Rev. Samaya Oakley has been the Minister of the South Fraser Unitarians since August 2016. She received her Masters of Divinity from the Vancouver School of Theology and has worked with Unitarian Universalist communities at the local, national and continental levels for the past twenty years.
Join us for a year-long exploration of soul matters groups during our Sunday afternoon service time – typically the last service of the month, with some exceptions. Soul Matters groups offer the gift of spiritual connection. Around us swirls a shallow, frantic, and materialistic culture that regularly leaves us cut off from our deepest selves, life’s gifts and needs greater than our own.
After a summer of soaring temperatures, wildfires, and now increased pandemic constraints, our hearts are tired and sore. We long for the healing waters of community to welcome us, hold us, sooth our souls.
You are invited to join us for our first Sunday back as a community as we honour a Unitarian tradition called Water Communion – a service that mingles waters of the spirit and soul. Please send in a picture of a body of water that soothes your soul.
Join us for what has become an annual service – a blessing of the community as we take a break from Sunday services for the summer months.
Join us as we honour and mark the fifth anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse. We’ll sing, we’ll laugh, we’ll cry – we’ll show our true colours to the world whether we’re straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.
Rev. Samaya and Heid McCurty will take you on a journey and exploration around the importance of chant and music in our lives.
Join us as we celebrate the origins of Mother’s Day. We’ll trace the history of Mother’s Day through pagan times. We will reflect on the way that mothering love can help break us open to the love that surrounds us. You are invited to send Smitty a picture of you with flowers, and to have a picture of your mother with you for the service.
Fifty years ago, in May of 1961, the Unitarian Universalist Association was formed by merger of the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association. It also marks the formation of the Canadian Unitarian Council. Join Rev. Samaya for a romp throughout our history to see how our living tradition has become what it is today.
Climate change is occurring at an alarming rate and has many broad-reaching impacts on human health, the economy, and the stability of the natural environment.
A healthy planet is not an option — it is a necessity.
At this time of Easter, we turn to the story of the Velveteen Rabbit for wisdom. The moral of the story in the Velveteen Rabbit is that in loving others and in allowing others to love us, we become real and find the true meaning in life. As the Velveteen Rabbit shows us, no profound transformation happens without some pain. It is with courage an openness that allows us to live lives that become more worthwhile, more authentic, and more “real”.
In Rev. Samaya’s annual service on baseball, she explores the wisdom that baseball has to share with us. You’ll want to wear your baseball hat and have popcorn with you for this service!
