Every audio sermon week across the years we have — a filled cell is a week with an upload, darker blue means richer topics. A steady weekly cadence shows as a solid band across years.
LessMore·no upload·known, not transcribed
Each cell is one week · darker blue = richer topics (clean, sermon-only audio scores higher) · pale = thin, faint = no upload · gold outline = known, not yet transcribed · red outline = broken/failed file · uploaded in 38 of 59 weeks across the span (64%).
How this church compares
Against other ucc and against every sermon on the site. Signals are approximate and grow more reliable as more of the archive is scored.
●this church┃peer average┃site average
Emotional rangesomewhat narrower
Its sermons travel somewhat narrower in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and about the same than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensitysomewhat higher
The peaks run somewhat higher than peers, somewhat higher than the site.
site avg 0.64
lowerpeer avghigher
Dynamic deliverynoticeably lower
In the voice itself, energy runs noticeably lower than peers, somewhat lower than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among ucc churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #40 of 67 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it reads as characteristically ucc.
Most-preached topics
Advent & Christmas 24Friendship & Belonging 20Service & Spiritual Gifts 20Creation Care 16Faith & Civic Life 15Immigration & Refuge 12Faith & Mental Health 11Baptism & Communion 11
Recurring themes across the archive
Where this church’s sermons land on the site’s emergent topic map.
High School 5Pride Month 4Social Justice 3Addiction Issues 2Sense Belonging 2Far Away 1Environmental Issues 1Singing Christmas Carol 1Brothers Sisters 1Seat Table 1
Themes they appear in
The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.
“And so a lot of these spaces like the civic buildings have houses that are very, not very far away from really beautiful old 1940 houses, some of the…”
“And I think that's really a valuable message in a high school setting, where sometimes we just assume things and we don't actually take the time to g…”
“And that sense of connection helps to reinforce somebody's sense of belonging in a community, especially if they see their own culture or their own h…”
Fear & AnxietyFaith & Mental HealthBible & Exposition
“But right now Ontario is where I am operating because, you know, mental health services, cross-border, there are very different legislations and laws…”
“you know it's been almost 10 years since he passed away and being able to finally you know close that door of that grief and that trauma with you kno…”
Service & Spiritual GiftsBaptism & CommunionEvangelism & Mission
“There was another exhibition the next year, which was about voices, which is about inclusion, about having a seat at the table, hearing people's voic…”
“So there's a team, there's also a high school teacher that comes and is the kind of advisor for the volunteer students and they get their hours docum…”
“And one of the traditions of all people don't know a lot about, I realize that some people don't know that you can have like real Christmas trees in…”
“Roy Dixon, after the war, organized a club revival meeting, And Frank, my uncle Frank Shontz, was elected the first president of the Club Post War, a…”
Advent & ChristmasChurch Life & MembershipNew Year & Watch Night
“What we really look for is people that have completed their high school music program or even their university music program, which we have quite a f…”
Baptism & CommunionImmigration & RefugeCreation Care
“and then I said you know like within our community there's always a lot of food at the table because we don't cook by meal you cook for family so alw…”
“Yeah, well, and I think a big thing is a lot of people who start this journey, you know, that start this journey into the truth and into the reconcil…”
“I now want to welcome Janice Jim to Promenade, who is going to tell us about bike month and pride month and also give us a report on how Vintage Fest…”
“In addition to this drag performer, her name is Bejuria, and so he creates this conversation between the sort of drag, traditional drag culture that…”
“org and you can look at profiles and all the dogs that are up there for adoption and then I myself on any kind of social media I have on my Facebook…”
Church Life & MembershipFaith & Civic LifeService & Spiritual Gifts
“It is and the amazing thing is they're all volunteers Everybody's a volunteer a volunteer in the organization and it's a fabulous Company of so many…”
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This church
LGBTQ+ affirming
57%
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Economic justice & mutual aid
35%
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Radical hospitality & accessibility
17%
Peace & nonviolence
17%
Anti-racism / racial justice
11%
Creation care / climate
9%
Open to people of all faiths
7%
Immigrant & refugee welcoming
7%
Children & youth
68%
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Online worship
49%
Small groups
36%
Child safety policy
11%
Financial & governance transparency
10%
Languages / interpretation
2%
Website & sermons online
This church: site, no sermons — like 27% of UCC churches.
Audio + videoAudio onlyVideo onlySite, no sermonsJS-only siteBlocked / timeoutDead or hijackedNo website
Website completeness, all churches: a rough score of how complete and easy-to-navigate the church’s own website is.
Among the 3,012 churches with a readable, rated website (scores of 0 and 100 left out), this one scores higher than about 58%.
Values stated, within UCC churches: how many of the 29 values we track each church’s website states. This one states 5 — ahead of 60% of UCC churches (the typical one states 4).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
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LGBTQ+ affirmingsourceWe celebrate everyone, including people of all ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, family configurations, economic circumstances, physical, cognitive, or emotional abilities, education, or spiritual and religious traditions.
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Economic justice & mutual aidsourceIf you would like to support the work of our church, including our food pantry, you can give using your VENMO @StratfordStreetChurch Verification Code 2492 Please scroll down for our complete calendar.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Anti-racism / racial justice, Open to people of all faiths, Immigrant & refugee welcoming, Radical hospitality & accessibility, Creation care / climate
Belonging & practical
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Children & youthsourceWithin the church community , donations are the only source of funding for our staff (pastor, children's programs staff, childcare, secretary, and janitor - all part-time);
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Not found on the pages we checked: Languages / interpretation, Online worship, Small groups
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