by Sara Lewis Our Share the Plate Recipient for March and April will be GRuB, Garden Raised Bounty, a non-profit that has been promoting food security through gardening since 2001. You may have seen the GRuB farm on Elliot on your way to OUUC sometime; they are practically our neighbors. GRuB has expanded to include […]
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Don’t Miss Upcoming All-Congregation Visioning Sessions
In early March, OUUC members are invited to take part in an online congregational visioning retreat, stretched across three sessions: Fri, March 5, 6:30 to 8:30 Sun, March 7, 1:30 to 4:00 Sun, March 14, 1:30 to 4:00. Over the course of these sessions, congregation-members will share stories and insights from the best of OUUC, […]
Under the Fig Tree
by Sara Lewis There was a poem highlighted in this month’s Soul Matters packet that many of us enjoyed: To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian by Ross Gay. You can see the author read the poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aT0A28IW7E One of the things that I really love about this poem is the delight in […]
Tech Tip: Four Ways to Join a Zoom Meeting
Did you know there’s more than one way to join a Zoom meeting? We are almost a year into using Zoom as our primary mode of attending Sunday church services, meetings, social groups, birthdays, anniversaries, poetry slams, game nights, and more. In the beginning, you might have learned one primary way of accessing a Zoom meeting […]
A Time for Rest – and UULent!
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? […]