On Saturday 5 October 2019, Lakeshore members, namely Susan, Toni and Christopher, walked to raise $ 1312 in funds for Action Réfugiés Montréal. This organization holds just this one fundraiser, Ride for Refuge, each year to help support its work with refugee sponsors and refugees. It was a vital resource in helping the Summerlea Refugee … Continue reading Ride for Refuge, 2019 edition

Today, we begin another year of celebrating our lives together, sharing our thoughts and feelings, our joys and sorrows. I have chosen this morning to celebrate the life and words of an inspiring Afro-American poet, Maya Angelou. I’ll start with a thumbnail portrait.  She was born in 1928 as Marguerite Johnson. When her parents’ marriage … Continue reading Caged Bird

In February, Kim Turner who grew up in the Lakeshore Unitarian Church (LUC) and is now a member of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax (UUCH) wrote to Lakeshore to tell us she had discovered a box of wooden tokens in going through her deceased parents’ belongings. She explained that her mother Bunny Turner was … Continue reading Visiting Lakeshore’s Past via Halifax

Leonardo da Vinci believed that water was to the world as our blood is to our body. It is a vehicle of nature and connects all to all. Streams, rivers, seas and oceans all speak to the flows of energy and connection through our lives as Unitarian Universalists, as people, and as living beings inhabiting … Continue reading Water: As Life Streams On

The Canadian Unitarian Council’s National Social Justice Team has launched a new two-year initiative called The Ripple Effect, focusing on that key resource which is water.  It is also an issue which intersects with First Nation concerns and rights.  The Sharing Our Faith service we held in February on the theme of Water was also … Continue reading The Ripple Effect

A short (9 minute) documentary about hunger in the apparently affluent West Island was written, directed and produced by Concordia University students, Akshay Grover, Max Duguay, and Luca Brown, with coordination by the West Island Community Resource Centre (WICRC). WICRC comments: The West Island Community Sector came together to look at the key issues regarding … Continue reading Hidden Hunger

McGill University Senior Faculty Lecturer George McCourt spoke to Lakeshore UU Congregation on Sunday 27 January 2019. His talk follows. Good morning. I thought I would tell you a little about the recent work that McGill University has been involved in in terms of trying to create a more sustainable institution and to talk a little … Continue reading Education for a Sustainable University