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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto;VALUE=DATE:20260118
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SUMMARY:SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY - 10:15 am start for 11:00 am Bilingua
 l German-English Service led by Iris Schweiger & Karin Schemeit. A Red Dre
 ss Journey.
DESCRIPTION:January 18\, 2026\, Second Sunday after Epiphany - 10:15 am sta
 rt for 11:00 am Bilingual German-English Service led by Iris Schweiger &am
 p\; Karin Schemeit (St. George's Lutheran Church).  We are going on a Red
  Dress Journey. \n\n\n\nWe are going on a Red Dress Journey. This Sunday\
 , you are invited to take some time for contemplation prior to the 11:00 a
 m bilingual service. The doors will be open at 10:15 am for you to take so
 me time to look at 4 art pieces at your leisure. A red dress will be promi
 nently displayed in the sanctuary. We are hoping to give you the opportuni
 ty to reflect on what you have not seen or heard before or might like to u
 nderstand better. The display will stay up after the service as well. We w
 ill be serving coffee and cake to give you more opportunities to share you
 r experience.\n\nDuring the service we will ask God for wisdom and healing
  as we invite you to look\, see\, hear and read what you might not know.\n
 \nIt is difficult to know what you do not know. For many people who went t
 hrough a Canadian school system\, what you might have learned about the Fi
 rst Nations peoples was probably in history class. You likely learned of N
 orth American encounters with European settlers\; how they were involved i
 n various European conflicts that played out in North America\; maybe nota
 ble leaders like Joseph Brant were mentioned\; or a little bit about their
  way of life etc. But it was probably all taught as history. After that in
 troduction\, history classes tended to focus on how Europeans settled and 
 developed the ‘empty land’ they ‘found’. It was as if the First Na
 tions people had disappeared from Canada.\n\nIt is difficult to see what y
 ou do not see. A federal department was created to manage “Indian Affair
 s” so there was nothing that might have dealt with Indigenous issues at 
 a municipal or provincial level\; so nothing or very little would be in th
 e news or talked about. This may have been one of the reasons why resident
 ial schools and references to MMIWG2S+ were not in the public mind. Who kn
 ew about them in the increasingly urban Canadian setting? The legacy of pa
 st practices is that Indigenous peoples became invisible within our wider 
 society while their actual culture was misrepresented on television and in
  other media.\n\nIt is difficult to hear what you cannot hear. We are at a
  place now where we need to hear the stories of our Indigenous neighbours 
 in a way we have not heard them before.\n\nAll are welcome to gather in th
 e foyer after the service.\n\n__________________________\n\nFrom home: Lis
 ten to our 15 minute German radio devotions which air every Sunday at 9:30
  am live on CHLO Radio station AM 530 (a multilingual radio station broadc
 asting from Brampton\, Ontario). Later archived as a podcast recording on 
 our Radio Devotions webpage.\n\nSubscribe to our weekly Email updates by c
 ontacting office@martinluther.ca\nGet to know Pastor Annika Klappert Cell:
  (416) 567-2487 Email: pastor@martinluther.ca\n\nMartin Luther Evangelica
 l Lutheran Church\n2379 Lake Shore Blvd West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada 
 M8V 1B7\nTel.: (416) 251-8293 office@martinluther.ca\n\nFollow us on socia
 l media:\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/martinlutherchurchtoronto\nIn
 stagram: https://www.instagram.com/lutheransbythelake\n\nMartin Luther Chu
 rch Toronto is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCI
 C) and partners with the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD).
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