Charles Shields is a Canadian UU from Eastern Ontario who is also a member of the Board of the Canadian Unitarian Council. Each Board member of the CUC is a designated liaison with several CUC member congregations in the area of the country that they are from, and UUEstrie is on Charles' list. Phyllis and … Continue reading "Mr. Charles Shields, “TBA”"

A retired professor from Champlain College in Lennoxville, Jan Draper recently spent a number of weeks in China, and will share some of her thoughts about her experience there. Service Leader: Camille Bouskéla. ~~~~~~ Professeur à la retraite du Champlain College de Lennoxville, Jan Draper a récemment passé plusieurs semaines en Chine et partagera avec … Continue reading "Ms. Jan Draper, “China”"

We welcome back to our pulpit, Barbara Birks Wybar, who first addressed our congregation in 2016. She is the Founder and Director of The Bududa Learning Center in eastern Uganda. The Centre is made up of three components: the Vocational Academy, the Children of Bududa and the Bududa Women’s Development Group. Barbara will speak of … Continue reading "Ms. Barbara Wybar, “A School in Uganda”"

Ms. Awa Ba, from la Casamance, Senegal, is one of our community organizers helping to train women at the village level. She has just arrived in Canada to receive more training in organic agriculture over the next 3 months. Awa’s talk in French, and translated, will describe how rural women are able to achieve their … Continue reading "Ms. Awa Ba & Jonathon Ellison, “Water for Women: A Woman’s Perspective”"

American Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Mary Oliver, died this past winter. But her poetry lives on and on. Gabriella Brand, a poet herself, speaks about Mary Oliver’s life, her popularity with Unitarian Universalists, and her relevance to our spiritual, material, and ecological well-being. Gabriella is a regular summer resident of North Hatley where she likes to … Continue reading "Ms. Gabriella Brand, “A Morning With Mary Oliver”"

A personal exploration of spiritual strands in music by Leonard Cohen, including some songs that are well-known, and some less well known. (Service Leader: Camille Bouskéla. Musician: Eric Akbar Manolson. Refreshments: Esther Saanum. Rachel Garber lived in Leonard Cohen's neighbourhood from 1975 to 1985, and has lived in the vicinity of his music since then. … Continue reading "Rachel Garber, “Spiritual strands in music by Leonard Cohen”"

Everyone is invited to bring a little water and pour it into a large communal bowl and tell where it is from, or what it means to them, or whatever. Water will be available for those who fail or forget to bring some of their own. The Water Communion is a ritual that allows us … Continue reading "Water Communion / Communion de l’eau"