Roseneath United Church

Church Services

Joint Church services are held every other Sunday morning at 10 am. For special exceptions, see Events Page.

Choir

Currently our choir is made up of members from both Trinity Hastings and Roseneath United churches.  Practice is usually before Sunday Service at 9:30 for hymn singing.   Anthems are prepared for special occasions and practices arranged as needed in the month leading up to them.  

Our Mission

Roseneath United Church seeks to be a welcoming community church, worshipping and learning together the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, caring for each other and those who live around us, embracing our diversity.

A New Creed

We are not alone. We live in God’s world. We believe in God, who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by Spirit. We trust in God. We are called to be the church, to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in Creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope. In life, in death, in life beyond death. God is with us. We are not alone.

History

Roseneath United Church began as a Methodist congregation in 1855. But as a result of a division within the Methodist hierarchy, the Wesleyans and the Methodist Episcopals united in 1884 and the Church became part of the Alnwick Methodist Circuit.

Church services and quarterly board meetings were originally held in local school buildings. In 1881 the deed for the present day site was purchased from G. Liscum. The building committee was comprised of Dr. Noden, Lewis Liscum and John Thackeray. James and Colin Steele were tendered to erect the Church for the sum of nine hundred and thirty dollars. Rev. William Buchanan was appointed to the newly formed Alnwick Circuit.

The original building didn’t have the accoutrements of modern day living. In 1908 an alcove was built at the south end of the Church, a furnace was installed and a new shed was erected.

The Church was united with the Presbyterian congregation in 1925 and continued to worship in the Methodist building as part of the newly formed United Church of Canada.

Major renovations were undertaken in 1958: the basement was remodelled, the sanctuary was decorated, a new organ was installed and a vestibule was built at the front entrance.

Other updates to the Church were carried out in 1966 that included a water well, washrooms, carpeting, ceiling fans, pew cushions and panelling.

In 1977 a new organ was installed and the old furnace was replaced. Since then various improvements and additions throughout the years have blessed us with a small but lovely sanctuary.

To download the Roseneath United Church history, please click on the links below;

Church History Footprints 1881-1981

Church History Gleanings 1970 - 2015 

History of the Roseneath U.C.W.

The year 1962 marked a new beginning in women’s work in the United Church of Canada when two of our preceding organizations disbanded, W.M.S. and W.A., and a new one called “United Church Women” was formed. The first regular meeting of Roseneath U.C.W. was held on January 31, 1962.

For several years the U.C.W. had three branches within this charge: Roseneath, Fenella, Centenary. For the two years 1969-70 Roseneath itself had two units. In 1971 the two units in Roseneath were combined and in 1976 the ladies of Centenary also joined with the Roseneath branch. Our first study book prepared for use in the U.C.W. was called Signals for the Sixties.