Have you ever attended a service and thought, “I’d like to be up there doing what today’s Worship Associate is doing”? Now’s your chance! Worship Associates typically serve for three years, and we are welcoming new members of the team this spring. Tell me a … read more.
When someone at UUCPA is recuperating, grieving, or in some way kept from regular meal preparation, we provide a “Get Better Bistro”: meals brought to their door, on their requested schedule, by other members. It is a gift to all concerned: to people in the … read more.
New to UUCPA? Come have tea with Amy!
One of the delights of returning to UUCPA last month was how many exciting new names and faces there are! If you and I haven’t had much time to talk yet, there could be a lot of reasons:
You … read more.
An immersive experience in immigration justice and (literally) building community
Pastor AJ Blackwood, Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California (UUJMCA), sends us this invitation:
Join us on April 4-7, 2024, for our annual Pilgrimage to the Border – … read more.
This year our Stewardship Drive will be one week long: the week of March 10, 2024. Please mark that week in your calendar now.
As it is every year, the Stewardship Drive will be full of opportunities to celebrate having UUCPA in our lives and to connect … read more.
“How shall we live? Be welcoming to all.”
Mechthild of Magdeburg
I learned today that the original meaning of the word “welcome” is “desirable guest.” What an interesting reversal!: that the reason we offer welcome to someone is because they are a desirable person to have as … read more.
Date change; immigration history
Dismantling White Supremacy continues to meet once a month but will now be meeting on the second Tuesday evening of each month, 7:15-8:45. The next session will be on Tuesday, February 13, and facilitated by Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern. More detailed information … read more.
After we sent out a preview of this Sunday’s service, one UUCPA member responded with this lovely idea: “Why not invite everyone who has their own chalice to bring it to church to add to the light?” She shared a story … read more.
Our area, like most of the country, is in a mid-winter surge of airborne illness: RSV, COVID, and flu–plus the usual wintry mix of colds. People in crisis health situations like strokes are waiting days for hospital beds because the hospitals are so jammed with … read more.
Dear UUCPA folks,
Thank you so much for the wonderful welcome back on Sunday! It had felt quite odd to have the 20th anniversary of my arrival at UUCPA (August 15) slip past while I was on sabbatical, but before I left, Brooke and I had … read more.