Last week was a busy week for UUCville’s board! At Wednesday’s board meeting we heard updates on the Summit House HVAC renovation and discussed the process of changing the signage in front of the building. We will continue to revisit both of these building projects in the upcoming board meetings....
The Mentor Team has reached the end of our six-month commitment to the Housing Outreach Mentorship Education (HOME) program through the IRC (International Rescue Committee). We are so proud of the perseverance and resilience of our sponsored Afghan family. Both father and eldest son are employed full time at the...
I begin with the discarded, miss-tinted paints, fallen logs, construction timber, rocks upheaved from the earth. From here I paint or sculpt works which explore the connection between ourselves and the more than human world, the tension between emergence of our true selves, and the essence of flow. Tim Burgess...
It has been an enormous pleasure to begin working with Rev. Tim! It seems to me that he is one of the rare people who has the experience and wisdom to lead, and does so by inspiring others to find their own path. As we talked, I was amazed and...
What a joy it is to share what will be the first of many monthly columns. I hope to use this space to offer a few thoughts about a wide array of topics, ranging from reflections about UUCville and Unitarian Universalism to current events or something interesting I recently read...
A Caring Circle or Friendship Circle at UUCville is a group of 3-5 (or up to 8) members or friends of the congregation who have explicitly agreed to stay in regular contact with each other over an extended period of time. Caring Circles were first proposed as an improved alternative...
On Edith Good’s 90th birthday her sister-in-law gave her a cheerful tissue-paper bouquet. It stood on her counter for a couple of years as she wondered what could be done with it.
When the church building closed in March 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, church leaders were concerned about how to maintain contact and provide services to the more vulnerable members of the congregation (elders, and those living alone or in assisted living facilities, without internet access, or unable to drive)....
The beginning of the Active Minds group is not clearly marked in the historical records of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville, but it does appear to be the first sustained group activity designed to particularly engage elderly members.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT JULY 2022 PAM MCINTIRE In the last month, several people have told me “Hope is a practice.” UUCville is a sanctuary for hope. As we come together with a commitment to love and to express our love in action, we build a community of hope. We take a...