Welcome to North Shore Unitarian Church
Welcome to our website. Please explore our Visitors section, and come visit a worship service, held every Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
The mission of North Shore Unitarian Church is to empower people to live with greater depth, meaning and purpose. We welcome all to our caring community, foster spiritual growth free of dogma, and inspire actions in the service of life.
Good Relations
We the members of the North Shore Unitarian Church agree to treat ourselves and each other fairly and respectfully. We are committed to improving the quality of our lives by supporting one another’s self-development, spiritual growth and the use of our skills and talents in fulfilling and responsible ways.
Our Covenant
Our Minister and our lay chaplains conduct rites of passage including weddings, infant naming and dedication ceremonies, and celebration-of-life or memorial services.
Sunday Services
February 12th 10:30am
Quest University: A Unitarian Universalist Experience
Our guest speaker is well-known to many members of NSUC, as he is a dynamic young adult leader within the Pacific Northwest UU community. He chooses to attend Canada’s only private university, Quest U in Squamish. Caleb will speak about the similarities in philosophy, teachings, struggles and cultural/historical context of both revolutionary institutions: Quest and Unitarian Universalism.
Speaker: Caleb Raible-Clark
Co-ordinator: Vandy Savage
February 19th 10:30am
Act in Service Sunday
In the 2010-11 church year, the creation of a new team of volunteers specifically working on
the volunteer and service life of our church was one of the results of our Mission Into Action
work. Today we will look at how spirituality, leadership and service are intimately related to
each other. We will also recognize volunteers for our church and present the newly-named Mary
Segal Act In Service Award for 2012.
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
Co-ordinator: Rob McGregor
February 26th 10:30am
Big Difficult Words: Faith
Next in our series focused on better understanding religious words that might bewilder us is this
one on Faith. Is faith a word used only to refer to believing in something for which there is no
proof, or can it also have a place in a rational and realistic view of the world? Is this even an
either/or question?
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
Co-ordinators: Dani Cooper and Vandy Savage
Task Force on Name
At the June 2011 AGM, the congregation voted to establish a ‘Task Force on Name’, to look at the possibility of changing the name of our community. The Task Force was charged with reporting back to the congregation by January 2012.
The Task Force wants your input into whether our name, ‘North Shore Unitarian Church’, should be changed, and if so, to what?
Please visit the online Blog at www.nsuc-name.ca, so that we can share some thoughts with you, but more importantly, so that we can hear from you!
Upcoming Events
Karen Armstrong Keynote Address at SFU
Karen Armstrong, a prolific author of books on religion, will deliver a keynote address at SFU Centre for Dialogue in March 2012. Anyone involved in a reading group formed to study Armstrong’s book Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life may receive an invitation to hear her presentation in person. Armstrong received a TED Prize to promote activities in support of her Charter for Compassion project.
A core group from NSUC has already purchased books and registered with the SFU Centre. We welcome all to our reading circles and will begin meeting in January. Check the January newsletter for details.
Podcasts of Recent Sermons
How to Change Your Life: III
February 5th
Third in our series of services inspired by How to Begin (Changing Your Life) by the late Rev.
Dr. Forrest Church of All Souls Church, Manhattan, today we’ll look at the next two steps: ‘Begin
with those who are closest to you,’ and ‘Begin by turning the page.’
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
Big Difficult Words: Grace
January 29th
Next in our series focused on better understanding religious words that might bewilder us is this
one on the experience and idea of Grace – an unearned gift that can come to us in many forms.
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
The Best of Christianity
January 22nd
Christianity offers profound ethical and spiritual teachings. Today we look at what this largest
world religion can mean to us as Unitarian Universalists when we look past our reactions and
beyond our limited understanding.
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
