As we approach All Saint’s Day and All Hallow’s Eve, this week at Faith Outside the Box you are invited to bring a photo, memento and/or story about your ancestors.

We will gather in the candlelight and learn about one another, honouring our ancestral stories and praying for the people and communities who have brought us here to this place.

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Faith Outside the Box is weekly space to unlearn, decolonize, and reimagine faith together. All welcome.

Faith Outside the Box - a weekly space to unlearn, decolonize, and reimagine faith together. All welcome.

In Matthew 22, the Pharisees and Herodians try to trap Jesus with a question about the imperial tax. He answers by asking for a coin and posing a question of his own: whose image is this, and whose inscription?

We will read passage together, then look at the money in our own pockets. Whose face in on a Canadian coin? What does the inscription claim, and what story do the images tell about the land?

Shadia will share about historic Palestine and the British Mandate coins and currency.

Bring your own coins and banknotes!

This week at Faith Outside the Box, TGUC Congregation member, Allen Alvarez, will help facilitate a conversation on “AI, Faith and Ethics”

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Faith Outside the Box - a weekly space to unlearn, decolonize, and reimagine faith together. All welcome.

Faith Outside the Box is a weekly space to unlearn, decolonize, and reimagine Christian faith and spirituality together.

All welcome!

This week at ‘Faith Outside the Box’, we will commemorate the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation by watching together the documentary, “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code”.

The documentary is the collaborative work of Dakota filmmaker and Director, Sheldon Wolfchild, and Co-Producer Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape), and exposes how centuries-old Vatican decrees justified the seizure of Indigenous peoples’ lands and created a “domination code” that still influences U.S. and Canadian law.

It is a story of historical truth, spirituality, and resistance, told on behalf of the original nations.

On Sept.23 we will be taking our faith completely “outside the church box” and going out!

Date: September 23, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: 1022 Nelson St #100

Need a ride? We will carpool from TGUC at 6:15pm or meet at the front steps of the church at 6:45pm.

We’ll be heading to the Municipal Election Assembly being organized by Metro Vancouver Alliance, where Vancouver mayoral candidates will be asked to make public commitments relating to affordable housing and climate justice.

Metro Vancouver Alliance is a network of organizations from diverse beliefs, politics, and backgrounds, including faith communities, working side by side for the common good of our community. Find out more about MVA here.

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Faith Outside the Box - a weekly space to unlearn, decolonize, and reimagine faith together. All welcome.

You are invited for dinner and a walk in the old growth forest Rice Lake. The walk is an easy 3km (1 hours) walk around the lake.

Dinner at 5:30, walk at 6:30

Please RSVP

Drop by Trinity Grace from 10-11am on Tuesdays for a casual meet-up and conversation!

Drop by Trinity Grace from 10-11am on Tuesdays for a casual meet-up and conversation!

Musqueum artist, Rita Kompst, will share the cultural significance of cedar and guide participants step by step as they weave their own cedar pouch, using cedar bark that Rita has harvested and prepared.

Dinner at 6:00, workshop at 6:30 - 8:30pm

Please RSVP

Come share in a simple community meal and explore ways Christian scripture teaches us that trees are fellow beings with agency, faith and wisdom.
A light vegan dinner will be served.

Please RSVP

An evening to break bread together and be in community while we engage scripture, Christian tradition and the spiritual journey with our questions and creativity.

A simply vegan dinner will be served.

Please RSVP

This is ‘Part 3’ of ‘A Theological Banquet’.  We will continue exploring five “lived faiths” common within the United Church - and the theologies operating within them. If you would like to view videos from previous gatherings, please email Sandra.

Come with an open heart and mind! A light dinner will be served (vegan options). Please RSVP

This is ‘Part 2’ of ‘A Theological Banquet’.  We will continue exploring five “lived faiths” common within the United Church - and the theologies operating within them.

Come with an open heart and mind! A light vegan dinner will be served.

Please RSVP

All of you is welcome here! Bistro-style tables and chairs provide a casual setting and easy way to connect with others. Fair trade coffee from Cafe Etico and snacks are available before, during and after the service.

This Sunday: Presiding/Preaching - Rev. Sandra Nixon

Guest Preacher: Gloria Prank

Presiding: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Exploring John 1: 19-42 and the life of discipleship

Presiding: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Advent 3

Presiding: Sandra Nixon

Preaching: Anita Fast

Advent 2

Presiding: Sandra Nixon

Preaching: Shadia Qubti

First Sunday in Advent - Communion will be served

Presiding & Preaching: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Reign of Christ Sunday

Presiding: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Message: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Queer Lives Are Sacred: Honouring Trans Week of Visibility & The Trans Day of Remembrance

Presiding: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Message: Francis Hart D’Emilio

Remembrance & Peace

Presiding: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Preaching: Rev. Sandra Nixon

All Saints’ Day: Communion will be served

Presiding: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Preaching: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Ordinary Time

Presiding: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Preaching: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Ordinary Time

Presiding: Rev. Sandra Nixon

Preaching: Amanda Burrows, First United