Category Newsletter

This message is to inform the congregation that the Action Council has agreed to be a co-sponsor of a speaker series to be offered by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto entitled Community, Faith, and Racial Justice.  The series begins on March 6.  You can find … 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.

As part of the Campus Vision Project, the Chairs Committee is selecting new chairs for the Main Hall. We need stackable, storable chairs that are beautiful for worship and comfortable for a wide range of people’s shapes and abilities.

We are asking for everyone’s help to … 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.

The Forum meets from 8:30 to 10 am on Sunday mornings. Here are the Forum topics for February 2024:

02/04 Great Decisions – Climate technology and competition – Sarah Doxiadis 

02/11 Analyzing U.S. propaganda from an international perspective – Steven Mashin

02/18 Russia / Ukraine Conflict – Dick … 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.

We are moving along into the next phase of our Campus Vision Project, and we have exciting news–Randy Helmonds will be joining Sally as co-chair. 

Randy joined our effort last fall to supervise the newly-hired Owner’s Representative, and has been active in the church in other … 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.