Parade is on Sunday, June 26, 11 AM. Some congregation members, friends, and allies are going to be marching with a banner saying “Lutherans for Pride”. We want to show Victoria that we are a Queer Affirming church in a very public way.
If you are able, please join us. If you are watching the parade from the sidewalk and you see us going by, come out and walk a little way with us. For those marching we expect to gather at 10:30 AM at a location in Vic West yet to be determined. Stay tuned for more details.
Happy Pride.
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Queer Film Festival
Hosted by Broad View United at their Cadboro Bay Campus at 2625 Arbutus Rd.
June 27-29, 2022, 7 PM.
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Queer Family Retreat
August 25th, 2022, 2 pm - August 28th 2022 12 pm
Enjoy 3 summer nights in the glorious Okanagan Valley, in queer Christian community with friends and families of all ages and life stages!
This engaging, welcoming retreat is for those who consider themselves as part of the Queer Family! Gathering at Naramata Centre, we will connect with one another, with Creator, with the Land and with ourselves. We will celebrate this time as community with values of belonging, justice and love. We will rest, sing, run wild, play, create and share – just as we are, beautifully and wonderfully made by God.
Anyone you consider family is invited to join us – birth, chosen, found, immediate, extended, church, or otherwise. All expressions of faith are welcome, even as we draw on the Christian practices of prayer, story, and times of worship. From birth to elder years, this retreat is for all ages and stages and is led by experienced facilitators from the queer and ally community.
$195 for People 18+, Kiddos and Youth are FREE
The $195 retreat fee includes the retreat’s food truck community dinner on Thursday, and all retreat offerings over the 4 days we are gathered. Accommodation is not included. Meals, other than our food truck community dinners, are self-catered.
Click on the Facebook link here The Queer Family Retreat or go straight to Naramata Centre's site The Queer Family Retreat for more information and to register.
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Read ahead:
 2nd Sunday after Pentecost
June 19, 2022 Isaiah 65:1-9
Psalm 22:19-28
Galatians 3:23-29
Luke 8:26-39
Worship Bulletin: CLICK HERE for Worship Bulletin
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