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Christmas Eve, December 24, 2020 7pm UU Charlottesville via Zoom   ORDER OF SERVICE Prelude What Child is This Ollie & Parker Gill French Carol Ollie & Parker Gill Ode to Joy August Gastinger We Wish You a Merry Christmas  Ollie & Bryce Gill Silent Night Madeline Redick-Smith  Welcome   ...

An Activity to Celebrate Solstice with Your family. To connect with the sacred stillness of the longest night of the year, this activity guides us to create a symbolic, toy-sized cave with our children. This quiet, holy, protective cave will shelter Mother Earth and the Sun Child, symbolically reborn the...

Save the date for our annual Women’s Dream Quest!  We will gather online for this special retreat with Judith Tripp on Friday February 26 (6-9PM) and Saturday February 27 (8-11AM.) More details and registration coming soon! Fee is $50 (sliding scale–more if you can, less if you can’t.)

We invite you to create a new holiday tradition to celebrate the Winter Solstice and mark the return of the light.  We will host a drive-by solstice event between 5:30 – 7:00 PM on Sunday December 20 by the Edgewood Lane entrance of the church building.  A special gift bag...

Holiday Events During this holiday season there are celebrations to mark the birth of the Prophet , Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve (not to mention Festivus).  Join the Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville and celebrate the season with us. CHRISTMAS EVE WORSHIP SERVICE Christmas Eve, Thursday...

November 2020 Dear Friends, The season of thanks is upon us and although these are challenging times, there is still much to hold in our minds and hearts with gratitude. However you are marking Thanksgiving Day this year—whether with those in your immediate household or with friends and family over...

Hello Friends, Last Sunday in Chapel/Faith Development, we explored November’s theme of “Healing.” We talked and shared our ideas about what “healing” means and also recalled that our UU faith teaches us that healing can take work. After a fight with someone, we can sometimes feel so upset or angry...

Each year we pause to remember loved ones who have died – whether recently or in the distant past. Everyone was encouraged to bring a photo or a memento (or many) so that we might build together our annual “ancestors’ altar.” Send Ancestor Photos Our service at 11am on November...

Hello Friends, Last week in Chapel/Faith Development, we continued our focus on October’s theme of “Deep Listening.” We lifted-up the importance of listening deeply to ourselves and to what messages our own hearts are giving us.  We also talked about treating ourselves, as well as others, with compassion.  These ideas connect...