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Unitarian Universalists
of the Salish Sea
Weekly Update
January 17, 2025
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TOMORROW!
January Service:
"Unsettled Times"
Sat, January 18 at 5:00pm
St Margarets Cedar Cottage,
1530 E 22nd
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Please join Cara Elrod 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.
PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN DISHES AND CUPS THIS WEEK.
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Justice News
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Take Action!! We need your Voice!!
Lower Snake River Dam Recreation Survey
Comments due January 19, 2025.
The WA legislature approved several different studies before considering breaching the dams. This is study evaluates the recreational uses of the dams. Even if you have never been to the Snake River, you are encouraged to answer those questions that speak to the future of the river without dams.
Toward the end of the survey, there is a section for a narrative where you can speak to all the different recreational uses once the dams are breached. You can also visit Columbia Snake River Campaign Survey Toolkit to help formulate your responses. Respond to the survey here.
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Are you one of your congregation's facilitators for the UU Climate Justice Revival? All facilitators need to join one of our 2-hour Facilitator Training Sessions. Come learn how to be the best facilitator you can be for your congregation's Revival! Register to join us.
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From the CUC
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Connect and Deepen - January
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Why Burnout?
From Camellia Jahanshahi, CUC Dismantling Barriers Lead
Dismantling barriers to inclusion is easier when we actively understand and work with our nervous systems. Conflict can be productive and valuable when we are collectively more rested. Addressing burnout and being transparent about what’s happening in our lives makes us more ready to engage in challenges and keep learning, respecting our inherent worth and dignity at the core of that work.
This toolkit is based on research and my many personal experiences and challenges with burnout as a faith-based activist trying to navigate the world. I hope that you find this offering helpful. Not all of it will resonate, but I hope it provides you with whatever external permission you need before you can reflect and rest.
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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. More info.
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Join a particularly timely webinar on The Trudeau Record: Promises v. Performance—the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' analysis of the Prime Minister's policy record and a discussion on what might lie ahead in the context of an impending federal election and a new Trump presidency.
When: Jan 21, 2025, 9-11 am
The event is free but you need to register to get a link to the webinar.
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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
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Mark your calendars for
Sat, Feb 22.
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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.
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January 20–February 14
Join Side With Love for 30 Days of Love 2025! Beginning Monday, January 20th through Friday, February 14th, this annual event offers spiritual nourishment, political grounding, and shared practices of faith and justice over four weeks. These offerings are for individuals, families, religious professionals, partners, and communities who need soulful sustenance for the work of liberation and justice.
more info.
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