Guest blog from the QUUF Healthy Community Team The Healthy Community Team (HCT) is sharing a link to a revision of our Right Relations Covenant. This includes congregational input from the workshop in January 2024. We plan to present this Covenant for adoption at the June 2025 annual meeting. HCT sponsors activities promoting inclusive and compassionate communication. … Continue reading Our Covenant of Right Relations
Guest Post by Robin Stemen, Stewardship Team Chair At the Stewardship Coffees on March 1 team members had a good time sharing, learning and talking with attendees about QUUF’s financial health. 34 surveys were also completed! Here is how folks responded to some of its inquiries: There is a special urgency to funding QUUF this … Continue reading The Survey Says!
We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your unwavering support of the Native Connections Action Group. Your encouragement and commitment have been crucial in helping us work alongside other groups like ours in the region, aligning our goals with Unitarian Universalist values. With your assistance, we have supported the water protectors at Standing … Continue reading Statement of Gratitude from the Native Connections Action Group
Guest Author: Katy Taylor I offer Wild Church because I am seeking to feel more connected to my own roots in the living earth (aka nature). I want to develop kinship relationships with the other-than-human beings that live around me. I want to feel my belonging with them. So, I trained in how to offer … Continue reading Wild Church Gatherings
By Kathy Stevenson, co-chair of the Denominational Affairs Committee On June 22 and 23, congregations with representation at the UUA General Assembly will determine whether Article II will be revised or remain the same. Because we are a living tradition, without a creed (statement of belief), our purpose, values, and inspirations are written into our … Continue reading What Does Article II Offer Us?
Guest Post by Robin Stemen, Stewardship Team Chair It sounds funny, but there was a time when QUUF puzzled over what napkins to use. Cloth? Paper? Did it matter? We chose to have a culture of cloth napkins, of explicitly caring for the environment. We care about justice and wish to be unambiguous about it: … Continue reading Our New Stewardship Message
From the Widening the Circle Committee: On November 4 at Finn River, JCIRA (Jefferson County Immigration Rights Advocates) has invited the community to a Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration. This is a holiday widely observed in Mexico and by people of Mexican heritage. The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering … Continue reading Respect and Honoring? or Cultural Appropriation?
My Two Scents By Rose Spritzer I’ve been hired to create excitement — to inspire and motivate you for the 2023 Camp Bid-a-Lot Auction . But, I have to say, I’m inspired and motivated by the wonderful community at QUUF. Members are talented, creative, enthusiastic and generous. The donations are coming in! But, we need … Continue reading My Two Scents
Guest Post by Nan Toby Tyrrell I wonder what that phrase really means; for me it has many kinds of interpretations. First, I acknowledge that I was born on August 2,1941 and my mother waited for the doctor many hours. I only weighed 5 pounds and 19 ounces and spent loving time at Paul Kimball … Continue reading To “Grow Old Gracefully”
Guest Blog by Diane Haas I was moved by the youth Coming of Age service on Sunday, May 14. It was a beautiful demonstration of the generosity of heart, richness of spirit, integrity, and creativity we have at QUUF when people come together for a common purpose. I felt an open-hearted, positive energy! The mentors … Continue reading Explore Ways to Engage – Volunteer Signups on May 21
