The religious education council, which meets three times a year, will holds its spring meeting on Saturday, April 24th with a congregation-wide listening session on Friday, April 23rd from 7:00-9:00 PM. This Friday evening listening session is filled with surprises and fun along with small and large group opportunities to learn about future religious education … Continue reading Religious Education Council
The Covid Hearts Memorial that UUCUC has hosted since January has been featured in Medill Reports Chicago by broadcast reporter and graduate student Yuhan Ma.
Ask your computer to reserve for you some hours for each day, Wednesday, June 23 through Sunday, June 27, 2021. Those are the dates for the Livestream and Zoom General Assembly (GA) of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This annual convention is the voting business meeting and elections of the UUA, and more importantly, … Continue reading General Assembly of UUs
As mentioned last week, the church’s annual service auction is one month away, on the evenings of April 9th and 10th. Since the world is not yet COVID-safe we will again be holding the auction online. It will still be fun and exciting and a great chance to benefit the church and get some cool items and services for yourself, too (see below for more details about the auction and how it works).
Ready for a bit of outdoor fun and creativity? Rev. Sally and the Membership team are inviting you to come help us beautify our wrought iron fence along Green Street with some guerilla community art: yarn bombing! All ages and skill levels welcome – we’ll be wrapping sections of our fence in multicolored yarn, making an eye-catching rainbow display for everyone who walks/drives by to enjoy this spring.
Paula Cole-Jones, Director of Racial and Social Justice of the Central East Regional Group of the UUA, realized in 2013 that something needs to change in our largely Euro-centric UU churches. Many of us feel good about living by our 7 UU principles, but there is a problem. In order to make real change in our society, we need to dismantle systemic racism. It is not enough to quietly disapprove of acts of racial oppression. We need to stand up and speak out against them.
Facilities Managerfacilities@uucuc.org Tim Voelker comes to UUCUC with several years of experience in managing facilities. He currently co-owns and manages Bluestem Hall, a wedding venue soon to become Nature School, in Urbana. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology along with a concentration in Sociology. He … Continue reading Tim Voelker
2020. The UUA now requires annual application for this designation. We first became a Welcoming Congregation in 1999.
Your Service Auction Committee is pleased to announce that the 2021 Service AUUction, “UUp for the Challenge,” will be held on the evenings of April 9 and 10, 2021. Like last year (but hopefully not next year), this auction will be held online. As we all learned in 2020, however, even an online auction can be fun and exciting. Mark your calendars so that you can be ready to bid on the great array of items we will have for you!
Nominating Committee is in the process of identifying and recruiting new members for our Board of Trustees and other elected positions. In an effort to widen the diversity of our pool of leaders, we need YOU to tell us who you would trust to help lead the congregation as we move forward. Whose leadership inspires … Continue reading Take the Survey: Who Are Inspiring Leaders at UUCUC?
