Unitarian Universalists
of the Salish Sea

Weekly Update
January 10, 2025

NEXT WEEKEND on SATURDAY

January Service:
"Unsettled Times"

Sat, January 18 at 5:00pm

St Margarets Cedar Cottage,
1530 E 22nd

Please join Cara Elrod, Cynthia Becker and your Worship Team as we look at the unsettled times we are in and how, as a community, we can support each other through grief, fear and uncertainty. How can our UU faith help guide us through the months ahead?

There will be a special ritual to accompany this service. We will enjoy food and fellowship at a potluck after the service.

Also coming up in the new year - we need your review!!

Please watching your email and also the Member section on the website for the surveys.

Last chance for feedbacktonight -  January 10

A reminder that our Covenant is the thread that joins us together, in a web of interconnection. The practice of promising to walk together is how we build beloved community. To create consensus around a shared vision and direction requires people to be in relationship with each other. Covenants are tools for setting guidelines and building trust so that those relationships can flourish. 

Our Covenant is one of a series of documents that we will create as a community to define who we are, what we will do, where we hope to go and how we will get there. The other documents to be created are:

Our Vision: Will articulate the world we want in the future.

Our Mission: Will articulate how we will contribute now to building the future we seek.

Our Covenant of Right Relations: Will spell out what we will do when we fall out of Covenant with each other.

Our Bylaws: Will articulate various details of our governance system and the processes we will use to guide us in our work.

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At our Jan 5 Sunday Gathering, 18 people joined in a wonderful circle of sharing of their self chosen “Holy book”.  And delish soup lunch. Hereis that list for anyone interested. 

catherinemarystrickland@gmail.com

From the CUC

Connect and Deepen - January

Congregational Conversations: Pastoral Care (2nd run)
January 22 at 4:30pm

Lay Chaplains Chat: Challenging Memorials with Barb Moore
January 27 at 4:30pm

Dismantling Barriers: Meet up - Burn Out Edition
January 30 at 4:00pm

Interested in becoming a Lay Chaplain? There is a training coming up: Designing & Leading Rites of Passage: Basics Training for Lay Chaplains,  2025

This workshop is for those considering lay chaplaincy, recently appointed lay chaplains and members of a congregation’s Lay Chaplaincy Committee. It provides basic guidelines on the management of a congregation’s lay chaplaincy program and the training new lay chaplains need to begin their work.
Sessions to be held on Feb 22 at 9:00am, Feb 23 at 11:30 and Mar 1 at 9:00am.  Mo

re info. 

Come one, come all!  You can  get tickets from Ryan, Yette, Sonia, Carla or Jackie. 

Paper tickets: $18
(from a choir member)

Eventbrite (online): $20.50

At the door: $23

Mark your calendars for
Sat, Feb 22. 

You are invited to join for the Coldest Night of the Year! CONY wil be taking to the streets again as a way to raise awareness and finds for our neighbours who are experiencing  extreme poverty and homelessness in the Downtown Eastside.

To the UUSS Community, if you have any joys and/or sorrows to share, please reach out to our wonderful Cares and Concerns team .

 @uusalishsea

Check the calendar on our website for more events!

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