Special Events and Services

Annual General Meeting

is a service that replaces a regular service. While there are no guest speakers, summaries of last years activities are presented and the budget for next year is reviewed and approved.

Brain Storming Board meetings

are biannual board meetings in March and September in which members are encouraged to suggest policy changes and initiatives for the board's review.

Executive Board meetings

are usually held on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm in the church. All members can attend an monitor all board meetings.

Fair Trade Sale

is a sale after the service by local vendors who have fair-trade certified § products including tea, chocolate and coffee.

Flower Communion services

are services in which everyone is requested to bring a fresh flower to exchange with each other. As one arrives they put their flower in a container at the front of the church by the chalice. At the end of the service everyone takes home a flower that has been provided by another person. For more information on this service and its history please see the April 2006 Newsletter §.

Paper free services

are services in which there is no printed service handouts.

Salad Day Lunch services

are services in which we share lunch together. The church will provide salad greens and bread. Please bring you own fixings.

Slow Food Lunch services

are services where people share a Slow Food lunch.

The original Slow Food organization is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization. It was founded in 1989 in Italy to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. For more informations on the Slow Food organization, visit their website §

There are two Slow Food groups or convivium in Niagara. Slow Food members get together once a month to enjoy some slow food, talk about homegrown organic food sources available in our area and discuss how we can better nourish ourselves with 'real' food.

Sharing Our Faith

services is a day when we extend our thinking and support beyond UCN outward toward Unitarian congregations in Canada that need financial help for special projects. We do this by joining other congregations in setting aside one Sunday a year to have a special collection. All the money collected is sent to the CUC (Canadian Unitarian Council) who distribute every penny of it among as many congregations as possible whose grant projects have been approved.

Soup Sundays services

are services in which soup, bread and butter/ rolls/ croutons will be provided by the church. We ask for accompaniments (i.e. grated cheese, finely cut up chicken, beef, ham; diced vegetables, chopped herbs, cooked noodles, cooked rice, etc) as your interactive contribution to the lunch. Of course, desserts are always welcome as well! As after all services, the church provides tea and coffee.

Sweet Nibbles services

are services in which we bring in sweet things or fruit to share together. As after all services, the church provides tea and coffee.

Town Hall meetings

are not services. Rather they are special informative sessions that are designed for discussion and two way interaction between the speakers and the congregation.

Water Communion services

are services in which everyone is requested to bring a sample of water from the places that they have been in the summer. For more information on this service see the unique holidays section in the UUA site §.