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Preacher: Craig Bartlett
Craig Bartlett
The Revd Craig Bartlett is a Canadian minister primarily affiliated with the United Church of Canada, but during the mid-1990s, he moved to South Korea, where he taught and served as an interim pastoral leader for Open Doors Metropolitan Community Church in Seoul. While there, he became part of our online congregation, and still keeps contact with us. Craig is currently serving as a minister at Fisher River United Church in Koostatak, Manitoba. He previously served the Tara-Centenary Pastoral Charge, which includes Tara-Centenary United Church, St. John’s United Church (Chesley), and Dobbinton United Church. Originally from Corner Brook, Newfoundland, he studied at Memorial University. He earned his Master of Divinity from Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto and also studied at the University of Birmingham. He is married to Youngoak.
Sermons by Craig Bartlett
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12 July, 2026
Preacher: Craig Bartlett
Topic: addiction and grief, generous sowing, Indigenous reconciliation, open table, parable of the sower, Red Road, rural ministry, Sun Dance
Scripture: Matthew
Sowing without sorting the soil first: reckless, generous welcome amid addiction, loss, and quiet hope.
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15 May, 2022
Preacher: Craig Bartlett
Scripture: Acts
All our dinners are an anticipation of the vision of a new world, where God’s very self dwells with mortals, all are welcomed, and all pain is taken away.
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11 July, 2021
Preacher: Craig Bartlett
Topic: Community, Gifts, Humility, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Mark
Instead of leaving unsaid the things that could cause conflict and division, we are called to listen intensely, slowly, intentionally, allowing all to speak their truth, so that we can find a way to move forward together in love and humility.
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17 January, 2021
As important as our responses and decisions are, before we know, we are known. Before we understand, we are understood. Before we say ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’ is said to us.
