This month’s spiritual exercise is reflective and invites us to engage empathy as a spiritual path to kinship. Below are two links–one to a video and another to a photo exhibition. Set aside some time to meditate on the one that moves you most. Here is one way to engage them, but feel...
(Following 10AM Single Service, @ 11:30am) All members of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian Universalist community are invited to attend a Congregational Meeting on Sunday, September 9, 2018 in the church Sanctuary after service. The agenda for this meeting will include: – approve the minutes from the June 3,...
Kim & Barbara received the Creative Sageing award at this year’s meeting of the Elderberries, the UU Retired Ministers and Partners Association. Take a look at the attached pdf (click below) commemorating them. Including great photos by Leighton Brown, it’s a lovely read. These fellow UUS have done, and are...
The minutes of the August 5 Conversation on Ministry are available here. August 5, 2018 Minutes
The City of Charlottesville recognizes that August 2018 will be an important time for our community to acknowledge painful feelings about the tragic events of last summer and also a time to promote resilience and healing. The #ResilientCville website is one way you can access resources from and provide feedback to the...
Events and services to remember August 12th. All are welcome to attend. Shabbat Service at Congregation Beth Israel – Friday August 10, 6:15 pm Congregation Beth Israel, 301 E Jefferson St. invites the Charlottesville community to join us for Friday night Shabbat services at 6:15 p.m. on August 10. We...
Stan Walker has asked this his letter to the Board be shared more widely: To the Board of TJMC-UU, For the last year, I’ve been giving the best advice I can in matters relating to church finances. Some of my advice has been followed, but the most important piece has...
Oltheviz, Transylvania, Romania Dear Congregation: After worship this Sunday, I hope you will come to the social hall and write a note to our partner congregation in the town of Oltheviz, in the region of Transylvania, in Romania. The minister there, Istvan, and his wife, Melinda, and their daughter, Karola,...
Congregational Meeting, June 3rd, 2018 During our Congregational Meeting I made reference to the written report I’d submitted, and I heard from some folks that they hadn’t found it easily accessible. Following up on publishing Adam’s President’s Report yesterday, I thought it’d make sense to post mine here as well....
Congregational Meeting — June 3rd, 2018 This is the text of the report Adam Slate, President of the Board, shared with the congregation at our annual Congregational Meeting on June 3rd, 2018 As I enter the last few weeks of my term as Board president, and I consider where we...