Jayson Whitehead Executive Director at PACEM This year we host PACEM for the men from November 11 to 25 and the women from November 25 to December 9, 2023. Other congregations will feed our guests for the first three weeks. We partner with Ebenezer Baptist Church to feed our...
by Hayley Owens Click to View Video of 2023 ASP Trip Photos provided by: Jennifer Davis, Hayley Owens, Larry Moulis, Carly Moulis, Beth Jaeger-Landis, Caroline Landis, Lily Bolling On July 8th, twenty-nine youth and adults from our congregation, returned from our week-long service trip to Jonesville, Virginia doing home repair...
UUCville’s Social Action Collection Giving is an attitude. It’s a heart issue. -unknown Our UUCville congregation has developed a unique way to contribute to Charlottesville area social justice causes through its monthly Social Action Collections. Satyendra Huja led the Social Action Collection for many years; he thought it was a...
Who’s that girl? & Who’s that guy? The first person to email ssc@uucharlottesville.orgwith the correct answer wins a free ice cream sundae! What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ~ Jane Goodall About nine years ago, the youth of...
A Food Ministry of UUCville If you can’t feed 100 people, feed just one. ~ Mother Theresa UUCville Soup Kitchen’s mission is to feed lunch to anyone needing a noon time meal on Sundays at The Haven in downtown Charlottesville. Over 30 years ago, under Satyendra Huja’s leadership, a...
Front Row: Breck Gastinger, Nasrat, Haji Muhammad, Hikmat, Saeeda, Regina White, and her daughterSecond Row: Lara Gastinger, Sharon Baiocco , Burnie Davis, Rev. Tim Temersen May 10, 2023Sharon Baiocco On a beautiful May morning, Rev. Tim met with the Afghan family of four whom our congregation has been assisting through...
This dynamic duo has a combined UUCville membership of over 43 years! During this time, they have actively practiced their UU beliefs, and oh, how our church has benefitted. Their stewardship has ranged from volunteering in our church ministries, social justice endeavors as well as being actively involved in church...
In anticipation of our congregation’s 80th anniversary, we will be exploring our roots and branches. This week’s feature is one of the 15 needlepoint religious symbols so lovingly cleaned by Sally Taylor during the Glenn Short financed the renovation of our original building. Others on that committee to disperse Glenn’s...
The story of the spire The unique spire that sits atop the congregation building at 717 Rugby Road was designed for the church at its founding in 1950. The twisting aluminum ribbons represent eight major religious traditions, and are woven to symbolize that the closer each approaches the truth, the closer...
Following a request from Rev. Linda and Sally Taylor, for the past six months Sandy Brooks and I have been volunteering to spend a couple of hours most weeks in the bowels of the church where the old boiler room has been converted to the Archives Room. We’ve enjoyed the...