Looking ahead to a new year filled with great energy (and money) saving activities to do with family and friends? Great!! This week we continue our healing with a local event and some easy and relatively inexpensive steps you can take to heal the earth by cutting your energy use...
This congregation passed a public witness statement more than five years ago with a 96% positive vote that affirmed your commitment to support the Black Lives Matter movement and Black-led racial justice organizations. To remind ourselves and the community of this intention, the church’s outdoor sign on Rugby Road is once...
This story reminds us of what UUCville’s Refugee Welcome outreach means. Heartfelt THANKS to so many of you for stretching your time, generosity, budgets and resources to make a more secure situation finally possible for one Afghan family. Perhaps in creating a kind welcome for them, we’re healing a bruise...
At the end of this holiday season, we turn temporarily from home energy use to the psychological aspects of climate work. According to psychologist and environmentalist Dr. Renée Lertzman, it's normal to feel so overwhelmed by the climate crisis that we seek to protect ourselves through denial or resignation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST Shirley Paul It is my honor and pleasure to share my abstract art with you. My work falls into the category called “intuitive” or “process” painting. This is the practice of meditating with brush in hand. It requires the suspension of fear, expectations, and the analytical brain....
How’s your plan for home energy reduction coming? Whether you’ve consulted professionals through an energy audit or talked with friends, family or neighbors for mutual support, your journey toward lowering your energy burden will be easier if shared with others.
Elizabeth Breeden summarizes where our refugee outreach stands: in SUSPENSE. “The mentors are trained, we have collected an apartment’s-worth of furniture and supplies that are carefully stored. We are offering our extra furniture and supplies to other families. We have a generous amount of donated money to get us started....
The Board met Wednesday December 8, 2021 at 6:30 pm. This brief summary is to inform the congregation before the minutes are approved and posted. Following a brief check-in with Board members, there was public time for congregants. Officer and staff reports were reviewed and accepted. We discussed the impact of...
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville Season of Light Show 2021
While there are core strengths apparent at UUCVille, there are a number of spiritual and structural areas of growth, needed to nurture the health and effectiveness of all that the congregation seeks to do and be – for itself and the world. Five areas of Developmental Needs – not in...