Events and services to remember August 12th. All are welcome to attend. Shabbat Service at Congregation Beth Israel – Friday August 10, 6:15 pm Congregation Beth Israel, 301 E Jefferson St. invites the Charlottesville community to join us for Friday night Shabbat services at 6:15 p.m. on August 10. We...
Stan Walker has asked this his letter to the Board be shared more widely: To the Board of TJMC-UU, For the last year, I’ve been giving the best advice I can in matters relating to church finances. Some of my advice has been followed, but the most important piece has...
Oltheviz, Transylvania, Romania Dear Congregation: After worship this Sunday, I hope you will come to the social hall and write a note to our partner congregation in the town of Oltheviz, in the region of Transylvania, in Romania. The minister there, Istvan, and his wife, Melinda, and their daughter, Karola,...
Congregational Meeting, June 3rd, 2018 During our Congregational Meeting I made reference to the written report I’d submitted, and I heard from some folks that they hadn’t found it easily accessible. Following up on publishing Adam’s President’s Report yesterday, I thought it’d make sense to post mine here as well....
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...