Sharing Our Faith Launch Event: Belonging

Sunday, February 2, 2025 – 1:30 pm PT | 2:30 pm MT | 3:30 pm CT | 4:30 pm ET | 5:30 pm AT | 6 pm NT (1.5 hours)

The theme for 2025’s Sharing our Faith program is “Belonging.”

Choose your own adventure! New for Sharing Our Faith 2025, we invite you to this launch event to explore our new options for engaging with SOF, a spiritual and growth initiative for Unitarians and Universalists. This launch event is NOT a Sharing Our Faith service, and is hosted by Congregational Life staff Revs. Linda Thomson and Anne Barker.

Rev. Karen Fraser Gitlitz, creator of the 2025 Sharing Our Faith program, will join us as we introduce this new resource format – and honour the many ways we Share Our Faith as Canadian UUs. Part Celebration, part Information, biggest part “Belonging”.

For EVERYONE, not just for congregations, this year’s theme of “Belonging” asks: in these divisive times, how do we create spaces where belonging is available for everyone? How do we nurture our own sense of belonging to our communities and this earth?

The Sharing Our Faith program* materials will offer opportunities to explore the meaning of belonging (and not belonging) in our own personal lives as well as inviting us to lean into our commitment to dismantle oppression in our communities — our 8th principle.

Choose your own adventure includes:

  • Worship services: 1) a sermon-based option, “Whose Belonging?” available as a video or text option; OR, 2) A panel service option in which you invite 3-5 members of your UU community to reflect on one of the theme questions (provided). Information is provided on for organizing panel-style services. Also provided are the Order of Service, publicity suggestions, social media images and song choices.
  • Book Study: on Annahid Dashtgard’s Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World (2023). A study guide with reflection questions is provided.
  • Small Group Ministry session on “Belonging.” Small group session plan and individual handout provided.
  • Large Group Conversation on “Belonging.” Large group session plan and individual handout provided.
  • Individual/group Reflection: Even if it doesn’t work to create an opportunity to gather, you can still participate. See if you can seed some informal conversations by sending the handout out to your membership via your email list. Share it on social media. Encourage members and friends to share it with their family and friends. Individual handout provided, which includes the “why belonging” reflection as well as quotes, stories and questions for journaling or discussion.

Find all the Sharing Our Faith materials in this folder and start exploring “Belonging!”

Please donate to The Sharing Our Faith fund, a program of the Canadian Unitarian Council, supporting projects that enhance ministry, growth, and outreach for congregations and for the Unitarian Universalist movement in Canada.

Join us on Zoom for this launch event!