Gathering for Sunday services in person and online at 10:30 am. Campus Vision Construction Continues - learn more
I’ll be posting frequently about ways to connect via volunteering. Why? Because alongside small groups, volunteering is usually the fastest, surest way to feel like you are really a part of a community. The key is to choose something that you enjoy and that fits into your schedule. Today’s spotlight is on the volunteer job … Continue reading Spotlight on: Web / Weekly Update content updating
Bear Capron has published a memoir, Easy to Love, and UUCPA is the place for the launch party! To get RSVP information, contact Bear Capron from the UUCPA directory or email uucpa@uucpa.org to ask for Bear’s contact info. There will be music, hors d’oeuvres, and of course brief, tempting excerpts read by the author. If you know … Continue reading UUCPA Member, Bear Capron’s book launch party, Oct 29
Please join Rev Amy and other leaders on Thursday, October 13 at 4 pm in-person at UUCPA for an open forum on these and any other questions that you have: What would we gain by going to one service? What disadvantages would it bring? Could we mitigate them? If we have just one service, what time do we want it to be?
Reflection Group: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, by Cole Arthur Riley Beginning on November 2 and continuing until just before she leaves on sabbatical, Amy will be leading a reflection group on the book This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, by Cole Arthur Riley. … Continue reading Buy the book and save the date
It’s here! One part of UUCPA’s mission is to help you transform yourself by doing whatever gives you deep gladness. Another part is to help transform the world by feeding its deep hungers. The Volunteer Fair this Sunday, October 2, from 10:30 to 1, brings them together. At the Volunteer Fair, you can: Find out … Continue reading Weaving the Web: Find your gladness (at the Volunteer Fair Oct 2)
The Sacred Text Reading Group has changed to two new Zoom rooms that are password-protected. Please don’t miss out! Drop a line to sacred-text-reading+owner@uucpa.org in advance. We would rather have the door wide open, but unfortunately, some “Zoom bombers” have made the experience unpleasant when we do. So sidle on up to the door and … Continue reading The password is . . .
Sure, you’d like to help at UUCPA and meet other people. But what exactly does an usher do? You need details! Several new role descriptions are now up. Have a look! Usher Memorial Reception Lead Host Memorial Reception Assistant Host Sunday Greeter, online Green Sanctuary Committee member Caring Network member There will be more, so … Continue reading Lots of new position descriptions available
Why does UUCPA exist in the world? As a congregation, we have not paused to reflect on this question in a very long time, and our Board of Trustees and our ministers have proposed that it’s time to do so. A clear and shared understanding of mission can guide UUCPA’s ministries, community-building, religious education, social … Continue reading Take the UUCPA Mission Task Force survey!
UPDATE, Sunday, 6:50 a.m.: The 9:30 service, as well as the 11:00, will be celebrated in the Main Hall today due to early morning rain. And celebrate is the word! We joyfully mark 30 years since Veronika became UUCPA’s pianist, and the service focuses on how we make our hearts’ gladness something more transformational and … Continue reading Rain, Rain…Predicted for Sun, Sep 18
Dear UUCPA folks, From conversations with folks at UUCPA over some years, it is clear that a previous minister, Bill Jacobsen, committed sexual misconduct during his time here, violating the trust congregants place in their ministers. In congregational systems, as in families, in countries, in any community, the ripples from such actions can often be … Continue reading Healing past hurts