Foyer Beautification Coming Soon: Your Ideas are Welcome!
The outside of the building is being beautified, now let’s work on the foyer!
We want a meaningful, colorful foyer that shows all who come through the doors that we are a welcoming community: vibrant, active , thoughtful and joyful. Your input and ideas are important, needed and welcomed. Please contact Leslie (whyteleslie326@gmail.com).
Each month, we collect donations for a different non-profit organization whose mission is in line with our values. 100% of our Sunday morning offering plate, unless otherwise noted, is given to that charitable organization. We call this “Outreach”.
During December, our Outreach Recipient was Lookout Housing and Health Society. We raised a total of $1,793 for Lookout.
Lookout provides non-judgmental, non-sectarian services to low or no-income adults who cope with a wide variety of challenges. Lookout prides itself on a positive flow of tenants through the housing continuum that includes a 45-bed emergency shelter, and 25 supportive transitional housing units on the North Shore.
Join us for a warm, inspiring one-hour service centred on the universal message of Christmas Eve that will leave you energized for Christmas Day celebrations!
(Light food and drink will be provided after this service).
Please join Kerry Burke assisted by Liz Moffitt and friends in a one-hour gathering to share fellowship with those of us experiencing less holiday joy. There might be many reasons for this: the Christmas season generally might be a difficult time of year, or a loss of a loved one, ecological grief, the recent election… the reasons can be many. With music and a little fun, may the warmth of sharing bring us peace at this dark time of the year.
This winter, we collected non-perishable food packages that will be distributed to 25 people living in transitional housing at the Lookout Housing and Health Society’s shelter.
Special thanks to all who brought tins of soup, pasta, sauces, tea bags, coffee, cookies or treats, and other non-perishable food items. Elain Duvall arranged for them to be packaged and dropped off at the Lookout Shelter.
Did you know you can donate on your phone using the Breeze app and "Give Now" (on the main menu)? Once you've entered your credit card details ONCE, it will save them for later use (although you'll still need to log-in every time).
You can use the app to make payments toward your pledge, lunch, or offering contributions -- just use the drop down arrow to select the right category so your donation or purchase goes to the right thing! Contact Janni in the Church Office with questions.
Not yet a Breeze User? NSUC Members and established Friends may be granted Breeze access through the Church Office (certain restrictions apply).
Remember to change your clocks back 1 hour on Saturday night before going to bed.
Janell Hilton (who passed away at the end of September) donated a number of art pieces to our church before she died. These pieces are for sale, with the proceeds going to the church in Janell’s name.
Some of the pieces are photographs Janell has taken — and some are art pieces that she purchased (or was gifted) from other artists.
See the new display of these pieces in the hallway leading from the Church Office to the side Sanctuary door. Many of Janell’s pieces are displayed there now — with more coming soon. So watch the display over time, as it will change as pieces are sold and new ones are added.
To purchase Janell’s pieces (or any of the other art pieces for sale in the church building), contact Inga Puhlmann (our Art Team Chair) or Janni in the Church Office.
Special thanks to Inga for displaying such beautiful (and varied) art throughout the church building!
On October 25th, we took down 2 trees that were BADLY rotted from within. Both were at high risk for falling soon — causing possible damage to fences, buildings, vehicles, and people.
These two images show how the rot was deep . . . so these trees were on borrowed time!
Special thanks to Brian Welwood (B&G Chair) and Brian McConnell (the Church Factotum) for their foresight to have these trees removed, and overseeing the work.
After the service on May 25thh, you’re invited to join us downstairs for a sandwich lunch arranged by Dianne Hicks. (Suggested donation: $5/person). Vegetarian options will be provided.
