Knox United Church. Nokomis United Church.

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon as a hybrid of in-person and via Zoom on Nov 28 2021 in Knox United Church, Lanigan. Image address: photo-1606945818201-6dc4de17befb Photographer: Myriam Zilles

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church, Lanigan to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes. Image address: photo-1596564548079-34e30b67b64b Photographed by Vaishakh Pillai

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes. Image address: photo-1506677383390-84397709dfa7 Photographer: Rachel McDermott

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes. Photographer: Belinda Sewing’s Image address: photo-1623558132577-54672d745bd5

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes. Image link: photo-1594026777180-4640e6b8ac1b by Dylan Nolte

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes. Image by NASA: photo-1447433693259-c8549e937d62

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes. Image source: E-EEQSjDdck, taken by Joseph Gonzalez.

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes. Image is by James Coleman: photo-1531627467965-e9c3dd19209c

This sermon took the form of a dialogue with Rev Deb Anderson-Pratt, Minister at Regina Native Outreach Ministry; Rev Mitchell Anderson, Lead Minister at St Paul’s United in Saskatoon; and Cory Arcand, Principal of Kipohtakaw Education Centre on Alexander First Nation, Alberta responding to questions from Frances Kitson on a video presented during our worship service. Frances Kitson led us in hybrid-worship in place and via Zoom.

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes.

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes.

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes.

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes.

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes.

Frances Kitson delivered this sermon in Knox United Church to a congregation consisting of those in person and those joining via Zoom from their homes.

First service after the summer break in person and via Zoom delivered by Frances Kitson from Knox United Church, Lanigan, SK.

Even in 2021, not every family is a fully safe space for coming out. In this conversation, our student minister Frances Kitson speaks with a young woman studying for ministry who is not fully out to her conservative Christian family. Listen to her thoughts on why Pride is important to Christians, what it's like to be told "Love the sinner, hate the sin," and all the many needs that Pride celebrations fill.

Allison Sarauer is a lifelong member of the United Church, and lives in a small town in central Saskatchewan. At the age of 15, her youngest child came out to Allison and her husband as non-binary. Hear Allison reflect on what that experience has taught her, how celebrating Pride intersects with her faith, and what becoming an Affirming congregation is all about.

Cpl Rielly Knock is an RMCP officer who serves in the Warman detachment. He also happens to be trans. Join our student minister, Frances Kitson, as she finds out what Pride means to Rielly, what it was like to come out and transition while an RCMP officer, and what it means to him to see a Pride flag flying from a church.

Bible reading followed by a skit about an imagined Noah and his unnamed wife performed by Frances Kitson via Zoom from Knox United Church, Lanigan Image: Rainbow on body of water by Zoltan Tasi, P2lk-0bBVm0