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Outreach Opportunities Fund supports Salal SVSC

Social JusticeMarch 5, 2025
From March 2025 to June 2025, our Outreach Opportunities Fund recipient will be Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre. Founded 40 years ago, Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre is the largest sexual assault centre in British Columbia, operating on the stolen and unceded Coast Salish Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Salal…

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IPA Happenings in Winter 2025

Blog, IPAFebruary 14, 2025
Read on for exciting events by the IPA team to promote greater understanding of IBPOC experiences and healthy relations through fun, intercultural and inter-generational activities! Watch for news of upcoming events on the VanU IPA webpage and we hope you’ll join us! IPA stands for IBPOC Plus ALLIES while IBPOC stands for Indigenous, Black, and…

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Staff news: Update from the Board

GovernanceJanuary 30, 2025
By now most of you know the wonderful news that Casey, our wonderful and very competent Director of Administration, is pregnant and will give birth in the spring. She has elected to take an 18 month leave and we wish her the very best. So what are the implications of Casey’s leave for VanU? Given…

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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…

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Environment Team News

Blog, Environment, Social JusticeDecember 18, 2024
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,…

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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…

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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…

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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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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,…

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