This year we are doing a curriculum with the children called “Holidays and Holy Days”. I picked this program because I had noticed that the calendar hanging on my wall was still on March, even though it was July! With the pandemic, time just got … mushy. How do we mark the passage of time? […]
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Come, Come, Whoever You Are
Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent in the Christian calendar, the 40 days that lead up to Easter Sunday. Lent recognizes the 40 days that Jesus wandered in the desert after he was baptized by John the Baptist and before he started his ministry. The story says that, in those days wandering in […]
Vision/Mission/Ends Project: Introducing Cottage Meetings!
Submitted by Chris Parke As part of the congregation’s process toward new, invigorating statements of Vision, Mission, and Ends, OUUC members and friends are invited to take part in an upcoming Cottage Meeting. What Is a Cottage Meeting? Check out this video from Board President James Trujillo to learn more about cottage meetings: What Can […]
Safe and Safer
One of the things I’ve learned during this COVID time is how different we humans are in our assessment and ability to risk. This is apparent in our response to the pandemic, which has asked us to do hard things for a really long time in order to protect our health and the health of […]
Bringing Soul Matters Themes into Our Lives
We practice something called “theme-based ministry” here at OUUC, with a monthly theme that we receive from our subscription to Soul Matters. This month’s theme has been “Imagination”. One of the things I love about theme-based ministry is that it connects worship to small group ministry and to the children and youth ministries, helping to […]
