Unitarian Universalists of the Salish Sea 
VISION
Our vision is to become a multigenerational spiritual community where love and trust guide us, where all who seek to connect with the mystery, joy, and wonder of life feel wholly welcome, and that contributes to a more just and interdependent world.
MISSION
To serve our community, other congregations, and the wider world as a covenant-based faith community that embodies Unitarian Universalist principles and values, by:
- Creating the welcoming conditions for people of diverse beliefs, backgrounds and identities (i.e. BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+ , those with invisible disabilities) to feel fully welcome in our congregation and the broader Unitarian Universalism tradition by experimenting with systems, structures, practices and rituals that challenge the status quo.
- Inspiring interconnection and reverence for all life through worship, ritual, small group ministry and other activities
- Working in solidarity with other communities and organizations committed to advancing justice in its many forms.
Covenant
Preamble: We recognize that Covenant is not just our promise of how we will be in relationship with each other; Covenant is also our promise of how we will live our faith in the world. We recognize that our Covenant is a living document and is open to transformation.
- We endeavour to live in harmony with our eight UU principles.
- We share and receive wisdom from our UU sources and from each other.
- We provide opportunities for everyone– especially young people and children– to participate as fully as they wish and are able.
- We look to youth as sources of leadership and inspiration.
- We will be wholly present, recognizing our time together is precious.
- We accept, individually and collectively, that we are limited in knowledge, capacity, experience, and perspective. By communicating, we honour our limits before we reach them.
- We are generous with our time, gifts, and energy. We work together in collaboration and cooperation; using power with, not power over.
- We embrace the tensions inherent to being in community. We welcome and encourage dissenting voices because we believe in the wisdom gained through resolving conflict.
- We accept that we can harm others and can be harmed by others. We will look to our Covenant of Right Relations to guide us back into covenant and community.
- We participate together in building sacred spaces that support each other in our worship, rest, learning, play, and growth.
- We celebrate that spiritual seeking can take many different forms.
- We affirm that the language and practice of justice is ever evolving and work collectively to responsibly learn and update our practice of justice in our community.
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