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Unitarian Universalists
of the Salish Sea
Summer Update
August 15, 2025
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We are getting a banner!
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Please fill out the following survey to help us design our banner. If you run into any problems, send Ryan a note.
Deadline is next Friday, August 22by the end of the day.
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A new initiative from the Care & Concerns Circle launches
this September
We invite you to find yourself among friends, listeners, and witnesses to help support you through your personal challenges and concerns for the world in our new online “Community Care Circle”
This is a call to gather in intimacy, in fellowship, and live our shared values.
Lindsay Hindle, certified Emotional Freedom Techniques Practitioner, will facilitate and lead participants in the transformative practice of being witnessed and using somatic technique to release difficult emotions, calm the body, mind, and activate peace within. Taking place on a bi-monthly basis over Zoom, you may join from the comfort of your home, no travel necessary. Our first circle takes place on Monday, September 22 at 7:30 pm on Zoom. Registration link coming soon.
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St. Margaret’s Church
Rummage Sale
Saturday, August 23
9:30am -12:00pm
Please come and support the church where we meet!
All proceeds will go toward their new heat pump/furnace project which will keep the space reliably warm in winter and cool in summer for years to come!
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Emergent Strategy Book Club –
First Meeting
Sat, August 30 at 10:00am Join us online on August 30th, 2025 from 1-3 pm ET on Zoom for an informal conversation about the book, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown. This will be the first in a series of engaging with this amazing book so we can discover what we don’t know and how we want to learn together.
Hosted by Camellia Jahanshahi and Rev. Anne Barker, this session will explore these questions: “What spoke to you when you read the book? What actions or ideas would be useful to integrate into your work, community building, and/or personal/group practices?” Come (with your favourite snacks and beverage!) to listen and to share.
The book is available at AK Press and downloadable as an audiobook, and also through other booksellers.
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Reclaiming Education:
A Conversation with Watsenniiostha Nelson, Director of Education, Kanehsatà:ke
Join us for a powerful conversation with Watsenniiostha Nelson, Director of Education for the Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk community, as she shares her vision for transforming education from a tool of assimilation into a pathway of reclamation and empowerment.
In the wake of the residential school legacy, Nelson is working to center Indigenous voices and faces in the classroom, confront the roots of absenteeism, and create spaces where young people can thrive in their full identity.
As part of the CUC’s ongoing commitment to Truth, Healing and Reconciliation, this event is held in the month of the 10th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report. We are all invited to come together to listen, learn, and reflect on how education can be a site of healing, resurgence, and hope. More info.
Hosted by: Amber Bellemare, Reconciliation Programme Coordinator & Camellia Jahanshahi, Dismantling Barriers Lead.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE
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We Are All One Planet:
A Night with Wet’suwet’en House Groups
Before They Head to Court
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From Raven Trust: On August 21st, Wet’suwet’en is returning to court. The government is once again trying to shirk their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, breaking their promise to protect future generations. RAVEN is hosting a pre-court event on August 20th at 7pm at the Vancouver Unitarians Church, where we will hear from representatives from Wet’suwet’en and their legal counsel about the Nation, their climate litigation, and what’s at stake with their motion to strike hearing. Also livestreamed. Come support Wet’suwet’en as they pursue climate justice for all of us! Register here
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September 20
for Coast-to-Coast
Mobilization for Justice
From rallies to strikes, marches to gatherings, this September 20th, communities will mobilize across the country and demand that Prime Minister Carney and the Canadian government pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction— or a just and safe future for all of us. In Vancouver, we are planning to gather outside the CBC Regional Broadcast Centre at 700 Hamilton Street. Plans are to march down the Georgia viaduct to one of the City parks for a family-friendly festival with music, street theatre and games. Details are still being worked out.
This is more than one day of action—it's an invitation to unite, learn from each other, and build lasting alliances that will organize together long beyond September 20th. Contact Robyn Newton robyn.newton.mail@gmail.com to learn more or to carpool.
See the detailed demands.
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