I've only been part of the United Church for about the last 20 years.  I grew up in Pennsylvania (where there aren't any United Church if Canada congregations).  Born into the Evangelical United Brethren church, which became part of the United Methodist church.  Both of these streams of spirituality in Canada are part of the United Church.

I am still attending my local united church though I confess that some things have come to light that have me a bit worried.  I knew from their pamphlets that there might be areas that I might have discomfort with but I continued to attend due to the people there and my sense that this was the church God led me to.

I've also attended one service and several bible study nights at an Oliver "Word of Life" church and found that even more of a blessing in many ways.

The things that led me to feel some discomfort are: the church's position on marriage and relationships between those of the same gender, the songs are not familiar to me for the most part (but I've tried to keep an open mind towards that), plus more recently I noticed the tendency towards "more inclusive" language which is really more of a distraction than anything.

Changing "men" to "men and women" or "people", in a song or substituting GOD for "Him" or His and finally a song that appeared to ascribe the word Her to God were more recent examples of things that stood out to me.  I "kept my peace" when this occurred and in fact, I offered the solution of "family" to stand in for "brothers" but not out of misguided intentions but merely for the fact that family of God is what we're supposed to be.

I realize that changing song lyrics is hardly a "deal breaker" and hardly the most important concern, therefore I am continuing to attend this church, my "home church" though I think the Oliver church might be a better one for me...

Peace to you all.