Service: From Despair to Hope
2025-07-13 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Halifax)
Now is the time for us to band together to stand up to the darkness in the world and make it brighter. We have to communicate clearly, cooperate as best we can, and help each other towards the light of wisdom and strength. Each of us can help with our supportive words, our prayers, our work, our political involvement, and our donations. The world needs people like us now, and even more in the months and years to come. We can be the lights that will break through the darkness.

Service: Our Spirit, Art and Activism
2025-07-20 10:30 - 11:30
How our UU principles can create change.

Service: One Song. The Science of Unity
2025-07-27 10:30 - 11:30
With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater takes us on a tour of discoveries from mainstream science that reveal an underlying connectedness in everything from human bodies to ecosystems to the very fabric of space-time.

Spirit Circle
2025-07-27 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-08-31 18:00 - 19:00
A more informal service inviting openness, peace, reflection and connection to something larger.

Service: A Poem Can Sustain Us
2025-08-03 10:30 - 11:30
A poem is an insight or a speck of truth, distilled and put into words we can keep. Like our own UU Joys & Sorrows, a poem can remind us of the shared cloth we are all gathered around. Today, a few members of our UUCH community will share some of their most loved, and most sustaining, poems with the rest of us.

Service: The Appeal of Kejimkujik
2025-08-10 10:30 - 11:30
What is the draw of this park for over 50 years and three generations? With illustrations.

Service: Gratitude, Blessings and High Hopes
2025-08-17 10:30 - 11:30
Deborah Wiggins, with help from friends, will present a music service on the theme of gratitude, blessings and high hopes. “Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing, could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.” Rumi

Service: Persian Sufi poetry and UU Principles
2025-08-24 10:30 - 11:30
This service explores the deep connections between ancient Persian Sufi poetry and Unitarian Universalist principles. Persian poetic tradition, once taught widely as a spiritual guide, emphasizes universal love, mutual acceptance, and spiritual unity – values closely aligned with UU teachings.

Rental: Gaza Solidarity Picnic & Variety Show
2025-08-24 14:00 - 16:00
Hosted by Parents 4 Palestine – HFX
Join us for a summer picnic and variety show. Any funds raised will be sent to organizations on the ground who are feeding people.
August 24th from 2-4pm, all ages welcome!

Rental
2025-08-27 18:00 - 22:00, 2025-09-07 17:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-14 17:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-21 17:30 - 20:00

Service: Self-criticism and self-compassion
2025-08-31 10:30 - 11:30

Afterchoir Rehearsal
2025-09-03 17:00 - 18:30, 2025-09-10 17:00 - 18:30, 2025-09-17 17:00 - 18:30, 2025-09-24 17:00 - 18:30

UU Young Adults - Fringe Festival
2025-09-06 16:00 - 17:30
For more details, email admin @ uuch .ca

Service: "We Are..." (Ingathering Water Ceremony)
2025-09-07 10:30 - 11:30
Bring water, from home or somewhere meaningful to you. In the water ceremony we combine our water as we launch the congregational year. We celebrate who we are, who we aspire to be, and our vision and visions for the world.

Saturday Brunch
2025-09-13 10:00 - 11:30
The UUCH brunch programme runs from September through June. We offer a free brunch every Saturday from 10-1130 am at the UUCH at 5500 Inglis Street. Our usual clients run from school age to 80+. Everyone is welcome and the area is accessible. There is a gated playground and deck for nice days. Volunteers and donations welcome.

Service: Writing the Book of Life
2025-09-14 10:30 - 11:30
Everything that happens, everywhere in the universe, is written into the book of life. One day the book will come to an end, perhaps with no one left to read it. So what shall we write?

Congregational Retreat
2025-09-14 12:00 - 15:00
In our annual retreat at UUCH, we have deep, vibrant conversations about who we are as a community and how we might grow more fully into ourselves.

Youth Event: Capture the Flag
2025-09-19 18:00 - 21:00
Email Ben for the location, minister@uuch.ca
We meet the 3rd Friday of every month, 6pm-9pm.

Saturday Brunch
2025-09-20 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-09-27 10:00 - 11:30
The UUCH brunch programme runs from September through June. We offer a free brunch every Saturday from 10-11:30 am at the UUCH at 5500 Inglis Street. Our usual clients run from school age to 80+. Everyone is welcome and the area is accessible. There is a gated playground and deck for nice days. Volunteers and donations welcome.

Artificial Intelligence: What Gods Are We Awakening
2025-09-21 10:30 - 11:30
The Unitarian Ray Kurzweil predicted in the 1990s that a convolution of exponential curves would lead to runaway growth in artificial brainpower in the late 2020s. He recently said that his timeline is still accurate. What gods are we awakening?
We will have a new member ceremony during the service. If you would like to become a member, contact Ben by Sept 10th, minister@uuch.ca

Building Your Own Theology
2025-09-21 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 sessions, on 1st and 3rd Sundays at noon, beginning Sept 21st. In the first session we consider humanity’s place in the universe.

Work Party
2025-09-27 13:00 - 17:00
There will be a work party at the church on Saturday, September 27th from 1pm to 5pm. Come for one hour or stay for the afternoon. There are outdoor chores such as weeding and mowing as well as indoor jobs such as window cleaning and baseboard scrubbing. There are small jobs that may require tools, do if you have them bring them! Many hands make for light work! If this works out we may schedule work parties every 2 to 3 months.
