Our Mission
“To nurture each other, serve the community and inspire action that heals the world.”
Worship Service, Sunday November 3rd @ 10:30am
CUC Worship Service – The Church of Our Imagination
Eleven years ago, at a CUC National event, a group of Canadian young adults wrote a poem – The Church of Our Imagination – that captured the attention of everyone present. Today we are revisiting it, and them, as we imagine our way(s) forward. What is The Church of Our Imagination? And is this even the right question for today?
For details about future worship services please visit the Upcoming Services page.
All are welcome to join us in-person or online.
2025 Annual Pledge Campaign - Oct 6 to Oct 20
Canvass Sunday kicks off on October 6th with the theme ‘Commitment to Community’. A vibrant church community like ours relies on the many talents, volunteer hours, and, of course, financial contributions of those it serves. The reality is we need your pledges to continue supporting the many ways in which church activities bring people together – physically, mentally, and spiritually.
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Thank you!
2025 Canvass Co-Chairs Ginny Megin and Leslie Brunskill
October 24, 2024: Message from the Canvass Team
Thank you so much to the many generous supporters of our canvass, both longtime members and those who are just starting on the path of recognizing the value of this congregation to your own life. We also want to thank Rev. Danie, who jumped in with both feet, and has already shown us what a terrific leader they are. Another big thank you goes to both Sue Stewart Greene, President, and Bruce McPherson, for contributions.
We still have a significant number of congregants who haven’t gotten around to making a pledge yet. There’s another whole follow up team in the wings organizing to take over making those individual phone calls reminding and helping the slowpokes to help us wrap this up. (I can use this word because I’ve been on that list in the past.) …read more
Boreal – Voices of Hope Concert
with special guests, The First Unitarian Church Choir
Keys to Affordable Housing
Are you worried that you or many of your fellow Hamiltonians do not have decent affordable housing?
Come and learn the following:
– What are the impacts of soaring rents on tenants. – The real reasons Hamilton and many other Ontario cities have such a severe housing problem, although many cities in countries similar to Canada do not. – What genuine, cost-effective solutions will work. – What doesn’t work, and why. – What to do in the meantime, to rein in rents and evictions, and prevent Hamilton from becoming a city of “haves” and anxious “have nots”
Guest Speakers: Middle and low income tenants, Dr. Carolyn Whitzman and Sharlene Henry. (see bios in HERE)
Friday November 15, 2024
Doors open at 5:45pm, Housing forum 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Please REGISTER HERE for this free event.
Questions – contact: housing@uuhamilton.ca
Visitor and Congregant Engagement - Meet 'n' Greet
Resuming Oct 6, 2024, the Visitor and Congregant Engagement team invites you to stay after the service on the first Sunday each month for Meet ‘n’ Greet. This is an opportunity for newcomers and seasoned attendees to be together for an hour to get to know each other and ask questions about our church. Refreshments will be available.
Land Acknowledgement
The City of Hamilton is situated upon the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, which was an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.
As settlers we continue to benefit from the land and its gifts. As settlers, we must ask ourselves how or if we have shared and cared for the earth and its gifts. Facing the truth is hard. Truth must come before reconciliation.
Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant (our Eight Principles) supports “the free and responsible search for truth and meaning.”
We seek an outcome of respectful, responsible, life-loving kids who are both curious and questioning and know they are valued for all of who they are and are ready to show others the same deep acceptance.
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