What is essential to your experience of VanU? (What is so important that you’d feel a real loss if it were gone?)
Exploration Sundays: Experimenting with new forms of how we do what we do. What builds friendships and community that can support spirituality and deep connections? Q&A
Exploration Sundays: Experimenting with new forms of how we do what we do. What builds friendships and community that can support spirituality and deep connections? Q&A
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…
The Social Justice team has sponsored 6 meals with the First United Food Truck. Here are photos of our smiling volunteers:
Description of Event:
This is an opportunity to serve lunch to residents of the Downtown Eastside community. First United cooks the meal and we prepare plates of food and hand them out to about…
From July 2025 to October 2025, our Outreach Opportunities Fund recipient will be the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia (ASBC). Please watch this video made for Vancouver Unitarians by the Alzheimer Society of BC.
Alzheimer Society of BC’s vision is “a world without Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and that world begins with a…
The Vancouver Unitarians’ congregation formally endorsed the Canadian Unitarian Council's (CUC) motion passed on May 19, 2023 to “Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery” later amended in May 2024 to also include repudiating the doctrine of Terra Nullius.
This resolution builds on the work that members of the Environment, IPA and SJ…
We’re selling two excellent Marin Sausalito E1 electric bikes – and 100% of the proceeds will go towards our new piano.
Price: $2,000 each (obo) – retail is $3,149
Sizes: One women’s small, one men’s medium
Condition: Like new – used only 12 times
Extras included: Rear rack, tire liners, mirror, and bell
These e-bikes…
We are forming a new support group for Caregivers of people with Dementia. The group is focused on sharing and peer support and open to Caregivers at any stage in the journey who are connected with Vancouver Unitarians. It will meet online once a month, the exact day TBD but likely a Wednesday afternoon or…
Exploration Sundays: Experimenting with new forms of how we do what we do. What builds friendships and community that can support spirituality and deep connections? Q&A
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…
Experimenting with new forms of how we do what we do. What builds friendships and community that can support spirituality and deep connections?