June 26th E-News
Photo of the Week
Beautiful blossoms in the wild flower garden!
SUNDAY SERVICE
Sunday, June 28th, 2026
Pride Sunday
10:30am
Join us for our annual Pride Sunday Service, and wear your Pride!
We’ll be welcoming special guest speaker retired RCMP S/Sgt Wayne Davis. Wayne will be offering his personal story relating to the history of 2SLGBTQIA+ discrimination in the RCMP.
Refreshments and Q&A with Wayne will follow the service.
UPCOMING at TGUC
Pride Weekend Activities!
Friday July 31st - Trans March
5pm starting at Trout Lake
Saturday August 1st - Dyke March
Commercial Drive & Grandview Park
Sunday August 2nd - Pride Parade
For up-to-date information about these events, go to the TGUC Pride page.
ONGOING
FARM 2 PLATE MARKETPLACE
Every Thursday 5:15-6:00pm.
Support local farms! TGUC is the Pick Up location - order online
For more information click here
RECOMMENDED
In 2025, The United Church of Canada offered an apology to 2S and LGBTQIA+ people and communities—naming the real harm caused through words, actions, silence, and systems that failed to protect and affirm God’s beloved people.
The Moderator's Pride Message reflects on that apology—not as an ending, but as a beginning. A threshold into deeper healing, accountability, and transformation. Pride is more than celebration. It is remembrance. It is resistance. It is a witness to the sacred truth that every identity rooted in love and authenticity is a divine gift. Radical belonging is not optional—it is at the heart of the Gospel.
May we continue the work of becoming a church that learns, acts with courage, and lives out love in word and deed. Happy Pride.
East Side Pride
Community Festival
Sat. June 27th 11am - 5pm
Grandview Park (Commerical Drive & Charles St.)
Spend the afternoon enjoying performances, musicians, community artists, food & market vendors, and community organizations that are showing up, showing out, and creating spaces of belonging.
Palestinian Theology & Living the Apartheid-Free Communities Pledge
June 27, 2026 - 9am - 3pm PT
The Pacific Mountain Region of the is hosting a day of learning, organizing and action, to envision Apartheid-Free paths forward for the United Church of Canada.
Unoccupied Skies! Burin Solidarity Kite-Flying & Picnic
Sunday, July 5, 1:00 - 3:00pm
Creekside Park, Vancouver
Fill the sky with colourful kites of joyful resistance in solidarity with Palestinians, from Burin to Gaza!
The annual Burin Kite Festival is an act of peaceful resistance for residents struggling against both the harsh reality of Israel's illegal occupation and unprecedented settler violence.
More information and RSVP here. Donations welcome!