Care Core is in full support of the 8th UU Principle. The work of Care Core is building community and sharing love. We are dedicated to bringing people together by promoting opportunities for members and friends to offer assistance, support, and encouragement to each other. Care Core actively seeks out people who may have trouble … Continue reading Care Core Supports the 8th UU Principle
Thank you and congratulations to the UUCUC community for making this year’s service auction a big success! Over two nights 75 bidders and dozens of donors helped us raise just over $20,000 for our church home!
The IJTF is hosting three information meetings to highlight a few proposed changes to this program, as it relates to who we would host. To better explain our proposed request, and the reasons behind them, the IJTF is hosting three information sessions. We hope that you will attend one of them!
The Building and Grounds Team needs volunteers to help with landscaping. You could Adopt-A-Plot to take care of through the year. Or offer to help with special projects, such as cleaning up the dead stuff from last year, such as in the playground butterfly garden and the eastern slopes, or to help with mulching the … Continue reading Landscape Help Needed
A strength of Unitarian Universalism is that our Principles are dynamic rather than fixed. The 8th Principle is intimately connected to the existing seven principles, but it also differs from them in several important ways. First, while the 7 Principles may imply the 8th Principle, they do not explicitly hold us accountable for addressing racial oppression in ourselves and our society.
Like many at UUCUC, the Immigration Justice Task Force (IJTF) has been watching the challenges at the U.S. / Mexico Border. We know that spring surges like the one currently happening are not new. Last year, the Trump administration used the spring surge and the pandemic as an excuse to apply Title 42, an outdated health code, to effectively close the border.
The long wait is finally over: this coming Friday and Saturday, April 9th and 10th from 6:00 – 9:00 PM is the 2021 UUCUC Service AUUction, UUp for the Challenge!
Be sure to pass by our Green Street fence this month to see the colorful results of last Saturday’s “yarnbombing.” Around forty UUCUC members and friends of all ages gathered in shifts throughout the day, and transformed our ordinary fence into an explosion of color and creativity.
Our Open Hearts memorial to lives lost to COVID in Champaign County has moved to our neighboring Mennonite Church. A group of volunteers from both congregations met on Friday, April 2 to prayerfully remove the hearts from our lawn and carry them down the street to their new home.
The First Mennonite Church on Lincoln will be hosting the community “Open Hearts” memorial for the next few months. Immense thanks to Julie Laut, the youth of UUCUC, and Cloydia Larimore for support for this memorial. It will be seen by many driving by on Lincoln Avenue.
