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Unitarian Universalists
of the Salish Sea
Weekly Update
June 6, 2025
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Join us for our final spring service on Sat June 21 @ 5:00
"Flower Communion”
St Margaret’s Cedar Cottage
1530 E. 22nd, Vancouver
In-person/Zoom
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Bring a flower this week to add to our collective bouquet, as part of our Flower Communion!
The Flower Communion is a beloved Unitarian Universalist ritual, developed in Czechoslovakia in 1923 by Norbert Čapek. This ritual symbolizes the coming together of our wild and varied selves into a community, a bouquet, a collective, where each individual's unique beauty is also not diminished by this coming together, but rather enhanced.
Come celebrate the unique beauty of our community!
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Register for our YEAR END GATHERING directly following our JUNE 21st Service
We hope you will join us for our 2025 Year End Gathering on Saturday, June 21 after our service until 9 pm. We will start with our Flower Communion followed by a dinner catered by Tamam. During and after dinner, we will share reports from the various UUSS teams and talk about our transition to Sociocracy. Then we will move into an opportunity to offer feedback on all aspects of UUSS’s activity including any barriers you are experiencing to participation. Finally, we will invite sharing of your ideas for the upcoming year. We hope you will join us!
Please RSVP by filling out this short survey. It includes opportunities to share any dietary needs and also to ask for or offer rides to and from the event.
Come celebrate another wonderful year with us!
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Come hear some of our UUSS folks in their spring concert on June 14!
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SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice (CUSJ) is a national Unitarian organization, specifically focused on Social Justice. https://cusj.org/about/
CUSJ Membership: https://cusj.org/about-join-the-cusj-membership-form/
CUSJ’s AGM is Saturday June 7 at 1 PM. Register
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The Crisis in Canadian Democracy: On-line presentation with special guests Andrew Coyne and Dennis Pilon
TOMROROW
Saturday June 7, 11 AM REGISTER HERE
From SHIFT:
Write to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) to ask our national pension manager to reverse course and recommit to achieving net-zero emissions across the portfolio by 2050. Net-zero commitments are essential for managing risk and protecting long-term returns. As climate impacts disrupt markets and economies, pension funds like CPPIB risk falling short on their future obligations without urgent action.
You can send a quick letter to CPPIB and learn more here:
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Adventure Awaits:
A Farewell Celebration for Rev. Linda Thomson!
TOMORROW
Saturday June 7: 1:30 pm PT
It is with a mix of great joy and sadness that we share with you Rev. Linda Thomson’s plans to leave the Canadian Unitarian Council in June 2025. After 23 years of dedication and hard work, our wonderful colleague and friend, Linda, is setting off on her next great adventure - retirement! If you have any photos of Linda, over the years with her work with teh CUC, please upload them here
Register here.
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Dismantling Barriers:
Talking About Joy as Resistance
Thursday June 26 – 4:00 pm PT
Join us on June 26th, 2025 from 7-8:30pm ET on Zoom for a workshop and conversation around joy as resistance.
As people prepare to move into summer mode, lets talk about joy as resistance and a key factor for the work of dismantling barriers.
Queer joy, trans joy, Black joy, Indigenous joy, Immigrant joy, working class joy, young joy, elder joy, there are so many kinds of ways to celebrate and practice joy as resistance.
It is one of my most core beliefs that we must facilitate intentional joy to encourage our faith and counteract the burnout that often comes with the work of dismantling. Let’s talk about it!
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Check out our social media!
We have many NEW followers and growing and now are on Blue Skye!
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