The Share the Plate (STP) Committee is looking for some new members to help out with the 2022 Share the Plate process. We are currently finalizing our 2022 application and criteria and then will encourage organizations to apply for the six recipient two-month windows in 2022. This year we are planning on adding a new […]
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Invitation to Tea with Rev. Mary
I have so enjoyed meeting some of you for tea these past few weeks. Thank you to those who came to OUUC to enjoy community and tea in the sunshine on the patio. It is the gathering that’s important, in all the ways we can. I’ll continue offering a weekly tea for up to 8 people […]
“What I Did During My Summer Break”
Ah, a classic writing prompt for the back to school season, and also appropriate for me this year as I’ve been away from OUUC for the last two months. I was taking part one of a sabbatical (part two will be this winter). A sabbatical (from the same root as “sabbath”, another time of rest) […]
Ingathering
This Fall we will mark our congregational ingathering as OUUC has done for many years and as Unitarian Universalist churches all around the country do so. This year feels both the same and different. Last September we were still sheltering at home, waiting for vaccines, looking at a year of Zoom. This year, many […]
Water Communion and Ingathering: Return Again on September 12 at 10:00 am
We’ll gather in all the ways that we can on September 12 to begin another congregational program year together! School begins, the rain begins, the church year begins, again. As has been the tradition at OUUC and many UU congregations, we mark our ingathering with a water communion; we mingle water from our summer activities, and we build community once more. On Sunday, September 12 at […]
