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TOMORROW!!
Saturday, Sep 21st at 5:00pm
"Water Communion"
Please join us for the first service of our new church year. We will celebrate with a Unitarian Universalist water communion homecoming ritual in a service lead by your Worship Team. Please bring some water from your home or from your summer adventures. We will enjoy food and fellowship at a potluck after the service. We would like to invite UUSS members, after the service, to head over to the nearby Renfrew Community Park, to check out the Streamside Lanterns (from 7:30 to 9:30). It's a magical evening of lights and water and the arts, celebrating a local salmon-bearing stream. There is also a Labyrinth just upstream of the lantern installations, with a group performing music to walk the labyrinth to, until 8pm, and a larger arts performance called the Consciousness of Streams from 8:30 to 9:30.
Visitors are encouraged to also bring lanterns or lights of their own. Here is the ink:
https://stillmoonarts.ca/2024-renfrew-ravine-moon-festival/
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Also tomorrow
Saturday, Sep 21 @ 1:00pm
Celebration of Life
for Chris Edgar
On June 5, 2024, after a short illness, Christopher Michael Edgar passed away peacefully, surrounded and supported by the family he loved so much. He was the beloved son of Patricia and David Edgar, husband to Tricia, Dad to Lauren, big brother to Karen and part of the Edgar and Wadsley extended family as nephew, cousin and uncle.
Barb Moore will be leading the service at Boal Chapel, North Vancouver.
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THIS Sunday, Sep 22 @ 4:00pm
Inquiring Souls is back for another exciting year!
You are invited to join Bill Richardson and Jessica Motherwell McFarlane for tea, snacks and question- storming from 4:00- 5:00.
There is an online attendance option too. Please RSVP to jilly.watson@shaw.ca if you wish to attend.
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INTO CIRCLE MEALS!
Joy Silver is once again inviting us all to participate in potluck lunches and dinners once a month in each other’s homes. All you have to do is fill out the survey. Joy will organize the lunches and dinners from four to six guests. The more participants, the more circulation and opportunities for new folk to know us.
Carpooling can be arranged.
John and Joy are offering to host a lunch on Thursday, September 26th, from 11:30-1:30. Any offerings to host a Potluck Dinner in October? Your choice of date.
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Soul Matters are small groups that meet consistently on a monthly basis to companion each other on our individual journeys of discovery and growth. We do this using a packet of materials researched by a group of highly skilled UU professionals. The method used is deep listening as taught by the Quaker teacher and activist Parker Palmer. The method promotes a “heart” over “head” experience, and a chance to get to know our fellow group members on a very deep level. Small groups are a time-proven way to increase connections in spiritual community. And you may just find that the practice of deep listening translates well into more meaningful interactions in other areas of your life.
This year’s monthly themes are The Practice of….Invitation, Deep Listening, Repair, Presence, Story, Inclusion, Trust, Joy, Imagination, Freedom. But regardless of the topic, I find myself surprised at what I discover about myself through this process.
Soul Matters groups are starting up again. There is plenty of space. Current groups that meet in-person on the third Wednesday morning, a weekend, and on Zoom on the fourth Monday evening are all seeking and welcoming new participants. And new groups either in-person or virtual are always possible. Please let Anne Mayall know of your interest or questions. Email annemayall51@gmail.com, or call or text 778-686-3643.
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The planning team for the Sunday gatherings on the North Shore (happening soon!) would like to know: how many of us own personal copies of the UUA blue book "Singing the Journey."
If you have one that you are willing to share email jilly.watson@shaw.ca to let her know.
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The planning team for the Sunday gatherings on the North Shore (happening soon!) would like to know: how many of us own personal copies of the UUA blue book "Singing the Journey."
If you have one that you are willing to share email jilly.watson@shaw.ca
to let her know.
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Are you interested in joining a book club? Last year a group met to read Karen Armstrong’s book Sacred Nature. Some book club suggestions:
1. Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening
2. A literary fiction book club with a different book each month
3. A book, or books, related to our 8th principal such as White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
4. A book, or books, about nature and/or environmental issues such asSacred Nature
If you would be interested in participating in a book club and/or have a suggestion for a book that you think would be a good starting point, let Cara know. We can have more than one group and can meet virtually or in person.
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Congregational Conversations
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Connect and Deepen: Caring, Saturday Sep 21st at 1:00pm
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Connect & Deepen is an online community for adults interested in meaningful reflection, conversation, and shared ideas for living our values. This is a welcoming space that encourages spiritual as well as philosophical exploration, with an eye to putting these explorations into action. Registration here.
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SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
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Imagine Canada is hosting a free webinar, Reconciliation in Action: The Role of the Charitable & Nonprofit Sector, on Thursday, September 26th at 11:00AM. The webinar aims to provide practical guidance around how the nonprofit sector can be actively involved in reconciliation efforts. During this action-oriented session, panelists will discuss how charities and nonprofits can take concrete steps towards supporting Indigenous-led initiatives and addressing systemic barriers.
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Sept. 25, Oct. 2, and Oct. 9, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm: Getting into Climate Action: Solutions, Inspiration, Hope!
You may be familiar with the RegenerateBC material, but would like a deeper dive? Or you think your friends and colleagues would benefit from hearing more about climate solutions and action? Perhaps share this invitation with someone who prefers to participate from home?
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Sept. 26, 6:30 - 8:00pm at the Capilano Library. RegenerateBC will offer Climate & Media Connections: "How to Find Joy in Climate Action" based on the work of Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and other contributors to the All We Can Save Project.
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Did you know that almost 300 congregations are hosting a UU Climate Justice Revival!
On September 28-29,congregations will host UU Climate Justice Revivals to collectively reimagine a spirit-filled and liberatory future. Through conversations, worship, and advocacy, congregations will work together to realize climate justice and collective liberation in our communities. Congregations will receive everything they need to host a revival in their communities, including discussion guides and materials for all ages, training, worship resources, and advocacy actions designed to transform our communities through climate justice.
At the Revival, congregations will:
- collaboratively create representation of the challenges of climate change
- Identify a vision for a flourishing future and actions we can take to make that vision a reality
- undertsand their role in the interdependent ecosystem of creating climate justice and collaborative liberation
If you are interested in helping our congregation be a part of this historic event, please email catherine.
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