Faithful Readers
We are meeting online! You are welcome to join us.
If you would like to be part of the online gathering and discussion, please email or call the church office and we’ll add you to the list.
Email secretary@harrowunited.ca or call the church office (204) 284-0079 to be included.
Zoom Meetings 1:30-3:30pm on the last Wednesday of the month or as indicated below.
Movies on Sunday afternoons.
Plan to read our book list, too, and join us online for our discussions!
Click here for the new book list for 26/27.
September 16, 2026-The Wonder by Emma Donague-Book & Movie.
Set in post-famine Ireland, the novel follows English nurse Elizabeth Wright as she cares for a supposed miraculous girl, who has survived without sustenance for four months.
September 30, 2026-Wo We Are: Four Questions for A Life and A Nation by the Honourable Murray Sinclair
Structured around the four questions that have long shaped Senator Sinclair’s thinking and worldview—Where do I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? Who am I?—Who We Are.
October 28, 2026-The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
Thirty-eight commercial jetliners carrying 6,595 passengers and crew were forced to land in Gander, a small town in Newfoundland, Canada.
November 25, 2026-The Upending of Wendall Forbes by David Giuliano
Set in the isolated northern Ontario community of Twenty-Six Mile House, the story follows an elderly married couple who find their snowbound home unexpectedly crowded with a diverse group of stranded travelers during a fierce blizzard.
January 27, 2027-The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Anovel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person.
February 24, 2027 Against the Grain: Defiant Giants Who Changed the World by Terry O’Reilly
Stories about Real People who chose to ignore conventional wisdom, found or invented a better way, questioned the status quo at great sacrifice and pushed for change against all odds.
March 17, 2027 Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Book & MOVIE
While working night shifts cleaning a Pacific Northwest aquarium, a woman forms an unlikely friendship with a captive giant Pacific octopus who uses his high intelligence to help solve the 30-year-old mystery of her son’s disappearance.
March 31, 2027 Behind the Pickle Jar by Wendy McQuaig
While repairing a cellar window in a rented Simcoe County farmhouse, Amy and her husband Matt find a turn-of-the-century diary.
April 28, 2027-A Minor Chorus: A Novel by Bill-Ray Belcourt
A novel about breaching the prisons we live inside.
May 26, 2027- The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience by Mark Bixler
In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan since 1983.
June 16, 2027 Windup Dinner at 6pm with book recommendations
June 30, 2027-Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts:… by Alex Bulmer & Debbie Patterson
An anthology of dramatic works and by contemporary disabled theatre artists.
September 15, 2027-The Diviners by Margaret Lawrence Book & MOVIE
Classic novel features the character Morag Gunn, an orphaned woman raised in an impoverished community in a small prairie town in Manitoba, Canada.
September 29, 2027-When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward
Set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during World War I after the devastating December 1917 Halifax munitions explosion.