JOIN US
THIS SUNDAY @ 12:30 in Norma Elrod's garden!!
This will be a special service  led by Robyn Newton!

Location: Norma Elrod's garden, 2012 Old Dollarton Road North Vancouver. Easily accessible by bus and parking is available on the street nearby or in the shopping plaza across the street.  Please bring a chair or blanket for sitting on the lawn, and finger food to share as we will have a "picnic" social at Norma's after the worship service.  

The service will be focused on our sacred relationship with nature, and our interconnection with the web of all life.  Much of it is based on the book "Church of the Wild" by Victoria Loorz.

Loorz invites us to honour our own experience of falling in love with the world, and that is what Robyn is going to invite us to do in this ceremony "in the wild.

Some classes of interest
at the CLF

How do we not create an "other" in ways that uphold systems of oppression? September 24, 2024

Coming up in the Fall

Congregational Conversations Congregational ConversationsCongregational Conversations will return in September.  Your openness and willingness to imagine a strong future is inspirational and we look forward to further connection. more details in August.

Meaning Making: Roots of Resilience programMany of you shared how helpful the Meaning Making in Liminal Times sermon series was for your group.  Rev. Karen Fraser Gitlitz, coordinator of last year's program, is at it again.  The 2024-25 series will include 8 sermons and an accompanying theme program with 8 Canadian theme ministry packages.  Info and registration is available here: https://forms.gle/m586oekUoFSULXQE8

CUC Co-Lab: Experiences of TransformatioJoin us from November 1st to 3rd, 2024, when Unitarians, Universalists, UU congregations, and UU inspired communities come together to connect, enjoy, and engage in profound conversations. Register Now! 

Please send your feedback on the previous year as well as thoughts about the upcoming programming year to the Planning Committee before the August 1st Planning Team Retreat  
info@uusalishsea.ca. 

Hope Matters: Addressing Our Eco-Grief, Sharing Our Eco-Joy, and Tooling Up For Action

A Program in 4 Sessions: 
Facilitated by Teresa Morton and Rev. Meg Roberts @ Beacon Unitarian

Are you overwhelmed in the face of the climate crisis? Are you seeking a safer place to think about this existential threat and support in deciding how you feel about it? We offer a series of 4 sessions where we will collectively grapple with how to engage with these challenges, build resilience and explore how hope is nurtured and incorporated into our daily lives. We will be drawing from Elin Kelsey’s book Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis.

These 4 sessions will include:

• Understanding ecological grief through psychology and ritual
• Building strategies for processing our responses
• Experiencing the power of accessing our ecological joy so we can deeper our connections with the natural world
• Sharing hopeful stories of positive environmental action
• Learning how to shift perspectives and cultivate ecological hope
• Providing resources and support for engaging in sustainability efforts
• Providing resources and support for engaging in sustainability 
  
  

We’re deciding on whether to hold the sessions on a weekday afternoon or a Saturday session. Please indicate which option you would prefer BY AUGUST 1st by filling out this short online form. 

Or if more info is required, please contact: Teresa at president@beaconunitarian.org

Did you know they were Unitarian?

Lousia May Alcott (1823-1888)

She was a Unitarian best known as a writer of Little Women. Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of New England transcendentalist philosophical leader and Unitarian minister Bronson Alcott. 

Alcott served as a nurse in the American Civil War and spent her life as a contented single woman. An abolitionist and temperance worker, she worked tirelessly in feminist movements and women’s suffrage.