Congregational Meeting — June 3rd, 2018 This is the text of the report Adam Slate, President of the Board, shared with the congregation at our annual Congregational Meeting on June 3rd, 2018 As I enter the last few weeks of my term as Board president, and I consider where we...
Anyone who has lived in Charlottesville for over a year has likely spent some time explaining where and who we are. No, we’re not in North Carolina. Home of University of Virginia. A little blue dot in a sea of red. That changed suddenly after the events of August 12,...
Dear TJMC Congregation and Board of Trustees, This month I’m doing a combined report to the Board and congregation, as I believe it is equally relevant for both audiences. I want to first thank everyone who helped make the past three weekends so successful. We had a great auction, fun...
RE is completed for the year but registration of Summer Sunday Fun for infants through rising 6th graders is underway! Please pick up a registration form in the social hall or download and print one at home and return to the church. Summer Sundays Registration 2018
It’s no secret that I love comic books — the Batman, especially, and other DC characters, but Marvel heroes as well. I’ve collected a pretty large number of them now, but I’m not one of those collectors who seal them away in plastic and never take them out unless wearing...
We Need to Talk The Board of Trustees has contracted with UU consultant Paula Cole Jones to facilitate a process through which we can talk together about what has been going on in our congregation since the end of February, as well as about other issues that lain unresolved for far...
TJMC 75th Anniversary Celebration Sunday April 29 Join your church family for: Celebratory worship at both 9:15 & 11:15 Potluck picnic following the 11:15 service (bring your favorite potluck dish to share–enough for your family plus at least 4 more!) Don’t bring dessert, we’ll have cake! Bring lawn chairs and...
We will be at a table in the Social Hall this Sunday, April 8. This is the last time we will be collecting input from the membership this budget cycle. Don’t miss your opportunity to make your priorities known!
Following the public Congregational Listening Circle on Monday, March 19, 2018, Rob Criaghurst offered these thoughts. The purpose of The Talk of TJMC is to provide a place for congregants to have a place to share their thoughts about things we, as a congregation, should be talking about. It provides a...
Kate Fraleigh, who until recently was Chair of the Racial Justice Committee, shares some of her evolving thinking about what’s been happening here since Christian Rivera found an anonymous racist note in her mailbox on Monday, February 26, as well as about our work in ending white supremacy. [Here is...