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Newcomers* are warmly invited to join me at Second Sunday Lunch after the service on May 14. In case you get your lunch before I do (very likely), there will be signs clearly indicating which table we’re using–take a seat and I’ll join you. As with the teas in my office, we’ll dedicate this time … Continue reading Join me for lunch!
Everyone has a niche at UUCPA–a place where the things they enjoy doing match up with tasks that keep this congregation thriving. Right now, UUCPA has the place for you if you like analyzing data, creating spreadsheets, reconciling accounts, tracking expenses and income, or any other tasks of budget and money management: the Finance Committee … Continue reading Spotlight on: Finance
On behalf of the Membership Committee, thanks so much to everyone who has stopped at the sign-in kiosk operated by Jeff Cashdollar for the last few weeks. You’re helping us troubleshoot any glitches in our database’s sign-in system. We instituted sign-ins during COVID, to alert people when an attendee at a service or other gathering … Continue reading Beta-test underway for sign-in system
Part I: Welcome to Dismantling White Supremacy Dear UUCPA folks, When I brought the idea of a “White Folks Dismantling White Supremacy” group to UUCPA, it was exactly that: a group for white folks to address themselves to a stubborn problem: US society has systems in place, constructed over centuries and never entirely dismantled, that … Continue reading Weaving the Web: What’s in a name?
We are delighted to announce that after deliberating among several excellent candidates, we have hired our sabbatical minister! The Rev. Peter Farriday is currently serving as interim minister with the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth, MN; he has previously been with our congregations in Humboldt and Santa Clarita, CA. For him, this is a welcome … Continue reading Sabbatical Minister Hired!
Dear UUCPA folks, What a beautiful day on this beautiful planet. I hope you have some time in the company of other creatures of Earth today, in the sun and the breeze. We usually have an appropriately-themed service sometime in April, but April was packed with other hard-to-schedule services this year, and anyway, Earth Day … Continue reading Weaving the Web: Happy Earth Day!
What’s in the bags? Have we become a transfer station for GreenWaste of Palo Alto? Is the Easter Bunny doing a Santa and using rooftops now? What’s going on? During Second Sunday Lunch I will give out prizes for answers in various categories: Funny Wildly, creatively inaccurate Plausible Members of the Buildings & Grounds Committee … Continue reading A guessing game
Pacific Hearing Service, Los Altos is hosting a special showing of the political activist art of UUCPA member Glenda Jones. You may have seen some of Glenda’s art in the Main Hall lobby several months ago. Now you have another chance, thanks to the display at the office of Deborah Wilson Clark, Au.D. Dr. Clark … Continue reading UUCPA member honored with an upcoming art exhibit
Dear UUCPA folks, I’ve had an exciting week here. Several people joined the congregation, and several more asked for membership packets. We’ll be formally welcoming these new members on April 9, Easter. That service was already shaping up to be full of wonderful stories and music (I just love planning services with Rev. Cat), and … Continue reading Weaving the Web: An exciting week
Make sure your clocks make the change to Daylight Savings Time this Sunday morning, March 12, 2023, or you will be very late to UUCPA! Luckily, you’d still be on time for Second Sunday Lunch. But you also don’t want to miss the Forum on fish and ocean mammal stories, the great activities of Children’s … Continue reading Spring forward this Sunday!