{"id":566,"date":"2026-04-15T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/?page_id=566"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:34:02","slug":"about-knox","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/?page_id=566","title":{"rendered":"About Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<h2>About Knox<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2>Who We Are and What we Believe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">All are welcome.We are an inclusive, welcoming, caring and affirming Christian community. You are welcome here no matter what your faith background, or educational background. &nbsp; You are welcome here no m<span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\"><\/span>atter who you love, or if you consider yourself Christian, quasi-Christian or not-yet Christian. &nbsp; You are welcome <span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><\/span>here if you have an open mind and an open heart and are willing to join with others in the exploration of faith, a desire to live with integrity and compassion, and a hope to be part of a meaningful community. &nbsp;<\/span><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS, sans-serif\"><font size=\"4\">We&nbsp;are&nbsp;glad&nbsp;that&nbsp;God&nbsp;brought&nbsp;you&nbsp;here. If&nbsp;you are looking for a place to rest, to grow,&nbsp;to&nbsp;heal,&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;challenged,&nbsp;to&nbsp;offer&nbsp;your&nbsp;gifts, there is a place for you in Knox United&nbsp;Church. This website offers a snapshot&nbsp;of who we are and what we do. Knox&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;vibrant&nbsp;community&nbsp;&#8211; there&nbsp;is&nbsp;always lots happening! Look for updates on activities through&nbsp;Sunday&nbsp;morning&nbsp;announcements. The weekly E-Blast, This&nbsp;Week&nbsp;at&nbsp;Knox (weekly), our&nbsp;website, and the church signs.We would&nbsp;love&nbsp;to&nbsp;get&nbsp;to&nbsp;know&nbsp;you&nbsp;over&nbsp;coffee or tea&nbsp;after our 10:30 a.m. service in our gathering&nbsp;hall, which is also called the narthex. We&nbsp;invite&nbsp;you&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;part&nbsp;of&nbsp;our&nbsp;church&nbsp;family.&#8221;For where two&nbsp;or three come together in my name, I am there with them&#8221;&nbsp;<br><\/font><\/font><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: large; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Matthew!18:20 Good News Bible<\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 [object NamedNodeMap]>Our Vision\u00a0 Statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Our vision&#8230; We the congregation of Knox United Church publicly\u00a0proclaim our commitment in\u00a0becoming an open and\u00a0welcoming community of faith. We are declaring we are welcoming\u00a0to everyone regardless of age, race,\u00a0ability, sexual orientation and gender identity. Everyone is welcome here. Through the process of honouring diversity and\u00a0challenging injustice with those who bear the weightof discrimination, we commit ourselves to openness,\u00a0growth, education, love and acceptance.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2>Meet our Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry&#8217;s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p [object NamedNodeMap]><span style=\"color:#0047b2;\">John Lindsay-Botten &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;\">Director of Music and Worship Arts<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p><brjohn lindsay-botten.=\"\" music=\"\" director=\"\"><\/brjohn><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>John Lindsay-Botten<br>A Music grad of Mt. A (\u201993), John Lindsay-Botten has been active in church music since he was 11, and since 2004 in Greater Halifax, John\u2019s been involved with St. Andrew\u2019s and Bedford United Churches, Calvin Presbyterian Church and the Cathedral Church of All Saints, to name a few. \u00a0<br>He is also a private music instructor, professional vocalist, actor, composer and arranger, as well as husband to Vanessa and father to Mariella and Barrett. \u00a0Lastly, he founded and continues to direct the East Coast Carolling Co., bringing holiday harmonies to Halifax and beyond.<br>You can contact John at\u00a0music@knoxsackville.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2>Rev Tom Woods<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry&#8217;s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-566","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knoxsackville.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}