It is exciting to anticipate our church buildings reopening this month. What a joy it will be to have more of us together. Each week, whether on Zoom or in our church’s playground or at our local park gatherings, I see our children, youth, adults, and families engaging with what...
#16 – 3/4/2022 Home Energy Savings – Part 9 This completes our series of ways you can reduce your carbon footprint by saving energy at home. Oh yes…and save money at the same time! How did the C3 2021 Cville Challenge go? 496 Cville homes were involved and together saved...
A brief overview of last year’s (2021) pledges: The pie chart slices represent ten pledged-dollar categories and the number of our pledging members and friends in each category. For example, in the $1,100-$1,700 slice there were 33 pledging households, in the next slice, there were 23 pledging households, and so...
I am Linda Olson Peebles and I have been so honored to be your Interim Lead Minister, and to offer you encouragement for this year’s Pledge Drive and the Future! Hope is Our Door! Members and Friends of UUCville – You have been through such hard times in the last...
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville Board met on Wednesday, February 23. Business discussed at the meeting included: A deep dive with members of the Nominating Committee, so the Board could better understand the work of that Committee, and the various approaches it takes to be maximally effective, in terms...
Thank you to everyone who has already pledged to support this community for another year. The pledge drive committee wants everyone to know that all levels of pledges are valued. We are funded by our members and friends of the congregation, so please make a pledge of support for the...
Rev. Linda Olson Peebles invites you to attend an interfaith community Vigil with the CVille Clergy Collective to pray/meditate/reflect for the peace, freedom, and security of Ukraine. Attendees are invited to offer prayers, readings, songs, and silence from their faith traditions, or just to be present in solidarity. Saturday, February...
#15 – 2/25/2022 INTERBEING – Part 2 Increasingly frequent climate disasters haven’t brought about a broad embrace of interbeing in which we focus not on our sense of self and “controlling” mother earth to satisfy our wants and fears but on caring for it out of love, as we would...
President’s Report to the Board Pam McIntire February 2022 I greatly appreciate all the thought and care our congregation is putting into making sure we are not a vector for COVID infections while also caring for the spiritual needs of each other. Our pastoral care team has been a mainstay...
What is the spiritual foundation of environmental action? To Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh, our existence is interdependent with all life and “change is possible only if there is a recognition that people and the planet are ultimately one and the same.” Have you experienced interbeing? Have you felt the earth...