Garden/Earth Ministry
Our grounds and gardens
So many people from this community have shared their time, talent and plants to care for this little corner of creation that is ours to tend.
Over the past few years, we have worked, through a variety of projects, to give this land around out building its plants back — not through colonialist appropriation, but through a slow and careful process of revisiting the growth each season and adding plants that are indigenous to this place.
This presentation kicks off a month of Nature Connections in our neighbourhood: Together as neighbours, we'll discover that just MAYbe I can make a difference after all!
Kim Dooley, local Pointe-Claire gardener and Kyra Pompeo, of the City of Pointe-Claire, will be sharing ways that we can all make a difference in what we choose to plant, and how. Planting native species, bolstering biodiversity--it all matters for the neighbourhood (and the planet) we share. Come learn how!
We've been inspired by the City of Pointe-Claire's Ecological Garden Guide and are grateful for the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice around the Cedar Park United outdoor spaces this season.
Vacation Creation Camp
After our wonderful first season in 2023, we once again invited the neighbourhood to become Creation Counsellors in 2024, taking turns caring for our little corner of Creation throughout the summer. We delivered 9 harvests to the West Island Mission!
This year, we’re launching VCC on June 15. Sign up to be a Creation Counsellor and care for our veggie-campers during the summer!
Healing Garden
So many people from this community have shared their time, talent and plants to care for this little corner of creation that is ours to tend.
In the fall of 2022, we began a Healing Garden, inspired by the wisdom of our First Nations siblings. It contains native plants, including the Three Sisters, and has grown and flourished over the past two years.
Outdoor labyrinth
In the summer of 2021, members of the Cedar Park United community came together to lay a labyrinth on the lawn in front of the church building. It has gone on to be a place where people from all walks of life and all types of connection with the community come to seek wisdom and a time of focus.
You are welcome to walk the labyrinth whenever you like, and if you wish, you can make use of the Labyrinth Guide below as a resource.
Linden, our prayer tree
In the summer of 2020, as the pandemic kept our community separated, we turned the linden tree on the front lawn into our prayer tree. By the end of the summer, Linden’s branches were covered with prayers and heart wishes.
In 2023, Linden underwent tree surgery and now has metal rods holding her two trunks, and a wire keeping her top branches, together and standing strong.
Linden has continued to hold our prayers on her branches, and has become a part of our Garden Ministry, Children’s Worship and neighbourhood outreach point.
