Month: April 2018

Judaism Unbound

Judaism Unbound – What My Faith has Taught me about Building Community in a Multicultural World Rabbi Sherril Gilbert April 2018  Lakeshore Unitarian Universalist Congregation  In a sermon I gave recently, I announced to my congregation that I had decided to sign my emails with the tag line “My religion is love.” I had fully … Continue reading Judaism Unbound

2018 Stewardship Report

2018 Stewardship Report Summary: Investments UP, Income and Expenditures DOWN Major factors influencing our investment results: – shorter reference period (to February) this year due to earlier date of this presentation – slower growth in LAM investment fund 3,5% this year vs. 7% last year (BLUE bars) – both years had identical withdrawal of 5000 $ … Continue reading 2018 Stewardship Report

Energetic Love

Energetic Love.   The Energy of Love It can be as difficult to define As it is easy to feel The moment now Where it can feel, even surreal It is this love we all wish to capture and keep but energetic love, like all energy While it can be stored It will certainly seep … Continue reading Energetic Love

Long-range Planning Meeting

As part of our community’s on-going reflections on stewardship, we need to think not only about fundraising but also about how we spend our money. To this end, the Annual General Meeting in June 2017 adopted the following resolution: To strike a committee to reflect on the uses to which our investment fund could be put to sustain … Continue reading Long-range Planning Meeting

Communications Committee updates new Website

During a Membership and Communications Committee brainstorming session at Lakeshore on 31 March 2017, Timothy Byrnes suggested that building a new blog-compatible website could be the most cost-effective way of making what we offer as an inclusive spiritual community better known to the larger Montreal community. Nowadays, with so much information available on-line, talking up … Continue reading Communications Committee updates new Website