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Refugee Team News – April, 2025

Fundraising/Fashion Show Click here for tickets The Refugee team is hosting the Magic Carpet Fashion Show – produced by Ivan Sayers. The show will be in the VanU Sanctuary. There will also be sales of lightly used items before the show, at intermission, and after the show in Hewett Centre Hall. Join us at 2PM…

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Choir Concert Tickets now on sale

Canadian Cabaret – Afternoon and Evening Spring Concerts Get ready for an electrifying performance on Saturday, 3 May at 2pm and 7pm, as the Chalice Choir of Vancouver Unitarians presents a lively cabaret bursting with the vibrant music of Canadian artists! This exciting event will feature a thrilling line-up of songs, celebrating the rich talent…

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Celebrating Imbolc

We in the VanU Earth Spirituality group celebrate the “turning of the wheel” – i.e. seasonal shifts marked by the equinoxes, solstices and cross-quarter days (those are the days halfway between a solstice and equinox.) The next cross-quarter day, between winter solstice and spring equinox, is called Imbolc which is a derivative of “in belly” or “in…

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2024 Seasonal Events and Services

This page will continue to be updated on an ongoing basis as more details are made available. Happy Holidays! The front page of our website and our calendar page (vanu.ca/calendar) will also list up-to-date information on all events this season. Sunday, December 8, 11:00 am – "There's something about Mary" This Sunday, Vivian and Shawn…

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Outreach Opportunities Fund supports UNYA

From November 2024 to January 2025, our Outreach Opportunities Fund recipient will be UNYA The Urban Native Youth Associationunya.bc.ca UNYA strives to support Indigenous youth by providing a diverse continuum of advocacy, preventative and support services that respond to their immediate and long-term needs. Today, UNYA delivers 20+ programs, with 175+ volunteers, 100 staff, and…

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You Can’t Take It With You 

There are many different ways to “do” ministry. The most tempting, though dangerous, is to go it alone. The hardest, but most important, is “to give the ministry away.” In one congregation I served in my early twenties, the number one rule on staff was “don’t steal ministry from the members.” As a staff person,…

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Related Reading for Sunday, November 3

Our library in Hewett Centre is open every Sunday after service during Coffee Hour in Hewett Centre, and our Library Team offers related reading lists based on the topic of Sunday service. Here is their list for the upcoming service featuring Rev. Shawn Gauthier on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024 at 11 a.m. All welcome in…

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