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Unitarian Universalists
of the Salish Sea
November 7, 2025
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Next Saturday
Monthly ServiceAncestors"
November 15, 2025 @ 5:00pm
St Margret's,1530 E 22nd Avenue
This month’s service will ask: who are our ancestors and what can we learn from them? We will use rituals to ponder how we might work with the spiritual inheritances from our widely-defined ancestors. Please join us for both the service and for a potluck after, and we welcome any helping hands with the cleanup.
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SAVE THE DATE
Annual Craft Making Workshop
Sunday, December 7, 11:00-1:00
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Calling folks of all ages who love to make Christmas crafts!
WHERE?
Molly Nye House, downstairs on 940 Lynn Valley Rd, North Vancouver
SANDWICH LUNCH
For offerings of sandwiches, finger veggies, or cookies/squares, please email Barbara.Moore@vch.ca.
Be on the lookout in next week's enews for the link to the signup form!
Contact Joy with questions landline604.941.2606 cell 604.329.8073 orodetojoy@telus.net.
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National Worship Service
Sunday, Nov 23, 2025, 10am
Join us for a CUC National Service on Sunday, November 23, 2025 – featuring two of the newest members of the CUC staff team: Camellia Jahanshahi and Rev. Nicoline Guerrier.
What will hold us together today? As an antidote to a world built around us/them, we’ll lean into this counter-story: that difference makes strength, and that our distinctive model as UUs – based not on sameness but on cultivating relationship and shared commitments across differences of belief – carries seeds of the transformative solidarity our world needs now. Come meet this moment with us.
A coffee hour conversation will follow the service. Join at this link.
The full service, as well as segments for use as best fits with your local congregational culture, will also be made available to congregations as a set of recordings – to use at your regular service time or during congregational gatherings, if you prefer. Please fill in this form for the link. The recording will be ready Monday, November 17, 2025.
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Happy Birthday to
John Slattery on November 9th!!
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Care & Concerns Circle
The Care & Concerns circle is here to support the well-being of UUSS members. We want to be able to reach out to check in with folks who have been having life challenges and be able to offer a helping hand where we can. We like to be able to send cards of condolence and congratulations or just to say hello.
We would like to continue to offer community care circles every couple of months to give us another space to check in and be present with one another. These circles will take different forms and have different themes. We are thinking of hosting a knitting circle next, possibly before the holidays (hybrid, so you can be present with the group physically, or tune in from where you are) so stay tuned for more info on that.
If transportation is a barrier for you and you need a ride to a service or Sunday gathering, Care & Concerns may be able to help match you with someone who drives from your area. Just let us know!
Please do reach out to us if you would like to touch base with any of us. You can reach us at care.concerns.uuss@gmail.com.
Jacky, Jessica, Joy and Lindsay
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SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Since many of us are reeling from the disastrous federal budget, I thought I would focus on some good news this week:
From Bill McKibbon:
The Australian government has decided on a scheme to bring solar electricity savings to the consumer, with what its calling its “Solar Sharer” program.
The program would require electricity retailers to provide free electricity to everyone for at least three hours a day, in recognition of the incredibly low wholesale cost of electricity during daytime due to extensive solar power penetration.
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Zohran Mamdani:
a victory for the global left
In an age of resurgent fascism, the left can fight back and win, as Zohran Mamdani proved in New York. As Mamdami tells us, "In this new age we make for ourselves, we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another. In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light. Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too.
What the far right have tried to do is use so-called culture wars to divide people. Some have concluded that we need to somehow give in to this - to surrender ground, to throw minorities under a bus. But we don’t need to do this! We just need to centre a vision of economic justice that united people regardless of their ethnicity, their religion, their gender, their sexuality, their sexual orientation."
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