The story of the spire The unique spire that sits atop the congregation building at 717 Rugby Road was designed for the church at its founding in 1950. The twisting aluminum ribbons represent eight major religious traditions, and are woven to symbolize that the closer each approaches the truth, the closer...
The Rev. Tim Temerson has been selected by the UU Cville Board to be the Developmental Lead Minister. He will join us in Charlottesville on August 1st join us in the pulpit for the first time August 7th. What is a Developmental Minister? This is a minister with special skills,...
The UUCville Board of Trustees is thrilled to announce that we have hired the Reverend Tim Temerson to be our Developmental Minister starting in August 2022! Rev. Tim impressed the search committee with his passion for Unitarian Universalist principles and values, his wisdom and experience with stewardship, his commitment...
The Developmental Minister Search Committee submitted an application for a Developmental Minister to the UUA Transitions office in December. We will receive a list of applicants for the position on March 11 and we will begin Zoom interviews immediately. We have to make our decision and submit an offer by...
I felt guided to offer this on how Maggie Ober and I created the altar this month. We are able to occasionally write up a description of the altar creation, other months there is less “backstory” and it evolves in a more free flowing manner. It is a joy in...
Representatives from the Board and the Developmental Search Committee hosted two Congregational Conversations (12/14/2021 and 12/19/2021) to talk over the goals for the Developmental Ministry to go in the application for a Developmental Minister. The Committee also met with Reverend Tyler Coles of the UUA Southern Region to get advice...
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...
After numerous conversations with the congregation, Rev. Linda, and the board, the Developmental Minister Search Committee has come up with a draft of the final goals for our Developmental Ministry. These goals will be a part of our application for our Developmental Minister which we will submit to the UUA...
The Membership Committee is working to set up more UUCville social activities. Here’s the first one! Frisbee Golf for all ages! Join me for a friendly game (translation: I’m terrible at this game, but enjoy it.) of Disc Golf at Fluvanna’s Pleasant Grove Park on Saturday, November 6th at 10am....
The UUCville Board is in the process of identifying goals for our Developmental Ministry period. The board developed a draft of goals (shown below) to be used to start off Listening Circles in September and early October. We have also summarized the Listening Circle comments in a separate document. We...