Download here: Black_Lives_Matter_Poster-1.pdf
Third time's the charm!: REALLY gathering to discuss Parable of the Sower, August 19
This is the last bulletin for a while. Find out plans for the future here.
The annual Water Communion service will be on August 30 this year. We hope you can participate in this annual ritual of ingathering. To share, bring a small amount of water (think pill bottle size) to UUCPA on Wednesday, August 12, 12:30-2 pm and Sunday, August 23, 12:30-2 pm.
Securely shut and attach ...
Stewards of the Month: Kevin Crane and Barbara Smith-Thomas
Our Stewards of the Month for July took on the dragon of bureaucracy and won UUCPA a PPP loan of $89,000 to help cover staff salaries. We have been paying all of our staff through the pandemic, and this loan helps us continue to do so. Odds ...
Endless thanks from all of us to Dick Clark, Editor Extraordinaire, Paragon of Patience, Gracious Grammarian, Lord of Layout, Composed Compositor of Crucial Congregational Communication. He has produced The Bulletin week in, week out, for mumbledy-mumble years, bringing us the news, bringing us together, and at his request, we are reluctantly allowing him to set ...
The UUCPA bi-weekly Bulletin will be taking a break for a while (Aug. 9, 2020, is the last one) and we wanted to let you know what the plans for its future are. We know that many people rely on The Bulletin to keep up to date with UUCPA happenings. However, since Dick has decided ...
UUCPA women’s groups provide confidential, deep connections. Our Sunday women’s group, Weekend Women, currently meets on Zoom on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month from 1 pm – 2:30 pm and has room for new members.
Contact Mary Grebenkemper at weekend-women+owner@uucpa.org.
The Second Friday Bridge Club has finally accepted the fact that this pandemic is going to be with us for a while and has decided to move online.
We will still be playing at 7 pm on the second Friday of the month. We will play our games on Bridge Base Online and join a Zoom ...
Each child, PreK through grade 8, will receive a monthly packet via U.S. mail from UUCPA. This packet will include fun puzzles, games, and coloring pages. Packets will also contain some serious material as well, some of it designed to coordinate with the weekly Story for All Ages in the Sunday service.
The first monthly ...
Sunday school will begin on Sept. 13, a month later than usual. This gives Children and Youth Religious Education Committee and Dan a few extra weeks to finish developing online curriculum.
Please register! The registration form can be found on our website.
As we did in the spring, we’re going to keep offering classes for different age groups at different times. Families have told us this makes it easier for them.
Red class (preschool) and Green class (gr. 2-3) will happen from 9:30-10:15, before the worship service.
Yellow class (gr. K-1), Blue class (gr. 4-5), Neighboring Faith Communities (gr. ...
The popular Coming of Age program for grades 8-10 will be offered this year on Sunday evenings from 7-8 p.m., beginning in December.
There will be a family meeting, for both youth and their parents, on Sunday, Sept. 13, at 7:00 p.m. More details will be in next month’s newsletter.
This year, Dan Harper will host family check-in gatherings before intergenerational services. This is a chance for kids to see and interact with their UUCPA friends, and also to learn a little bit about what to look for in the upcoming intergenerational service.
On Sunday, Aug. 30, the first family check-in will happen, from 9:45 ...
Tuesday, August 25, 1:30-3
It’s been too long since we gathered! We’ll share around the circle on the topic, “Shelter in Place: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” with Amy facilitating. All self-identified elders are invited. If you need Zoom help, please contact Amy (parishmin@uucpa.org) or BJ (bjwishinsky@uucpa.org) a few days ahead, and we’ll get ...
Just as a reminder, the September Brown Bag Books book is “Unsheltered: A Novel” by Barbara Kingsolver, Fiction
(She) “captures both the price of profound change and how it can pave the way to for future generations but also for a radiant, unexpected expansion of the heart”
O: The Oprah Magazine
Please join us to discuss this ...
Join Elsa Schafer and/or Linda Henigin on Thursday nights from 7:30 to 8:30 PM starting on August 6, 2020 and continuing until September 24, 2020 to write postcards for Reclaim Our Vote. If you need postcarding supplies, email Linda at lindahenigin@uucpa.org and she’ll get you all set up.
Join us on Google Meet, every week. To get ...
Did you see that Anne Frahn will supply you with letters to write to help get out the vote in November? Are you interested in chatting with others while you write your Get-out-the-Vote letters for Vote Forward? Kristi Iverson will be hosting a weekly virtual writing session via Zoom every Sunday afternoon in August and ...
Over the past year, Amy has been periodically offering a class entitled “White Folks Dismantling White Supremacy”. In Amy’s classes, attendees have listened to some of the Scene on Radio podcast series called “Seeing White” and had discussions of racism in our culture.
The Action Council and the Adult Religious Education Committee are now sponsoring ...
The Bulletin is taking a break while UUCPA is closed to in-person events. Please subscribe to the UUCPA Weekly Update email to stay up to date with UUCPA events and announcements.
Submissions for publication in the Weekly Update Email (which is sent on Saturday mornings) can be sent to publicity@uucpa.org. The deadline ...
Dear UUCPA folks,Leadership from numerous areas of UUCPA life confirms: having one service on Sundays not only requires less volunteer effort, but is an asset for other kinds of programming. So we will continue to hold services just once per Sunday morning, 10:30, all in one “room,” until we resume our in-person services.
Remember that if ...
We hope you can participate in this annual ritual of ingathering. To share, bring a small amount of water (think pill bottle size), securely shut, and attach a label with your names and a word or phrase you would like to guide you over the next year. (If there are multiple members of the family, ...
Since Zoom online conferencing has become so important to us, this is the first in a series of Zoom tips. Send your Zoom questions for future posts to BJ at bjw@uucpa.org.
Note: Zoom will hide controls until they are needed. If you don’t see any of the controls described below, tap on the screen or move your mouse ...
Feeling cooped up? Want to get out and help out? Campus workdays are back (usually on the first Saturday of each month)! Of course, we will be careful and keep social distancing in mind. There are plenty of outdoor tasks we can focus on.
Please wear a mask and we’ll also take attendance in case we ...
One of the biggest challenges about online church, for me, is the loss of casual contact. I am used to seeing about 200 of our folks each Sunday. It’s a chance to see how people are doing: using a cane for the first time? looking sad? sitting with a new friend? If someone brings something ...
I think a lot about the various pathways one might take from first checking out UUCPA to becoming deeply engaged in and contributing to the community. That is part of my job as your Membership Engagement Coordinator, of course. I am joined in this work by both ministers and volunteers, particularly the Membership & Growth committee ...
It’s summer, and the pace of congregational life has slowed down.
Except it hasn’t slowed down for the Curriculum Subcommittee and me. We are in the middle of developing all kinds of programs that don’t require us to meet in person. We don’t expect to be able to have in-person programs for children and teens for ...
Ms. and Mr. Bear, with the help of Dr. Sharpie, show some of their favorite photos from the stuffed animal sleepover that took place at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto (UUCPA) on June 19-21, 2020.
https://youtu.be/d3O56GVVYEE
We will celebrate Water Communion on August 30, 2020. Stay tuned for more details.
UUCPA is now accepting donations through a new platform called Givelively, which allows you to give online using ACH transfer, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, or a credit card.
When you go to our website, go to the “Give” page to get started.
You can also text one of five codes to “44321” to give using your ...
Oh no! My system for collecting flower photos via e-mail had one little hole in it, through which several people’s beautiful offerings fell. I apologize most profusely. It must have been so upsetting to attend the service and not see your flowers.
Now that I have discovered these photos, I hope I can make something ...
Although humans can’t gather at UUCPA, stuffed animals still can! The Stuffed Animal Sleepover happens at UUCPA this weekend (June 19-21, 2020).
The sleep-over begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 20. Mr. and Ms. Bear will be the chaperones, and Dr. Sharpie Ann will post photos of their activities to the UUCPA Facebook page. ...
The UUA recently announced a national partnership with Reclaim Our Vote (ROV), one of UUCPA’s UU the Vote Partner organizations. A number of you have already written postcards or made phone calls with ROV to people of color in various states, encouraging them to register to vote, to request a mail-in ballot, or to go ...
The Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington is going digital! The Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington is a 2.5-hour program that will be broadcast on Saturday, June 20th at 7 am and 3 pm PDT, and again on Sunday, June 21st at 3 pm PDT, on June2020.org.
This will be ...
Tonight’s planned discussion of The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler, is postponed to a date to be determined shortly. Apologies for any inconvenience!
We celebrate Flower Sunday on June 21 at 10:30, and your flower photo will make it wonderful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTeHo75eC64
Most of the time, our Main Hall lobby is an art gallery with work by local artists, UUCPA members or staff, or the occasional traveling exhibit. The Rev. Stefanie Etzbach-Dale’s show, Visual Prayers, which was originally scheduled for that space for June-July 2020, is now online.
Stefanie frequently combines her spiritual practices, her art as a ...
Here are a few things that happened at UUCPA in the week leading up to the June 7 service.
Naturally, I changed the topic to address the surge of protests and demands for racial justice taking place around the country. (The originally-planned service, on creating community at a distance, will take place in July, if the ...
The Flower Communion is an annual service in which we each bring a flower, create an altar full of bouquets, and end by each taking away a flower that another person brought. Founded in 1923 by Czech Unitarian minister
Norbert Čapek, this ritual was spread all over the United States through the leadership of his wife ...
Folks of non-hetero orientations and non-cis genders, come join a special social time! Everyone will get to know each other via interesting check-in questions and just enjoy seeing who else is part of the family at UUCPA. Your UU-adjacent friends are also welcome.
Friday, June 19, 12-1:30 on ZoomPassword-protected; for the password, RSVP to ...
Using Zoom – A set of classes taught by Susan Owicki via Zoom.
As we of UUCPA shelter in place, we are using Zoom software as a tool for maintaining our programs and our connections with each other.
I’m proposing a set of classes to help interested people use Zoom more easily and effectively.
Class A. Participating in Zoom ...
Now that UUCPA is conducting one service (at 10:30 am), the Sunday Meditation will start at 9:30 am. UUCPA folks who would like to be added to the zoom invitation list for this should email sundaymeditation@uucpa.org or contact Eric Bier directly.
—Marilyn Austin
This call went out to Unitarian Universalists all over northern California, northern Nevada and Hawai’i. Members of our congregation are allowed to give also. 😉 And if you want to be part of UUs helping each other make strong UU communities everywhere, please sign up to be a Chalice Lighter and you will receive future ...
UUCPA Bass Lake Campers,
Skylake Yosemite Camp informed us today that they are canceling the family camp for the weekend in August 2020 that we were scheduled to attend. Skylark had already canceled their regular children’s camp and the family camps planned for May. They said they will mail us a full refund and, as soon as we have that money, we will be ...
On June 7 Amy posted a rare social justice update to Announce and CRE Parents because so many people have asked, since the murder of George Floyd, “What can we do? What should we do?”–especially as an almost unprecedented wave of protests has been breaking all across the country, and many would-be protesters are understandably ...
Please expect a friendly call in the next few weeks from a UUCPA volunteer reaching out to every member, friend, and/or Children and Youth Religious Education (CYRE) parent/guardian.
We have over a dozen callers, but it’s not too late to join them, so if you’d like to be a caller, please e-mail Melissa Valentine at mvalentine@uucpa.org. All callers receive training and support, ...
