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Findings of the UUCPA Mission Task Force January 2023 UUCPA’s Mission Task Force, convened in August 2022, was charged by the Board of Trustees with crafting a new Mission Statement for UUCPA that’s suitable for reciting at Sunday Services and for use in church publicity. We began our work by gathering as much insight as … Continue reading Findings from the UUCPA Mission Task Force

Celebration of Books and Reading, February 5, 2023 On February 5, as part of UUCPA’s Celebration of Books and Reading, the service will feature an altar made of our own favorite books. Any book that has meant a lot to someone in your family belongs on the altar. It will make our space beautiful and … Continue reading Wanted to borrow: your favorite books

Join us at UUCPA this Saturday, January 7, 9 am-noon (or whenever you can come) for the UUCPA Work Day – Help fix up / spruce up the campus. We will focus on indoor and sheltered tasks since it is forecast to be breezy and damp outdoors.  Light bulb ballast replacement in the Fireside room. No plans for gardening.  Maybe a good chance to re-assess the downspouts and gutters!  Tabulate the GHG appliances, and identify LED replacement of fluorescent tubes.

Hot Chocolate and snacks at end of the workday in the fireside room.  No potluck this month.Questions:  Contact Robert Neff for questions about the workday. 

We start the RE Year off with our new policy of joining everyone in the Main Hall for the first 15 minutes of service where there will be a Chalice Lighting, hymns, and Time for All Ages. We are doing this for two reasons: one, to give our kids exposure and practice of UU faith … Continue reading Kids Start in Service Now and Religious Ed Classes End at 11:30

Due to low attendance, the reflection group reading This Here Flesh, by Cole Arthur Riley, one spiritual theme per session, has been cancelled. The few of us who gathered the first time had a richly meaningful conversation, and Amy will lead another group of this kind at a date in the not too distant future.

Painting rocks as a spiritual practice of art, beauty, and kindness. We’ll gather to paint rocks together on January 1st after the service (approx 11:30 am)

We’ll set up outdoors on the patio if the weather favors it, inside Room 6 if not.

Every week our garden volunteers maintain our beautiful and educational native garden, whether it’s planting, pruning, weeding, or other tasks.  Currently meeting on Mondays at 10 am, the group will now meet on Mondays at noon. As Amy says, “Being outside together is one of the few in-person social opportunities we have.” Please email garden@uucpa.org if you … Continue reading UUCPA Gardening moves to Mondays noon-2 pm in 2023

We are offering the program for UUCPA families and friends so please tell your friends. Register here. This class starts January 2023. To accommodate the packed schedules of busy high school students, the program will meet twice a month on Sunday evenings.  Although we will not be able to fit in all sessions of this curriculum, … Continue reading OWL 10-12 is back for January 2023

Dear UUCPA folks, Christmas is coming! We have a wonderful service planned for 6:30 and 8 this evening, with gorgeous guitar from Yuri Liberzon, special music from Veronika Agranov-Dafoe, Richard Heydt, and Mayo Tsuzuki, our wonderful new Minister of Religous Education, Rev. Cat, joining me in telling the old story of Christmas and sharing poetry … Continue reading See you on Christmas Eve!

Please remember to invite Friends to our beautiful Christmas Eve Services (tonight, Saturday, December 24th at 6:30 and 8 p.m.) Such beautiful music and carol singing throughout, our glowing candles we each hold ~ such a magical, emotional evening with Family and Friends. Lovely for us all, and for newcomers to experience that special evening. … Continue reading Social Networking for Good – Invite Friends to our Christmas Eve Services