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Unitarian Universalists
of the Salish Sea
Weekly Update
June 13, 2025
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NEXT SATURDAY!
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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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also NEXT SATURDAY
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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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TOMORROW!
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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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Help Stop Bill C-5
The government has introduced Bill C-5, Building Canada Act and is trying to push it through Parliament by Canada Day. This will circumvent proper Parliamentary procedure and eliminate the opportunity for public consultation on a Bill that grants sweeping power to the government to avoid environmental assessments and Indigenous consultation on projects that are deemed to be “in the national interest”. Who decides which projects qualify and what the parameters of qualification are is not specified. And, imagine this power in the hands of a government that you don’t agree with! To learn more visit here.
We need to make our voices heard ASAP! Please call, email or visit your Member of Parliament to tell them to ensure that Bill C-5 gets proper public consultation and that it must include both environmental assessments and Indigenous consultation and consent for all projects regardless of their importance to the country.
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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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Kudos to Lynda Fownes for making this amazing stole for our chaplain, Barb Moore. Barb debuted this beautiful art piece while officiating Janni's stepdaughters's wedding a few weekends back.
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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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