LGBT2Q+ Affirming

We know that churches and inclusion haven’t always gone hand-in-hand, but our community is built on taking risks to change that. St. Andrew’s-Wesley is inclusive, and not in a passive way. We are intentional and explicit in our commitment to the LGBT2Q+ community. Our staff work to understand the experience you’re moving through by listening with open hearts and minds. We show up, pay attention, and take action.

The Word is Out

Join a safe and supportive community to explore the intersections between your faith and your LGBT2Q+ identity. Food, discussion, honesty and support are all on offer during our monthly social meetings and annual retreat.

SpiritPride

Experience a two-day conference where queer identity and spirituality intersect. Exploring our faith as LGBT2Q+ folks can be a challenge. This conference exists to celebrate and integrate queer perspectives and experiences into our faith and spiritual practices. Join us to hear engaging speakers and authors, take part in workshops, and enjoy music from LGBT2Q+ leaders.

Rainbow Refugee Mentorship Program

Are you a local LGBT2Q+ person with five or more years working in your profession? Rainbow Refugee is looking for mentors to support LGBT2Q+ refugees who are new to Canada looking to enter the workforce. By committing two to four hours a month, you can help refugees navigate a new employment system, meet people in their industry, and access the resources available to them.

The Stories We Tell

SpiritPride

SpiritPride is an LGBTQ2A+ affirming event that gathers communities who want to celebrate, share and find a place to explore spirituality and LGBTQ2A+ Identity. This annual conference, now in it’s 6th year, is an important place of healing for many who have been told they can’t reconcile their faith or spirituality and affirm their gender and sexual identity too.

Lecture

Overcoming Obstacles to Love

Join Thomas Oord for an evening lecture. Could a loving God abandon us? Or permit evil? Does God actually like us? And what might our love look like amid violence, worry, crisis, political dissension, climate change, and more? Thomas Jay Oord answers these questions as he explores what it means to imitate a loving God (Eph. 5:1). Free Public Lecture July 14th, 2022, at 7pm

Music in the City

Lunchtime Concerts

Spice up your lunch hour by bringing your bagged lunch and treating yourself to some of Vancouver’s best musical offerings!

Our Place
In the World

St. Andrew’s-Wesley respectfully acknowledges that we gather on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. For thousands of years, First Nations people have walked on this land and their relationship with the land is at the centre of their lives and spirituality. As a church, and settlers on these shores, we have a life-long responsibility to unlearn our misunderstandings of history, territory, and identity through critical reflection, acknowledgement, and listening.

LGBT2Q+ Affirming

The Word is Out

SpiritPride

Rainbow Refugee Mentorship Program

The Stories We Tell

SpiritPride

Lecture

Overcoming Obstacles to Love

Music in the City

Lunchtime Concerts

Our Place In the World

Our Place
In the World