Neighbourhood

Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness: Finding Our Way Back to One Another

21 June 2026 @ 10:30 am

Speaker: Kat Martins-Grey 

Weaver: Rev. Sally 

Music: Susanne and Kim K. 

In every faith community, there are seasons of joy and seasons of hurt. Disagreements, misunderstandings, and disappointment can create distance between people who genuinely care for one another. Yet our deepest spiritual traditions call us toward something greater than division: love, acceptance, grace, and forgiveness.

In this heartfelt presentation, Kat Martins-Grey, our Director of Children, Youth and Families, will explore what it means to love one another when it is difficult, to extend compassion when wounds are fresh, and to build communities where belonging is stronger than disagreement. Drawing on personal reflection, faith, and lived experience, this conversation invites participants to consider how acceptance does not require sameness, how forgiveness is a path toward healing rather than forgetting, and how love can remain present even in times of conflict.

This session offers an opportunity for honest reflection, renewed understanding, and a shared commitment to becoming a community where grace is practiced, relationships are restored, and every person is reminded that they are deeply valued and beloved.

Striving Toward Access Intimacy

7 June 2026 @ 10:30 am

Speaker: Keat Welsh and Dev Ramsawakh

Weaver: Kurt

Music: Sam Sundar-Singh

Keat Welsh BA, M.Ed is a white queer, disabled artist, community activist and educator. Keat is passionate about building communities of care and striving to create safer, anti-oppressive spaces. Living with both visible and invisible disabilities, they navigate complex experiences through art, activism and community care. Keat frequently speaks on panels at conferences and reviews academic papers. They ran the education program at the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto (CILT) as the IDE+A project coordinator from 2022-2026. Keat is the founder of Equity Buttons and a co-founder of Community Resistance Intimacy Project – CRIP. Keat is starting their PhD focusing on disability inclusion at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (U of T) in the fall.

Dev Ramsawakh is an award-winning disabled, transmasculine and diasporic Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary storyteller, producer and educator. Along with facilitating workshops, they write articles, essays, poetry, and short fiction, and have produced audio segments for podcasts and online radio, as well as short experimental documentaries. Dev one of the co-founders of Community Resistance Intimacy Project – CRIP.

Sam Sndar-Singh is an experienced musician,  able to fuse a warm sound and smooth beats with many different styles and tastes. You will appreciate his distinctive interpretations of songs you know and love.  He has been a part of Sanctuary church in Toronto for 20 years, walking with people experiencing homelessness and poverty.

Sacred Sexuality

14 June 2026 @ 10:30 am

Speaker: Mama Yoni

Weaver: Debb

Music: Spirit Band.