Above artwork by Flame Bilyué Each year, we invite artists of all ages to submit work celebrating the Season of Light. Since visual art cannot be created without light, this theme is very open-ended. Please submit artwork ready to hang on Sunday, October 27th. The work submitted will hang...
Check it Out! The UUCville Love in Action Tee Shirts are now available for purchase! Just in time for holiday gift-giving! Youth, women’s, and men’s sizes are available. The tee shirts are available for purchase online at ourfundraiser.shop/UUCvilleTeeShirts and in the Social Hall after Sunday services. Quantities are limited, so get yours today!
Christmas Eve, December 24, 2020 7pm UU Charlottesville via Zoom ORDER OF SERVICE Prelude What Child is This Ollie & Parker Gill French Carol Ollie & Parker Gill Ode to Joy August Gastinger We Wish You a Merry Christmas Ollie & Bryce Gill Silent Night Madeline Redick-Smith Welcome ...
One of my favorite things about all the rituals and traditions attached to this time of year is the way they mess with time. My husband and son and I decorate our Christmas tree, and as we hang each ornament—the ones we brought from our parents’ houses and the ones...
It is the tradition at the UU Congregation of Charlottesville to designate the Christmas Eve offering to replenish the Ministers’ Discretionary Fund. That fund is used by the ministers to assist with emergency needs in our congregation or neighborhood, to tide individuals over until more permanent assistance can be located.
An Activity to Celebrate Solstice with Your family. To connect with the sacred stillness of the longest night of the year, this activity guides us to create a symbolic, toy-sized cave with our children. This quiet, holy, protective cave will shelter Mother Earth and the Sun Child, symbolically reborn the...
Holiday Events During this holiday season there are celebrations to mark the birth of the Prophet , Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve (not to mention Festivus). Join the Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville and celebrate the season with us. CHRISTMAS EVE WORSHIP SERVICE Christmas Eve, Thursday...
Holiday Wreath Making Party Saturday December 5, 12 – 4 PM Join us to make wreaths, centerpieces and ornaments for the holidays! We will have materials for making wreaths, holiday centerpieces and ornaments to hang on the church’s new evergreen tree. The treasure chest will be available for children to...
New Year’s Eve Labyrinth Walk. Tuesday December 31, 5-7 PM, Social Hall Come and walk our beautiful Chartres-design canvas labyrinth. All ages welcome. Live music by Suzanne Morris on hammered dulcimer. Refreshments in the Parlor. Plenty of time for other New Year’s Eve festivities afterward. Help with set-up and take-down...
Traditionally we reserve the December art show as a group show for our own congregants, young and old. If you or your child has done a work of art this year that reminds us that this is the season we are inspired by the light (and how could any work...