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“Nurturing the Spirit for 125 Years!”  Crescent Fort Rouge United Church, serving Winnipeg since 1893, is a traditional yet innovative place to worship. The pipe organ, baby grand piano and choir set a musical high standard with a wide repertoire. Prayers and sermons speak to today's struggles and celebrations. Our membership is diverse in age and experience - and it's a big sanctuary: there's always room for more! Come and try church again for the first time.
Service: Sundays at 10:30. Nursery provided year round, children's and youth programs during the school year. We are a congregation of the United Church of Canada, this country's largest Protestant denomination. |
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"Crescent Fort Rouge United Church looks at the future through Christ's eyes. Jesus offers us many lessons and paths by which to demonstrate our faith. The story of Jesus appearing to the disciples after the resurrection (in John 21:1-17) provides us with an image that seems apt to the future vision of CFRUC. When the disciples get to shore after a long night of fishing, Jesus has prepared for them a bonfire, and bread and fish are already cooking on it. As a result, the disciples are soon feeling well-fed and content, basking in the warmth of Jesus' fire. We know this scene at the bonfire because we have been there. As a bonfire casts a beckoning glow, so too, should our church home welcome all to gather, for fellowship, food and spiritual nourishment and growth. We see our worship as having the same feeling as being gathered in the hospitality of Jesus to have our spirits fed in worship together - in music, in word, in prayer, in community. Just as Peter did in this story, we repeatedly claim our love for Jesus. But love always comes with a challenge - "Do you love me? Feed my lambs. Tend my sheep. Feed my sheep." Out of our abundance we are challenged to share what we have." Our mission is to nurture the spirit of all through worship, music, fellowship and outreach. |
 Crescent Fort Rouge United Church is blessed with a beautiful building. From the outside, the red brick, two towers and Romanesque features give it a distinctive appearance. The south and west sides of the property have lawn and flower plantings, including the recently developed Agnes Saunders Memory Garden established in 2001 in memory of the late Agnes Saunders, who left a very generous bequest to the church.
The east side of the property was refurbished in 1996 as the play yard for the Day Care Centre which is located in the basement under the Fellowship Hall of the church building. Inside, the sanctuary space with a horseshoe balcony, a Casavant organ and marvellous stained glass windows, is one of the best examples of its type and period in the country. The acoustics in the sanctuary are outstanding which allow the congregation to enjoy the beautiful music from our very capable choir. In addition, this helps to attract a number of outside choirs and orchestras who rent (link to rentals) the space for concerts on a very regular basis. http://members.shaw.ca/rcco/Organ5.html  The stained glass windows depicting symbols of our Christian faith were the first stained glass windows to be designed and made in Winnipeg. There are five curved top windows on each side of the sanctuary extending from main floor to upper balcony. The border around them has a vine and branch design, the grapes and leaf depicted as a medallion on two windows. At the rear upper balcony are three large windows which have the Greek symbols for Alpha, symbol of God as the beginning of all things and Omega, symbol of God as the end of all things. In the centre is the lamp of learning and divine knowledge. The windows with their beautiful, subdued colours depicting the true Christian Spirit will be treasured for years to come.
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The congregation of Fort Rouge Methodist Church was founded in 1883 and began as a mission congregation of Grace Methodist Church, which had been organized in the small settlement of Fort Garry in 1868 through the auspices of the home Mission Board. In 1883, when the decision was made to found a congregation south of the Assiniboine River in the new Fort Rouge district of the 10 year old city, Winnipeg, the area consisted only of scattered residences.  The other founding church of Crescent Fort Rouge United was Crescent Congregational, formerly located at the corner of Arbuthnot and Macmillan Avenue. This church was erected in 1910 and was extensively renovated in 1927. In the early months of 1935 a plan was devised for a provisional union of the two churches for a period of two years. At the end of the probationary period the two congregations voted to join and become Crescent Fort Rouge United Church.
Crescent Fort Rouge celebrated their 120 anniversary in July of 2005 with many activities, an open house and planting of 120 geraniums in their beautiful gardens on the south side of the building Crescent Fort Rouge is like a downtown church, but it is a vital contributor to a uniquely vibrant community. It continues to reach out to the people who live here, to welcome them to worship, and to share resources with them, in the hope that its presence will be an example of God's work in the community. |