Upcoming Services & Events
May 11, 2025, 2:30 (doors open at 2:10 pm)
Making, Knowing, & Dreaming
How can tapping into our own creativity help us care for one another and work towards justice? Karen will draw from the perspectives of science, therapy and the arts to consider how creativity might help us respond to the challenges of our world.
We are also honouring Mother’s Day . . .
Bring photo or object that celebrates a person who mothered you (a biological mother, a god mother, a neighbourly mother hen or a person who held you when you needed to be held). You will be invited to place your photo on our display before the service.
AND…After the Service (4:00 – 5:30 pm)
Rev. Karen Fraser Gitlitz (she/her) is a white cis-gendered woman of northern European ancestry. Karen is a Unitarian Universalist minister and a professional Art Therapist. Her community ministry focuses on capacity building and collective care, combining her passion for social and environmental justice with her love of the creative arts. In 2025, she and her partner, musician Paul Gitlitz, relocated to the unceded traditional territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples on southern Vancouver Island.
Workshop: Making Marks for Collective Care
Experience how art can support individual and collective well-being. Karen brings together art and mindfulness, using scribbles and other simple forms of art making. No special skills or experience needed: this is all about the process, not whether or not you are “good” at art. Come have fun and release stress in community!
All supplies are provided. This is a community workshop drawing on the therapeutic properties of art; it is not an art therapy session.
Next Month: June 8, 2:30 pm
Soul of the World
with Heidi McCurdy
One of SFUC’s favourite presenters, Heidi McCurdy, will join us for a resonating musical spiritual journey, “Soul of the World”. Mark your calendars. Details will be provided soon.
Heidi McCurdy is an award-winning singer, songwriter, sound healer, holistic voice coach, and Expressive Arts Therapist. She is a believer in the healing power of Music, and the beautiful ways it connects us more deeply with ourselves, each other, and the Earth. Heidi aims to live in service to the Muse, and to the re-wilding of our creative souls. Learn more about Heidi by CLICKING HERE.
Upcoming Service
Dates & Themes
Beginning in January, our services will be held on the second Sunday of the month.
May 11 – Imagination
June 8 – Freedom
To all who are yearning for community,
Come in. Be among us.
To all who are just getting started, To all who long to go deeper, To all with tender places needing care,
Come in. Be among us.
To the ones who have healed and have care to give, For those who are curious and hungry to learn, For those who know that they have something to teach,
Come in. Be among us.
For the ones who are just beginning to suspect they might nurture others’ becoming, To the young and the old, the innocent and the jaded, the fresh of mind and the deeply-steeped, There is room here for each and every one.
Come in. Be among us.
Shari Woodbury