City Market at Park Royal and IGA Dundarave participate in our Grocery Receipt Program. For each $5,000 worth of receipts we collect, they give us gift cards that Nora Coates converts into donations to the church. Since 1999, this program has earned over $8,000 for the church!
If you shop at these stores, put your receipts on the bulletin board in the stairwell. It results in “free money” for the church!
Our Music Director (Alison Nixon) and the NSUC Vox Lumina Choir invite you to join them at a Vigil being held from 1-2pm at the Lynn Valley United Church. Our choir will be singing a Ukrainian prayer there. All are invited to attend this inter-faith event that offers opportunity to connect, start a dialogue and offer support for those affected by the events in Ukraine.
For more information, visit the Lynn Valley United Church website HERE.
On May 15th, we installed new locks on the church’s front doors and interior doors to the offices and music room. Old keys won’t work anymore!
New keys will be issued to those who are still in current roles that require access to the building. Contact Janni Kretlow (by email or phone 604-984-9892) to make arrangements to pick up a key.
This Sunday (April 24th), Guy Heywood and Chris Best will be in the pulpit to share their message called “Actually . . . We Can Handle the Truth”.
Guy has lived on the North Shore Vancouver for over 50 years. He raised two sons in Lynn Valley a few doors down from the house he grew up in. Guy was elected as a Trustee on the North Vancouver School Board three times, as a Councillor in the City of North Vancouver twice. He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor in the City in the last election. He has been a board member and volunteer for the Recreation Commission, Arts Council, Neighbourhood House. His day jobs have been in banking and finance, although his very first job was as a coal salesman.
Guy went to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario for the last half of his undergraduate degree, which is where he first met Christene. Twenty plus years later Guy persuaded Chris to move to the North Shore as well.
Chris was born and raised in Ottawa, although spent years in Quebec City and London, England. Her father was a founder of the union that represents all federal civil service employees who moved to management as a deputy minister and then to the foreign service as High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago. Chris attended Queen’s for her undergraduate degree and an MBA. Chris was hired by the Xerox Corporation and worked in progressively senior roles until 2000 when decided to stay in Vancouver, where she has been a sales and marketing executive for several tech companies.
Chris’s ancestors settled in Nova Scotia in the 1790s. Her paternal grandmother, an Order of Canada recipient, was the publisher of the first black newspaper. Her maternal grandfather, another Order of Canada recipient, fought in World War 1 as part of an all-black infantry unit.
Chris and Guy are getting married in less than a month.
We are looking forward to having them in the pulpit this Sunday!
If you’re the Chair of the Committee, Team or Task Force, your Annual Report is due by May 15th.
The Annual Report will cover the time period of May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2022, so your report should include activities that took place during that 12-month period.
Please email your part of the annual report to Janni by May 15th to allow time for compiling all the individual reports into one large Annual Report document that can be distributed prior to our AGM. Email your report as a Word document or as the actual text of your email. Please do not send a PDF file.
Rev. Ron would like the reports to follow this template, if possible:
Who is involved and what are their roles?
What happened this year? (Accomplishments, Challenges, On-Going Tasks, and anything else you would like to share)
Looking Forward: What’s high priority? What else are you thinking about?
A few sentences about how all of this relates to our mission to help people live with greater depth, meaning and purposes.
If you have questions, are not sure what part(s) of the report you're responsible for, or would like a copy of last year’s Annual Report to help you with your article, please contact Janni.
Our Justice Equity Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) Team recommends this series offered by the First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon:
WHO KILLED ALBERTA WILLIAMS? Sparked by a chilling tip, season one is an eight-part podcast investigation that unearths new information and potential suspects in the cold case of a young Indigenous woman murdered in British Columbia in 1989.
FINDING CLEO. This season joins a family as they search for their sister Cleo Nicotine Semaganis. In the early 1970s, Cleo and her five siblings were apprehended by child welfare authorities in Saskatchewan. The children were adopted into white families across North America. All but one of the siblings have reconnected and have been told various mysterious stories about what happened to Cleo, but they can’t find her.
Thursday Evenings 7-8:30pm, April 28 - June 30th (4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26, 6/2, 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30).
Type: This is A CBC News original podcast hosted by CBC News investigative reporter Connie Walker.
Questions? Contact Jody of the First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon.
Register HERE by clicking “Add to Event Cart” link.
Our Justice Equity Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) Team recommends this series offered by the First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon:
Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, Radical Dharma is an urgent call to action outlining a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening.
Author: Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams and Lama Rod Owens
Instructor: Carter Smith, Intern Minister
Contact Carter at csmith@firstunitarianportland.org
Type: Book
Wednesday Evenings, 6-7 pm from April 27 – May 25 (4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25).
Our Church Office will be closed on Thursday, April 21st and Friday, April 22nd while Laura works offsite (Thursday) and takes a much needed 3-day weekend off. (Janni is still working from home on weekdays).
Hosting this amazing Chorus event for young adults means we’re looking for a few volunteers to help out. We’re looking for folks to transport young adults from the SeaBus to church on Friday and back again on Monday. We’re also looking for a few kitchen helpers - mostly set up and clean up. Please contact Laura if you’re available or want more information.
CanUUdle organizers need a few adult volunteers - a food coordinator and some overnight supervisors. Please check out the descriptions HERE and contact Kiersten Moore, UCV’s Director of Lifespan Faith Development, if you have any questions.
