New Beginnings Christian Community Food Ministry serves 300 people each week regardless of where they live or their legal status. We don’t require any identification, so we don’t get government funding or surplus food. Our groceries are donated by Food Lion, Walmart, and the Blue Ridge Food Bank. We also...
by Hayley Owens Click to View Video of 2023 ASP Trip Photos provided by: Jennifer Davis, Hayley Owens, Larry Moulis, Carly Moulis, Beth Jaeger-Landis, Caroline Landis, Lily Bolling On July 8th, twenty-nine youth and adults from our congregation, returned from our week-long service trip to Jonesville, Virginia doing home repair...
The Congregational Meeting was a huge success with getting so much done. We now have an excellent balanced budget for 2023/2024, we have great teams for our board, nominating and personnel committees, we updated the bylaws and we have a new mission statement. We can now turn our attention to...
UUCville’s Social Action Collection Giving is an attitude. It’s a heart issue. -unknown Our UUCville congregation has developed a unique way to contribute to Charlottesville area social justice causes through its monthly Social Action Collections. Satyendra Huja led the Social Action Collection for many years; he thought it was a...
The B.U.C.K. Squad provides an immediate response to the critical need of reducing gun violence in Charlottesville keeping our city safe. We are the only gun violence prevention/de-escalation program of its kind in the city addressing conflict through violence interruption. Click here to donate Weekly, the B.U.C.K. Squad records the...
Environmental healing often requires changes in deeply ingrained habits, much like dieting, smoking cessation, and downsizing. Our habits exist because they provide rewards that we seek despite negative side effects. It takes time and patience.
Thanks to all the organizations who joined us last night on Zoom for our ‘pitch night’ for the 23-24 Social Action Collection at UUCville. It was so moving to hear about the incredible work you all are doing in our community and beyond. With 15 amazing organizations applying for only...
The applications are in and we are excited! UUC’s monthly Social Action Collection is a vital source of funding for many worthy organizations in our community. But, unfortunately, we can’t fund them all. We need your help deciding which ones to feature in our upcoming fiscal year, July 2023- June...
Have an area non-profit that you are involved with and love? Would others in at UUCville appreciate learning about them and how to support them as well? Could this organization benefit from a couple of thousand dollars? Yes? Great! Consider sponsoring them for next year’s Social Action Collection. The Social...
Front Row: Breck Gastinger, Nasrat, Haji Muhammad, Hikmat, Saeeda, Regina White, and her daughterSecond Row: Lara Gastinger, Sharon Baiocco , Burnie Davis, Rev. Tim Temersen May 10, 2023Sharon Baiocco On a beautiful May morning, Rev. Tim met with the Afghan family of four whom our congregation has been assisting through...