Pastoral Gathering (online) about Canadian economic uncertainty
2025-04-10 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Halifax)
Share what’s in your heart – whether it’s anxiety, hope, vulnerability, resilience, or something else.
Join using the Zoom link for our Sunday services – click the link on the main page of our website, or use this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/666004431?pwd=[REDACTED]

Private rental
2025-04-12 17:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-29 19:00 - 2025-05-30 00:00, 2025-06-19 17:00 - 22:00

Question Box
2025-04-13 10:30 - 11:30
What questions do you have about life, the universe, or anything else? Send your questions to minister@uuch.ca by Tues Apr 8th and a selection will be answered in the service. Ask the kids in your life what their questions are – their questions are welcome too.

Building Your Own Theology
2025-04-13 12:00 - 13:30
This is an opportunity to develop your own personal credo, the fundamental beliefs, values, and convictions that inform and direct your life. Tentative topics include human nature, ultimate reality, ethics, the meaning of life, and your sense (if any) of the holy. Bring a bag lunch.
Same time, same place on March 30th, April 13th, May 4th, May 11th and June 1st. Led by Ben Robins.
Register by emailing Ben at minister@uuch.ca

The Creative Impulse
2025-04-20 10:30 - 11:30
Cats are curious, dolphins are friendly, and humans are driven to create. Not everyone, not always, but still the impulse is there, it’s wired in. Today we explore the creative impulse in the human condition and perhaps in the universe itself. This service launches a series on the blossoming of spring, and on this Easter Sunday we also celebrate maple communion.

Humanist Discussion Group
2025-04-20 11:45 - 13:00

Service: Earth Day
2025-04-27 10:30 - 11:30
On this Sunday following Earth Day, and the day before our federal election, let us reflect on the interdependent web of life and some of the leaders of our climate action movement. Presented by the Climate Crisis Team

Spirit Circle
2025-04-27 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-22 18:00 - 19:00
A more informal service inviting openness, peace, reflection and connection to something larger.

Open Mic Night
2025-04-30 19:00 - 22:00
Calling all singers, singer-songwriters, poets and more, let’s light the place up. All welcome, and if you’d like to perform (up to 3 songs, space permitting) tell Joe or Ben (minister@uuch.ca) or sign up when you arrive.

Yes, And... (with a New Member Ceremony)
2025-05-04 10:30 - 11:30
“Yes, and…” means saying yes to opportunities that arise in life, while adding your own touch. This is part of a series on the blossoming of spring. During the service we will have a new member ceremony.

Building Your Own Theology
2025-05-04 12:00 - 13:30
This is an opportunity to develop your own personal credo – the fundamental beliefs, values and convictions that inform and direct your life. Come to any or all of the remaining sessions, on the following Sundays at noon:
May 4th Human nature
May 11th Ethics
Jun 1st The meaning of life

Rental: ESSNS
2025-05-10 13:00 - 18:00

Planting Seeds
2025-05-11 10:30 - 11:30
On Mother’s Day, we’ll explore the active hope found in planting seeds and creating the new.

Building Your Own Theology
2025-05-11 12:00 - 13:30
This is an opportunity to develop your own personal credo – the fundamental beliefs, values and convictions that inform and direct your life. Come to any or all of the remaining sessions, on the following Sundays at noon:
May 11th Ethics
Jun 1st The meaning of life

Laws of New Life
2025-05-18 10:30 - 11:30
Kevin Kelly edited the Whole Earth Review and then Wired Magazine. We’ll explore his “9 laws of god” for creating new ecosystems, whether in the natural or the human world.
Plan for extra time to get here due to the Bluenose Marathon.

From the Depths (stay for soup & the AGM)
2025-05-25 10:30 - 11:30
Joe Britto will be back from visiting Poland, having done a walking tour of “Jewish” Krakow, visiting Auschwitz, and praying in synagogues. He will reflect on the experience, anticipating that he might touch upon the human spirit and what it means to be human.
Stay after the service for soup and our AGM.

Soup Lunch & AGM
2025-05-25 11:30 - 13:30
After the Sunday service we will have a Soup lunch followed by our Annual General Meeting.

Spirit Circle
2025-05-25 18:00 - 19:00
A more informal service inviting openness, peace, reflection and connection to something larger. Happens on the last Sunday of the month.

Youth Event at Activate
2025-05-30 18:00 - 21:00
Our monthly youth event is at Activate, for those up to age 18. Email Ben to reserve spots, minister@uucha.ca.
Arrive at 6pm to begin our time slot at 6:15.

Fresh Starts (Flower Ceremony)
2025-06-01 10:30 - 11:30
Bring a flower (or we will have extra) for our annual flower ceremony. From the flower ceremony itself (created in Nazi territory) to the Tower card in tarot, to Bob Dylan on being busy being born, we will consider the cycle of death and rebirth in cultures, in systems, in institutions, and in life itself.

Building Your Own Theology
2025-06-01 12:00 - 13:30
This is an opportunity to develop your own personal credo – the fundamental beliefs, values and convictions that inform and direct your life. Come to any or all of the remaining sessions, on the following Sundays at noon:
Jun 1st The meaning of life

This is My Credo
2025-06-08 10:30 - 11:30
Several participants in our Building Your Own Theology workshop series will share part of their new credos – their statements of belief on such topics as the nature of the universe, human nature, ethics, the meaning of life, and how their spiritual journey or journey of belief weaves through it all.

Circle of Trust
2025-06-08 11:45 - 13:00
Using Quaker practices from Parker Palmer’s Center for Courage and Renewal, we will sit in a circle and make space for silence and personal reflection. This is an experiment that could spark a series in the fall.

Boyhood, Challenge & Adventure
2025-06-15 10:30 - 11:30
With many boys and men being drawn to unhealthy social and political movements, on Father’s Day we consider how to make more space in our communities, schools, and the larger world for healthy masculine drives that are too often constrained.

June 15th Potluck BBQ at Leslie and Allan Shaw's
2025-06-15 12:00 - 13:30
Mark your calendars for a potluck BBQ at the Shaw’s house in town, on Sun Jun 15th after the Sunday service. Thank you Leslie and Allan for hosting!

True Reconciliation and Human Rights
2025-06-22 10:30 - 11:30
June 21st is National Indigenous People’s Day as part of National Indigenous History Month. Our speaker will reflect on the significance of both from her perspective as a member of the Nova Scotia’s Human Rights Commission. Speaker: Angela Doyle-Faulkner

Service: Sumer is Icumin In
2025-06-29 10:30 - 11:30
