Get to know us
Worship Sundays 9:30 AM
You are welcome for coffee and conversation after worship service every Sunday.
Oakridge United Thrift Store
Open Fridays and Saturdays 9am-1pm
Help support our ministries, including help to the homeless through First United and programs around the world through the Mission & Service funds.
Rev. David Cathcart
David Cathcart was born and raised in North Delta, a suburb of Vancouver, BC, where he grew up attending Royal Heights United Church. He started a degree in drama at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 1992; but after someone suggested that he couldn’t find a degree less practical than drama, he transferred into honours philosophy. After receiving a BA honours, he studied at the Vancouver School of Theology where he completed his MDiv. In 2003.
David was settled in Alameda/Frobisher Pastoral Charge in the southeast corner of Saskatchewan, where he served for four years. He was called to Knox United Church in Brandon, Manitoba in 2007 where he served for five years. In the summer of 2012, David accepted a two year presbytery appointment to Oakridge United Church.
David is an avid amateur novelist, competent singer and master knitter. He unwinds running, reading, cooking, watching movies and entertaining.
"A pear seed grows into a pear tree; a hazelnut seed grows into a hazelnut tree and a seed of God grows into God. God does not ask anything else of you but to let yourself go and let God be God in you." - Meister Eckhart