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I and the Welcoming Congregation Renewal Committee encourage you to mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance with us and Unitarian Universalists all over the world by attending UPLIFT’s service this Friday. See you there, Amy Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash
As we give thanks for life’s bounty in the November 20 intergenerational service, Rev. Cat and I want to fill an altar with persimmons, guavas, pumpkins, garlic, black-eyed Susans, stunning fall leaves, whatever your trees and gardens are producing. Will you bring them to the Auction, the service on November 13, or the service on … Continue reading Seeking your fall fruits and flowers!
Remember, clocks go back in the early hours of Sunday, November 6, 2022. Enjoy the extra hour of your weekend, and we’ll see you at the service / Forum / Religious Education / all of the above!
Ten things to love about the UUCPA Auction: 10. Grooving to live music by The Outer Half 9. Fabulous finger food 8. That moment when the ticket number is called and the raffle winner jumps up with a big, incredulous grin 7. Bringing home something beautiful that someone made with their own hands 6. Filling … Continue reading Weaving the Web: Top Ten List
This Sunday, October 30, we hold our annual service of remembrance. If you are attending in person, at either 9:30 or 11, you are invited to bring photos and mementos to bedeck the physical altar. There will also be a place to light candles, and to write the names of those you have loved and lost. … Continue reading Your photos, mementos, and names are invited – Sunday, Oct 30
Immediately after the service on Sunday, you are welcome to follow me and Mary to the memorial garden in front of the Main Hall. We will dedicate a new bench and bricks, and give our gift of water to the tree that symbolizes our ancestors, just as they gave us gifts of life and wisdom.Amy
Dear UUCPA folks, Can I confess something? I think about 20% of my motivation in becoming a UU minister was to recreate a peak experience of my teenage years. Experiences, since it wasn’t one time but something that happened most Fridays during the school year. That’s when several of us would gather around a table … Continue reading Weaving the Web: Real conversation
Two Town Halls have been held to gather people’s thoughts about switching to one Sunday service year round. About 20 people have weighed in, either by attending one of the Town Halls or by sending me an email, and the strong feeling is for one service (at some time earlier than 11). If you also … Continue reading Weaving the Web: One service, at your service?
We were having some troubles with our phone system at UUCPA this week, so if you have encountered any difficulties in getting through, please try again next week or email us now. Staff email addresses are all here. In particular, the pastoral emergency line relies on the system’s forwarding function, and we’re not sure whether … Continue reading Phone problems? Please persist!
Principles revised with an eye to what is “inspirational, memorable and poetic, inclusive, welcoming, and explicitly anti-racist” For two years, a commission of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has been reviewing Article II of the association’s by-laws, which is where the principles, purposes, and sources of Unitarian Universalism are laid out. Today the commission released … Continue reading UUA’s Article II Commission Releases Draft