Red Dress Day
On May 5, people all across Canada will try to give a voice to those who no longer have one. Red Dress Day, first observed in 2010, happens every May 5. The goal of the day is to honour and bring awareness to the thousands of Indigenous women and girls, and two-spirit people who have gone missing or who have been murdered. How Red Dress Day began Red Dress Day was inspired in 2010 by Jamie Black, a Métis artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Black hung hundreds of empty red dresses in public places to represent missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and to bring awareness to the issue. In a YouTube interview with Smithsonian, Black said the idea was to confront people with the violence that women are experiencing, and to create a space for women to tell their stories. (From CBC.ca - Read more here) Ontario Native Women's Association has resources about Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG), and created the image to the left: https://www.onwa.ca/learning-resources-mmiwg |
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Land acknowledgementWe acknowledge our Creator and the world around us and our place within it. We acknowledge the many nations who call this land home. We acknowledge the Indigenous and non-Indigenous brothers and sisters who walked this land in the past and those who walk it today, this, the traditional and treaty lands of the Anishinaabeg (Ahnish-in-nah-beg), Neutral, and Haudenosaunee (Ho-deh-no-show-nee) peoples. "We are all Treaty People." Check out the Social Justice page on our Website. Find stories about social justice issues and how the United Church is supporting Residential Schools, Human Rights, Women's Rights and other social justice issues.
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Our Mission Statement
Grace United Church is a welcoming family of Christian faith, committed to living, learning, growing and sharing God's love; acting with acceptance, caring and joy, in our community and the world.
Grace United Church is a welcoming family of Christian faith, committed to living, learning, growing and sharing God's love; acting with acceptance, caring and joy, in our community and the world.