Fairfield United

06/18/2026

Wondering …..

06/16/2026

God Hears the Laughter

The miracle isn’t that Sarah laughed.

The miracle is that God heard it.

God hears the laughter, the doubt, the weariness, and the hopes we’re almost afraid to name.

And still, the promise remains.

✨ For the soul’s unfolding.

06/16/2026

🌱 From Tiny Seeds 🌱

How does a community find its soul?

Maybe one small act at a time.

This season, Easter seeds are sprouting, Tiny Jesuses are finding new homes, more than 100 kindness bags have been shared, and three families have stepped forward to sponsor garden plots at United Commons. Over 20 people have also written prayers and blessings for Katie and Carter, to be tucked into a Bible blessed by our community.

Even our online community is growing, with 835 people now connected through our page.

A seed planted.
A kindness shared.
A prayer written.
A neighbour welcomed.

Small things, perhaps. But together, they become something beautiful.

Thank you for being a community that keeps choosing hope, life, and love. 💛🌱

06/15/2026

Be

🐝🌈 Let people bee who they want to bee. 🌈🐝
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06/15/2026

⚠️ A coastal flooding statement is in effect for Victoria. Be cautious near the coastline.
🌊 Possible coastal flooding, strong winds and waves, and unusually high tides forecasted overnight Monday until 4 a.m. Tuesday.
🧰 Secure loose items around your home and watch for fallen tree limbs and other hazards.
🚧 Watch for washed up debris and erosion along beaches and the coast.
💡 Learn how to prepare for power outages and other weather-related hazards at VictoriaReady.ca.
🚨 Greater Victoria coastal flooding alerts: https://ow.ly/rUNB50Zc5Ll

06/15/2026

You may not believe in the flood. You may not even believe in God. But you can believe in the beauty of rainbows and that colourful diversity is good.

06/15/2026

The good Samaritan

“The Good Samaritan”
“One does not have a neighbor; I make myself someone’s neighbor” -Paul Ricœur
This parable from Luke 10 is considered one of the most well known in the gospels. Like many other Christians, I have heard this story hundreds of times. However, it wasn’t until adulthood a mentor gave me a more significant understanding of this story.
When an expert in religious law, a lawyer, asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”, Jesus answers him with this parable. A man traveling down a well known dangerous road from Jerusalem to Jericho is ambushed by robbers, who steal his possessions, and beat him leaving him “half dead.” Two members of the lawyer’s own religious class pass the man by but the one who does stop is an outsider, a Samaritan, who takes pity on the man, caring for his wounds, and takes him on his donkey to a nearby inn. He is the true neighbor. Jesus tells them to go and do likewise. The Jewish listeners would have winced because at the time Samaritans were considered a member of an excluded group, an ‘other’. Jesus is giving the lawyer a lesson in God’s law of love.

In his short essay on this parable Paul Ricouer notes that the Gospel would completely condemn the modern world. Jesus is telling us that we don’t simply HAVE neighbors. We MAKE ourselves someone’s neighbor. This is a very anti-modern attitude. Through a modern world of fences, borders, screens, social media, ring cameras, automobiles, etc. we are increasingly living in an age of a dehumanized world of abstract, anonymous and distant relationships. Many often using, religion, politics or “the law” to distance themselves from the wounded and most vulnerable people in our communities. Immigrants, refugees, single mothers, the unhoused, and those in prison.

Like all of the parables, Jesus is using this one for the church to imagine the kind of community it is called to be. The parables are meant to be lived. If you want to love your neighbor you are going to have to go make yourself one.

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06/15/2026

When disappointment lingers long enough, we sometimes stop speaking certain hopes aloud.

Not because we’ve stopped believing.
Not because we’ve stopped caring.

But because caring can hurt.

In this week’s reflection, Sarah’s laughter becomes more than a story about doubt. It becomes a story about what happens when God meets us in the places where we’ve grown tired, where we’ve lowered our expectations, and where we’ve quietly accepted that some dreams may never come to be.

Yet the strange thing about God is this: God keeps showing up in ordinary moments, speaking possibility into lives we thought we already understood.

Perhaps your story isn’t finished yet.

✨ For the soul’s unfolding.

06/14/2026

the Season of Pentecost - When Faith Outgrows Itself

June 14, 2026 | 9:30am

Have you ever laughed when something was so surprising, so absurd, or so life-changing that words couldn’t quite reach it? Sarah did. Standing at the tent door, she laughed at a promise that seemed impossible. But perhaps her laughter wasn’t disbelief—it was the sound of awakening. This Sunday, we’ll explore how faith changes over a lifetime, why God is always larger than our understanding, and what happens when yesterday’s faith isn’t quite big enough for the God we meet today.

Sermon: Rev. Beth Walker
Music Leadership: Adam Dyjach
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Join us in Community at United Commons! 932 Balmoral Rd, Victoria, BC

9:30AM: There will be a one-hour service featuring a brief sermon and communion, or a Taizé style worship.

10:30AM - 11:30AM: Enjoy coffee, goodies, and meaningful conversations in community. **(Except on Taizé Sundays!)**

You’re welcome to join us for one part, all of these, or follow the movement of the Spirit as you feel called. Everyone is welcome in our Sanctuary.

We hope to see you there