Evening of Lament for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

On this evening, we hold and grieve the reality of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, gathering in prayer, liturgy, and lament to acknowledge the heaviness of their loss and the ongoing violence facing Indigenous women and their communities. We mourn the failure of our government and society, the forces and structures that perpetuate this violence (colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, poverty) and our own complicity as people of the Christian faith and settlers on unceded land.

As we draw nearer to the season of Lent, you are invited to enter this space as you are, whether or not you consider yourself embedded in the Christian faith tradition, on its fringes, or outside. All are welcome.

Entering into lamentation binds us to those we have lost, and so plays a crucial role in deepening compassion, enlarging understanding, and reaffirming commitment to doing justice.

Come and join us for this journey into grief.

Grandview Calvary Baptist Church’s kitchen’s entrance is at street level, which gives access to washrooms, kitchen and lower hall. One washroom has a stall that can accommodate a wheelchair. The washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm. Multi-stall gender neutral washrooms.

This event is hosted on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples – specifically the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. Streams of Justice is committed to dismantling settler-colonial infrastructure, striving towards right relations, and to being allies in the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty on unceded and occupied lands.