Families are now more like variations on a theme.
Vivian Yarwood, a minister at Don Mills' Parkwoods United Church, and a planning team of six people designed this intergenerational service which would celebrate the different kinds of families found in congregations today. Our congregation of 325 families has changed markedly in the past few years as has the community around us. Our immediate neighbourhood encom-passes low income, subsidized apartments as well as expensive, single family homes. The families who attend our church are couples, couples with children, singles and single parents with children. We chose to represent the different types of families with a rainbow and matching balloons as a visual reminder that while the individual colours of the rainbow are different, together they form a beautiful whole.