Edenwood Seniors Village

For information contact the Edenwood Seniors office at 905-824-2658 or edenwoodtwo@gmail.com

Eden Day Care

For information, visit their website at www.eden-daycare.com

Phone: 905-824-5153 / Fax: 905-824-9060 / E-mail: info@eden-daycare.com

Who are we?

A group of worshippers at Eden who are helping the congregation to reach out, to learn about and then support the many groups and individuals that make up our community within our walls and here in Meadowvale.

What do we do?

We look at requests that come into the church for assistance and administer our Benevolent Fund

We are looking at HOW to live into the reconciliation process that the United Church of Canada has begun with our Indigenous Peoples

We seek ways to educate and inform the congregation on various Mission and Outreach Topics

We run events to engage with and support the Community – A Family Fun Day on Family Day in February, Clothing Marts (featuring rock bottom prices!) in the Fall.

We seek to connect with and learn from other Outreach Groups in our community.

How to contact us?

Call the church office at 905 824-5578 or email us at outreach@edenunitedchurch.com

Check out News and Upcoming Events on the website for all our events. 

As part of our Indigenous Awareness Program, EMOH was pleased to offer an invitation to 25 folks in our congregation and their friends/family to explore this reserve…the only one existing where all 6 Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) tribes live together. It is also one of the areas housing the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, upon whose territory we worship at Eden.

Thanks to a grant from the UCC Justice and Reconciliation Fund, we were able to cover costs of the tour and lunch for these 25 people. We all contributed to the cost of renting a school bus to get us there and back and around the reserve. Little did we know it would be one of the hottest, most humid days of the summer…and school busses are not airconditioned! It was like a year-end school trip, but we all survived the heat somehow. A driver who stopped for us all to get an ice cream cone on the way back really helped!

Our guided visit started with a tour of Chiefswood National Historic Site, home of the renowned Mohawk poet Pauline Johnson. We learned a lot about the history of the tribes in this area and what life was like back in the early 1800’s there. Her father was the Mohawk Chief and her mother an English immigrant…an early example of native and settler working well together!

We then headed to the lovely Mohawk Chapel (oldest existing church in Canada, built in 1785) whose stunning stain glass windows tell the story of life in the area. Our young student guide brought these stories alive for us in her descriptions. A Haudenosaunee lunch of Three Sisters Soup and cornbread was served to us there.

We ended our day at the Woodlands Cultural Centre where the story of the Haudenosaunee people is told through innovative exhibits. A very moving virtual tour of the Mohawk Institute Residential School completed our day. This video was difficult to watch as it described the treatment of the residents of this school in the words of several survivors. The building itself is being refurbished to be open for tours likely next year, so that these stories will not be forgotten.

Thanks to all who joined us…it was a memorable day for all!

EMOH would like to thank the United Church of Canada for granting us funds through the Justice and Reconciliation Grant program to help make this happen.

Janice Gillespie

CHAIR of EMOH