Security Alert: Fake Emails Pretending to be from Rev Shawn

WebsiteNovember 13, 2025

There are fake emails circulating that are pretending to be from Rev Shawn. These are not genuine. How to Identify Legitimate VanU Emails All genuine emails will only ever come from an email address that ends with @vanu.ca. If the sending email address doesn't end with vanu.ca, it is fake. What These Fake Emails Ask…

November Feedback Question

BoardNovember 7, 2025

What is essential to your experience of VanU? (What is so important that you’d feel a real loss if it were gone?)

Refugee Team News – September 2025

Refugee, Refugee TeamNovember 2, 2025

Sponsorship news All Sponsorship Agreement Holders in Canada have received their allocation of spaces for 2025. Due to changes in the Canadian Immigration policy, the IRCC has reduced spaces for each SAH by approximately 20% for 2025 and it is expected to be the same or perhaps lower for 2026. We do not disclose the…

October Feedback Question

BoardOctober 1, 2025

What is essential to your experience of VanU? (What is so important that you’d feel a real loss if it were gone?)

A Teaching Congregation

BlogSeptember 3, 2025

As we begin a new year in the life of VanU, we return to the role of being a “Teaching Congregation,” by welcoming Janet Pivnick as our Intern Minister. Janet will work with us half-time for the next two years, thanks to generous funding from the CUC, the UUA, and our own Phillip Hewett Intern Ministers Fund. While Janet will be…

A message from Rev. Shawn on the Lapu Lapu tragedy

Blog, Rev. ShawnMay 1, 2025

Several times this week, I have passed the growing makeshift memorial outside John Oliver Secondary School on 41st at Fraser. Candles, stuffed animals, and bouquets of flowers have been placed—in sorrow, in memory, in solidarity—between the sidewalk and the fence. This outpouring of grief while unfathomable is easily measurable, given the piles of flowers are already…

Choir Concert Tickets – sold out – some at the door

ConcertApril 1, 2025

Canadian Cabaret – Afternoon and Evening Spring Concerts Please note that all advance tickets have been sold. There will be a small number of tickets at the door before each concert - first come, first served. Skip the line-up and buy your drink tickets in advance: Feliz Navidad – Chalice Choir Advent…

New Social Justice Team page

Social JusticeFebruary 11, 2025

Our new page is up! Find out more about the Social Justice team, our news and upcoming events. You'll find our page in the Community section in the top navigation or go to our page directly at: vanu.ca/social-justice

Celebrating Imbolc

Earth SpiritJanuary 23, 2025

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…

2024 Seasonal Events and Services

BlogNovember 25, 2024

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…

Outreach Opportunities Fund supports UNYA

Social JusticeNovember 16, 2024

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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Security Alert: Fake Emails Pretending to be from Rev Shawn

November Feedback Question

Refugee Team News – September 2025

October Feedback Question

A Teaching Congregation

A message from Rev. Shawn on the Lapu Lapu tragedy

Choir Concert Tickets – sold out – some at the door

Celebrating Imbolc

2024 Seasonal Events and Services

Upcoming Events

Potluck Book and Lunch Club

A Monthly Ritual and Movement Group

Elders’ Circle – Fridays

Celebrating Summer – Coffeehouse Pot Luck and Talent Show

Meditation and Chi Gong