Territorial Acknowledgment
Jesus calls us into the world to love one another as we are loved by God. As we came to this land, First Nations peoples welcomed us, sustained us and taught us. We did not hear them when they shared their vision.
In our zeal to tell them the good news of Jesus Christ, we were closed to the value of their spirituality. We confused Western ways and culture with the depth, breadth, length and height of the gospel of Christ.
We imposed our civilization as a condition of accepting the gospel.
As a result, the image of the Creator in us is twisted, blurred, and we are not what we are meant by God to be. In our journey toward reconciliation, we acknowledge, this day, that we gather for worship on the traditional territories of; the Anishinaabe (the Ojibwe or Chippewa Nation), the Anishinaabe (the Ojibwe or Chippewa Nation), the Haudenosaunee (the Iroquois, and the Oneida Nation) ,the Lenape (the Delaware People),the Attawandaron (the Neutral Nation or Algonquin People),and the Wendat (Huron People) as well as the other indigenous peoples who preceded them.
We acknowledge, with respect, their history, their spirituality, and their culture and seek to live into right relationship with all.