Environment Team News

Blog, Environment, Social Justice2 days ago

Environment team members Catherine Hembling and Rosemary Cornell attended a lively book launch and productive group discussion of how to be more effective climate activists on Pender Island on December 7. Catherine is one of 25 Trans-Mountain (TMX) pipeline arrestees featured in a recently published anthology, Standing on High Ground: Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain,…

The Social Justice Team’s work in 2024 and plans for 2025

BlogDecember 13, 2024

During 2024, the SJ team organized several events to call for peace and justice. In April, the team called for a ceasefire in Gaza with lasting justice in Israel/Palestine and in May, coordinated a photo with over 80 people gathered in the sanctuary. In June, the team submitted a resolution to endorse the statement by…

Call for volunteers

Jobs - Volunteer, SummerNovember 28, 2024

We’re actively recruiting volunteers for several roles involving occasional physical tasks around our campus. These are great opportunities to support our community. If you’re interested in any of these volunteer opportunities, please email moc[at]vanu[dot]ca. SNOW REMOVAL: SNOW DAYS TEAM (up to 8 members) In addition to our walkways, ramps, and courtyard, the Vancouver Unitarians are…

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…

You Can’t Take It With You

Rev. ShawnNovember 4, 2024

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,…

Fundraising Lunch for Burma

Community, IPADecember 1 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

The VU IPA and other teams have been together with the local Burmese (Myanmar) community to raise both awareness and funds in support of Burmese citizens ravaged by a military dictatorship and civil war. We warmly invite you to attend our next event Sunday, Dec. 1st. The Burmese community will be catering a delicious lunch following…

Medicine Walks – Past and Future

Blog, IPAOctober 20, 2024

On Saturday, September 28, VanU members partook in a healing medicine walk with Musqueam artist and activist Audrey Siegel at Spanish Banks. Please fill out this doodle poll by Oct 25 to indicate your availability for the next Medicine Walk in early November. $25 per person, limited enrollment.

Save Our Salmon Film Series: Fresh Catch

EnvironmentNovember 3 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

A CBC Gem film about Skipper Otto, a community supported fishery in Vancouver. “We need to have better resilient local food systems. It means that people who are passionate about a fishing way of life get to continue to fish. It means that people can continue to live in their coastal communities. And it means that people in…

Save Our Salmon Film Series: Salmon Secrets

EnvironmentOctober 27 @ 12:45 pm - 2:30 pm

Join us for two important and informative films about how we can support wild salmon in BC. Clayoquot Sound is a place of wonder—a globally significant rainforest and coastline, home to whales, wolves and bears. The First Nations people of this coast are known as salmon people, their culture thrived here for millennia sustained by abundant wild salmon.…

A note from Rev. Shawn: A Season of Gratitude

Rev. ShawnOctober 1, 2024

There’s always been for me something about autumn, with its glorious foliage and crisp, cool air, that has summoned me to feelings of deep gratitude, to an intense and abiding appreciation for the gift of simply being alive. A feeling made all the more urgent, when everywhere about us, the leaves, who’ve done their good…