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Unitarian Universalists
of the Salish Sea
Weekly Update
December 6, 2024
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Next Saturday Service
Saturday, December 21 at 5:00
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St Margarets Cedar Cottage,
1530 E 22nd, Vancouver
Come gather around the solstice fire, to share stories and songs to help weather the winter. Join us for all-ages stories both silly and serious, and to explore the power of storytelling as a tool for learning, survival, building shared identity, and having fun.
This service will take place indoors, at St Margarets Cedar Cottage, with food and fellowship to follow.
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A wonderful time was had by all at the Craft Workshop last Sunday! Here are some pictures to share from the event below:
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From Sandra Robinson:
"Gary Robinson is now home and recovering well from emergency surgery for a ruptured aneurysm three weeks ago. Gratitude for the love, care and concerns expressed. The VGH surgeon and OR team performed a miracle and the ICU nurses followed through. We are blessed and so grateful. "
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CONGREGATIONAL CONVERSATIONS
Success Stories
Saturday, Dec 7 @ 10:00am
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Connect and Deepen
Saturday, Dec 21 @ 1:00pm
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Watch the CUC National Worship Service, November 3, 2024
on Youtube: "The Church of Our Imagination"
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CUC Annual General Meeting Date Announcement:
Saturday, May 31 @ 10:00am
| Did you know you can Submit a Motion to the CUC’s AGM? |
The deadline for submission of resolutions is December 15, prior to the AGM at which they will be considered. Send proposed resolutions to resolutions@cuc.ca.
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This is a call for folks to come and hear directly from land defenders on the frontlines of Gitanyow & Gitxsan Territory. Saturday, Dec. 7, at 2:30 at 1965 Main St (Red Gate Arts, wheelchair accessible space) in so-called "vancouver", unceded Coast Salish Territories.
Despite 10 years of saying NO to this proposal, these brave folks continue to face repression and invasion on their lands caused by creeping construction of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline. Let’s welcome them and actively listen for ways to build future solidarity in resistance.
This zombie project should have been dead long ago, and it’s environmental permits expired on Nov. 26, but fracking lobbyists are continuing to press on the Eby government for access to these territories, many places where traditional title-holders have NOT given consent! Besides the encroachments on the sovereignty of the original peoples here along the line, this LNG "liquified natural" (fracked) gas project is an environmental desecration--crossing mountains, near the Sacred Headwaters, and across an earthquake-prone subduction zone, even threatening salmon spawning grounds and the sensitive eel grass estuary at the supposed terminal point.
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Join North Shore 4 Palestine on Sunday, December 8th at 2pm. We’ll be silkscreening, snacking, connecting, discussing the film, and planning the advocacy work ahead.
Bring a blank shirt or tote to get silkscreened!
The event is free, but we will also be fundraising on site for Palestinian families in need of support.
The film is 65 minutes and will start at 3pm. Click here for tickets.
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Environmental Action:
Speak up now: tell Environment Minister Davidson to say NO! to PRGT.
The Prince Rupert Gas Terminal pipeline is the first major decision facing B.C.’s new cabinet ministers. Building another Coastal GasLink-scale project would destroy salmon streams and wildlife, and it would cost BC Hydro ratepayers (you and me) billions in new transmission lines and electricity generation to power the LNG terminal. Please write to Minister Davidson.
Social Action:
This week marks the 22nd year of the Grassy Narrows blockade — the longest-running blockade in Canadian history — working to prevent logging and mining from happening in their traditional territories. Will you email Justin Trudeau and demand he honour his commitments?
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