A message from PACEM Executive Director, Jayson Whitehead: This time last year we were in the middle of our 16th PACEM shelter season. In many ways, it felt like any other season. We numbered almost 40 guys a night and nearly a dozen women. Every night, we offered a...
Love Gardening? Join the Environmental Action Group and help expand our congregation’s Vegetable Garden! Food for food pantries Regenerative methods for carbon drawdown Adaptive to climate change with rainwater capture & storage Help us make plans for… Composting Clearing beds and planting Fencing Rain barrel installation Later this spring we...
Join Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville Friends, Steve Lucas from the Thomas Jefferson Soil & Conservation District and Melanie Feldman from Piedmont Master Gardeners to Begin Your Adventure in Securing the Future of Our Species. The 2020 documentary Kiss the Ground shows how, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can stabilize...
Charlottesville Unitarian Universalists – 2021-22 Candidates The Nominating Committee is pleased to present your 2021-22 slate of candidates whom we think will serve the church very well. We will vote on these candidates at a Congregational Meeting on June 6. PRESIDENT (2YR Term) Pam McIntire has been a member of...
I enjoy creating art and sharing it with others. The paintings in this show span several years of work. Most are images drawn from nature, but also include my recent images of umbrellas. I enjoy the physical aspect of creating art, and I am as concerned about the surfaces as...
Reserve your space now for a long-awaited outing on campus with UU friends! Join former UU Charlottesville Eco-Heroes and the current Environmental Action Group for a Sacred Tree Walk through our Green Sanctuary Arboretum to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday, April 25. Ten years ago, we identified special trees on...
Your Soulful UU Home Connecting with the Sacred Around Us This March we are exploring the theme of Commitment Committing to Showing Up: ハチ公 Hachiko the Dog Hachikō was a dog who lived in Tokyo, Japan from 1924 to 1935. “Hachi” became famous in Japan, and all over the world, for the...
Enjoy these original recordings from our fellow UUCville members. Link to full Be the Light playist. Remember, the Pledge Drive ends March 31st
Each of our member households is asked to honor our covenant and fill out a pledge card showing support for the work of our congregation. Thank you to everyone who has pledged to support this community for another year. We are seeing a lot of new pledgers and the pledge...
Notes from the Board Meeting on Wednesday March 24, 2021. Pledge Drive reports that with a week to go in the Drive, 155 households have pledged (incl. 24 new pledges!) of 410k. With the addition of matching funds, this totals 430,000$. Median pledges have increased ~17%! Special thanks to the...